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Luis Hall
June the 9th in military history:
721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse. 1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy. 1762 – British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War. 1772 – The British schooner Gaspee is burned off the coast of Rhode Island. 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield. 1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political situation is set. Also, Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire. 1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world. 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia. 1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup. 1944 – World War II: 99 civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks. 1944 – World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941. 1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles. 1965 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war. 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria 1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
Gabriel Reed
Todat marks 350 years since the Raid on the Medway, a successful Dutch attack on the largest English naval ships, laid up in the dockyards of their main naval base Chatham, that took place during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch, under nominal command of Admiral de Ruyter, bombarded and then captured the town of Sheerness, sailed up the River Thames to Gravesend, then up the River Medway to Chatham, where they burned three capital ships and ten lesser naval vessels and towed away the Unity and the Royal Charles, pride and normal flagship of the English fleet. The raid led to a quick end to the war and a favourable peace for the Dutch. It was one of the worst defeats in the Royal Navy's history, and one of the worst suffered by the British military.
The Dutch had slowly built up the strength of their fleet at sea. A relatively small fleet sailed north to raid Scotland before returning south, and by 4 June a fleet of 54 ships of the line was off the Thames. This increased to sixty four on 6 June, and finally, on 7 June, de Ruyter arrived with the rest of the fleet.
The Medway was very poorly defended in the summer of 1667. A strong iron chain supported by pontoons had been stretched across the river at Gillingham, and thirty pinnaces were available to fend off fireships. Only on 12 June, by which time the Dutch were already in the Medway, was George Monck ordered to build a gun battery at Gillingham.
De Ruyter decided to send a small squadron up the Thames as far as Northfleet Hope, at Tilbury. This squadron would then turn back and sail into the Medway, where it would attack British shipping and if possible seize the defences of Sheerness. Lieutenant-Admiral Van Ghent was given command of the squadron, which contained seventeen men-of-war of between 60 and 36 guns, most of the ten fireships in the fleet and all of the smaller galliots.
Kayden Perry
The Dutch attack began in 9 June, when Van Ghent made slow progress up the Thames against a south-westerly wind. The wind prevented the Dutch from attacking some British ships in the Hope and at Gravesend, and on the night of 9-10 June Van Ghent moored just below Gravesend.
On 10 June the Dutch entered the Medway and captured the fort at Sheerness. Charles II responded by sending George Monck, duke of Albemarle, to Kent to organise a defence. Only now was the iron chain put in place at Gillingham, and a small gun battery built at each end while the Unity was posted just below the chain.
The crucial moment came on 12 June when the Dutch reached the chain. The Vrede, under Captain Jan van Brakel, and with two fireships in support, led the attack. While the Vrede attacked and captured the Unity, the fireships attacked and broke the chain. One then destroyed the British guardship Matthias. Van Brakel then went on to capture the Charles V, and used her guns against the British coastal batteries.
The rest of the British fleet in the Medway was now virtually defenceless. The Royal Charles was quickly captured, and began Van Ghent's flagship for the day, before being towed across the Channel (as was the Unity). The Monmouth was also burnt during the day.
On 13 June the Dutch pushed further up the Medway. Although Upnor Castle and a battery on the opposite bank offered more resistance, the Dutch were still able to burn the Royal Oak, the Loyal London and the Old James, while a larger number of ships were forced to run aground to save themselves.
John Cooper
On 14 June, with most of his fireships gone, De Ruyter withdrew from the Medway and moored close to Queenborough, before moved into the mouth of the Thames. For a short period London was blockaded, and everything that normally arrived by sea was quickly in short supply (the price of coal rose from 15s to 140s per ton). De Ruyter considered mounting an attack up the Thames towards London, but a combination of improving British defences and the non-appearance of a French fleet forced him to abandon that plan. Finally, at the start of July, de Ruyter left the Thames and entered the Channel. An attack on Landguard Fort (2 July 1667) failed, ending a plan to attack Harwich.
The Dutch victory in the Medway forced Charles II to take the peace negotiations more seriously, and within a few weeks the war came to an end (Treaty of Breda, 31 July 1667). The Navigation Acts were modified to allow Dutch and German goods to enter Britain in Dutch ships, and most colonies taken during the war were returned, although the Dutch kept Surinam and Britain kept New York and New Jersey.
On 14 December 1941 the Dutch minelayer Jan van Brakel, which was serving as a convoy escort on the UK eastern coast, accidentally hit the anchor buoy of one of the gate vessels which were protecting the entrance to the Medway during WWII. The commander reported this incident to the port authorities, signalling: "Van Brakel damaged boom defence Medway". The instant reply was: "What, again?".
This was the Pearl Harbour of its day, and is a great campaign for naval wargamers. It also has skirmishing possibilities with the shore raids, or even a larger invasion if you like to take the alternate historical route.
>Are there 28mm miniatures for cold war/modern South Africans or white mercenaries?
Eureka do great 28mm Rhodesians Britannia Miniatures do a slightly less good but still nice 28mm Congo set
Logan Mitchell
Bump till everyone finds the thread
Elijah Bell
Bolt Action campaign update - June 1940. (Reposting from last night for those who care, with added links.
The first year of the war consisted of relatively little fighting - while Leningrad changed hands twice as the Finns and Soviets fought over it, by June it was once again in Finnish hands. Britain has absorbed Spain and France and is moving on Italy, while the Germans have taken Austria, Hungary, and Poland. Finland has taken the entirety of Scandinavia while the Soviets have secured most of their cities.
(The British and German players both forgot their pins today, so Britain used the White spares and Germany the Orange.)
Kriegspielanon here, I guess I'll just roll for periods and the folks that participate decide the scale of operations.
Periods: >0 - Ancient (10000 BC to 900 BC >1 - Classical (900 BC to 476 AD) >2 - Early Medieval (476 AD to 1066 AD) >3 - Late Medieval (1066 AD to 1494 AD) >4 - Pike and Shot (1494 AD to 1714 AD) >5 - Horse and Musket (1714 AD to 1821 AD) >6 - Rifle and Sabre (1821 AD to 1914 AD) >7 - World War 1/Machine Age (1914 to 1936) >8 - World War 2 (1936 to 1945) >9 - Modern (1945 to present day)
Seriously, I'm taking people for the game if you guys want to join, I'll be the umpire.
Jonathan Lee
So I reckon we're going with the Classical period in here, what with the campaigns of Cyrus, Darius, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar and basically all great strategists and conquerors of that era.
Cooper Ramirez
Rolled 1 (1d10)
Why not just...
If I roll a 10 it's a zero
Nolan Hill
Classical it is.
Jackson Thomas
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>Fear God and Dread Naught
Man, anyone can just drop their farts on the 'net these days ... here's mine. (work in progress, obviously)
Ian Perez
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Jaxon Baker
COOL STUFF
Luis Foster
That's the Cambrai table Great War Miniatures put on at Partizan last month, it looked fantastic but I think it was more of a display than an actual game
Brody Ramirez
Bump with leaked research for new bolt action game.
The short of it: -Launches on June 21st -The expansion book will contain rules for campaigns and larger games, new scenarios and special rules as well as new nations and updates for old nations. -Dutch (how suitable, with Medway so close, B&P would be kind of suitable to play out one of those minor raids) -Caribs (because crazy awesome natives, not quite as vulnerable as one would think) -More regular troops, with cavalry, artillery and gun crews (useable by all the current nations, and probably the dutch) -Sailor reinforcements, with all kinds of ships crews with different weapons (useable by all the current nations, and probably the dutch) -New ships: a humongous galleon, a dutch Fluyt and a native Piragua (happily used by pirates ad buccaneers as well) -The kickstarter exclusive sculpt will be of a female sailor
Isaac Sanders
Footsore have released a little batch of nice VBCW minis to go with their existing range.
Aiden Rogers
> this triggers the /k/ommando
Noah Davis
Very nice I like how the recent BA:Sea Lion book seems to have inspired a new spurt of VBCW interest, it was essentially a de facto supplement for it after all
Mason Morales
From the Perry Bros "Alexandria 1801" display at Partizan
Christian Mitchell
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Elijah Williams
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Leo Mitchell
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Austin Sanders
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Blake Russell
Perry makes 15mm Napoleonics? I had no idea.
Nathan Rogers
Those are 28mm.
Christian Perry
Oh. Is that board just huge or have I finally lost my faculties?
Caleb Sanders
looks like a 6x4 or 8x4 made up of 2x2 sections, going by
Jeremiah Miller
Huge board, photo taken from far aways, I guess.
Elijah Lewis
You might very well think that, user I couldn't possibly comment
Anthony Miller
It was a pretty big board
Wyatt Miller
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Matthew Walker
for u
Nolan Peterson
Since this is half price I might get one, has anybody bought the kit?
No, but its actually just a reboxed 1:72 kit by italeri and can only assembled in one way.
Get the ruined farmhouse instead. Its a way better kit.
David Ortiz
For me too.
John Rivera
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Dominic Bell
>Perry Bros While it says it's a display, they do play on ridiculously huge tables with thousands of 28mm figures. per brigade.
David Cruz
> "Gaming in 28mm sucks because you need ridiculously large tables and tons of models to really get a proper battle" > Perry Bros: "Hold our beers"
Of course, Michael often needs people to hold stuff for him anyway.
I feel bad for making this joke.
Zachary King
Fuck that guy, the shit he painted and the green knight he sculpted right afterwards means he needs no sympathy, just praise.
Still, that guy who plays 54mm in a 1000' square patch of the outdoors for months at a time still wins for large-scale stuff. IIRC he doesn't camo the tanks or anything, the natural weathering does that and he just touches it up over the winter season.
Landon Butler
They make good stuff. Still, 28mm is still too big for usual casuals to get a big battle going.
Angel Rodriguez
Winter tables are always so sexy.
Elijah Hernandez
I'm looking for a figure of Napoleon Bonaparte in 28mm, or any of the marshals for that matter. I can only find Warlords super expensive one and Perrys. Are there any other? Also, if you know any where he's wearing his Egyptian uniform I'd be set for life.
Blake Edwards
A year ago you got one from warlord for free if you ordered something during some kind of holiday. Not sure if that was the regular mini or a special one.
James Nelson
I might be mistaken but it seems to be the figure from the Berlin Carriage box. It's 32 quid and while it's awesome, I'll pass on that. Do you know if that offer will be up anytime soon? Was it only last summer or has it been another offer like it? Would they be able to sell it separately if I email and ask nicely?
Jeremiah Taylor
>Would they be able to sell it separately if I email and ask nicely? I was so glad to read this at the end of your post, because I was already just itching to post "JUST EMAIL THEM AND ASK NICELY IF THEY'LL SELL YOU ONE."
A lot of people on the internet would rather ask random other people on random forums rather than actually email the bloody company, and a lot of them (especially small ones) are just a bunch of nerds who will reply and maybe even ask you what your project is.
I want to make a crashed plane terrain piece for Bolt Action. Anyone know any good sources of WW2 model planes in roughly the right scale? A German plane would probably be best.
Evan Carter
Side note: Would 1/48 scale look right? That seems to be really popular
Austin Reed
It would most likely be "close enough". Bolt Action/28mm is 1/56, so it's not too far off.
Jaxon Morales
6mm
Evan Hernandez
Lads not to be a pain in the arse but the OP for this thread is ridiculous.
Is there anyway we can make it more concise so it all fits in the OP?
Dylan Myers
Well all the folder links could be put into one pastebin, that'd seem like it would cut down the OP by a bit.
Gavin Edwards
This is /hwg/ you are lucky you don't have to post a letter to us asking for links.
Gabriel Watson
Speaking of links, anyone has a pdf of Chris Peers' "Tremble Ye Tyrants"?
Carter Turner
There are plenty of kits in 1/48 available and if its crashed the exact dimensions are not really noticeable. Its just a couple of mm anyway. I recommend looking at Revell, Airfix and maybe Tamiya first since these three offer very basic 1/48 planes for around 15€ whereas other (extremely detailed) kits might cost 30-50.
Since Warlords minis are heroic and not true to their claimed scale 1/48 is in fact a better fit than 1/56. The weapons inside newer infantry boxes are even bigger than 1/48 weapons.
Juan Morris
Okay anons, help me out, what should I assemble tomorrow. Options: >PST PT-76 for NVA >Esci/Italeri M4A1 for 8th Army >fix two Airfix Shermans for the US Paras The last option seems like the least appealing at the moment. Also, have some 1:72 Chindits.
Carter Moore
Classical is fine for me (the user who replied before) although I still wish to stress time constraints being a potential issue if we find another person to participate. Did you want an email address? Because I could maybe convince some non-Veeky Forums chaps to get in on it.
Landon Wilson
Also, you intended to use 'free-kriegsspiel' yeah?
Brayden Sanders
I reckon an email address will be alright, but I reckon we'll need another person.
And yes, I'll be using Free Kriegspiel because of its simplicity.
Chase Long
Well it's just so other people can make new threads more easily.
Matthew Williams
This has to be ESL right? There's no other way someone is this bad at explaining something.
Henry Rodriguez
Carolyn McCarthy did it
Kevin White
Damn looks like a good time.
Dominic Ramirez
I wouldn't mind meeting the Perry brothers after decades of them feeding my plastic addiction.
I'd have a few choice words for them...
...such as when are we getting 28mm plastic married and unmarried Zulu warriors?
My fault, correction: I own them, user, and they are fantastic.
Oliver Taylor
ANZAC force advance against dug in japanese troops 1945 in one of the games at my ASL group today
Mason Turner
Picked up one of those cheap kits from my local craft store. I was hoping for a German plane, but they only had American ones, so I went with the P-40
Jeremiah Wood
I'm interested, but have to warn you: these three posts are middle-of-the-night where I live, so: timezone issues.
Adam Green
I'm also interested. Do you think we could set up a discord room for this? Would be nice to have something more accessible than this thread. Also, how will playing it work?
Landon Gomez
underrated
Jacob Adams
>discord room >for kriegsspiel
We'd need two, then - one for each team. E-mail works best, IMHO - since I guess there'll be several sessions before the game is done.
Sebastian Roberts
You can create channels in a discord server bound to specific roles. For example, a channel named #persian and one named #roman, and set it so that only the Persians and Romans can access their respective channels, but both teams could access any other channels. Obviously the referee can see both.
Aaron Perez
Honestly both could work, I reckon a Discord one could be far easier to manage.
Elijah Anderson
They had the greens at Salute, plus Warlord already does them.
Aaron Gutierrez
I've got some 28mm Chindits for Bolt Action to put together and paint, but I'm looking forward to doing them.
I'd go for the M4A1.
Robert Bailey
Well, I eventually went with the Sherman. I'll need to get a one set new, as I have one where assembly is started, one with parts missing, and a third one only for spare parts. Will be enough for two Shermans and maybe a blown up one.
Michael Ross
Aventine Miniatures has written that they plan on making Byzantine Romans to oppose their Sassanids but what kind of Byzantines can we expect? The typical late Romans or perhaps Belisarius troops?
Lucas Lopez
That is an excellent idea, i was thinking about organising something similiar to what you were doing. Those rules will sure be handy when i modify them.
Isaiah Hernandez
>In 1950 the former mechanic Václav Uhlík from Líně in the Czech Republic found the wreck of an RR-7 artillery tractor. He repaired and rebuilt the machine as an armoured carrier. On 25 July 1953 he got through three border zones including wire obstacles, and penetrated thirty kilometres into West German territory. There he applied for asylum and emigrated to the United States, where the machine was exhibited as the "freedom tank" (Czech: tank svobody). Today it is owned by a private collector.
