6/6/14

6/4/14

I had hoped to get some WW2 pics up with Friday being the 70th anniversary of D-Day, but time is running short.

The US infantry man in WW2 

In other WW2 news, I picked up a copy of the new Two Hour Wargames rules NUTS!  this is a WW2 skirmish, with a lot of RPG elements (you really flesh out your squad) so i'm reading that and thinking of running a few quick scenarios on Sat, maybe some small 1/2 squad skirmishes for Rangers in honour of D-Day

I was able to finally build my Warlord models of an M3 1/2 track, and M5 Stuart and also my German SD.KFZ.222 Armoured car, i will prime them tonight and paint over the weekend.

In Long Rifle campaign news I was able to get a super cheap copy of the old Avalon Board game 1776.  I understand that it comes w/ a game board /very large map that i will adapt to my AWI Muskets and Mohawks campaign when it gets started.

6/1/14

Here are some pictures of some more obscure AWI units that I have.  I am still working on my lighting for pics.  I notice that these are pretty bad.  i'll upload better once I get sorted.  All of the minis shown are Perry Brothers

These are the feared Jagers.  They were Hessian mercenaries who used special hunting rifles instead of muskets.  they could shoot a long way and were deadly accurate, this is reflected in the game Muskets and Tomahawks by them having the best stats of any unit.

The Hessian Grenadiers, another mercenary unit, notice the mustaches on these figures.

A good shot of the flag for this unit, notice the flag matches their facings.

Here are the Queen's Rangers this was a loyalist unit made up of colonists.  I love the face of the guy on the left, he definitely just heard something in the woods.  you cant make it out in this pic, but this unit has great forest green short jackets

Today was very productive, finished the rest of the river sections, and experimented with some modular trails.
I also started to reread the rules for Six Gun Sound and thinking about if I have enough Old West terrain for a cattle drive