More progress on Dendermonde

 

Finally finished texturing and painting the main elements of the Dendermonde defenses.  Still need to finish off the Gatehouse but getting there.

Next up is working out exactly how I am going to do the grass on the Glacis and designing and cutting the causeway from the gate to the glacis via the demi-lune.

Very rough setup to see how it looks...

 

 

Mortimer's Cross with Flower of Chivalry

 

Another Wednesday, another game.  This time we played a refight of Mortimer's Cross during the War of the Roses using the Flower of Chivalry Rules from the Canadian Wargames Group.

Setup was a 4' x 4' table with the Yorkist deploying first along the old Roman road and the Lancastrians deploying on the ridge on the other side of Mortimer's Cross.

The game was very enjoyable and we both remembered how much we like these rules and what a good and realistic WOTR game they give.

The game was very close, with the Lancastrians (me) just breaking the Yorkist morale and taking Mortimer's Cross with 3 of my own Army morale remaining.

28mm figures based on 60mm square bases.

 

 

Defence of the Ypres-Comine Canals 1940

 

Played a 20mm Rapid Fire game at the club last week.

I used the excellent Blitzkrieg scenario and forces books and ran the defence of the Ypres-Comine canal scenario.  It has 3 battalions of germans with supports attacking 2.5 battalions of British who are heavily outnumbered.  Its a nice scenario to use as an intro as it has only infantry + support weapons and off table artillery, no tanks involved.

The British were eventually over-run, with the Seaforth highlanders falling back before routing, the Fusiliers also routed leaving a weak 2nd Northumberland to try and defend the canal.  Some good german artillery made short work of them and the game was over - pretty much an historical result.

The British artillery was quite poor (my die rolling as usual) and I didn't manage to make as much use of my MG teams as I hoped.

Great game and the other two players who hadn't used Rapid Fire reloaded were impressed by the ease of the rules.

Some swapping and some painting...

 

 

When I bought my Minifigs SYW collection it came with a load of unpainted figures included (or should have done - took 2 months to get them from the seller). They turned out to be mostly Old Glory FIW figures so they are going off to Colonel Bills for credit and in exchange I am getting 2 units of WOTR men at arms and 2 units of Scurrers to round out my WOTR forces.

This continues trying to keep my hobby cost neutral.

 

I have also been slowly working through some stuff on the workbench.

Finished texturing all the Dendermonde defences and managed to undercoat most of them - when it stops raining the rest will be done and then I'll start the dry-brushing...

I have arranged a Rapid Fire Reloaded game at the club tomorrow with my 20mm collection based on a scenario in the Blitzkreig book.  I am having to sub in some figures (mostly MG34s for MMGs and 2pdrs for 25pdrs) - I have got a ton of unpainted and part painted SHQ and some EWM figures so it has prompted me to dig out some stuff to paint:

2 x Quads and 25pdrs and crew

3 x Boyes AT teams

4 x Vickers MMG and crews

I will probably also order some proper MMGs for the early war germans (I am using paratrooper ones at the moment) and some early AT rifles to replace the Airfix panzerfauste figures!

I also need more CO figures for HQ sections - so need to look at Raventhope of someone, I think.

I was actually running the game to encourage me to think about getting my French WW2 army that I bought from Eric Knowles estate rebased and sorted (including the colonial elements)...