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Invisible Officer, I agree, the books and stories I’ve read on the French Resistance was there were so many different groups (usually divided by Political Parties) they wouldn’t work with each other , stole from each other, even attacked each other. I felt bad for the British Agents and Commandos who had to trained them, organize them, and get the…[Read more]

“Use” is the problem.    The old FRench tanks had only that one true action mentioned by me. True Resistance units had no tank actions, only the semi regular 13th Dragons p. formed post D Day .

The resistance got many German armored vehicles but only used them for demonstrations against rearguards. Like the French ones. No true fights.  To use…[Read more]

Thanks Artful, I’ve actually started doing exactly as you suggest!

done a couple of officers and standard bearers. I’m still looking at the drummers and panicking though!

Thanks Paul.

That beach looks pretty impregnable to me!

I’m hoping to use the completed table from Luke as a bit of an excuse to see as much of this country as I can, as and when we can, while trying to raise a bit of money for charity and do a bit to promote various aspects of the hobby. I’ve asked Luke to build a Salute-worthy table, that…[Read more]

It would depend heavily on what type of gang you would want to run.   A Juve gang could have as many as 10 members with a 50 Rep value, while a single Gang Leader zooming around in their Forb Hovercar could cost the same.

Playing the game, I find it starts to bog down with more than 10 or so Action Chip to a side.  The rules are written much mo…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: center;”>I made a typo, I meant two “Panther” tanks, not Panzer that were used in the Warsaw Uprising. I believed a Hetze.
might have been captured too.</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Invisible Officer, yes you are correct in that France did obtain all those vehicles. Some were put into action for Allies, but the FFI Par…[Read more]

The post D-day local raised French got a lot of German equipment. Including 12 Panther tanks in good condition.

Two stood long before the Musee de L’armee Invalide dome on exibition. With French markings.

(Polish had “Pudel”, a Panther and used in in Warsaw rising)

Some 44 Panzer, incl. a tiger,  are used. Main Tank force came from…[Read more]

They are a seperate unit that share an order dice.

However the order dice is rem0ved if the mortar /howitzer is.  So for Prelim bombardments, yes they are treated as two different units.

I used Bolt Action Japanese for regular Chinese troops and German Blitzkrieg for the Chinese German Trained troops. I painted them according to what was shown in the Empire of Flames supplement.

Try converting Perry 1814 Plastic French.

The command sprue has an officier with a single lower body and two upper body options. There are also two skirmisher sprues with rank and file running, cut these in half and add to the officers.

Carefully chop the standard bearer in  two and glue a running rank bottom to suit or use his arms on a…[Read more]

Hi John,

I’m based over Wyre, near Fleetwood.

Not driving, the club based at Harlequins is utterly inaccesable even when Boris’ puppet masters tell him to lift the lockdown.

Once upon a time, there was one hosted at Blackpool Library. 🙁

I have a variety of Peninsular 28mm forces – British, French, Spanish, Polish, German (von Pirbreck’s…[Read more]

As per the excellent reference above, 4 Batallion and 1 Grenadier (Grenadarios) companies per Batallion, officially no skirmishers.

You get 1 Grenadario (short sword backpack) per strip in the Warlord Portuguese box.

There is also an Osprey  Portuguese-Army-Napoleonic-Wars-Men-at-Arms series on the subject.

According to Albion Triumphant…[Read more]

I use Partisans sometimes to support my Armies. (French and Soviet). Im currently putting  a FFI Partisans list together. With all the research I’ve done, very few Partisans captured Armor. The Yugoslavs did capture some. And the Warsaw Uprising I believe they got two Panzers. Most partisans units did not have Armor. I’m building my FFI Part…[Read more]

Interesting report here

FFI Manage to capture tiger tanks

Here’s the history of one such tank with photos of some others. http://www.tankarchives.ca/2017/10/exhibit-with-history.html

Besides Copplestones which I have used, I have also bought from Brigadegames, mixed with some customised North Korean and Chinese units from Warlord Games’ Korean War series.

Haven’t found much on tanks however attach are some photos I found on other vehicles