Adventures on the Wargames Table

Inspired by George over at "Musings on Wargaming and Life" I'm taking a brief look back over 2019 from a gaming perspective... It's certainly been quite a varied year of painting & modelling projects!  World War 2 has been the front runner with my DAK army getting ever larger.  Plenty of new additions for my desert terrain too.  Really enjoying this project.  Plus I dipped my toe in to Eastern Front gaming by starting to pick up a few figures for a Russian army.  Some of my "French/Belgian" scenery got a bit of a makeover and several new buildings were added.  I have quite a lot of scenery for this theatre but it's still good to keep adding more; Colin at Charlie Foxtrot keeps me well supplied with kits.  Also, my existing WW2 forces (Paras, Panzergrenadiers and British Regulars) all got a few bits and bobs - no army is ever truly complete! I briefly dallied with Warlords of Erewhon but after a couple of games I decided that it wasn't my thi...

The first of my 8th army roll off the production line.  That’s really how I view this painting project; a production line.  But in a good sense, as it’s quite enjoyable.  Here are a light mortar team, a medical orderly and a junior leader. These first figures are really a ‘test’ in that I’m figuring out which colours to use for the various items of uniform and kit. Base colours before the wash They are very much painted in the “three foot away on a nice gaming table” style 😉 and I’m very happy with that. Paint recipe: Flesh - Foundry 5B Shirts, shorts & helmet - VMC Iraqi Sand Helmet also in Foundry 11B Webbing - 11B or English Uniform or Dark Sand Bags - 11B or Dark Sand Jumper - English uniform Socks - 11B Puttees (?) - Iraqi sand Can use other colours for socks, puttees? Weapon stock - GW Scorched Brown Boots and weapons - black Wash with Agrax Earthshade, then highlight with original colours.  Webbing can be painted in Iraqi Sand w...

It’s that time of year again... Here are my 8th army figures ready for painting as part of my unofficial entry in to the 10th Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge!  I’ve set myself a very modest target of 250 points. This consists of Lieutenant  Platoon Sergeant 2” mortar team Boys AT rifle team 3 sections of 10 men, each including a Bren team This is a basic platoon for Chain of Command.  Most of the figures are Perry along with a Warlord command pack. For support there is Medical orderly (with stretcher!) Boys AT rifle team Forward Observer (chap with a radio) Universal Carrier with a JL and a Bren team The figures were prepped recently and I’ve just completed the basic groundwork.  I also have an AT gun and some armour waiting in the wings.

Good chum Mike and I got together for a long overdue game of Chain of Command in the North African desert.  It's December 1941 and Rommel's men are cunningly withdrawing before the onslaught of Operation Crusader .  With Allied supply lines being stretched thin, the Germans decide to make a stand at the abandoned village of Marj-Areen ... Mike kindly set up a table before my arrival, and then produced a delicious pizza, artisan bread and plenty of tea before we set to.  Here's the table after the patrol phase. I have JOPs behind the two ruined buildings and the hill on the far left, whilst Mike has JOPs behind the two hills nearest his baseline.  I was impressed by the rugged sandy hills on Mike's table, covered in rocks both large and small.  When many people think of the desert they think of endless sand but much of the North African desert is rather different.  Mike has been there (following in the footsteps of his Dad) and it's very rugged terrain...

Brmm, brmm! Dakka, dakka!  Rommel's finest now have some hot new wheels to race around the desert. Prepared and ready to paint, the riders with tabs were glued to some old slotta bases to make them easier to paint. The motorbike and sidecar combos are Perry, whilst the other is a Warlord kit.  Have to honest here and say the Perry castings were less than stellar and were quite fiddly to build and position. In the pic above the handle bars have yet to be eased into a better, more natural position. Painting and basing was exactly the same as all my other DAK infantry and vehicles - have a look at the "Painting" tab above to find some links if you're interested in the paints, technique, etc.

Both Chain of Command and Sharpe Practice have quite a few tables in the rules so a playsheet comes in quite handy.  There are a few 'out there' on the interweb but I fancied doing my own thing.  I've got the PDF versions of the rules so it was easy to cut & paste my own playsheets. EDIT Thanks for the big response! You can now download these from CoC: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1444501242432741/ SP2: https://www.facebook.com/groups/583159251850065/ They are both just two sides of A3.  Here are couple of them nicely laminated. Page 1 Page 2 The SP2 random event tables aren't included but I think pretty much everything else is. Here is the Chain of Command playsheet.  At the last Clotted Lard event Rich dubbed these "the bed sheet of rules". Page 1 Page 2 Having everything you need on just one double-sided sheet should make for easy reference.  If you'd like an electronic copy then please just email (see top of bl...