Gauntlet - Day1 - other games

Some pictures of the other games underway on Saturday.

Gentlemen Pensioners - Leipzig, looks quite empty at the start


Pony wars


Large Flames of War game


A Viking raid game, due to a non-attendance this was played on Sunday


Kursk 1943 in 1/300 (still not enough tanks - personal joke)


Leipzig underway


The nice Mr Oates from Baggage Train


And his nicer 10mm forts

Gauntlet is go

Spent yesterday afternoon lugging tables and setting up the SOTCW game. Everything is now ready and I'll be setting off shortly to get started. Already bought two 15mm of the B&B so I'll need to get cash on the way just in case I find anything else to take my fancy.

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Pictures of the SOTCW Road to Tebessa 1943 table

A quick fix

While assembling the forces I discovered that a US 37mm had gone missing and even after a careful search I couldn't find it. I bet it'll turn up somewhere unexpected after Gauntlet. I decided to use a 57mm but then remembered that I had some German Pak 36s in the stash, so a quick kit bash with some plasticard produced these.



The second gun was used to create a mounting for a M6 GMC (37mm) truck

Orbats for Road to Tebessa (2)

Continuing the theme

The Americans


The Germans


Full details on the SOTCW blog

Orbats for Road to Tebessa

Are being added over on the SOTCW blog

The British


The Italians


The French


More tomorrow

Half year review

Well the first half of the year has flown by and I better review my progress against my plan

Main projects

• Make a medieval Burgundian/German force – well underway, just paused for work for Gauntlet.
• Sort out the assorted Saracens so I can use Hail Caesar for Crusades games – not yet started
• A Jacobite army, mainly of Highlanders, but including some of the possible French reinforcements – completed the readily available figures, but I’ll revisit this once the Redbox figures are released in the UK

Possible projects

• Upgrade my WW2 Americans – if rumours are correct The Plastic Soldier Company will be releasing Americans this year, so it would fit in with a clear out and general tidy up of my US forces for North West Europe. – US Infantry are out, just waiting for the heavy weapons before getting started.

Other activities

• Complete the last bits of the British/US Airborne. – done except for the Polsten gun
• Tidy up the last bits of the DAK/8th Army – still got bits and pieces still to do.
• Late French armée d’orient (trying to make a few French demi-brigades with pretty uniforms and pouffes sound posh) – not even started
• German/Italian/Hungarian forces for “Stalingrad” Eastern front winter game. – not even started
• Try and play some large 1813 period Napoleonic games, especially as my armies were originally organised for this and this is the bi-centennial. – only Lutzen so far
• Attempt to rationalise the stash again - watch my trading lists. – I am trying slowly, but acquiring a modellers heap didn’t help.

Painting
785 items painted so not bad progress for half way through the year

By period:
WW2 267
SYW 176
Napoleonic 144
Medieval 86
Colonial 40
Revolution 30
Ancient 19
Terrain 15
WW1 8

By type:
Infantry 445
Cavalry 100
Vehicle Riders 55
Gunners 41
Rework/Rebase 37
Vehicles 34
Tanks/AFVs 24
Terrain 15
Other figures 15
Artillery guns 12
Horses 4
Equipment 2
Wagons 1

Armour for Gauntlet

Preparations continue, checking the OOBs I found I needed more tanks than I had available, in particular four M3 Lees for the US forces. I've compromised with the single Airfix M3 from the stash, plus a pair of "Russian" M3's with replacement turrets painted up for the US in North Africa. They'll pass muster provided no one reads the logos on the front plates. To complete the set there is an Airfix Sherman that was in my trading box painted up appropriately.

For the Axis I needed another long barrelled Panzer IV so I utilised the ready assembled Airfix model from the stash, but when I sorted out the Fujimi ones I had I found they didn't have decals so some work had to be done on these to make them consistent.