Adventures on the Wargames Table

My collection of trees has changed over the years and the result was that they were on a variety of different base shapes, sizes and styles.  This is okay, but for some games (e.g. BA, Kings, SP2) it's just easier all round if your woods have well defined edges.  So I picked up some of the excellent Charlie Foxtrot Models tree bases .  Shown below is a pic of the kit for tree base number 1. Charlie Foxtrot Tree Base 1 The discs are 70mm diameter so just the right size for most ranges of tree, especially K&M which most of mine are!  There are also kits available with smaller discs (50mm) which are great for smaller trees, particularly palm trees, here's a pic of small tree base number 4 with some 8" plastic palms. Charlie Foxtrot small tree base 4 Okay, on to my own collection.  This is all pretty straightforward stuff but hopefully I can offer a couple of useful tips along the way. Tip #1 - texture the 'tray' before gluing it to the tray base - ...

Another splendid game of Bolt Action, this time with good chum Orange Dave, and what a very different kind of game this proved to be.  The recent game with Mike was a close run affair ending in a draw, whereas this battle was a completely one-sided slaughter almost from the off. Dave and I decided to ‘go large’ and each put 1500pts of troops on my little 6x4 table.  We’d both have plenty of armour so there should be room for the troops to get in on the action.  At Dave’s suggestion we played Scenario 3 “Key Positions”, so I set the table up with plenty of scenery so that we could have some good, close range fire-fights.  I still had most of the scenery out from my game with Mike so I re-jigged the layout and swapped a few things around. The objectives were placed in the Farmhouse, in the Signal Box and in the little wood; far from ideal for the Germans. A little bit of sleepy Normandy Both of us chose to field two reinforced platoons: I had German Regulars wi...

You know how sometimes you play a game and it just epitomises everything that is great about wargaming?  Well, this game was exactly that and more!  Thrilling action, high drama and heroic bravery in spades along with fine sportsmanship and moments of utter comedy.  What an absolute blast and a great inaugural game at my new place - yes, The Wargames Table has moved. This game follows on from the game Mike and I played at Bristol Independent Gaming, here ...    It was long after midnight but an exhausted Hauptmann Müller began another tour of the sentries.  They had to stay alert, he couldn’t possibly let Allied forces sneak up on his small, battered command.  It had been a long day; his men had reached the bombed out SdKfz 251 at the same time as an American patrol.  In the ensuing maelstrom he had just got away with the secret plans but it had been a tough fight.    Low on ammunition, carrying wounded men and with the light fading...