Paul Nettle

It is up to you really.  As they were in German units I would treat them as normal SS units.  Given they were recruited from former Fascists I think that Fanatics may be appropriate.  Also, they were recruited after Italy had surrendered – and formed for the the Italian Socialist Republic so Italian rules may no longer be appropriate.

Looks like a cracking battle, well done indeed.

I agree the wording is confusing, easpcially the use of “unit”.  “This unit can be taken as an armoured car choice”.  “Every unit … must be of the same experience level”.

I know this is just down to opinion but I reckon five order dice are correct.

But then army lists from this book are a bit bonkers.  My standard DAK platoon has five tanks in…[Read more]

I also found this somewhat open to interpretation.  My groups plays it as: a 10 man squad of veterans crosses a minefield – I roll 10 dice and those that come up as a 5+ are hits.  I know this is not as written in the rules, but this is the way that makes the most sense to my wargames group.

If you want some good reference books, the first two autobiography books by John Masters are good.  “Bugles and a Tiger” is about his life in the British Indian army before WWII (as a 2nd Lt in charge of a rifle company), and “The Road Past Mandalay” describes his was service.  Both very good books.

As far as I know, all turbans were the same.  It would be bad practice to identify officers and NCOs to the enemy by such obvious markings.

Indian units in 1939 were well on the way to being “Indianised”.  Of the 31 Officers, 12 were King’s Commissioned Officers (British) and 19 were Viceroy’s Commissioned Officers (the ratio could vary in p…[Read more]

Thank you, Invisible Officer, for this very useful information.  As I said before, trying to get 12 men into the Kleiner Floßsack would be fun to see.  I have purchase some Großer Floßsack in 1:56 scale to make a pontoon bridge, and also bought some smaller wooden boats in 1:56 to do the same for my Romanians.

Thanks Nat – both have DV 3+.

But having seen the pictures of the boats I think the rules are wrong.  In my campaign the boats will be:

Schlaughboot 3M – max of 6 men so make it much cheaper.

Schluchboot 5.5m – 12 men plus 1 MMG, or 8 men plus 1 Light AT Gun – no way did the AT gun crew take up all the boat.

Plus the Soviet A3 inflatable boat…[Read more]

Thank you for the swift response.  I have both those books but missed the boats in them.

Schlauchboot is a general term covering a lot of light craft, so I guess the 3M one is the Kleiner Flossacke and the 5.5M one the Grosse Flossacke.  I would love to see 12 men trying to get into a Kleiner Flossacke!  Six seems a crowd.

They still seem ex…[Read more]

Is there a link to your blog please?

The plastic US Airbourne has a sheet in it that says you can have two LMG plus a BAR per squad.  The armoured support for the US Paras in Market Garden was mainly British 11th Armoured Division until later in the campaign when it was the British Guards Armoured Division.

I don’t have a kit to hand, but usually the guns go together very much the same.  The wheels attach to an axle, the towing ‘legs’ attach to that too, a gun either sits on the axle or there is a base that the gun sits on (which attaches to the axle).  At this point I generally paint the gun then attach the painted gun shield and lower gun s…[Read more]

“I edited my reply but now I cant see it.” Yes, I have often found the same problem.  I post something, the topic says I was the last one to post, but I cannot see it.  I reported it to customer services, and they said they passed it to the web-team.

The original Machine Gun Artillery post is https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/machinegun-artillery-pulyemyetno-artillyeriyskiy-platoon/

The list is not legal, but I did use two of them in my own 1941 campaign.  And any list can be used with your opponent’s agrement.

I have done some normandy bunkers and eastern front bunkers.  https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/8579867436914039682

I hope the link works.

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But I cannot see my update, so this is just a test.

Hi Duncan

Welcome to the game.  I subscribe to GeekGaming on YouTube so I heard about the 16′ by 4′ table he is making.  It sounds really great.

At home I use a 6′ by 4′ table covered with a single green unfitted bedsheet.  Covered in scatter terrain.  I also have a few game mats.  In lockdown I have been reduced to solo games.

I am a memb…[Read more]