H&R Japanese Heavy Weapons

Like the British equivalent, the JR2 - Japanese Heavy Weapons code from Heroics & Ros consists of a Command strip with 3 Mortar strips and 3 MG strips.
Click the images for a more detailed view.

Mortar Strip
2-man light mortar team, 3-man medium mortar team, 4-man infantry gun team (Type 11?)

MG Strip
Prone LMG gunner, 3-man tripod-mounted HMG team, and an AA MG gunner.
I'm not 100% of the actual types here.

Command Strip
Mainly Officer types.

H&R British Heavy Weapons

Next up we have the BR2 - British Heavy Weapons pack from Heroics and Ros.
This consists of a Command strip, plus 3 MG strips and 3 Mortar strips.
Click on the pics below for more detail:

MG Strip
AA Bren Gun, 3-man Vickers team, 2-Man PIAT team and a Boys ATR.

Mortar Strip
2-man Light Mortar, 3-man Medium Mortar, and two engineers

Command Strip
Radio Ops and Officers

More Dark Age Buildings

I had my order come in from The BaggageTrain late last week.
I picked up three different items; their "Saxon port with riverbank" (more on that in another post) as well as some of their "Sub Roman houses" and "Sub Roman Great Hall".

Here is a pic comparing the round Celtic Hut from Timecast, a hut from the Irregular Miniatures Maori Pa scenic pack, and the Sub Roman House from Baggage Train.  I have put the Irregular and Baggage train models on a stack of card to bring the level up to roughly the same as the thick base on the Timecast hut, and included my Romano British Leader for scale reference. Click the image for a closer look.

The Irregular item is smaller, but not unusably so in my book (or perhaps the other two are too big?...)
Here is the Baggage Train Great Hall vs. the same Leader.  It is a monster that will be the centrepiece of a large Village or Hill Fort.

We now return you to more WW2 miniatures...

Sherman and AT guns

In addition to the few bits of German armour, I also needed another platoon of Shermans and some anti-tank guns to bolster my US forces.  I picked up the following from Heroics and Ros.  Click the images for larger versions.

US04 - M4 Sherman

US47 - 37mm AT Gun + Crew

US22 - 57mm AT Gun + Crew

German Self-propelled Artillery + Armour

I picked up a couple of items to be able to have all the models I need to be able to game all the scenarios in the TFL "Anzio : Wildcat to Whale" book.

G059 - Wespe

This is a two-part model with the gun separate from the chassis.

G060 - Hummel

This is a two-part model with the gun separate from the chassis.

G011 - Panzer III N

Turret separate from the tank chassis.

H&R Japanese Infantry

I picked up a pack of Japanese Infantry on the recommendation that they might be useful for VC/NVA.
I'm not sure of their usefulness on that front, but if they don't work out for that, I'll be keeping them for some future WW2 Pacific games.
Overview of the code below.  Click on the pictures for a larger version.

Infantry Strip type 1 - Four of these strips per code

Infantry Strip type 2 - Three of these Strips per code

LMG Strip - Single strip per code

Light Mortar Strip - Two Strips per code

Short Infantry Strip - one per code.  Not sure if this is actually a proper part of the code, or just a malformed version of Infantry Strip type 2.

H&R WW2 British Infantry

Some quick pictures of the Heroics and Ros BR1 - British Infantry.
Five strips in the code, all identical.

 Detailed pictures of the infantry strips, front:

 and back:

I think that these could be used as infantry in bush hats as well, with some creative painting.

Timecast Celtic Village

We briefly interrupt this WW2 interlude with further Dark Age shenanigans.
A couple of days ago I received a shipment from Timecast that included two of their Celtic Villages from Range 25.
The Village consists of 4 size huts and a small granary.
Below you can see my Romano British Elites, lead by their lord, sallying forth to meet the Saxon hordes.

I'm planning on mounting one village on a CD as per the above picture, and the other village will be mixed with some other buildings from Irregular and Baggage Train to form a larger village.

Timecast have some lovely painted pics (that I will be attempting to copy with my models) available here.

We now return you to your scheduled programming...

Heroics & Ros GR3 - German Paratroops

Now back to the promised pics of more World War 2 kit from Heroics & Ros to celebrate the release of "Blenneville or Bust" from TooFatLardies.
Without further ado, I give you GR3 - German Paratroops.

This is another one of those nifty codes that provides a whole heap of supports to the platoon of figures.  To be honest I like having all the various bits and pieces, but at the same time it can be frustrating if there's  not enough of one thing in the pack, or too much of something else.

Let me say upfront here that I know nothing about Fallschirmjager organisation, so for me this is a nice pack that provides a platoon of infantry, plus MGs, mortars, an antitank gun and other bits and pieces.

There are four different types of strip in the code: 

Paratroop Infantry.  3 strips in the code.

Radio Operator, Panzerschreck team, LG40 (?) team and a mortar team.  2 strips in the code.

Some sort of Anti-tank gun and crew.  I suspect Pak 36 with Stielgranate? One of these per code.

 MG Strip.  One of these per code.

MicroDux

Full set of starter armies for Dux Britanniarum, Romano-British on the left and Saxon on the right, in a VHS case (with room to spare!)

Pretty excited to get to this stage.  Most of my wargaming projects don't even get this far!
Now I just need to get them painted....

I'm keeping the spare "Mass" bases in the bottom of the case at the moment, but I think once I base up the livestock and carts for the cattle rustling and convoy ambush scenarios, I'll place them in the middle and put the spare bases on the lid of the box.

Now that I'm at this stage I can start pushing the bases around on the table.  There will probably be a bit of an hiatus on MicroDux posts for a while whilst I get the painting done and familiarise myself with the rules..

While this is happening I'll be continuing to put up photos of a range of recent purchases from H&R, Irregular, Dark Realm, Ground Zero Games and the ex-Adler Dark Star range.

Stay tuned!