Evilginger Ramblings - me holding forth on Wargaming

[EvilGinger]

Ok the plan described above is in abeyance as spurred by there being a Fantasy Dux Play test on Tuesday I am working on finishing as much of my Dux scenery as possible & further spurred by the forthcoming release of Chain of command I am working on WWII 20mm models so I can demo it at Spirit Games as soon as I lay my hands on the rules....

all of the above will be in the shop soon.


 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

I now have a company of Russian T34's which I can run as either 76's or 85's to paint possible because PSC provides both turrets in there kit & they share no parts. Three Stug III assault guns which is an understrength platoon to go with my painted but not quite finished Panzer IV's ( they need numbers & other markings) also an understrength platoon. Two Panzer grenadier platoons with a company command element  & plenty of support weapons, but now transport yet. Some of these are painted but some only assembled. I also have a couple of platoons of Soviet infantry with support to assemble & some Shermans & Firefly's for the British. I will it seems have a flying start to my gaming with CoC if I keep this up.

 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

Bumped into a young chap in the shop this morning with a keen interest in Napoleonic gaming so I have offered to run him up a quick Sharpe Practice Scenario at some point soon. I must be daft, but youthful enthusiasm is  a good thing & to be encouraged....

 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

I have also obtained one of the Panzer March army lists for the Soviet Union  Eastern front Mid to late war ( R3 24/7/1942-31/10/1943) & I am building a Motorised infantry Platoon to go with the Soviet Tank Company I already have. Annoyingly  have discovered that I am one tank short of the company having remembered it as three Platoons of three tanks with the company commander leading the first platoon when he is in a separate one tank HQ element. The PSC tanks I am using come in threes so I can see me going for a second tank company. Still I should have mastered the tracks on the T34 by then & you always need more tanks if you are going to do Russians properly.



 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

After having dropped all my DUx figures at the shop and having to repair many of them I have completed part on of the cunning rouse to avoid this by building a full DUX starter out of Plastic, intend to speed paint this over the week so its ready for next week end.

 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

At the moment the plan outlined above is being implemented & seems to be working out I even started block painting the humans yesterday & would have done more but the combination of Piriton (antihistamine tablets) & running out of  sent me to bed a bit earlier.

All this does mean that my preradiation for the arrival of CoC has taken a back seat but with the temporary suspension of Spirit games Figure gaming Night I have a whole extra night to catch up or do more stuff which may even include work

Liked the idea of wargaming a visit to Disney world Florida as mentioned in the trouble at mill blog, I will have to think about the invasion of Burton Scenario again as well.

 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

Chain of Command is here in e-form any way I will be having a good read of it this evening but I can understand what all the fuss was about just form having skimmed through it.

I will do a review when I have had a chance to play it


 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

I did a bit more work on my soviet tank riders platoon last night & plan to try to finish them on Sunday.

 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

Half my reinforcements for Fantasy Dux have arrived in the shop & I will pick them up in morning however at least for now my thoughts have turned to Sharp Practice & Chain of Command. I will see what the week end brings as to what I actually manage to get done.

I also saw the New starter force for Muskets and tomahawks - Scots highlanders arrive form Northstar at Spirit Games  yesterday & my thoughts based on an attack of "Shinny" to be sure turn to using them for  sharp practice.






 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

Lots of useful stuff has been uploaded to the Laride Group for CoC however I have downloaded most of it & I am more than happy to mail it to any interested parties who are not members.

Message me here with your E-mail

My copy has been printed out & will be laminated just as soon as I find out what I have done with the A4 pouches....


 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

I am painting for chain of command at the moment finishing off a platoon of Soviet tank riders & a Platoon of German Panzer Grenadiers & I am posting this whilst waiting for the paint to dry and I find nowadays  I paint better in short bursts and come back to it after doing something else for a while. Here the something else has been doing the four weekly invoices & catching up on my blog reading.

 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

The Soviets are more or less done so I need to make a start on the extra figures I need for the Germans I have the better part of two platoons done but had not painted any of the support weapons so need to do those from scratch more or less. I should have enough to do a demo at spirit the week after next at this rate,

 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

The Tank rider platoon is finished but I am unable to do the Soviet support weapons as I seem to have lost the instruction sheet for the Soviet heavy weapons & the thing is essential to putting them together. So I decided to start work on the rest of the Germans only to find that I cant locate the OOB I was using for them. Particularly annoying as I bought a copy of it again recently, having mioslaid the origional one as is my way. So Having the Soviet one to hand I sorted out the non tank rider infantry & found that I had just short of a company being short of riflemen for the third platoon in the organization. So I need a fourth box of Plastic solder infantry, but appart form that I now have a sizeable Soviet force more than enough for CoC & at an infantry company with support company, an armoured company(t34/76/85) & a platoon of recon tanks (t70's) quite a formidable one for IABSM as well.

I need a bit more variety in vehicles as all I have are three types of tank.

 Ginger

[EvilGinger]

Had all sorts of plans for continuing work on the Soviets & Germans  for chain of command but I was thwarted by the antics of my suppliers which meant I had to spend most of the day dealing with work not my hobbies 

I am still planing to get something done for next week end.

 Ginger