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The Rifle Grenade is fired by a small arm but can hardly be classed as a typical  small arm amo.   Explosive load in HE was normally much less than in a Hand grenade but enough to produce a lot of splinters.

And there also existed hollow charge rounds. Intended against armored vehicles.

So historically a rifle grenade could hurt armored ve…[Read more]

With DAK Motorbicycle units are a must.  And naturally no German horse there, not like in Europe. There more cavalry served than Kradschützen.

In fact the heavy German BMW and Zündap are great, even 2020 – On streets. Pure fun to drive, or in sidecar.  But even in European countryside not nice to move away from street. In Africa’s dunes it was…[Read more]

It’s a classic tabletop  problem. You see everything so recce is not really necessary.

The Kradschützen had been recce units, most serving with the Panzer units.  Moving as fast but also able to dismount infantry for supporting the tanks.  The problem was the bad ratio of sidecar bikes between driver and infantry dismounting, 1 to 2. So most uni…[Read more]

Well, not everything is possible. The Webbing Pattern 37 web Equipment has some parts that fit only to special others.

That link brings you to a page with the regulations.

http://www.karkeeweb.com/patterns/1937/1937_manuals.html

But the basic is cast on the miniature anyway. Belts and amo pouches are there.

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Officers rarely wore the…[Read more]

For weight reasons Napoleonic land based field guns had been made Brom bronze.   Some older iron guns got used , in, 1812 a few old iron field guns got used in Prussia  with rear units.    Fortress guns are often iron, the weight being not important. In general an iron gun of same calibre was cheaper but heavier.

Navy guns are mostly iron too, n…[Read more]

Lol.  For reasons like that the ring was attached, it’s a barbed wire holder.   It worked but was not fitted to later vehicles.

Modellers would have a closer look at the back. The later ones had a stronger construction for heavier tows.  And for those with hydraulic breaks a pump was added, easy seen is the big air drum over the coupling on the…[Read more]

No, that device was a metal ring.  Just a fraction of the SdKfz 10 had it.

I guess that the pts of Essex class are influenced by number of ships available. With the few CV available in 41/42 they should be more expensive in a historical based game.

Well, my friends and I never care for points. Using historical OOB.   Points systems all give just an illusion of ballanced game.

Using historical OOB, not point based. Works only with close friends.

Thank you for sharing how you do the remote gaming.  One heart for that but you deserve many more for caring for the mothers.

It seemed very clever (from companies view)  to have that game in an unusual scale. 1/1800 is limited to very few makers.  Not like 1/3000, 1/2400 for gamers and 1/1200 and 1250   for Gamers and collectors.

So the Warlord customers are doomed.  And the Etna causes a small uproar.  In the common scales few would care. Just buying alter…[Read more]

To grow the non profit making service staff sounds nice, from asking  customer’s view. But someone has to pay for it.”Free” is not really free. We all pay for it.

The profit rate in books is not high.

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In a good organised depot collecting the stuff is fast. Selecting / Building a box are seconds. (I did so decades ago in a company mail…[Read more]

Well,

most foreigners under Napoleons rule had been reluctant at best. Even those under direct Bonaparte rule. Like Jerome’s 1ers Chevaux-Legers from Westphalie. Raised 1808 just 390 of 500 reached the Peninsula. The others deserted on the way.

The Irish are often former POW, most came to escape the camps. The number of stout Catholics…[Read more]

Hardly.      R………   in a Warlord / Osprey product?  Even the naming here is a …………      😉

Hmmm, yes, I have it in my Blitzkrieg collection.

Well, Noon had done the Hauptmann and the others without any unit ID on Schulterklappen.  An omission that might be intentional to make it a pic that can be used for other books?

The wrong crosses on a 38 t are  a pitty. But Romania got some 38 t from Germany.

The Tacam R 2 AT for example was mainly built on R2 / 35 t vehicles but also on s…[Read more]

Hmm, it’s  an artist impression without any local details. First publication location may be as wrong as the Stalingrad one. Floßsäcke crossing  a muddy river……. Only the artist may know.

It’s not like the wrong captions on contemporary photos used as sources.   One of the worst such xxxx use was in the crimes of Wehrmacht exhib…[Read more]

Hmmm, a single Jagdpanther is against nature. 😉

Merkblatt 75a/20 from 14.6.44 stated that the use of single Jagdpanther was forbidden.  The minimum unit was four.

In attacks it was to bind enemy tanks from front to allow Panzer attacks from the flank.

“Fester Einbau von Jagdpanthern in die HKL. ist verboten.” ~  Use in front line in f…[Read more]

Hmm, one might argue that he lacks the protection from others serving as splinter catchers,  😉

My father used to tell me that as forward observer he never hitched a ride in a German SPW-  (His battery was in an ID, serving along Pz Div. )   he named them rolling  death traps. He saw too many men burned to death in the wrecks.  Open top was n…[Read more]

MTB and Schnellboote had DC / Wasserbomben. They used them mainly to attack surface vessels, running close along . throwing them and going away full Speed. The blast broke the Targets back.

They also used them in fleeing before destroyers and similar. Not nice to run over a DC….. .

Submarine hunting was rarely done. The boats had limited…[Read more]

Warlord’s German historian was not asked about IR 950, the Azad Hind. So I doubt that it will be included in the next Normandie book.

The unit was organised from may 44 on like a German Standard infantry unit. Serving mostly as occupation force and retreating post Invasion it had few Engagements. It was never trusted , there had been…[Read more]