In this Verses article, Andy Singleton of VolleyFire painting compares two superficially very similar, yet very effective vehicles from the armouries of Germany and the United States., namely the M7 Priest and the German Wespe self-propelled gun. M7 Priest As the war in Europe and Africa expanded and military observers in the United States keenly…
With this versus article, Andy Singleton of VolleyFire Painting is back in the desert (No I don’t have an industrial quantity of sand paint I need to get through – AS), this time looking at the Italian Semovente da 75/18 and the British Bishop 25pdr self-propelled gun. Semovente Da 75/18 The Semovente is an Italian…
It can sometimes take a while to acclimatise to a new game – and one of the questions we see amongst the community quite regularly is that of tactics… how exactly do you go-about tackling the tough Battle Suits of the Ghar Empire? Luckily, Tim Bancroft… (or should that be ‘Training Sergeant Tar Romal’?)… has a…
With the biggest Ghar creation yet stalking the battlefield creator Rick Priestley examines the tactical options provided by the Ghar Command Crawler: The Command Crawler is a mobile headquarters vehicle for a Ghar Commander, a machine from which he can monitor and direct the battle around him. Ghar communications are not as effective as most Antarean systems. This…
With the X-Howitzer comes devastation! Games Designer Rick Priestley introduces us to this awesome piece of artillery and how he conceived its use tactically within the Gates Of Antares game: The X-Howitzer Rick: The X-Howitzer is a large magnetic artillery piece and as such it is the sort of thing we might expect to…
Andy Singleton of VolleyFirePainting has been preparing for a game recently involving a lot of reconnaissance units in his Bolt Action American list and shares with us some tactical advice for using the Recce rule (page 96 Bolt Action Rule Book). Andy: I’ve long wanted to do an American force for Tank War, as I’m…
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