Desired scans : Rank and File supplements Harpoon 3 & 4 supplements Force on Force supplements Hind Commander At Close Quarters War and Conquest Modern Spearhead
Jonathan Gutierrez
June the 21st in military history:
217 BC – The Romans are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene. 533 – A Byzantine fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa. 1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano. 1582 – Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyo, was forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide. 1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain. 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill. 1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria. 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea. 1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas. 1854 – The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands. 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins. 1864 – New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends. 1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain. 1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi. 1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I. 1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces. 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the U.S. mainland. 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Japanese forces collapses on the southern tip of the main island.
Mason Diaz
It is 2,234 years since the Battle of Lake Trasimene, a major clash in the Second Punic War. The Carthaginians under Hannibal defeated the Romans under the consul Gaius Flaminius. Hannibal’s victory over the Roman army at Lake Trasimene remains, in terms of the number of men involved, the largest ambush in military history. In the prelude to the battle, Hannibal also achieved the earliest known example of a strategic turning movement.
Roman troops marched eastward along the road running near the northern edge of the lake. Eager for battle, Flaminius pushed his men hard and hurried up the column in the rear. Hannibal then sent a small skirmish force to draw the vanguard away from the front of the line, in order to split the Roman forces. Once all the Romans had at last marched through the foggy, narrow defile and entered the plains skirting the lake, trumpets were blown, signalling the general attack.
The Carthaginian cavalry and infantry swept down from their concealed positions in the surrounding hills, blocked the road and engaged the unsuspecting Romans from three sides. Surprised and outmanoeuvred, the Romans did not have time to draw up in battle array, and were forced to fight a desperate hand-to-hand battle in open order. The Romans were quickly split into three parts. The westernmost was attacked by the Carthaginian cavalry and forced into the lake, leaving the other two groups with no way to retreat. The centre, including Flaminius, stood its ground, but was cut down by Hannibal's Gauls after three hours of heavy combat.
In less than four hours, most of the Roman troops were killed. The Roman advance guard saw little combat and, once the disaster to their rear became obvious, fought their way through the skirmishers and out of the forest.
Gavin Miller
Of the initial Roman force of about 30,000, about 15,000 were either killed in battle or drowned while trying to escape into the lake — including Flaminius himself, who was slain by the Gaul Ducarius. Another 10,000 are reported to have made their way back to Rome by various means, and the rest were captured. Hannibal's losses were 2,500, plus "many" who died of their wounds. About 6,000 Romans escaped, under the cover of fog, only to be captured by Maharbal the following day. Both Livy and Polybius wrote that Maharbal promised safe passage ("with a garment apiece") if they surrendered their weapons and armour, but Hannibal had them sold into slavery irrespective of the promise made.
Hannibal, emerging from another brilliant victory, had successfully planned and executed the greatest ambush in history. Dodge writes, “It is the only instance in history of lying in ambush with the whole of a large army.” Similarly, historian Robert L. O’Connell also writes, “[It was] the only time an entire large army was effectively swallowed and destroyed by such a maneuver.”
News of the defeat caused a panic in Rome. Quintus Fabius Maximus was elected dictator by the Roman Assembly and adopted the "Fabian strategy" of avoiding pitched conflict, relying instead on low-level harassment to wear the invader down, until Rome could rebuild its military strength. Hannibal was left largely free to ravage Apulia for the next year, until the Romans ended the dictatorship and elected Paullus and Varro as consuls. The result would be the Battle of Cannae, the worst defeat the Romans would suffer throughout the Second Punic War.
This is one of the real classics of Ancient warfare, and an eternally popular subject on the wargaming table.
It is 204 years since the Battle of Vitoria, where a British, Portuguese and Spanish army under the Marquess of Wellington broke the French army under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jourdan near Vitoria in Spain.
The French army numbered 60,000 with 153 guns and deployed in a rough “L” shape. The Anglo-Portuguese, Spanish army had 78,000 men and 96 guns which Wellington split into four columns with the centre two under his personal command totaling 30,000 men. The battle began about 8am and it was a clear dry morning with good visibility. Within an hour the French position was under threat as Spanish troops took the entrance to the heights of Puebla threatening the French left flank. The French seeing the threat sent more troops in but the English and their allies held.
Meanwhile British and French troops fought to a stalemate over the village of Subjiana de Alava, which lies north of the heights of Puebla. Here the French were unable to retake the village but the allies were unable to advance out of it due to artillery fire. Picton’s troops to the north had been delayed and the British on the heights continued to advance. Believing the troops in the north were a distraction, the French weakened their centre to commit more troops to the battle for high ground on the left flank. This resulted in 2 of General Hill’s Brigades up on the heights drawing off more than two whole French divisions from the main line, more than Wellington could have hoped for.
Things were not going so well elsewhere for Wellington. Graham's attack on the French right flank at the crossing of the Zadorra River north of Vittoria had run into determined opposition at the village of Gamara Mayor. Wellington was becoming concerned, as by noon his centre columns under Picton and Dalhousie had not yet arrived. When they finally arrived Picton impatient for orders led his division to take the bridge of Mendoza.
Jose Hernandez
By the afternoon the French had been driven from the heights and were being squeezed into the area around Vittoria as the Allies drove at them from the centre and left flanks. An artillery duel began between 75 Allied guns and 76 French guns, being the biggest artillery battle of the war and the largest amount of artillery Wellington would have command of until Waterloo. By 4 pm Wellington was preparing for the final stroke. Outflanked and under pressure the French finally broke. Only the failure by the allies to take Gamara Mayor prevented the French being cut off completely and destroyed.
The retreating French convoy contained much of Joseph's court as well as 3,000 carriages; it stretched for 12 miles by the time it reached Vittoria. For such a large convoy there was no escape from the Allied troops eager for plunder and among the French convoy were wagons newly arrived from France containing over 5 million gold francs. Joseph himself was nearly captured by the British 10th Hussars and had to leave all his personal belongings behind including his chamber pot. The huge amount of treasure saved the French from complete destruction as looting began by both sides on a huge scale and Wellington only retrieved 250,000 francs. The Allies lost around 5,000 men; the French lost around 8,000 but also vast amounts of money, equipment, wagons, artillery guns and other treasures, but surprisingly no Imperial Eagles. The news of the defeat spread throughout Europe and Napoleon's old enemies Austrian, Russia and Prussia all pressed for war. Vittoria not only marked the end of French ambitions in Spain but the beginning of the end for Napoleon.
This is one of the grand Peninsula battles, a long hard fight on a massive scale that incorporates every element of Napoleonic warfare, command & control and general strategy.
Because of their capture of King Joseph's chamberpot, the 14th (King's) Hussars would be nicknamed "the Emperor's Chambermaids"; and every 21st June ("Vitoria Day") the officers of the regiment would drink a communal toast from it, a tradition still maintained by their modern descendants the King's Royal Hussars.
Connor Hill
BEE EM PEE
Julian Hill
BMP XDDDDD
FUGGGGG
Nolan Nelson
SPEDNZADZ :DDDDDD
Logan Robinson
Anyone had a go of General d'Armee? Is it good?
Robert Thompson
>a bunch of British Hussars manage to capture a French king's chamberpot >decide to do the most juvenile thing possible: fill the damn thing with beer and have a toast
Why is this so funny?
Justin Perry
beacause LADS! LADS! LADS! that's why.
Ryan Sanders
So I guess what you're saying is that the Peninsular War was just a lot of lads on tour?
Julian James
A Briton has never gone to Spain in any other fashion.
Adam Jones
Darn right!
Fair well and adjure to you ladies of Spain!
Adam Stewart
>adjure what
Thomas Sanders
...
Oliver Robinson
Does anyone know of a place where I can buy 1/48th scale buildings with detailed interiors? Want to do some room-to-room fighting in Bolt Action. I looked at 1/48th scale dollhouses, but those are $150 at a minimum.
Hunter Gomez
I thought Bolt Action was 1/56? 4ground has a lot of good terrain.
Cooper Bennett
Not 'scale' but 4Ground is generally the place to go for 28mm buildings these days if you're not just making them from scratch. Costs but a lot of the hard work is done already and they're decently durable so years of constant use out of them isn't out of the question.
Julian Ross
It's a very hussar thing to do
Leo Jenkins
Interesting link on how a Soviet/Russian motorized rifle squad works:
I'm curious whether it's easy to make the roof detachable. If so, I'd really like to get it for an indoor/outdoor sort of game.
Thomas Kelly
If not, I might get it to make a Frontline Assembly style game, with it producing a T-34 every turn for the Soviets while the Germans try to get inside and blow it up
Nolan Sanchez
Be nice, this isn't /v.
Eli Parker
8 hours until the kickstarter launches! Hyped as fuck.
Eli Wright
They're very good to read if you want to learn Latin. The Gallic Wars in particular is commonly assigned as reading on Latin courses because it's so well written.
Nolan Rivera
I had the Civil Wars set in my Latin course, may even still have it somewhere.
Gabriel Stewart
Vehicles are, Infantry isn't.
Kayden Rogers
Get some cheap mdf buildings. (Not 4Ground, who are among the most expensive you can get). Check TTCombat for example.
For example their basic town house (which is fairly basic obviously) costs only 9GBP.
Obviously these come mostly without interior. But they are cheap so you got some extra money to spend on either resin or mdf interior bits like from elladan:
The sarissa website lists the product features: >removable roof
David Rodriguez
Is this Grenadier starter set for Bolt Action any good? In the sample list for 1000 points it seems to suggest an entire section is armed with STG44's, I don't know much about BA but that seems a bit iffy to me.
Historically the germans tended to focus their assault rifles into especially assigned "assault" squads too. 1 out of 3 or 4 squads of an Volksgrenadier division was supposed to be armed entirely with Stg-44s (execption being the rifle grenadier because a K98 was needed to fire the rifle grenades).
That being said, its entirely up to you how you build your army in Bolt Action. If you don't like to have a squad full of assault rifles, you don't have to field it.
Keep in mind there is also the "build an army" option where you could pick 2 boxes of Grenadiers (giving you 60 instead of just 36 minis), a HQ team, a team weapon and 2 vehicles of your choice (or just pick Puma and Stug if you like these). You basically get 3 more infantry sprues and some metal HQ minis instead of the Pak-40 and either mortar or machine gun team (the pak isn't really needed anyway, since with Puma and Stug and lots of Panzerfausts there is more than enough AT-firepower already) for the price of 75 instead of 90.
Matthew Rogers
>1 out of 3 or 4 squads of an Volksgrenadier division
Thats a bit misleading. Sorry. I didn't want to say that a division had only a couple of squads. Each VG-division was supposed to have 3 regiments (one with bycicles) which were supposed to have 2 grenadier battalions each. Each battalion had infantry companies and each of these companies was supposed to have specified assauld-rifle-equipped squads.
Hope it makes more sense now.
Hunter Perez
Thanks, I may consider the starter set since it seems better value. Good to know it's fairly accurate for late war (for BA standards).
Angel Hall
Check amazon or ebay for a good deal on that starter box. I've seen those for as low as 70€.
Also keep in mind that you need the books (pdfs are in the OP) and a set of order dice (around 10gbp, maybe cheaper on ebay).
Lincoln Lee
If you're doing Fighting In Someone's House, 1/48 terrain makes it a lot easier to fit the fuckers in there.
It's a book of highlights from wargames magazines, basically a bunch of short articles where the guy does a small skirmish game with a specific goal or mechanic. Some of them are not really worth the time, some are fascinating but not something you'd want to play, and one of them, which I really should scan since it's so short, was a neat set for house to house stuff in the balkans. The Zgroshk one from that list, if anyone's got it. Both forces were identical, and had troops organised into five-man teams, which went at each other or just hid in houses and didn't do shit - to attack, you rolled to see how many figures in the squad didn't fire, and getting one or two non-firing members was pretty common. Once one guy was wounded, though, well that's the team down to three total possible combatants, as one guy's down and another's taking care of them, and if someone else gets shot dead then there's a good chance they won't get to do shit... which is where sergeants come in, rounding up understrength teams and yelling at them to merge and get back into it.
You also had two machine guns per side, which started off-board and had to be yelled at by a sergeant to get them moving and attached to a team - with only a couple of sergeants, managing that became a hassle. And then there were the wounded!
Neat game, I should really scan it.
The machine gun duel one was also interesting - you chose how many shots to fire from the active figure (lmg, hmg, smg, rifle, whatever) and had a certain probability of hitting - by adding extra shots and wasting ammo, you could walk fire onto targets and take out a whole enemy team with 100% accuracy... but, oops, that was 80 shots out of your 100-round belt, really should have controlled your bursts better.
Jace Anderson
On reading that blog post, I didn't realise that they highlighted the same two games I did. Heh.
The book wasn't cheap, being £16 or so for a short booklet, but I'm probably going to buy another one of the series at some point. It was interesting in the best way.
Isaiah Garcia
And by the way, there are reviews of some of the other volumes over on the lone warrior site: lonewarriorswa.com/reviews
They've made it a project to review a whole bunch of old stuff, and even if you're not a solo wargamer, a lot of the reviews are useful!
Luis Richardson
Hey I was wondering if one of you guys could help me out, cause I'm a bit confused.
I sent an email to Warlord Games' info@ email address, concerning some missing parts on a sprue I received. I already have an account with them under the email address I sent the email from. I even made an order in their shop from that address.
Immediately after sending off my question and getting the default 'Ticket received' mail I got another email for an account activation. Which, if they made another one for me would use the same email they already should have an account under.
Is this normal? Doesn't seem to make any sense to me.
Caleb Adams
I think they have issues with accounts. Afaik ordering and website use different accounts, but i'm not sure.
Jonathan Sanders
Thinking about buying a box each of the Victrix center and flank companies. Are they any good?
Austin Barnes
If you like assembling plastic minis, then yes, definitely.
Jose Carter
Can someone recommend me a game about small groups of chivalric knights kicking the shit out of each other? Something with a good amount of focus on individual models (Stances, maneuvers) for the HEMA enthusiast in us all would be great.
Luis Murphy
> Playing Napoleonics in 28mm.
Dominic Lee
Not medieval knights, but JUGULA might be worth a look. Its about Gladiators, and i expect it to have detailed combat rules for single miniatures. Maybe it can be used for knights too.
Lincoln Parker
This is a beer-&-pretzels game that fits that description.
If you want something more crunchy, go check the Song of Swords thread (if there's one up).
Luis Morgan
>Afaik ordering and website use different accounts, but i'm not sure. That's a bit weird, but I guess that would explain having to make the same account twice. Thanks.
Camden Hernandez
>Is this Grenadier starter set for Bolt Action any good?
They could be solid gold with embedded diamonds and sculpted down to the atomic level. The fact that they're meant for BA still means they're shit.
Joseph Reyes
Thanks for that link, user.
David Evans
Has anyone attempted to play Charlie company? Even if you haven't can you attempt to decyper this car crash of a force determination table. I'm assuming the blanks for US Army are for an Infantry Squad and the Weapons Squad, or am I forced to use USMC as US Army?
Christopher Scott
Okay, I'll take the bait.
>implying you can't use 28mm WW2 figures for whatever you want
Asher Davis
I have these supposedly Italeri 25mm US Paratroopers from about ~16 years back and I found a store nearby where they sell more of this line and was thinking about getting a pack of german infantry from them. What ruleset would be a good starting point to getting into ww2 wargaming with this at my disposal? I have never did any wargaming but a 7,50$ investment seems reasonable and I have someone to play with.
Joseph Howard
1:72 figures, rather than 25mm.
As to Mr. Baity's dismay, I'd recommend Bolt Action. OR you could check Operation Squad as well, it requires less minis (as the name suggests, only a squad).
Nathan Sanders
1:72 is more like 20mm, but thats not important.
7,50 for a set like this is quite expensive though. They can (should) be cheaper, but its ok i guess.
Check out 5 men at normandy from the OP. That system should work fine with that amount of soldiers (if you get an equally strong opposing force).
Jayden Perez
>replying to the bait
Jacob Turner
Standing figures measure 25mm with a ruler that's why I assumed they are called that. 7,50 is a 50 figure pack and I'm from Hungary where everything is expensive as fuck. I'll check them out, thank you for the suggestions!
Nolan Anderson
Lol, csá geci.
Blake Anderson
Van valami jó bolt Budapesten ahol occsón lehet figurákat venni?
Matthew Ross
Drop me an email at tamas872[at]freemail.hu and I'll supply some 1:72s to you.
also: I had to complete like 10 fucking captchas. Fuckign Christ, why can't it be numbers again.
Ayden Collins
Sizes like 28mm/25mm/20mm are measured from the ground to the eyes but its not really important anyway.
... and funded in 2 hours. Now, gimme those stretchgoals.
Austin Rogers
Wow, these furniture sets are great. Is this really made from plastic? Or resiN?
The buildings are decent i guess, but there are plenty of sellers of generic mdf houses for low prices these days, and with a little love and work they can look just as good as 4grounds.
Charles Cox
I don't normally like to call shill, but you sure have been posting this a lot, and your "8 hours to go post" got 0 replies. You aren't involved in development are you?
Austin Cook
I'm not, just insanely excited. Will shut up now.
Eli Cooper
Sent ;)
On a sidenote fuck freemail.
Liam Brooks
No no, if you are legit excited carry on, I wouldn't want to get in the way of legit hwg relevant exuberance
Parker Edwards
Link related does a clearance sale and some military kits and miniatures are pretty cheap right now:
omnia gallia in tres partes divisa est >happy memories
Sebastian Roberts
>>happy memories We found our Latin studies quite different I think
Jason Phillips
Chinese hard plastic, user.
Owen Reed
I was bought the Solo Secrets volume for Xmas, and was a bit underwhelmed. Same format, but he basically repeats 2 kinds of solo game in different periods. 1. Random dungeon. Lay out an array of cards in 6" squares on the table, turn one over when entering the square to reveal enemy troops, minefield, arms cache, treasure, etc. 2. Zombie attack. The enemy just keep coming until your guys hack them to bits (or fail) These make useful solo scenarios, but there are no great ideas about solo play in regular scenarios, for example.
I have a review of it on my blog at hntdaab.co.uk*/*blog
Roof is detachable, the interior walkway could be assembled in such a way but it would not be very strong. The crane over the main section can be detachable if you don't glue it
Levi Scott
>my blog at hntdaab.co.uk*/*blog Serious question now - why would you write it "scrambled" like that?
Thomas Lee
probably had trouble getting the link through Veeky Forums's anti-spam filters.
Yeah, that one did seem interesting but I got the feeling it wouldn't be as broad as some of the other volumes. TBF with stuff like PEF mechanics from THW and all the other developments in solo wargaming, it's going to be a wee bit outdated - particularly because solo wargaming is often best in campaign form.
Jackson Kelly
What faction box did you get?
Blake Thompson
Dutch, generic european army, generic sailors and a second of either of these, as well as all the ships. Yeah, I went a bit nuts.
I am sorely tempted to go double on the sailors, and use one of them for danish pirates.
Tyler Sanders
>danish pirates. Now this user like his obscure factions
Jacob Thompson
>Negerbay
Ryder Stewart
>not owning a textured and flocked basketball court
Connor Nguyen
It's just a football pitch with no markings on, size's about right.
Lucas Cook
...
Luke Reyes
Looks like it'd be an excellent table for Blood and Plunder.
William Johnson
For a short moment there, I thought it was.
Grayson Long
I did as well until I saw the sandbags and figs.
Juan Hill
The big ol' Buddha in the background might take a bit of explaining, unless of course the pirates involved were of the South Asian variety
Nathan Smith
I don't think it's glued to the board, it's probably on a stand of its own.
