Previously I wrote about my Early War French progress in my local clubs Escalation league. If you wish to catch up on that read here. The OCTOBER WARGAMES ASSOCIATION (OWA) meets every Tuesday at its new location the Mosely All Services Club. This year I have been participating in its Bolt Action escalation league, theContinueContinue reading “WW2 – Escalation League – Early War French Final Round”
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WW2 – Escalation League – Early War French
The OCTOBER WARGAMES ASSOCIATION (OWA) meets every Tuesday at its new location the Mosely All Services Club. This year I have been participating in its Bolt Action escalation league, the basic concept of this is that we each choose a platoon and equipment which is valued between 1939-1943 (just to enable the US to beContinueContinue reading “WW2 – Escalation League – Early War French”
WW2 -Légion des Volontaires Français Contre le Bolchévisme and the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division – The Charlemagne Division
I’d like to share with you my finished Pro Nazi French built using the Germans from – WW2 – Band of Brothers – squad Optimisation Part 2 and The Winter Germans. So the 2 units I am representing is the pro Nazi French LVF aka (Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme) which then became theContinueContinue reading “WW2 -Légion des Volontaires Français Contre le Bolchévisme and the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division – The Charlemagne Division”
WW2 – Winter Germans – Squad EFFECTIVENESS
So I previously looked at what I could build using the Band of Brothers starter set Germans – WW2 – Band of Brothers – squad Optimisation Part 2, now I am going to plan how to build the Winter Germans, these will potentially be used for the pro nazi French LVF which then became the 33rdContinueContinue reading “WW2 – Winter Germans – Squad EFFECTIVENESS”
WW2 – Oops some more Fallschirmjäger
So I have now finished building and painting my Fallschirmjäger, for the rest see WW2 – Squad Optimisation – Late War Fallschirmjäger, WW2 – More Fallschirmjäger, WW2 – Fallschirmjäger recruits and WW2 – The End of My Fallschirmjäger So I visited my Friendly Local Games store and — well here are some more Fallschirmjager’s A couple of Officers https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq9yTJao4Eo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkContinueContinue reading “WW2 – Oops some more Fallschirmjäger”
Statistician Abraham Wald’s Counterintuitive Insight Saved Lives
A wonderful one to keep up the sleeve when people say what use is mathematics and statistics – the truth is it takes an analytical mind to see the obvious that others miss. – nice simple write up. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/abraham-wald.html
WW2 – Fallschirmjäger – First Engagement
A battle report on my first game using the Fallschirmjäger, for images of the figures and discussion on squad builds see WW2 – Squad Optimisation – Late War Fallschirmjäger, WW2 – More Fallschirmjäger, WW2 – Fallschirmjäger recruits, WW2 – The End of My Fallschirmjäger and WW2 – Bolt Action – German Vehicles. This was a 1000 pts – friendly gameContinueContinue reading “WW2 – Fallschirmjäger – First Engagement”
WW2 – The End of My Fallschirmjäger
So I have now finished building and painting my Fallschirmjäger, for the rest see WW2 – Squad Optimisation – Late War Fallschirmjäger, WW2 – More Fallschirmjäger, WW2 – Fallschirmjäger recruits So first up is some early war Rifle and SMGs – https://www.instagram.com/p/CqvDYp8ImSG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Then another 5 LMG teams to meet my requirements from my squad optimisation. https://www.instagram.com/p/CqvDk5oI3s2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/CqvDrt7IRdv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/CqvD1KYofGJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkContinueContinue reading “WW2 – The End of My Fallschirmjäger”
WW2 – Bolt Action – German Vehicles
I have just finished the vehicles from the Band of Brothers and Fallschirmjäger Starter Army, so I thought I’d share them with you. These are the first Warlord Games vehicle kits I’ve built and I have to say they were fun to build and I believe even with my limited painting skills have come upContinueContinue reading “WW2 – Bolt Action – German Vehicles”
WW2 – Band of Brothers – List Optimisation Part 4
My use of mathematics to improve my Bolt Action forces continues, so after my previous posts – the original post WW2 – Band of Brothers – squad Optimisation and the workings for the Germans WW2 – Band of Brothers – squad Optimisation Part 2 and then the rework of the Americans WW2 – Band of Brothers –ContinueContinue reading “WW2 – Band of Brothers – List Optimisation Part 4”
