Games night .......Finally ☺

Someo where in France. ...or maybe Germany

Last night my good friend came over to try out our first big battle using Bolt Action. 1100pts each, I had a lieutenant with 2 bodyguards, 2 squads of regular troops, 2 squads of paratroopers, artillery spotter, PIAT team, sniper team, light mortar, MMG team, Bren Carrier and Cromwell tank. My opponent had a similar type army but a Puma armoured car instead of a tank.
We rolled the demolition mission so each had a HQ to defend. If one of us gets a model in contact with enemies HQ they win.

The Brits line up to attack

German Artillery pins the centre of the british line hitting the HQ hard but no casualties

The game started with both sides advancing. Both sets of artillery observers called in artillery on the first turn. Which landed in the second turn both causing no casualties but plenty of pins (mostly to my forces)

All forces advancing (the little red markers are pin markers)

The brave (possibly fool hardy) PIAT steps out in front of the enemy Puma........and misses!!!!

Fire is exchanged, the enemy Puma advances towards the British lines. The PIAT team steps out in front of it and promptly missed from point blank range!!!!! Aaaarrgh. After this as you can imagine the PIAT team were swiftly wiped out.

Germans push into the village while the Brits secure the church in the centre of the battlefield

Waffen SS lead the charge into the village square

Waffen SS lead troops intonthe village where a British machine gun team, Cromwell tank and paratroop squad await

Cromwell tank pours machine gun fire into the fanactical SS squad entering the village

The paratroopers caught in the open walk into a hail of gunfire

On the opposite flank to the village a British squad charges a Waffen SS squad. Charging through the hail of bullets!

The left flank with the village has the Germans attacking but on the left the British make their move and charge into an SS squad. A withering hail of reaction fire evens things up some. 2 rounds of bloody hand to hand fighting  (damned SS fanatics! ) and both sides are took out of the game.

The Cromwell turns it's main gun on the Puma still pouring machine him fire into village square

HQ move up into buildings to help bolster the linked Paratroopers

Several panzerfausts are fired at the Cromwell but thankfully missed. The paras on the left flank wiped out an enemy HQ but due the wait of pins they rolled FUBAR and ran away to recover.  On the right flank a german sniper kept my squads heads down with accurate fire.

The Brits that held the church charge out to take out the German sniper team

Brit HQ and machine gum team hold the village square against the fanactical SS

The german sniper was took down on the right flank by a charge of regular troops.  After the paras had broke on the left flank the HQ, machine gum team and tank kept the village square from being overrun.  The fanactical SS really held up my forces as they refused to break and soaked up a lot of bullets for the Heer units behind

After the sniper had been took out the unit move a to attack the HQ unit defending the HQ

After the sniper the regulars wipe out a HQ unit in a hail of gunfire. Meanwhile the artillery spotter  had jumped in the Bren Carrier and raced toward the enemy HQ.
The game turns run out leaving both HQs intact.  We roll for another turn and get one.

After trading shots the Cromwell scores a knock out hit

The Cromwell makes an armour kill (finally get to use my destroyed vehicle markers! !!) More gunfire exchanged in the village square and my artillery spotter dashes to secure enemy HQ for the win!
Was a great game, loved the bolt action rules and how fluid they flow keeps the game going along nicely.  Some brilliant cinematic moments occurred, the PIAT team missing a point blank shot the armoured duel of mainly terrible shooting .
Great fun! !

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Amera Plastics Terrain

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Amera Plastics Terrain

Once again I've been atvthe Amera plastic terrain. The pile of terrain has been sat there long enough. I had under coated it a while back when I was undercoating lots of things but only now just got round to painting them. They are mostly scatter terrain for the board so painting was relatively simple. A few base colours followed by flock that matches the game board.

A Sandbagged position on a hill

A rocky outcrop

Large Rocky hill

A small Rocky hillock

A large rocky Hillock

A larger sandbag emplacement

Remains of a building that has been bombed out and nature is cominhng

Once again thank you to  Amera Plastics for the excellent quality terrain. Now  have a great day!!

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Stone walls!

Just a quick blog to show some finished terrain.  As mentioned in a previous  blog i had been making some stone walls out of the large amount of insulation foam I have.
I cut and carved a variety of different styles and under coated them using normal kids black paint. They take ages to dry but other than they take the paint fine .
Once dried I based them on card board. I wanted the bases as small as possible so the walls could go against roads and fit together. 
Then a quick dry brush with a light grey and some flock all finished!
Yes I could have put more detail but there was so many and I just wanted some basic walls. I think they came out really well.

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Amera Plastics Church

A few blog posts ago I mentioned while at a model shop in Wales I had bought a church from the excellent  Amera Plastics . After finishing my airbourne force for bolt action I have started to build the church.

The church was simple to put together requiring a bit of cutting but nothing major and stuck together great with poly cement

The assembled church (the green stuff is down to my poor cutting than the product lol)

Next i wanted a base so I could have a small church yard for models.  In a massive bag of bits I found several grave stones so they will be added for extra effect. I stuck the church down and put a layer of filler down as the ground.

Base now has grave stones sunk into the filler

The whole lot was under coated and the first layers of paint went on to the church. My first attempt was rushed and ended up a disaster!

Yep it looked horrible in real life as well

A re paint was in order!

Much better!

Next up was stone walking arrround the church. Using under floor insulation and a YouTube tutorial ( mentioned in a blog post here  ) I cut and carved out some stone walls to surround the church

Carved with a pen

Now undercoated the walls are stuck to the base

Last up dry brushing the stone walls and adding flock.

The finished article. I have to say I'm quite proud of this ☺

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Bits and bobs

While I've been doing my Regular British bolt action troops I have also been working on a church from Amera plastics (blog incoming when it's finished), bought an MDF house (see blog here  ) and thanks to some ebay sales I also purchased another building as these are great value. This time round I bought a shop

The Windows are little squares cut out but I might cut these away with a craft knife to have a fully open window. I also got a little out building which was a nice bonus. I am just waiting on another eBay payment and I aim to get a bridge and possibly one more building. With that I should have enough buildings for a small village.
For the MDF buildings I really just want simple terrain so gonna look at printing pictures of brick off and sticking them to building just to see what they look like. Also had a reccomendation at some stick on sheets of roof tiles .
To go with the church and houses I have used the terrain tutors video about making stone walls which can be found here . For this I ordered some under floor insulation. It's like polystyrene but strong, less mess when cutting and you can paint on it quite well. Found some on eBay for £3 I didn't check how big it was!

Almost 5ft!!

So now I  am making a load of walls

Cut and then carved using a biro

A selection of different walls I've done

And yes still a load of insulation left ☺. I'll keep  ya posted on how it all goes !

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MDF House

I spotted in eBay a few weeks back after a search for laser cut MDF houses I found what appeared to be some quite cheap ones (£7.50 for a semi detached house where as all other houses I could see were around £12 - £15) . I thought I would try one just to see what the quality was like. I also wanted to see if potentially I could keep the house flat packed and control slot it together at game time. The purchase also had free delivery on and the seller also has a Facebook page which is  JBWDFWargames. It looks like a one man operation.
The product arrived really quickly  and securely wrapped.
The MDF was nicely cut I had to pop out some little cubes of wood for the  windows but that was it.
Didn't come with instructions but I had it assembled in 5 or so minutes as it was relatively simple.

Each floor can be separated to allow models on both floors

The assembled semi detached house!

In the pic of the assembled house I have not used anything to stick it together as it slots together nicely so this is great news for my flat pack idea! The side walls were the only real loose bits so I reckon come game time a bit of blue tac will hold it all togther!! (My wife is exceptionally happy about the flat pack idea )
Now just to give it a basic paint and it's ready for the battlefield.

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