Desired scans : Rank and File supplements Harpoon 3 & 4 supplements Force on Force supplements Hind Commander At Close Quarters War and Conquest Modern Spearhead The Face Of Battle General d'Armee (TFL version) Swordpoint
Kayden Gonzalez
December the 5th in military history:
1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated. 1408 – Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde reaches Moscow. 1757 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine. 1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain. 1934 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city. 1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre. 1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. 1943 – World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow. 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war. 1983 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina. 1995 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna. 2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji. 2013 – Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
Aiden Ortiz
It is 260 years since the Battle of Leuthen, where Frederick the Great's Prussian army used maneuver and terrain to decisively defeat a much larger Austrian army under Charles of Lorraine, thus ensuring Prussian (later German) control of Silesia during the Seven Years' War and for nearly two centuries afterward.
While Frederick was campaigning in central Germany, defeating a combined Franco-Imperial army at the Battle of Rossbach, the Austrians had managed to slowly retake Silesia. Frederick had arrived on November 28 to find that the primary city in Silesia, Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), had just fallen to the Austrians. He arrived near Leuthen (now Lutynia, Poland), 17 km (11 mi) west of Breslau, to find an Austrian army that was twice the size of his own. He realized that he must either win a great victory or suffer a major defeat. The commanders in charge of the Austrian army had earlier argued about whether to march out of Breslau to face Frederick, and Prince Charles of Lorraine had won the argument. The weather was foggy and the entire area had once been a training ground for the Prussian army, so Frederick knew the terrain thoroughly.
Frederick marched directly toward the Austrian army with its center at Leuthen, its front stretching fully 4 miles, much larger than the average front of the time. Until the Napoleonic Wars the European armies were quite small for a number of reasons: disease; quality of food and medicine; and the levée en masse had not yet been introduced. The Austrian army was stretched out to such an extent in order to prevent it from being flanked by Frederick, as it was his favorite tactic, but this would ultimately be a key mistake. Frederick had his cavalry launch an assault on Borna as a feint and then face the Austrian right flank, appearing as though it would act as a spearhead for a right flank attack. Screening his army with his cavalry, Frederick moved his well-disciplined infantry toward the Austrian left in columns.
Brody Collins
The infantry marched southward, out of sight of the Austrians, behind a line of low hills. Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, although in the tower of the church at Leuthen, could see nothing and responded by moving his reserve to his right flank instead of the soon-to-be imperiled left. The Prussian army had seemed to simply vanish, appearing to the Austrians as if in retreat, and Prince Charles of Lorraine was heard to say, "The good fellows are leaving, let's let them go."
But when the heads of the two superbly drilled Prussian columns – the distances between the marching platoons remaining exactly the width of each platoon's front – had passed the Austrian left flank, the columns veered left toward the enemy and continued their march until they had passed beyond the left Austrian flank. Then, on command, the platoons of the columns turned left at Lobetinz, and the whole Prussian army lay in line of battle at nearly a right angle to the left flank of the Austrian position. The whole Prussian army had carried out a maneuver to attack the Austrians in the flank. (This has been compared with the tactic used by Epaminondas against the Spartans at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC.) The weakest soldiers of the Austrian army had been put on the left flank in a position protected by the hills, as their fighting ability was doubted.
The Prussian infantry, arrayed in the conventional two lines of battle, then advanced and rolled up the Austrian flank. Frederick was superbly lucky that day: Not only had Prince Charles moved the cavalry from his army's left to the right, but the infantry on the left were Protestant Württembergers sympathetic to the Protestant Prussians. After firing a few half-hearted volleys, they broke ranks in front of the advancing Prussian line. The other Austrian infantry on their left, when beset with murderous 12-pounder Prussian artillery and devastating volleys from the advancing Prussians, quickly broke ranks as well.
Henry Price
Prince Charles rushed troops from his right to his left, forming a hastily-made line along the town of Leuthen (formerly the Austrian center). The Austrians desperately attempted to realign themselves, but since their line of battle was so long, it took soldiers from the right flank a hour and a half to get into place. The determined Prussians, in 40 minutes, took the village while both armies' artillery pounded away at each other. Prussian Grenadiers stormed the church and many of the defenders were killed. Now the Austrian cavalry, seeing the exposed Prussian line, hurried to take them in the flank and win the battle. Unfortunately for the Austrians, the Prussian cavalry intercepted them with a devastating charge. The cavalry mêlée soon swirled into the Austrian line behind Leuthen, causing confusion and havoc. The Austrian line then broke.
The battle lasted a little more than three hours. After seeing his army defeated, Prince Charles of Lorraine was heard to have said "I can't believe it!"
Prussian casualties were 1,141 dead, 5,118 wounded and 85 captured from a total of 36,000; the Austrians lost 3,000 dead, 7,000 wounded, 12,000 captured, with 51 flags and 116 cannons taken, from a total of 66,000.
The key to victory in this battle was pre-battle operational maneuvers. Frederick the Great was able to hide his intentions, achieve surprise, and strike a massive blow on the enemy's weakest point – a tactic predictive of Bewegungskrieg (war of movement), or much later of Blitzkrieg. The Austrians fell back into Bohemia, once again leaving Silesia to the rising Prussian Kingdom. It was Frederick the Great's greatest victory, and again showed the world of the superiority of Prussian infantry at the time. Soon after, Maria Theresa demanded the resignation of Prince Charles, her double brother-in-law.
Ethan Hughes
This is a quintessential "Lace Wars" battle of maneuver. The odds are in the Austrian's favour, but if the Prussian player can invoke the skills of der Alte Fritz then things could easily go the other way. It has all the gorgeous colour and grandeur of an SYW battle fought out on ideal terrain in a dramatic snowy landscape.
- The face of Battle; - Schwere Kompanie (full rules with gear and tank charts).
Cheers.
Brody Bell
Asking again from last thread, can anyone recommend a supplier of 28mm cart horses and otherwise pack animals?
Mason Young
Hi all! Sorry if this should be asked in board games, but I’m looking at a few games to ask for for Christmas. It will mainly be for solo gaming or occasionally with my brother. We’re newbs to historical gaming, having mostly played 40k, whfb, and various board games.
I’m currently looking at Memoir 44 and Conflict of Heroes games as top options. Oh and Holland 44.
Are these good fits for fairly easy to understand/play and solo playability? (Except Memoir, I gather that’s not solo but it looks good so..l). Thanks!
Jonathan Reyes
Essex Miniatures always had their famous line, but if you're one of the folks who dislike their basic horse model, then check out AW Miniatures, Askari Miniatures and/or Tiger Miniatures Foundry also have a wide range of animals of all kinds in 28mm
Oliver Jones
Yeah I'm gonna second Foundry. They have pack horses and mules. Copplestone has Yaks and Camels if you need those. Warlord and Perry both have kits with a horse or bull cart. If you just want the carts then I think 4Grounds has a pretty big selection of stuff. You can get the bulls or horses from Foundry or somewhere else too.
Ayden Anderson
Conflict of Heroes is good, you can't go wrong with that one. I haven't played M44. There's also another game series called Lock n' Load that's a similar scale but I don't know anything about it.
Check back in this thread later today - there are a handful of people that are hex and chit focus who will be able to help you better.
Jaxson Bennett
>Camels If you're playing in SW Russia Camels were not uncommon as draft animals
Are there any Osprey MAA's for British Line Infantry during the Hundred Days?
Cuz I'm apparently retarded and can't find any
Jackson Foster
The Wellingtons Army sub folder in the Napoleonic/osprey folder is the place to look
Jacob Miller
of those 3 options Conflict will more than likely be your best bet.
Memoir is a relatively easy game but not really solo friendly.
Holand 44 is a good game but pretty heavy for a new player
Conflict is a touch heavy for a new player..but if you got 40k you should be able to handle Conflict. AND Conflict actually has an expansion that makes it a solo game.
John Ward
I looked there. Can't find what I'm looking for really
Thx you very much. It´s a bit complicated having to deal with all those .doc files but it´s much better than nothing.
Cheers.
Ryder Turner
Btw is this from the previous version or the latest?
Jonathan Evans
Anyone know a good game for dogfights in WWII?
Jaxson Garcia
Check Your 6! maybe?
Andrew Reed
Love it, thanks user
Michael Davis
Blood red skies is out soon, looks promising.
Jacob Bell
Speaking of, is Jet Age any good?
Eli Campbell
If you looking for a very detailed game, then something like Mustangs and Messerschmidts is good, but also the old Avalon Hill's Air Force game which I think is better than MaM. Be sure to also get the Dauntless expansion for Air Force.
If you are looking for something that is less complex and plays out faster than MaM or AF and just as fun, than I recommend looking into FLAC and CY6!
A second and last request for the War of 1812 guide for Sharp Practice. That is if anyone already has the guide and would like to contribute to the trove, that would be brilliant! I just dug out my War of 1812 figures and have started getting them ready for painting. Looking forward to using them for Sharp Practice.
Christopher Russell
>check out the Bolt Action group on FB >nearly every post is Waffen SS
Really makes your brain go noggin.
Luis Allen
Have a look at Wings of Glory WW2?
WoG, FLAC, and CY6 are good games.
We use our WoG-WW2 models to play WoG, FLAC and even CY6. The link to FLAC has already been posted above, and like the user said, it is a free game that is pretty good.
Christopher Foster
More to follow
Ian Nguyen
Great. My thanks. (and keep it coming).
Andrew Cook
Guns
Jaxon Robinson
Infantry
Daniel Cook
Aircraft
Michael Stewart
That's like joining a Napoleonic group and being surprised when 95% of the posts are British and French
Mason Harris
Brits get any love?
Gavin Bennett
Vehicles
Adrian Ortiz
FoW was better than that. But then again I'm thinking of the scene seven years ago or so...
Ayden Fisher
Warlord recently released their new ss kit (which are the only plastic ss figs I know of) so they're dominating all the Facebook groups.
Easton Gomez
>tfw I only play meme armies like Norway and Bulgaria because everyone near me only plays late war US and Germany
Camden Martinez
I've been converting from the files I downloaded from the mega link. Scenarios 8 and 9 are missing, and 1 won't convert to a pdf for some reason
Aiden Adams
I wanted to play Norway but an army of them would have been ungodly expensive.
Jack Reed
The rest of the files aren't converting. I'll put what I've done in a zip and upload. If anyone else can finish the job please do.
The SS aren't out just yet, really expecting most of their bits to be ripped right off the grenadiers sprue, which in turn had a few bits from previous kits reused too.
Caleb Taylor
Oh shit they actually are, oops. I was right though - just from a quick glance there's a lot reused there. Still no c96 in a firing position.
Dominic Campbell
I have the new kit and the thing I really don't like is that there is no lmg in firing position. Only carry mode.
Samuel Reed
>mfw my pendraken order has yet to arrive
ALL I WANT TO DO IS PAINT WARRIORS OF CHRIST
Blake Anderson
There isn't a specific MAA for those guys in that campaign, but you can refer to the other titles there, the CAMs on the Waterloo campaign, and the Brassey's title in the Reference folder
Logan Roberts
Warbases does a range that works well
Nathan Collins
I almost feel bad about playing SS in Bolt Action but they're my third army and I play them as French Volunteers for the memes of talking shit to the German Volkssturm I take with them.
James Hall
I have them on my desk right now, they're actually a pretty nice kit and none of the stuff seems to be from the Grenadiers.
Landon Scott
You could try pic related. Fast and deadly with stats for 200+ aircraft. No hexes required
I use converted early war WW1 Austro-Hungarians. With the soft caps and a little bit of green stuff they look pretty decent.
Zachary Fisher
The Duchess of Richmond is a cunt.
Henry Turner
Then put together a list of Black Death or some Folgore or something else for fun.
Hunter Evans
Anyone know of some companies that make good 15mm ww2 Hungarians for barbarossa?
Oh and anyone interested in scans of battlegroups blitzkrieg and barbarossa books?
Anthony Reyes
I think Barbarossa is already in the folder. Don’t know enough about Hungarian uniforms to give you a real answer but for minor Axis nations people usually end up using WW1 Germans and or Italians.
William Phillips
One thing a lot of the representations of her famous ball gets wrong (as seen in the movie, lots of art, and Sharpe's Waterloo) is that it's depicted as taking place in some sumptuous palace Actually it was most likely held in a former coach house which was just gussied up with some silk hangings for the occasion, and would have looked a bit more modest
Gabriel Davis
Any good WW1 Skirmish games?
Oliver Gray
Good?? Well, that depends on what you like.
For me, I do not like Axis and Allies Air Force. Also, I do not care for Wings of Glory all that much.
I have not tried FLAC or CY6, but I like and play Air Force (AH) and Mustangs (AH), and these games are good. But these games are a bit more detailed than Wings of War.
Leo Brooks
Any cool non-fow 15mm WW2 games out there? Something really rules heavy.
Not sure why you would ask for rules heavy... lots of rules don't make a good game - a few well written rules can be just as effective. Look at Ostfront as well as the others mentioned.
Noah Hall
>Me, new to Bolt Action >Join Australian page for advice and local info >Page is full of national shitposting, mostly from French players Fuck I love being Australian, gonna have to get Desert Rats going soon
Landon Price
Perhaps he likes detail and depth not the new fad of rules light, and in some cases simplistic approach.
It´s true that rules heavy does not equate to good rules BUT he may prefer a robust set of rules than a light one.
Matthew Gomez
I've only read the books and never played Bolt Action, but the one thing I do like about it is the diversity of army lists The Sea Lion, New Guinea and new Road to Berlin books all offer a range of interesting units, and that's usually the main thing I ask of any wargame
Owen Morris
>for the memes of talking shit to the German Volkssturm I take with them. Elaborate please, sounds fun.
Nathaniel Ortiz
Has anyone ever used Shield transfers, with good end results?
Tempted to buy a sheet from Little Big Men Studios, I'm just a bit sceptical that a sticker ends up looking acceptable, I imagine various matte varnishes or washes might blend it in.
Liam Gutierrez
I have, they're pretty good but a little fiddly.
Basically you need to peel this protective plastic layer off, then stick them to the shield and wet the back. I recommend actually taking the plastic off the whole sheet first (then putting it back on). This is because I've had some cases where the layer is just unremovable once you've cut a shield out and it makes the transfer unusable.
Aaron Phillips
Thanks, I might give it a miss considering my experiences with GW's transfer sheets when I was a bit younger. You really have to get transfers right or the effect is a bit jarring, after putting effort into the paint job it seems a risk.
Mason Bennett
I should point out they work fairly differently to GW's transfers in the way you apply them, but YMMV.
Christopher Butler
Don't forget that the shield has to be absolutely white before you put the transfer on, or it will look like shit.
That said, LBM Shield Transfers look fantastic when it's all said and done.
Juan Smith
LBMS shield transfers are the best things ever invented. I legitimately can't go back to fucking around with waterslide decals
Hudson Sanchez
I'm under the impression that Chain of Command does not use point values for games, is that true?
William Sanders
Yes, you build your force around a historical platoon structure and then get a certain amount of support options to take as extras.
Gavin Nelson
I'd argue yes and no. Your base force is a platoon as they were organized. To then balance things out, you get to choose support extras based upon who's attacking/defending and the difference in "rating". It would be possible to argue that these ratings and support lists constitute a points system.
Joseph Johnson
thanks for the clarifications
Ayden Wood
For support you roll D6 or 2D6 depending on scenario and can pick from a menu so a medic might be one point and a light tank or an extra squad 5 points. Generally the scenario will specify something like the attacker rolls and defender gets same amount or half as much support etc.
The benefit of using a historical platoon plus extras is that it’s really easy to add a force even if there is no published army list, just do a bit of research and you can field a Serbian horse grenadier platoon
Owen Murphy
Anyone got a box of these yet?
I'm thinking about getting a couple boxes to create some late Roman cavalry and I just want to know if they're any good. I tried looking for a review online but there doesn't seem to be one.
I've checked the Notitia Dignitatum and it feels like there are not many interesting shield designs for late Roman cavalry. The nicest ones seem to be infantry only, it also seems that LBMS only really has shield transfers for late Roman infantry.
Also does anybody know if lighter late Roman cavalry used larger oval shields or the smaller ones favoured by heavy cavalry?
Maybe I should just go with whatever will look good and throw out accuracy in favour of aesthetics. Night /hwg/
Luis Lee
Plastic Waffen SS was the latest release by warlord, of course people post their new minis
Christian Miller
It's a joke that Bolt Action players are all wehraboos that love the Waffen SS and Tiger II's.
Charles Cooper
Getting itchy. My Secret Santa user's gift could have showed up today. Should be here before the end of the week at least.
Levi Diaz
I want to know more about the absolute destruction of the german army in the west in 1945. Reading The Tank War by Urban I get the feeling that once the Ardennes offensive was over with the rest was a cake walk. But just by checking Wikipedia I can see enormous battles going on raging until the americans reach Vienna. It seems like in this instance the eastern front has the spotlight with the Vistula-Oder offensive, the encirclement of the ninth army and the omnipresent battle of Berlin. Where should I turn?
Nathan Robinson
I play a Berlin themed army of the 33rd SS Charlimagne Division, which was a unit of all French Volunteers and some of the last soldiers in Berlin to capitulate (a great deal of them were shot by the French after the war.) Backing them up I have a core of Volkssturm and some Volkssturm support weapons, which means the only actual German units I take in the army are just abysmally bad conscripts that pretty much only exist to keep the Soviets busy and take bullets for the Frenchmen.
It gets fun telling my men to die for the fatherland, though I do lose a lot of games due to the points sink the Volkssturm are.
Jaxson Howard
It is definitely a joke, never seen anyone even field a tank that expensive even if they own the model.
Shame, cos heavy tanks do look pretty fucking neat for the most part. Ah well, better to field them in nice big 6mm/10mm games where they're not disproportionate parts of a force/tablespace.
Charles Wood
Anyone have the very British Civil War sourcebooks?
I remember seeing them once on here.
Cheers
William Cook
The Britbongs got some nice plastic Red Devils recently-ish.
Warlord is back to heaping love on the Axis soon though. The strongest rumors point to plastic Italians and winter Germans.
Elijah Baker
>mfw I fielded my Tiger II in my last battle Its tracks were blown in the second turn
Jordan Brooks
Italians definetly could use the love. French too, I think France has the most disproportionate gap between models and options in the army book
John Cook
>Hungarians don't even have metal infantry >literally nobody makes them
Bruh, Baguettes and Spaghettis are fine.
Blake Ortiz
Yeah that too. Greece, Norway, and the Netherlands aren't even listed on Warlord's website. At least the axis minors have options for tanks
Leo Jones
I figure the Italians and the recent Char B1 tank are Warlord dipping a toe into the water and seeing if minor nations sell enough to get the plastic treatment.
I know I'd definitely be interested in Finns and French plastic infantry.
