zona Alfa - new figures

After my recent games I wanted some figures that better represented the bandits and civilian characters in the game ,plus wanted a suitable dog to represent Laika for the Scattered Readings scenario ,so I went straight to Patrick Miniatures and got what I wanted ,the figures are well detailed need very little if any cleaning and take paint really well plus the service is excellent All the new figures are shown below and are painted with Speed Paints

https://patrickminiatures.de

Zona Alfa

Got a couple of Zona Alfa games in using the `kontraband supplement for solo play ,great game made a couple of mistakes but overall pretty easy to pick up.

most of the figures are Patrick miniatures as is the russian store

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

Blitzkrieg commander British v Germans late war

Had a game of Blitzkreig commander with my late war Brits versus Johns Germans , a series of incredibly bad command die rolls meant very little happened and when it did it made more of a whimper than a bang after seven turns of action I had lost a 6pdr ATG and an armoured car and John lost a command vehicle ,I did have great luck in calling in air strikes but the the first caused minimal damage to Johns panzers and the next two attacks were driven off by AA fire . Still great fun and we are both off to alter our army lists and practice rolling D6

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.

12mm British ww2

a few test figures for Blitzkrieg commander ,these are all 12mm Victrix plastics ,painted as generic Brits or commonweath troops for late war Europe

Tribal

Been looking at these rules for a long time and eventually got them when the version 2 was released recently. According to the rules nothing much has changed from the first edition just some clarification and bits have been added fron the first edition supplements that were released . The rules are very nice ,comic book size with lots of colour over pictures 64 pages laid out really clearly . The unusal thing with these rules is everything is card driven ,using normal playing cards for combat etc but also for moving for example if you want your figure to march you lay a playing card in front of your figure and then move the figure to the end of the card ,sprint is 2 card lengths and so on. The book includes add on rules for Zulu's , plains Indians and even early colonial games and a section for solo play Played our game using Zulu's and it was great fun and very easy to pick up ,the game can be won even if your warband is wiped out because honour is everything and you gain honour points for completing objectives ,winning combat etc but also lose points for not completing your objectives and having yourwarband members killed . 10/10