6mm AK Game

Had a quick game of AK47 Republic in 6mm in January with a friend.
It wasn't the best of games - particularly as an introduction.
He was defending and only managed to roll for his group of technicals to come on to the table.

I had almost all of my force as the attacker. I figured it was going to be pretty one-sided.

It was! Unfortunately these were my last good rolls and his last poor rolls in the game.
The 4 technicals (reduced to 3 in the game) wiped out:

• A Regular Tank
• A professional force with APCs
• One of two towed guns
• Most of a militia force with trucks

Devastating......

2009 - Year of 15mm

Last year saw a lot of focus on the 6mm space here at TMM.
Given that Ambush Alley are launching their Force on Force soon, and I've just ordered a whole heap of 15mm stuff from Peter Pig, I thought I'd declare it;

2009 - The Year of 15mm!

My big focus for this year is going to be pulling together and painting everything for Day of the Ranger scenarios. Painted figures, civilians, technicals, HMMWVs, buildings, arms caches, etc. A really nice looking table hopefully?

I'm also keen on doing some stuff for Under a Black Flag; in particular I'd like to do a scenario around the storming of an ocean-going vessel. One section of Keith Fennell's Warrior Brothers describes an SAS patrol embedded with the Navy patrolling Australian waters and the storming of an illegal fishing vessel.
The boat is going to be a difficult terrain piece.
Damn! Looks like Shawn has beaten me to it over at the AA forums....

Back Again

I'm back, baby!
The work on the house hasn't progressed as quickly as i hoped; work has been interfering and i've just started a new job this week. But I can't stay away from gaming forever, so we're back on again.

I've done a little bit of painting over the last week or so, so there will be some pics coming soon.

Also I had my birthday late last month, and I received some cash (the gift that keeps giving!) from family and friends. So my first port of call was to race out and get myself an Ambush Alley Special Operators Group membership.

I've also dropped some cash on some Peter Pig figures, most importantly Toyota Hiluxes for use as Technicals and some civilians for use in the game as well. Really looking forward to getting those in the mail.

The other BIG piece of Ambush Alley news is that Force-on-Force (the non-asymetric force rules) are going to be available later this month. Special Operators get first access and a discount, so get in quick! The rules will encompass WW2 through to the current day with modern and WW2 scenarios in the book.

Break

I've got to focus on some work around the house for the next few weeks which is going to prevent any further work on miniatures or blog updates during that time.
Once everything is done, however, we hope to have the "hobby room" set up, which should mean more painting and modelling!

Cannon Fodder Afghans

I recently purchased some more Cannon Fodder Africans and Afghans.
I've previously used the CF Africans, but I never had any of the Afghans.
Here area a couple of pictures with different light trying to pick out the detail.

The figures are quite nice.
My intention is to use them for Operation Enduring Freedom scenarios, and also for the earlier Russian occupation.
I have some QRF Russian Naval Infantry and BTRs (60, 70, 80) that I've wanted to use for a while.

The Comparison

Over Christmas/New Years I got some 40k from my brother and dug out some of my older stuff to assemble.
I just happened upon the comparison below, so I've taken a picture.

Left to Right we have; an old Eldar Guardian (the new ones are bigger!), a Battlefront Anti-Tank Rifle team, and some Irregular 6mm Modern US.

Or to put it another way (the increasingly inaccurately named) 28mm, (the creeping larger) 15mm and 6mm.

Man, those 6mm guys look small in comparison!

Christmas Loot Part 2

I also received this from my wife:

Can you say "lead-tastic?!?"
It's all the figures I need for my 6mm Flames of War British Para Company.
Painting ahoy!

Christmas Loot Part 1

My awesome wife got me "dolls" for Christmas!

First up some 6mm Terrain from Irregular:

Pond with Trees

European Farmhouse set

European Village set

 

 

A big thanks to Nic at Eureka for taking care of her and making her first venture into miniature buying a very positive one!

6mm Weird War

I've just learnt about a new range being planned for release this year from MAJIC Miniatures.

They're releasing a Pulp World War II range.

More details at the site.

I'm quite excited about this.

In related news, my wonderful wife bought me a company of British Paratroops and a village and farm in 6mm for Christmas!  More news (and photos) soon.

Happy New Year!

LOOZ Battlegroup completed

Well I finally got those trucks finished, and here are the battlegroup on parade.

I'm not at home; so I'm only shooting in the light of the dining room, but the new approach to the manual settings seems to really be bearing fruit with depth of field.

Here are some more shots.

  

Today I have also undercoated the modern US, afghans, and VC from the previous order, along with the Centurion tank, Greyhound and Panhard armoured cars.  Hopefully I'll get some paint on them soon!