WWII Micro Armor: North Africa

I painted two GHQ WWII combat commands as a commission, one British and one German.  The customer will finish the basing at his end.

1/300 WWII armor

I finished these a few months ago and finally got around to photographing them.  Thanks for looking!

 

The Column: A Sergeant's War After Action Report

I set up one of the scenarios available in my rules set, A Sergeant's War, for a quick game today. I had never actually played the game with miniatures, as I do my playtesting with paper and counters (to save time).  Here is a summary of how the game played, with plenty of pictures.

Bocage fight---A Sergeant's War AAR

I just released my WWII rules, A Sergeant's War, in PDF form for sale here.  Here is an in-depth AAR of one of the scenarios featured in the main rules, "Row by Row," which features a heavily reinforced platoon of American infantry trying to break through a German defensive position in the bocage.  Here are pictures and a blow-by-blow account, including a description of game mechanics.

Kursk assault---6mm Eastern Front playtest of A Sergeant's War

I played through another test of my rules, A Sergeant's War.  Today's game was a German assault on a prepared Soviet position during the Battle of Kursk, July '43.  The result was a costly German victory.

Deployment--2x2 table (4x4 in "game inches")

Eastern front tank action---A Sergeant's War playtest

I ran another playtest of A Sergeant’s War, my WWII rules-in-development.  Today’s game was a test of the armor/vehicle rules.  We played 2 games in about 90 minutes, each one with about 16 vehicles in total, Germans vs. Soviets, in 6mm scale.

In the first game, a company of T-34s advanced on 3 Pz IV-Hs and a single Tiger.  The Germans gave one half of the company a shellacking—knocking out 4 of 6 tanks—but on the other flank, the T-34s got in close and made mincemeat of the Germans at close range.  The Germans withdrew, with one Pz IV knocked out, one abandoned, the Tiger damaged and abandoned, and the remaining Pz IV retreating.

After Action Report: Small unit action in the Hurtgen

I playtested my rules, A Sergeant’s War, again tonight. This was a generic scenario set somewhere in the Hurtgen Forest, November 1944.  An understrength American platoon has been ordered to clear a ridgeline of German resistance.  AAR and some discussion of the rules below.

Into the Hurtgen

I am writing a scenario/campaign book for the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest in WWII—I’ve been having a great time researching and am up to about 25 scenarios in 5 campaigns (which can be strung together as one long campaign).  Tentatively titled Meat Grinder, I plan to publish it in early 2015.