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Second World War ETO Americans in 20mm

I had never intended collecting an American force for Chain of Command. It was just one of those things that happened serendipitously when I...

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  • Getting Started with Chain of Command
    Lately I've seen a lot of posts in forums and social media from new players asking questions about how people base their figures, or loo...
  • Farewell Advanced Squad Leader
    Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) purports to be a game about tactical leadership in combat in WWII. It comes from a long and noble line of hex a...
  • Chain of Command Platoon Boards
    I often find players new to Chain of Command have a little trouble getting to grips with the force composition of a platoon when first learn...
  • Force lists and supports in Chain of Command
    A common question asked by players interested in trying the WWII rule set Chain of Command, is how do I build a force to play a game? A sc...

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    36th Pennsylvania Volunteers - More Blue Bellies for the ACW collection, this time the 36th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment, made up of Crusader Miniatures picked up from North Star ....
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  • Wargaming Girl
    Paint Table Saturday 22 January 2022 - I finished the Japanese last night, took photos today and have submitted the post in good time for publication tomorrow. With that out of the way, wha...
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  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Whirlwinds! - I've had this book for several years and have dipped into it for scenario writing purposes but have never actually read it from cover to cover, until now...
    2 hours ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    Gung Ho-Taking King's Wharf (6) - The next game in our Gung-Ho campaign took place over 2 separate sessions, I suspect the playing time was over 5 hours! This time we had Jarkko for both ...
    6 hours ago
  • Dalauppror
    Cultists and Possessed - Made me a bunch of Cultistsfrom the FrostGrave Cultist box and a Possessed from a old GW mini I found in Jockes sale box at the club.
    14 hours ago
  • Steven's Balagan
    Kiwis vs FJ in Italy – A Crossfire Scenario and Battle Report 1 - Jamie popped over for a game, and when it is just Jamie and me we try out something more experimental. Jamie wanted to play Crossfire and I wanted to try...
    15 hours ago
  • A Lead Odyssey
    More Analogue Hobbies Painting Fun - I've been pleased to be part of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge this year. It's driven me to do a few things I wouldn't otherwise tackle. And so...
    1 day ago
  • Storm of Steel
    Hobby Update Videos, new for 2022! - Hi Steelers, I bet you though I was dead? Well, no I'm not. I have been concentrating on the Youtube channel of late and have neglected this blog. Howeve...
    1 day ago
  • The Wargames Table
    Crete Campaign: Game One - This is the "Patrol on the hill top" battle, game one, table one. Overnight on the 20th May the Germans have gathered men and equipment from their scattere...
    2 days ago
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    More Ivan in the Open - After a brief diversion into something that looked like the end of the Great War, we were back to the open steppe for our latest game of "It Rolls for I...
    3 days ago
  • Just Add Water
    Spanish Trastámara Italian Wars Ordinance- Army of Gonzalo de Córdoba, "El Gran Capitán" - Apologies for the slightly serious nature of this post. I've been a very difficult 21 months with having to deal with isolating during the pandemic; I'm...
    5 days ago
  • Over Open Sights
    White Russians: A group of Annenkov's Rifle Brigade looters, an Orthadox priest and a sniper. - All available from Empress Miniatures.
    1 week ago
  • Moiterei's bunte Welt
    [20mm] Soviet reinforcements and a lone Space Marine - The 12th iteration of the Annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge is underway and clearly I had hoped I'd have a little more to show for my efforts toda...
    1 week ago
  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
    The Slows - (In my imagination, you all would talk back to me during this little drama, but would sound like muted trombones like in the Peanuts cartoons.) H th...
    1 week ago
  • Doctor Phalanx
    Blog List Update - I deleted the old blog roll gadget but still couldn't get new instances to display properly. After several reinstalls and some trial and error, I discove...
    1 week ago
  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    Allied Additions - Well in the first instance perhaps Allied minus is more appropriate? A knocked out Sherman from Anyscale Models. Below some Empress Miniatures volksgre...
    1 week ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    On the workbench - January 2022 - The first month of a new year and here's a taster I'll be working on - British and Jacobite cavalry for the '45 and SYW - More French & British ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Trouble At T'Mill
    Comment moderation - Due to Google’s spam detection’s complete inability to rid this blog of persistent spam from essentially multiple accounts spamming the exact same site, ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Shed Wars
    Battle of Ginnis - 28mm Wargame - With the somewhat mild weather bathing southern England into a false sense of an early Spring I threw open the doors of the shed on Monday night for a sm...
    2 weeks ago
  • much ado about nothing
    Texas War of Independence: On a Mission - My efforts in the last week of 2021 to complete my pseudo-Alamo mission unfortunately came to naught but I was finally able to bring it around on the Ne...
    2 weeks ago
  • Wargaming with Silver Whistle
    RIVERS - NAP WIP 7 - First of all, I would like to wish you all a happy and healthy new year, and my apologies for not posting anything on this blog since last November. T...
    3 weeks ago
  • JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF
    SCRATCH BUILT TRAIN TRACKS - Happy new year all. Having completed Two Train Stations, scatter terrain for a train station and a Train Engine with coal storage carriage, it was obvio...
    3 weeks ago
  • Major Thomas Foolery's War Room
    Sahel Conflicts: Shops and Signs for Mali - [image: 28mm Modern Wargaming: French African market shops (boutique de marche Africain) for Mali and the Sahel] My village has expanded with my resident...
    1 month ago
  • Tarleton's Quarter
    Salute 2021 - It was good to visit a wargames show again today. I understand that Salute won't return to its usual April slot until 2023, and I wonder if the Novembe...
    2 months ago
  • Tiny Hordes
    Japanese Sword School - Sometimes when you watch a samurai movie you could be forgiven for thinking everyone in mediaeval Japan was a master swordsman automatically, like it was i...
    4 months ago
  • Roundwood's World
    “With Flashing Blades” – Recommendations for Background Books - Since my last Blog post, a couple of people have asked me about reading and viewing material which might accompany the game which Nick, Rich and myself h...
    5 months ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    KV-1s - KV-1 and KV-1S, plastic BF models. With some work, both turrets can be used. CdlT
    6 months ago
  • A Grab Bag of Games
    Harpoon: Captain’s Edition - Captain’s Edition – Harpoon is a relatively low complexity strategic level board game set during the latter stages of the Cold War for modern naval battles...
    6 months ago
  • Jacksarge Brushes & Battles
    Wet Palette Prep: How & Why? - How I prep my wet palette, why I do it this way and why I use one. Hope you find it useful.
    8 months ago
  • Too Fat Lardies Blog
    Richard Ansell. Very sad News - It is with tremendous sadness that I must report the passing of the hugely talented sculptor and great friend of not just me but all of the Lard Island cre...
    10 months ago
  • News of the Lard
    Lard Magazine 2020 - Lard Magazine 2020 brings you 180 pages of wargaming fun. Scenarios, complete campaigns, rules amendments, fresh periods to game, previews of future ...
    1 year ago
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