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Jaxson Young
2nd of December in military history:
1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French. 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Austerlitz: French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force. 1823 – Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas. 1845 – Manifest Destiny: In a State of the Union message, President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. 1848 – Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria. 1851 – French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic. 1852 – Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III. 1859 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. 1899 – Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought. 1917 – World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk. 1920 – Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded. 1943 – World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SS John Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas. 1956 – The Granma reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution. 1975 – Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic. 1980 – Salvadoran Civil War: Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen are murdered by a military death squad.
Cooper Flores
It is 211 years since the Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors; one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. Widely regarded as the greatest victory achieved by Napoleon, the Grande Armée of France defeated a larger Russian and Austrian army led by Tsar Alexander I and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. The battle occurred near the village of Austerlitz in the Austrian Empire (modern-day Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic). Because of the near-perfect execution of a calibrated but dangerous plan, the battle is often seen as a tactical masterpiece of the same stature as Cannae, the celebrated triumph by Hannibal some 2,000 years before. Austerlitz brought the War of the Third Coalition to a rapid end, with the Treaty of Pressburg signed by the exhausted Austrians later in the month.
In the summer of 1805, with threats emerging from Russia and Austria, Napoleon abandoned his ambitions to invade England and turned to deal with these new adversaries.
Moving with speed and efficiency, 200,000 French troops departed their camps near Boulogne and began crossing the Rhine along a 160-mile front on September 25. Responding to the threat, Austrian General Karl Mack concentrated his army at the fortress of Ulm in Bavaria. Conducting a brilliant campaign of maneuver, Napoleon swung north and descended on the Austrian rear.
After winning a series of battles, Napoleon captured Mack and 23,000 men at Ulm on October 20. Though the victory was dampened by Nelson's triumph at Trafalgar the next day, the Ulm Campaign effectively opened the way to Vienna which fell to French forces in November.
To the northeast, a Russian field army under Kutusov had gathered and absorbed many of the remaining Austrian units. Moving towards the enemy, Napoleon sought to bring them to battle before his lines of communication were severed or Prussia entered the conflict.
Carter Nguyen
On December 1, the Russo-Austrian leadership met to decide their next move.
While Tsar Alexander I wished to attack the French, Austrian Emperor Francis II and Kutuzov preferred to take a more defensive approach. Under pressure from their generals, it was finally decided that an attack would be made against the French right flank which would open a path to Vienna. Moving forward, they adopted a plan devised by Austrian Chief of Staff von Weyrother which called for four columns to assault the French right.
The Allied plan played directly into Napoleon's hands. Anticipating that they would strike at his right, he thinned it to make it more alluring.
Believing that this assault would weaken the Allied center, he planned on a massive counterattack in this area to shatter their lines, while Marshal Davout's III Corps came up from Vienna to support the right. Positioning Marshal Lannes's V Corps near Santon Hill at the northern end of the line, Napoleon placed General Legrand's men at the southern end, with Marshal Soult's IV Corps in the center.
At dawn, the first Allied columns began hitting the French right near the village of Telnitz and throwing then back. Regrouping, the French effort was reinvigorated by the arrival of Davout's corps. Moving to the attack, they recaptured Telnitz, but were driven out by Allied cavalry. To the north, the next Allied column hit Sokonitz and was repulsed. Bringing in artillery, the French managed to retake the village, but soon lost it again. Fighting around Sokolnitz raged throughout the day.
Around 8:45, believing that the Allied center had been sufficiently weakened, Napoleon summoned Soult to discuss an attack on the enemy lines atop Pratzen Heights. Stating that "One sharp blow and the war is over," he ordered the assault to move forward at 9:00. Advancing through the morning fog, General Saint-Hilaire's division attacked the heights and was thrown back. Charging again, they managed to capture them.
Jaxson Morales
To their north, General Vandamme's division defeated Allied forces around Staré Vinohrady. Moving his command post to the heights, Napoleon ordered Marshal Bernadotte's I Corps into the battle on Vandamme's left. As the battle raged, the Allies decided to strike Vandamme's position with the Russian Imperial Guards cavalry. Storming forward, they had some success before Napoleon committed his own heavy Guards cavalry to the fray. As the horsemen battled, some of Bernadotte's men turned the tide, and with artillery support, were able to force the Russians to retreat.
At the northern end of the battlefield, fighting began as Prince Liechtenstein led Allied cavalry against General Kellermann's light cavalry. Under heavy pressure, Kellermann fell back behind Lannes' infantry who blocked the Austrian advance. After the French finished off the cavalry, Lannes moved forward against Prince Bagration's Russian infantry. After engaging in a hard fight, Lannes forced the Russians to retreat from the battlefield.
To complete the victory, Napoleon turned south and directed St. Hilaire's division and part of Davout's corps in a two-pronged attack on Sokolnitz. Enveloping the Allied position, the assault forced them to retreat. As their lines began to collapse all along the front, Allied troops started to flee the field.
Two days later, with their territory overrun and their armies destroyed, Austria made peace through the Treaty of Pressburg. In addition to territorial concessions, the Austrians were required to pay a war indemnity of 40 million francs. The remains of the Russian army withdrew east, while Napoleon's forces encamped in southern Germany. Having taken much of Germany, Napoleon abolished the Holy Roman Empire and established the Confederation of the Rhine as a buffer state. French losses at Austerlitz numbered 1,305 killed, 6,940 wounded, and 573 captured. Allied casualties included 15,000 killed and wounded, as well as 12,000 captured.
Parker Nguyen
The great victory was met by sheer amazement and delirium in Paris, where just days earlier the nation had been teetering on the brink of financial collapse. Napoleon wrote to Josephine, "I have beaten the Austro-Russian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little weary....I embrace you." Tsar Alexander perhaps best summed up the harsh times for the Allies by stating, "We are babies in the hands of a giant." The Holy Roman Emperor Francis II is remembered to have said after the allied defeat in the Battle of Austerlitz: "The British are dealers of human flesh. They pay others to fight in their place." After hearing the news of Austerlitz, British Prime Minister William Pitt referred to a map of Europe, "Roll up that map; it will not be wanted these ten years."
The Battle of the Three Emperors is one of the most famous battles in military history, and an absolute must-play for the Napoleonic wargamer.
By the end of 1943, the strategic initiative in WW2 had passed to the Allies. They feared that Hitler could use poison gas to redress the balance. While the United States condemned the use of gas, President Roosevelt pledged that the US would reply in kind if the Germans used it first. In support of this pledge, the Liberty Ship, SS John Harvey was selected to convey a shipment of mustard gas to Italy to be held in reserve.
The John Harvey was loaded with two thousand M41-A1 100 lb mustard bombs at Baltimore. It sailed for Norfolk on October 15, 1943 and then onto Oran, Algeria by convoy arriving on November 2, 1943. From Oran, it proceeded in convoy to Augusta, Sicily and then to Bari, Italy arriving on November 28, 1943.
In late November 1943, the recently liberated harbor at Bari was extremely crowded and busy. All the berths in the inner harbor were full or not ready for unloading. The John Harvey was ordered to berth at Pier 29 on the East jetty (outer mole) until there was a berth free in the inner harbor where she could unload her cargo. The East jetty was extremely crowded. The Liberty Ship SS John Motley was moored on her starboard side while the British ships Testbank and Fort Athabaska as well as the Liberty ship Joseph Wheeler were on her port side. The John Harvey was still waiting to unload on December 2. Since secrecy was paramount and few people knew of the mustard gas on board, the John Harvey was not given priority to unload its cargo of mustard bombs.
A German air raid - comprising 105 Ju88s - began on Bari began at 7:20 in the evening. The planes flew in from the east. The docks were brilliantly lit and the East jetty was packed with ships. There was no time for the ships in the harbor to get underway.
Isaac Edwards
During the raid the John Harvey remained intact sustaining no direct bomb damage but caught fire when showered by flaming debris from a nearby damaged ship, then without warning, blew up. All hands were killed instantly and debris thrown in the air. Gas released from the broken bombs mixed with the oil on the waters surface and with billowing clouds of smoke.
The Americans sustained the highest losses from the German raid losing five Liberty Ships. The British lost four ships, the Italians three, the Norwegians three and the Poles two. There were more than 1,000 military and merchant marine casualties with 800 admitted to local hospital. A conservative estimate places civilian casualties at around 1,000.
Casualties from the raid began pouring into the hospitals. Swamped with casualties and not realizing they were dealing with poison gas, hospital staffers let the injured remain in their oil and gas soaked clothes. Victims suffered from burns and blisters, temporary blindness, swollen genitals and irritated respiratory systems. As victims began to die, the doctors started to suspect that a chemical agent was involved.
There were 628 mustard casualties among military and merchant marine personnel with 69 dying in the first two weeks. Most victims fully recovered. There was no accounting for the civilians who must have been exposed to the chemicals. Additionally, there was a mass exodus of civilians out of the city and some were probably gas victims that died for lack of care.
Elijah Campbell
A member of Eisenhower's medical staff, Dr. Stewart F. Alexander, was dispatched to Bari following the raid. Alexander had trained at the Army's Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, and was familiar with some of the effects of mustard gas. Although he was not informed of the cargo carried by the SS John Harvey, and most victims suffered atypical symptoms caused by exposure to mustard diluted in water and oil (as opposed to airborne), Alexander rapidly concluded that mustard gas was present. Although he could not get any acknowledgment from the chain of command, Alexander convinced medical staffs to treat patients for mustard gas exposure and saved many lives as a result.
From the start, Allied High Command tried to conceal the disaster, in case the Germans believed that the Allies were preparing to use chemical weapons, which might provoke them into preemptive use, but there were too many witnesses to keep the secret, and in February 1944, the U.S. Chiefs of Staff issued a statement admitting to the accident and emphasizing that the U.S. had no intention of using chemical weapons except in the case of retaliation.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower approved Dr. Alexander's report. Winston Churchill, however, ordered all British documents to be purged, listing mustard gas deaths as "burns due to enemy action".
U.S. records of the attack were declassified in 1959, but the episode remained obscure until 1967 when author Glenn B. Infield published the book Disaster at Bari. In 1986 the British government finally admitted to survivors of the Bari raid that they had been exposed to poison gas and amended their pension payments accordingly.
In 1988, Alexander received recognition from the Surgeon General of the United States Army for his actions in the aftermath of the Bari disaster.
A subsequent inquiry exonerated the Allied commander but found that the absence of previous air attacks had led to complacency.
This month's community project is a food/drink-related mini or unit.
Adam Sanchez
Hey NEA, are you still planning to post that AAR for Naval War? Promise I won't pester you anymore, just excited to read it.
David Gonzalez
So I always figured I would never really get much from running my video channel over on Youtube. Maybe get some swag from the occasional company to showcase a new game or such. But I have been pleasantly surprised with viewer feedback and responses. One viewer sent me a copy of "Red, White and Blue Racing" from Plaay.com sports games. (ill admit-sports game are a guilty pleasure of mine...along with ABBA), and I just recently had another viewer donate another game to me-"The Hunters" WWII sub warfare in the Atlantic and sent it off to me earlier this week.
So the roomie answered the door and got the package from fed ex. and she said "wow..this is a heavy box...." I didnt think to much about it. She sat it down next to my desk and a little while later I grabbed it and picked it up...and she was right..it was a bit heavy....and I thought to myself "Self- I didnt think The Hunters was this big a box....." Needless to say I was very surprised when I cracked the box open and not only found 'The Hunters' in there but 'Fleet Commander Nimitz' as well. Literally stunned me into quiescence for a bit.
So a huge thank you to Stuart Britton for his very kind donation to The Grognards Corner, and people should go check out his translation and editorial work he has done for east front WWII books at amazon and buy one or 2 to support him. Hes got a rather impressive library of work he has worked on.
And I am resisting every temptation to rip into both of them right now, because I know if I do that will just distract me from starting my next video series......
Hunter Bailey
Jesus. Neither of those are exactly cheap games, he must have really liked your work. You gotta send him an especially nice thank you card.
Tyler Rivera
oh trust me I have. and both are still in shrink..which is was even more surprising to me.
Jeremiah Edwards
I am. My wife wrecked her car last week, so I've been a little distracted. Sorry for the delay.
Isaiah Gonzalez
No worries, real life beats out toy boats. And don't take this wrong, but you've got some awful luck. I remember you having said something about a roof and a transmission last year. Hoping your next rolls are 12's.
Christopher Moore
>And don't take this wrong, but you've got some awful luck.
Every single person who is in my gaming group and has witnessed my rolls would agree with you. It's not /hwg/-related, but I played a game of BattleTech last year in Cincinnati where I lost 6 Mechs in 5 turns...*without being shot at*.
Turn 1) Activate MASC to move onto the game board,crit both hips, fall over offboard, GM rules this kills the Dasher. Turn 2) Activate MASC on another Mech (we were having to move through a city in a big hurry, almost every Mech we had mounted MASC). Fail, crit one hip, fall over, TAC, double-gryo. This kills the other Dasher. Turn 3a) Run without MASC, turn a corner, skid, go into a building, fall two basement levels onto head. This kills the Summoner. We change dice. Turn 3b) Run without MASC, turn a corner, skid, smack into a hardened building, all damage goes to head. This kills the Nova. We change dice again. Turn 4) Activate MASC, run forward, skid, fall on center torso. The TAC from the falling damage detonates all three AC ammo binsin the torso, incidentally reducing the MechWarrior's brain to a fine crisp. This kills the Executioner. New dice are purchased at the store counter for use the following turn. Turn 5) Jump on top of a building (CF 85) in a 75-ton Mech. Allied Mech skids, falls, and hits the building, reducing it to less than 75 CF. It collapses under me, I fall, and the damage crushes the head of my Mech. This kills the Night Gyr. Fuck everything, I shall sing the song which ends the earth.
This remains the only BattleTech game which I can recall in which - as an adult - I have set down my stuff and walked away from the table. It was simply not worth staying at that point, and I would have ruined the fun of everyone else at the table had I stuck around.
So yes. My luck is terrible.
Ian Long
>that game
...Did you wrong a gypsy at some point?
Mason Murphy
Wow that's generous. Pretty cool
Aaron Parker
>running >in cities Yeah, skidding is always funny. MASC crits were a warning sign to slow down, yo.
I mean, at least you didn't skid into a building and die falling into the basement. It could have been worse. Or funnier. Or stupider. Or hey, all three.
Cooper Sanders
You got a Youtube channel? Why do i not know that?
Kevin Richardson
because he stopped publicising it here about a year ago or so.
Don't know why.
Austin Kelly
I've tried looking online but I couldn't get answers so I'll ask you guys. I want a big fat tank for my Russian bolt action list, and I'm looking at the Ioseph Stalin tanks. Which is the biggest?
Kevin Foster
Er, IS-2? Assuming you're sticking to WW2.
Adam Sullivan
Biggest is the IS-3. It wasn't used in the war besides a brief introduction against the japanese in 1945 and the victory parade in Berlin in the same year.
If that does not bother you, thats your tank.
If you want a bit more historical correct list, then there is the IS-1 and IS-2 (which has a better HE shell), or if you like a tank destroyer more: the ISU-152 or SU-152. The heavy tank destroyers are extremely powerful thanks to their huge HE radius and are used alot in the tournament scene (at least here thats the case)
Then there is the KV-1 and KV-2, not as strong as the already mentioned ones, but they are very big as well and can be a tough nut to crack for your enemy thanks to their all-around armor.
That being said, "big fat tanks" don't win battles. Your infantry does.
Connor Edwards
IS-2 was the best all round tank in the game until v2, now its just another heavy tank sadly with the advent of "everything has HE even when it didnt , woo!"
Caleb Cooper
It still has uses the larger template though.
Aaron Russell
>Biggest is the IS-3 This is what I wanted to know thanks. I want the biggest thing I could possibly get my hands on. And it doesn't bother me that much, I don't think other will either. My friends down at the flgs plays fast and loose with Sherman and panzer versions too. I intend to use my 60 painted Russians to pull the real weight and mostly scare people with the tank.
It's the same strategy I used in Warhammer and it worked there
Brandon Hughes
If your opponents and yourself are fine with it, why not. Its an amazing looking tank. Rules for it are in the Ostfront supplement book. If you don't have it, check the OP.
Adrian Harris
>This is what I wanted to know thanks. how were you unable to find that on the internet? Just wondering because size for tanks is on wikipedia.
Jace Ross
Its also a crazy point cost, like an entire armys worth crazy point cost in a single unit that a 5 point panzerfaust can take out
John Cooper
It has a damage value of 12+ though. Its a beast. A 600 points expensive beast.
I'm not a fan of huge tanks myself. Biggest stuff i regularly use are Panzer 3 and sometimes (if playing against a certain player from who i know he likes strong lists) a StuH42.
Gabriel Young
I was intending to use it as an IS-2 in late war games.
Anthony Green
it doesn't look like an IS2 at all.
Parker Hill
Since I didn't find a side by side model comparison
Josiah Murphy
It's mentioned in the soviet rule book when discussing the IS-2. And I don't think the weapon armaments varied that much
Julian Wright
because i'm having my good day.
IS-2 in BA: Heavy AT gun (with the addition of "HE" rule and also "slow reload" to counter it) IS-3 in BA: Heavy AT gun (with "HE" but no reload penalty)
Both had 122mm in reality though, the IS-3 gun was just more advanced
Christian Bell
>And I don't think the weapon armaments varied that much They had the same gun really, you misread what I wrote however. I said they don't look similar, especially from the front and above. The IS3 has a very distinctive glacis.
Zachary Thomas
>Since I didn't find a side by side model comparison Interestingly the wikipedia article for the IS tanks opening picture is an IS2 alongside an IS3.
I know you said "model" but they are both based on the same tank so the comparison should be helpful.
David Kelly
well not quite a year ago. several months maybe. Kinda felt people here wenrt enjoying them.
but yeah...The Original Grognard over on Youtube. Closing in on 100 videos now. close to 300 subscribers.
Josiah Hill
Already subscribed earlier this evening.
Kayden Gutierrez
Seems like you use a Battle Tech game as a teaching tool about the dangers of running near swimming pools.
Caleb Butler
Most people don't short-circuit after their armour is breached when falling in water though. Most.
Jace Hill
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Mason Sullivan
had a buddy of mine on 2 different occasions bog every single vehicle in his sherman platoons when moving into woods when we used to play Flames of War
5 vehicles all bogging on a dice roll of 1 for each vehicle.
this has happened to him twice.
Dylan Martin
>Turn 4) Activate MASC, run forward, skid, fall on center torso. The TAC from the falling damage detonates all three AC ammo binsin the torso, incidentally reducing the MechWarrior's brain to a fine crisp. This kills the Executioner. New dice are purchased at the store counter for use the following turn.
How the hell? There aren't three open spots in the CT, and Clan designs never do this to my knowledge.
Xavier Ward
Apologies, I was writing in a hurry. LEFT torso, not center. There are three AC/20 bins in the left torso of an Executioner B. Fall to your left side, roll "2" for location, take an automatic critical hit check to the left torso. That pops one bin, which forces you to take one point of internal damage from the Clan CASE before the rest of the damage blows out the back, make another roll for critical damage because you took internal damage as a result of the CASE system, get two more crits in that location, pop the other two bins. Boom, done.
And it was mentioned in there that we had to cross the city very quickly. If we weren't using MASC for the first several turns to move, then we would have lost possession of the objective and the game. I wouldn't normally be throwing MASC around willy-nilly like that, but the game objectives made it necessary.
Damn dice. All of them.
Leo Hill
Tales like this make me think I should look into diceless systems.
Ian Perry
Hrm. Something about that seems odd to me still. I want to say that's not how CASE is supposed to work. But it's far too late to argue the point to a useful effect and I don't want to derail the thread, heh.
Juan Sullivan
>"big fat tanks" don't win battles. Your infantry does. this. If you have to use tanks, medium spam is more points effective. If you really want to run heavy soviet tanks, play a game that is true combined arms instead of infantry focused.
>5 vehicles all bogging on a dice roll of 1 for each vehicle.
>this has happened to him twice. My friend likes to say "the dice tell a story" sometimes things go horribly wrong. The tanks could be out of fuel, could have bogged down far behind the battlefield, it could have been mines in the forest, could have been incredibly dense forest and the tankers thought they could get away with having lunch while no one was looking!
Ethan Edwards
Nice Czechnology
Jason Stewart
>The ideal opportunity seemed to present itself at the end of December 1962, when surveillance showed the presence of a main force VC unit in the hamlet of Tan Thoi fourteen miles northwest of My Tho (and about forty miles southwest of Saigon). Radio intercepts seem to indicate that the VC was using Tan Thoi as some form of headquarters centre, and that a reinforced company of main force VC defended the position (i.e. about 120 men). An attack by the local ARVN formation, the 7th Division, was planned for the 2nd January 1963 by the US advisory team. Units of the 7th Division (which had the best record for action against the VC at that point) would be supported by Civil Guard battalions, together with the 4th Mechanized Rifle Squadron of the 2nd Armoured Cavalry Regiment in M113 APCs, and helicopters (both transports and the new gunships). The plan involved converging assaults on the hamlet by the 2nd Battalion of the 11th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Division landed to the north by helicopter, two Civil Guard battalions marching up from the south, while the M113s moved up along the western perimeter of the battle zone waiting to advance and trap the retreating VC. Two companies of the 1st Battalion of the 11th Infantry Regiment were held at Tan Hiep airbase as a reserve (to be moved into battle by helicopter). Batteries of 105mm howitzers and 4.2” mortars were positioned to the south to provide support fire. (The ensuing battle has become known as the Battle of Ap Bac, due to the name of the hamlet around which most of the fighting occurred. However, “Ap” is Vietnamese for “hamlet” – therefore “Ap Bac” is “Bac hamlet”)
All this to attack 120 guys? Is that normal?
Sebastian Martinez
Well cracking a walnut with a sledgehammer was the general US/ARVN plan in Vietnam, but really each one of those Charlies was worth a dozen Arvins at this early stage of the war.
John Paul Vann was involved in this; there's a biography of him called 'Bright Shining Lie' which is a really good look at how American-South Vietnamese relations worked (or didn't work, usually), Ap Bac was what lead him to push for serious reform in the ARVN forces but he spent his career fighting a lot of laziness and corruption.
Jordan Cook
I think your friend is right. As tangential note, that sort of random shit and imagining those explanations is a huge part of the fun of games and of writing batreps, at least for me.
Michael Cox
Oh i love dice.
as user said here Dice tell a story. good dice rolls and bad dice rolls both toss in a random element thats needed for game to have a narrative effect. Dice keep us on our toes and prevents games from becoming formulaic exercises
we always remember the games that had the great dice rolls and we remember the games that had horrid dice rolls.
Jackson Young
BMP
Jaxon Turner
What are people working on for the monthly project?
Noah Butler
Played a fairly large Ostfront game today down at the local club. 250 points worth of Japanese defending a beachhead, vs 375 points of US in an amphibious landing force.
It was very messy, with over 800 US casualties in about 10 minutes... ended up in a draw: US were able to get a foothold on the left flank of the beach, but weren't able to clear the entire beachhad of Japanese forces. Very fun and nicely balanced game, full of uncertainty and heroism under heavy fire.
Pic is one of the stage photos we did after - its much cleaner. The actual battle had 9 higgins boats and we only have 2 miniatures so had paper slips everywhere, half tracks standing in for LVT buffalos, Brits standing in for US (I had something like 18 bases of regulars and 8 bases of assault infantry) and 7 or 8 shermans, including a few sherman 105mms, and air support. Pretty epic game - it was the "Fire in the Water" scenario from the Japanese army list.
Other games being played: Blücher (massive battle of Eckmühl that seemed to go forever), dystopian wars, SW armada, Conan the barbarian (some miniature game with interesting activation system and a boarding scenario between 2 boats), a Marvel superheroes game, and two 40K tables with a few games one after the other on each.
Christian Edwards
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Austin Sullivan
I haven't even started, I've been swamped. Not even sure what I can do.
Xavier Phillips
A diorama where my Russians are preparing soup from the blown out turret of a T-34.
Benjamin Jones
I don't have anything really food-related. I have a few germans with boxes from an artillery crew. I'll pretend one of these boxes if full of food.
Owen Green
So the Pike & Shot Society just released a new edition of Twilight of the Sun King, a horse & musket ruleset I've never played but which looks to have some neat ideas. There's the book, and a scenario book, with more of the latter to come. Available at pikeandshotsociety.org/
But I'm posting because balagan.info/twilight-of-the-sun-king-2001-version is the original version that was later turned into a printed edition that eventually evolved into the new one. Maybe people'll find it interesting! I like the way it handles firing.
I might pick the new edition up after Christmas. Apparently people've used it for SYW gaming too.
Adam Rodriguez
Bumpenzi
Easton Reyes
Oh man, that sounds fun.
Angel Anderson
Who's your favorite Napoleonic Marshal?
For the most part I'm a Massena man. Dude had style, a real swagger and skill that made him stand out from his peers. He'd already had a colorful life before he took the baton, and afterwards it was even crazier. During his Fat Elvis years in Spain his talents declined, but you gotta love the whole "disguise your mistress as your ADC" thing. It is intriguing to consider what would have happened if he had served in Russia or at Waterloo. Overall his whole life would make a great campaign on its own.
But my better nature tends towards Eugène. He was intensely brave, and is one of the very few Marshals to be devoid of scandal or controversy. Napoleon respected him immensely; even after his relationship with Eugène's mother Josephine had ended, he still considered him a son. Eugène's rule of Italy and later Bavaria was benign and he was popular in both cases. In action he was somewhat tardy, but performed satisfactorily in 1809. When Napoleon left the Grand Armee in 1812 to return to Spain he handed command over to Murat, who promptly abandoned ot to return to Naples. This left Eugène in charge, and together with Davout and Ney he brought the survivors home. He sat out the remainder of the wars at the request of his father-in-law the King of Bavaria, and sadly died relatively young.
Cameron Powell
Bernadotte
Elijah Ramirez
Hopefully it will be. The only major issue is that I need to buy some water and I've never used it before so I'm afraid it'll look bad
Chase Watson
Mmmm, Swedish princesses descended from a man with a 'DEATH TO KINGS' tattoo
Sebastian Foster
Is there anything I could use as a reasonable stand in for a 1/2 ton truck in a USMC list for bolt action?
I want to pick one up for a tournament but the warlord one is made to order so it might not turn up in time.
Isaac Rivera
Oops, that should be a 3/4 ton, a big jeep/beep.
Jose Perry
Rubicon does make US trucks and so does Tamiya. Probably there are some diecast trucks in a roughly fitting scale too.
Angel Jackson
Well I'm glad to tell you that's a myth. He was an honourable man and a good tactician. He was the only one of Napoleons marshals who treated their thrones with the proper dignity they deserved. Except maybe for Eugene whom I have a gigantic sweet spot.
Matthew Anderson
I wouldn't call the throne of a nation that had during previous 100 years managed to lost half of its former territory particularly worthy of respect.
Landon Campbell
Working on some 1/3000 WW2 naval minis from Skytrex (their Davco range). No pics yet since they're not yet done and it's too dark for them here anyway, but here's an initial review. I got a mix of USN/IJN cruisers and destroyers, plus a Perth-class CL and Shoho-class CVE, for a Coral Sea theme.
Model detail seems decent for the scale, with the guns (including AA mounts) that need to be there properly present etc. No real deck detail, but that would be nigh invisible at this scale anyway.
Unfortunately, there are some issues with the casting quality; there is a LOT of flash/mold lines and some of the lower hulls have some serious misalignment problems that required a fair bit of filing. Additionally, there are some casting flaws on a few surfaces and some gun barrel ends didn't turn out right, requiring more fixing.
However, then we get to the pricing: 2 pounds for a battleship/fleet carrier, 1,5 pounds for a cruiser or pair of destroyers. For that pricing, I'm willing to forgive some flaws, especially should it turn out I got a bad batch. Once I'm done with this, I'll probably end up buying some more stuff to get a couple of simple fleets, probably for use with Naval War.
Benjamin Myers
Bernadotte was not a good marshal, perhaps adequate during most campaigns but his conduct in several major battles is questionable.
Eugene was never a marshal.
Oliver Perez
>but his conduct in several major battles is questionable.
>get handed shit troops >they run away >big surprise >conquer unassailable fortress in hours rather than months as a sorry note to Napoleon
Wait is that the historian from the old series? The animated jewish guy who got all excited and his hands went all over the place?
Andrew Clark
>Eugene was never a marshal.
Well blow me down, no he wasn't, and all this time I just assumed he was. I guess he never really did anything worthy of the baton like the other guys. Ah well, Viceroy of Italy is not a bad compensation.
Benjamin Morris
Huh, turns out Dec 4th is the feast day of St Barbara, the patron saint of Artillerymen.
All you anons in timezones where it's not the 5th yet better sound your guns in tribute.
Jaxson Sullivan
Lets, fucking , go
Justin Wood
Nice! Is the Davco stuff metal or resin? I never really looked much at 1/3000 stuff since it's more of a UK scale. Be interested in seeing pics when they are done, for sure.
Carter Thomas
Holy shit is this literally the jewish sandhurst guy from the original series after a sex-change
Zachary Kelly
Holy fucking shit it is, Lynette Nusbacher jfc
Hudson Scott
Doesn't it tick over soon? I've been so busy I'll have to go on the next one I think.
Seriously considering picking up a few frigates from Langton for some age of sail action. Need to work out a few lists.
Benjamin Rodriguez
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Ayden Smith
Managed to grab the old D-Day Firefight box yesterday - what small scale skirmish games you could recommend? I'm aware of Five Men in Normandy, but open to suggestions. 5-10 men, maybe a light vehicle of some sorts.
Brody Jones
O hoho. Jewish guy is back disguised as woman
Nolan Taylor
Battlegroup and I aint been shot mum would easily handle it, also NUTS! and perhaps combat patrol.
Brayden Hernandez
I want to play Battlegroup on platoon scale and in 1:72, but thanks for the other recommendations, I'll check those out.
Nathan Allen
Heavy bump
Brayden Bell
I know! I couldnt believe it. Fair play to her though, as long as shes as animated as before >now the CAVALRY would create a SPEAAAARHEAD and PUNCH right through the enemy DRIIIIIIIIIIIVING a wedge through them
Xavier Sullivan
kek that looks like a hunter killer missile on the turret. Is that a spotlight or is it the very early infrared the nazis developed??
Elijah Russell
It could be a Nachtjäger (n.b. Nachtjäger means "Night Hunter" in German)
Nathaniel Evans
Are there any chances they would do some more modern stuff, using Wargames or MoW? Or its still Total War exclusive
Jaxon Long
Its an infrared scope.
Its trivial name was "Sperber", not Nachtjäger. Official name was F.G. 1250
Nachtjäger was the name of the fighter planes with special night fighting equippment of the Luftwaffe
