A Renaissance Diversion

The latest of my troops to be based up for Impetus are these, well, cheveaux legers?  I bought them years ago second hand and they've been rebased a couple of times but I don't think I've yet used them.

I have to say I'm more pleased with the appearance of the basing in real life than in these photographs.

Airfield Control Tower

There's a small civilian airfield south of the Lippe that should appear on the relevant table for the Crisis Point game.  This MGB resin control tower should do nicely for it.

It's obviously British in design and the underground storage is a bit military-looking but I'm prepared to overlook that.

I can just see Soviet VDV airborne troops descending on it.

Big Box of Goodies

I managed to get over to Steve (The Baggage Train)  Oates’s house on Saturday evening to collect the Arnhem Bridge model that Steve has kindly donated to the SOTCW for use in the Crisis Point game and beyond. 

Steve very kindly provided me with a huge box of goodies:

Quite apart from the bridge:

...which is going to be a bit of a challenge, Steve also very kindly provided a whole load of Atlantic Wall style bunkers and command positions:

Oh, and another bridge!

I don’t see why the NATO forces shouldn’t reuse old Westwall fortifications so some of these will be used in the big game.  Others will see the light of day in future SOTCW demo games.

I can’t recommend Steve’s stuff too highly.  Check it out at The Baggage Train.

More Big Game Buildings

Just completed - a couple of apartment buildings for Venlo:

They're mostly cardboard and balsa.  The front door and steps on the grey-green building are by Irregular Miniatures.

Mud Movers

In preparation for April's big Cold War Commander game I've been thinking about rules for air support.  I've decided to follow Ian Shaw's suggestion of using randomised air support.  Rather than drawing up tables I'm going to have a card for each available aircraft and let each side draw cards to see what they can call upon.  That way we can add new aircraft as players arrive.

Each aircraft gets a card that includes the relevant stats and any relevant rules for special munitions carried.  The five aircraft in the foreground are recent eBay purchases I've yet to repaint.  The F-111, the Belgian F-104 and the Su-24 are strategic strike aircraft and shouldn't really be used for tactical air support but needs must in time of war.  I'll probably restrict the options in using these elements.

Back from Disneyland Paris...

... where there was not much to see of interest from a wargaming point of view except for the three French Army types who turned up each day, armed to the teeth, to patrol the area between the park and the railway station.

Not The Biggest Bridge...

This isn't planned to be the biggest bridge in the Crisis Point big Cold War Commander game but it is fairly chunky.

It's presented here because I'd told Richard Phillips it wouldn't go together in this asymmetrical formation but now discover that it will!

The big river is 8cm across (including the banks) while the smaller river is 3cm.

This is supposed to be a 10mm scale model I understand but I find it works fine with 6mm toys.