Nam -cold war commander style

This weekend we did a replay of last weekends Nam game but this time using cold war commander from Pendraken , Again all Johns Toys but this time I played the good old USA , John sportingly called it a draw I did capture the objcetive but lost almost all of my Infantry and special forces team . A great game again Got into the game so again not many pics 2 showing my some of my forces heading toward the 2 viallages

Arab-Israeli air wars -progress so far

I had every thing I need to start my project except bases so looking at various types and unable to find what i wanted,I decided to have a go my self so a few hex bases and dice frames from Pendraken and some nails from the local DIY store plus some rare earth magnets from my bits box and Im happy . The pics show the under coated bases and some under coated Egyption Mig 21 and IL 28 from tumbling dice

updates and new things

I have not posted much lately ,work ,illness and other stuff have kept me busy. I have managed to get afew games in recently , Zona Alfa, Cold War Commander seem to have taked my gamoing time up . My Korean War project is finshed although I do have acouple of bits to paint ,I originally started the project to use Cold War commander as the rukle set but changed to Blitzkreig Commander whenthey realeased the Korean war Supplement ,which then spurred me onto to getting a 10mm ww2 British army as well . For Cold war commander I have started a 15mm Israeli army covering from the 70;s through to the 1980's My 10mm ACW project is coming along nicely using 10mm pendraken with the Alter of Freedom rule set Even with my painting table creaking under the wieght of unpainted lead and resin I am planning another project and attempting to do it properly trying to plan it in detail . It will cover thge middle east air wars covering the 6day war ,War of attrition and Yom ~Kippur as astart but going back to the war of independance and lebanon as well , I willuse tumbling dice 1.600 aircraft and I have 3 rule sets toi try out ,airwar 21 ,Bag The Hun and check your 6 jet age ,I have played the first 2 but not CY6 jet age . Santa will be bringing me lots of reference books so hopefully start this in the new year .

Alter of Freedom

We have played a lot of Blitzkrieg commander and Cold War Commander recently and we have really enjoyed the quick play big battle games and with the 10mm Pendraken stuff made it possible to filed big armies without the need for huge tables and lots of expense ,so after looking at the Pendraken ACW range I looked for a set of quick play period rules and found Alter of Freedom by Greg Wagman . The Rules cover large battles using Divisions with smallest unit being a brigade ,the game is historical scenario driven with emphasis is on the commanders with each one having traits representing how they behaved at the actual battle. Players bid points to get to move first and also to control the game clock which when thye have control of it they can manipulate it to shorten or lengthen the turn. There is no casualty removal or record keeping a unit is either combat effective or broken , the game only uses a D6 for each side and a D8,10 ,12 etc to represent the clock , the actual type is shown on each scenario. The scenario comes with a map ,instructions where to set up allowing slight chnages to the actual battle and comes with a sheet showing each commander their strengths and weaknesse ,what brigades they control and how many points they each have to influence the game .Another thing I like is each scenario comes with a printable sheet of lables to attach to your bases so you just change the lable for each scenario The rules come with 4 scenarios and are supported by 2 scenario books each with another 14 or so scenarios and a web site with lots of free downloads, videos and after action reports . Altough the rules are meant to be played for historical battles there is a section on how to build armies for points driven games and non historical games . From read throughs and looking at the videos and after action reports I liked what I saw and have started painting and basing some figures below are acouple of test bases I did a infantry brigade and an artillery battery .

Figures are Pendraken

Irish Guards Battlegroup

After our games with Pendrakens Cold War Commander we decided to try their WW2 version Blitzkreig Commander which we tried using my korean war armies and we were sold ,so we chose late war with myself doing the British . We chose army lists to start as a base for our armies ,I chose the Irish Guards Armoured Brigade for September 1944. I have now finished my basic army but with the sad news arrowhead miniatures are closing down I have ordered quite abit of stuff so I have afew options to choose from. Battle group HQ

3rd Armoured Squadron

1st Armoured Squadron

2nd Armoured Squadron

2nd Infantry Company Group

Air Cover

Hopefully these will go into Action with the next couple of weeks ,Toys are a selection the Infantry and some Shermans are Victrix the other Shermans and most of the other vehicles and the 17pdr ATG and tank riders are Arrowhead , the reaming vehicles are either pendraken aor Butlers Printed models , the Typhoon is Butlers

Korean War Project -nearly there

A few things got in the way pf my forgotten war project ,then Pendraken brought out a specific supplement for Korea which changed the army lists slightly and also took the war from the cold war commander rules to the blitzkrieg commander set ,luckily i have both sets so n0 issue and then Pendraken released loads of new toys for the period included a Psy ops set , so a big order went in. Any way about 80% finished now so some pics of my painted stuff on hills made by myself ,more than a pretty face hey.

Korean War Project

A bit of progress with the cold war commander armies for Korea ,not quite enough for a game yet but soon have them painted up nown Ive decided on basing and numbers of figures .

Korean Project Update

Thought I would keep posting progress reports even if only to keep my interest going , I easy get led away to other projects . Still only doing a few figures just to make sure I am happy with the colours and basing . During the winter the British and Commonwealth troops were supplied with UA army parkas but I have done acouple of the officers in para smocks which dont really show upp in the pics and ythe senior officers in duffle coats . The Army packs are great value covering all you need in Command Stands ,Infantry and HMG's and Mortors ,I bought a few single packs of troops throwing grenades and carrying LMGs just to add variation ,some tanks and Jeeps just to add to the command stands. I have tried to keep to the basing reccomendations but they are not critical so the British HMGs ended up on round bases just because they hung over the reccomended sizes . Really impressed with the rules and also the quality of the book and the free downloads such as the army lists shown below

My Winter Project -Korea the forgotten war

Decided to set myself a project with the target of being completed and ready to game by March 23 . So my choice was the Korean war and decided on British and Chinese troops in winter gear ,also decided on a new scale ,for me anyway 10mm . So ordered a couple of army packs and some odd bits from Pendraken along with their rules Cold War Commander 2 ,I already have acouple of sets that could handle this conflict but liked the write ups for these plus Pendraken have lots of online free stuff such as army lists and rules for weather etc on their forum. So below are some work in progress pics ,a stand of chinese scouts done as a test and a centurion and some brits in various stages of painting ,I will keep regular updates going even if only to spur me on.