made it into an Anti Personal weapon.

Similar got used  on the Stielhandgranate to change that blast weapon into a splinter one.

Other shaped charge eapons had an anti personal option t…[Read more]

There are also internet day by day chronicles like that.

So if in our AMC Komet breakthrough games Komet survives its a German win. If it is lost its a British, even if all RN vessels are lost.

The rules do just reflect reality.

Playing  pacific I would expect that the USN was inferior in that aspect.   Late war radar and new tactics changed that. 41-43 I would expect a Ja…[Read more]

In German army the LMG was the last weapon to drop. Every soldier was trained to serve it and most units collected more in battle. Not just the German ones but also British or Soviet. Esp. in the defensive fights of…[Read more]

Instead of adding power to a force they would seperate the fighters into the “crews” of a few p…[Read more]

But  armies tended to misuse specialists. But mostly in desperate si…[Read more]

Modern men are used to the cleaned industrial woods of today.  Hardly any undergrowth.  Like city parks.  WW II was fought in old style woods.  Some thick undergroth was norm…[Read more]

“…..for years and year…”

I’m sure You use the standards with small scales,  like much stronger color differences than in reality.    The merge in a mess  thing can be seen with 1/1 scale real items at a distance. A 15 mm is like a real human in a long distance.

I’m lucky, even with 60 I need no opti…[Read more]

Around Saarbrücken a few of the front test series got used but sco…[Read more]

With the German army having no long Gewehr since 1935, but just a Karabiner / Carbine for all arms , that is just nuts. That a writer did name the K98 k by mistake a rifle is for some anal tournament rule lawyers heavenly given law. In WW 2…[Read more]

Wow, what a nonsense.  The Geman army standard rifle …[Read more]

The shako was never red, only the forage cap- So yo…[Read more]

There was a problem with producing enough Jägerbüchsen / Rifles so some used carbines or shortened muskets.

The terms got used long time for same troops, so Fallschi…[Read more]

Hardly enough on the sheet for all uses, incl. the trade badges. So a Oberfunker needs two.

The chevrons are for Gefreiter, Obergefreiter and Stabsgefreiter.   ~  Corporal…[Read more]

The Japanese made ones had been painted olive or in a light yellowish brown.  They stayed at home to hide the plans for invasion, saving space on ships  and increase landing speed.  Normally the army cyclist units had homemade ones.

They had special types, in…[Read more]

Like radio operator, Farrier, ordnance, Feuerwerker and some more.  In 28 mm the yellow sign on the green would be hardly different.  Gothic F or S for example….  SS had similar but on black.

So  a military doctor, being an officer, wore in many armies  a pistol (or even sword like British on parade) .  Hospitals had rifles and often…[Read more]

In real world indirect fire the smallest change of barrel to the side or up and down would have big effect. Even streets are  not so smooth to a…

The rule writers tried to make the Multi launchers weaker for game reasons  but in reality a Feuerschlag from a Werfer Regiment was devastating. Round 1 –  Game end.  Just a few surv…[Read more]

Being and old professional historian and worse, from Berlin, I spoke for museum with many former Volkssturm men and former boys.  Pistols had been relatively rare and got used by NCO and officers and MG teams as secondary arms.

The pics showing organised Volkssturm…[Read more]

Same with 1st – th Prov. Drag.

Same with inf…[Read more]

And there are many different ways.  For example I prime and paint in acryl and then use fitting oil colours or a wash.  For brown a Kasslerbrown, for blue a black or dark blue one. And later setting lights, mostly by acryl.

Being an old German military historian I was…[Read more]

Svedish cavalry still trained in mid of war the mounted charge, strange because most had dropped the s…[Read more]

Cruel sea is not the…[Read more]

205/1 had…[Read more]

Unfortunately some USN officers  used the word dazzle for non dazzle camo, sometimes even  for solid designs in correspondance . Some seem to have had  problems with measures that included different colors or shades, naming them wrongly da…[Read more]

I did years ago in 1/3000 all Philipine seas US ones in correct schemes.

And have many models in 1/1250-

For the Japanese carriers some Polish books are very good. And also about…[Read more]

8,8 and 12,8 cm AT guns had been part of the Atrmy and Corps artillery.   So not in division.  They got used mainly to defend “Schwerpunkte” where large enemy Tank forces had been expected.  The weight caused the static use, sometimes under concrete.  It was essential to protect the flanks.  And g…[Read more]

It was one of the 18 Fairmile B  in the St. Nazaire raid. The petrol engine was the reason for the loss of many. Prone to fire 13 launches  are destroyed by coastal guns. The large 2300 litres extra tanks on deck fitted for th…[Read more]

Now I finished them.  For example I wanted two in the 1940 TT configuration against Seelöwe.   Most got re-converted but 4 took part in St. Nazair…[Read more]

All flagship 3 decks made the others around fighting harder. But no RN one was lost in action. So to give the enemies of Britain a moral bonus is doubtfull.

Orient,  hmm. T…[Read more]

One of the best looking cavalry in history.   Fortunately for the neighbours their fame is bigger than the true effect had been. Too few and not ever the super men …. .

Just a small part of Polish army.

At Vienna they charged post the battle was won by the today ignored Western horse and foot. And in the…[Read more]

Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/115 // Volkssturm-Bataillon Siemensstadt alias Volkssturm-Bataillon Krull

Formed

Berlin, Kreis Charlottenburg-Spandau (Siemensstadt)

Oktober 1944

CO  Erich Krull

Adjudant: Dr. Gustav Adolf Pourroy

Stabskompanie: Gebhard

1. Kompanie: Schneehage

2. Kompanie: Dr…[Read more]

Even the Räumboote had not been immune.  Example : 16. April 44  R 15 was lost at Kap Salvore due to torpedo hit. Just 5 survivors.

Or S 27, self sunk by S 72 Torpedo  and     S 33 by Allied torpedo .…[Read more]

We have movies from pre WW I times of attacking horse in manoevres and others from police trying to charge into rioteers.   If the foot men fail to run the horsemen will often have a pr…[Read more]

Source Kriegstagebuch 2. Landungsflottille  about sinking of F420, under Oberbootsmann GEIGER.

22.09.1943Leutnant zur See SCHLIEPHACKE with F420, F360, F587, F616  with F450 and F749 of r 4. Landungsflottille on way from Bastia to Piombino.

At  18.02  a periscope was seen  18.25 four torpedoes from starboard. One hit F 420 at the…[Read more]

Among my “victims” was a guy that served as Hitlerjunge with the Siemens unit.  His father was one of the old Siemens workers and fortunately both survived the fights. My…[Read more]

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April 1807,  August 1810, Sept. 1811. There are enough orders and material lists about reduction of the expensive add ons to fill a book. The colonels did not care and so the tête de c…[Read more]

Some Fallschirmjäger got sent in 42 to LW Feld Regimenter as base, they kept the FJ smock they had been issued with until it was in tatters.

The units of Wehrmacht:   Heer, Luftwaffe und Kriegsmarine , ha…[Read more]

Anything else is like the all Stug 44 units fielded by some gamers.   On…[Read more]

Late 43  15.000 volunteers went to Germany for training to form 29. Waffen-Grenadier – Division der SS = Italienische SS Division 1.  But 9.000 soon got kicked out, being of no military use.

It went to Italy as : Six Grenadier and a Füsilier Batt…[Read more]

Collection Raoul / Brunon had an original Tschako, made by Chapelier in Paris, the guards supplier.

The field unifom 1812-15 was more plain. No red cuffs, no elaborate lacings- Tschako with oil skin.

My local shop sells at same or lower price.   And gives me in addition a discount on larger sales, combining with other companies products allowed. Even colors.

Now I wait until I see the stuff and can grab it.   Best:   Never again the fuzzy waiting time (over 2 months last time) with that XXXX  carrier.