Sixth post in the Showcase series. The photos were taking on my phone using the MacroMat from Tablewar. Models shown: Warlord Games: Chindit Characters Chindit HQ Chindit Section Gurkhas boxed set Chindit Flamethrower Chindit Medium Mortar team Chindit anti-tank rife team Burmese Scouts Sherman M4 Perry Minatures tank commander Bren Carrier Artizan Designs: Australian Infantry… Read More Bolt Action Chindits
January I started the year off right with a Kingdom Death: Monster campaign. I built a batch of new survivors and watched in disbelief as they met their demise in the most horrific ways imaginable. I do love KD:M. January was also Polar Vortex. I took an early war Partisan force to this one-day, three-game… Read More Year in Review
Fifth in a series of posts showcasing completed projects. The photos were taken on my phone using the MacroMat from Tablewar. Models shown: Warlord Games: Winter German HQ Winter SS squad Winter Grenadier squad Winter German infantry Nebelwerfer 41 (gun only) Winter German medium artillery (crew only) Winter German sniper team German Feldgendarme motorcycle team Winter… Read More Bolt Action Winter Germans
Hi there, Paul here with a tutorial. I was playing with the idea of a new table for an event in Omaha and was thinking about scatter terrain that would be different than just the hills and trees you see on most tables. So, I decided that I wanted some terrain that could look good… Read More Scatter terrain and objective markers
Part two in a two-part series covering the Chicago Dice team at the premier Bolt Action tournament in the Midwest – Operation Sting. You can also read Part One. Mission overview – As the battle escalated, the fog of war turns the situation into chaos. The Axis forces are surrounded as the Allies close in…… Read More Operation Sting 2018 – Day Two Recap and Final Thoughts
Fourth and final in a series of articles covering Andrew, Ben, Dexter and Paul’s journey to Operation Sting 2018. Battle of Elsenborn Ridge – Double display Andrew and Ben – When we started working on army ideas not long after Adepticon and learned that Operation Sting would be set in 1944 this year, the Battle… Read More Road to Operation Sting – Part 4: The Display
Part one in a two-part series covering the Chicago Dice team at the premier Bolt Action tournament in the Midwest – Operation Sting. Our armies Andrew – German 506th Heavy Anti-Tank Battalion Built around the impressive Trenchworx Jagdpanther I themed my platoon as part of the 506th Heavy Anti-Tank Battalion. Running a 390pt tank and… Read More Operation Sting 2018 – Our Armies and Day One Recap
Ben, Dexter, Paul and I took tons of pictures during the event. We tried to capture both games in-progress and armies on display. Enjoy! The Armies The Games The Tables
Third in a series of articles covering Andrew, Ben and Dexter’s journey to Operation Sting 2018. Andrew – Late-war winter Germans The theme: I’ve been sitting on a small force of winter Germans since Adepticon 2016 and I’d been looking for an excuse to expand. A combination of Sting’s 1944 theme and Warlord’s major support… Read More Road to Operation Sting – Part 3: The Hobby
Operation Sting breaks down scoring into four categories; battle, appearance, sportsmanship and theme. Part of the theme score is a written army background explaining the historical context for your platoon and the units you picked. 16 December – 1944 Elsenborn, Belgium In the Ardennes forest, just to the east of Elsenborn Ridge, the relatively untested… Read More Operation Sting 2018 –Defend the Ridge!
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