Baber on wargames

Thursday, 10 August 2017

Inventory - US Vietnam

US forces Vietnam

Not a period I have a real wargames interest in, but I built a company strong infantry element for the SOTCW game at gauntlet a few years back.

20mm figures

3 x 10man platoons/squads each with an M60 LMG team

5-man HQ (officer, NCO, RTO, sniper & medic) plus another guy carrying a wounded comrade

Gaming Inventory - general thoughts

I have been considering this task for quite sometime , truth being I`m a little scared to discover exactly what I have 😁

But now with the room in Spain i can actually get stuff out and count/sort/organise to my hearts content.

The idea of the exercise is:

A. To find out more or less exactly what I have in each nationality for a given period

B. To assess if there are any critical gaps in this or that orbat , that then must be purchased and painted

C. Once done I should be able to plan my next direction of build
D. This is really act of self congratulations over how much I`ve done

How and format

Set figures out in formation as per Grant`s rules and do a figure count (including support weapons and officers, RTOs etc) vehicles and towed guns, etc are to be listed as part of TO&E or as attachments.

Sunday, 6 August 2017

wargaming in Spain (summer 2017 update)

Too hot to play really, so just pottered about and started a long delayed inventory

(more on this mammoth project later)

As usual we visited out favourite charity clearance shop and picked a few bargains.

Four French Colonial Army prints Circa 1880-1900 I would guess, 2 euro each

A steel set of draws (only 10 euro)

Monday, 17 July 2017

French Colonials (1950s)

French colonials

2 x 8 figure packs of Liberation Miniatures Indo-China Moroccans, Now I`ve always liked Rolfe`s figures and would buy loads, but he no longer accepts orders off me or answer correspondence, so i am left with picking up odd packs here and there as i go. These are smashing figures, I`ve painted them up without any uniformity in colours as i want them to look rag-tag field worn, also I have the idea of using them as ALN (Armee de Liberation Nationale) against the French in Algeria or ALM (Armee de Liberation du Maroc) against both the French and Spanish in Southern Morocco during the Infi War.

One conversion, I swapped a rifle for a FM29

Recoiless rifle guy from Elhiem

Saturday, 8 July 2017

Shaun`s new ruin

Part of the new Italian/Spanish building range, this is a truly brilliant one-piece casting with added external rubble piles. I based it all and added various bits plus built some partial upper floors.

Figures just for scale

Monday, 3 July 2017

Wales Airshow 2017

Unfortunately our running a guesthouse means this busy now annual event stops me travelling to Gauntlet or Bovington :(

Business and family always send hobby stuff into the back seat.

Lovely weather this year and the beach was packed, good for the town, we were busy on Friday and Saturday too.

Spend both days on the beach with Debbie and our Alex watching the various flight displays, didn`t get a chance to walk around the ground display area to see the various vehicles and stuff, but it was nice to just be a couple (plus Alex) doing family stuff for a change.

Aside from the usual civilian display teams, stunt pilots and air-sea rescue shows there was of course some military interest -

Eurofighter Typhoon