Garry – big thanks.
IO – big thanks.
I’m collecting for Spain – the most important theatre of operation during the Napoleonic wars (heads towards the door as you both fume over a your beers, well… one fine ale and one frothy fizzy lager I suspect)
Seriously though – I’m aiming for a proper campaign look – no pelisse and conversions to the Kinski with green stuff blanket rolls added.
Thanks again.
George, I apologize for not commenting on your post but I’ve not been on this site for quite a while. I’ll have to look up the cards you’ve mentioned. In the meantime, do you have any pics of your conversions? I’d figured I might have to explore that possibility.
So I played a double frigate action off the Spanish coast in 1781, British vs Dutch. The British had the 36 Gun Frigate HMS Flora, and a 6th Rate 28 Gun Frigate HMS Crescent.
The Dutch had two 36 Gun frigates, Castor and Brielle. I balanced the scenario by making both Dutch ships and HMS Flora Regular crews, but made HMS Crescent a Veteran crew. The British froce started the game 6 points less than the Dutch.
I used my 1/1000 scale ships with the 1″=11/16″ scale conversion. Played with only the basic rules. Some of the players were old style age of sail players and didn’t care for the system. The players that like fast play systems thought the game worked pretty well. After explaining the advanced rules, one of the guys admitted he would have to try them before passing judgement.
All four ship were had the H E double toothpicks beat out of them, but all the ships struck except for HMS Crescent. I will be running another game at Command Con in St. Louis next Saturday, with the intent of using all the rules.
Bob
They look amazing (and your bomb vessel conversion).
Unfortunately, I have to make do with a jigsaw and files. #oldschool
If you take 1830 literally – yes. But in wartime just one was fitted out and that never fought.In late 1814 conversion to razee was planned by Navy Commissioners but not done until 1836 for lack of funds.
Returng from the barbary show the Independence stayed in Harbor.
Commodore Bainbridge: “the ship is built too shallow a depth for her other dimensions, which makes her lee guns in action rather low . . .”
1822 decommissioned.
But nobody keeps you from doing a Fantasy Action of some SN SOL against RN.
After some computations, I found that converting 1 Knot(1″) to 11/16″ should satisfy the ship movement/target profile requirements.
I have generated movement rulers and a shooting scale in Excel. PM me if you would like these materials.
Bob
Doing a conversion for a Xebec shouldn’t be difficult. You can get lots of accurate Age of Sail info from this website:
https://threedecks.org/
On a quick serch I found USS Champion (8) Guns
Unfortunately, not a lot of details for that particular ship, but Three Deck lists 145 Xebc.
There are stats cards for these boats on the facebook sites (Mosquito Fleet; Dockyard Office). I made some conversions ( plastic card and filler for the whaleback) of the early Vosper and PT boat to represent them -as wargame standard models only!.
Thanks guys.
That makes sense now!
Humm… so I need to do a conversion of some sort?
Any suggestions as to where to start?
I was looking at the 1st Corps 1:48 scale Austin armoured car. I prefer the slightly bigger scale. But wouldn’t rule out 1:56 scale either.
I feel you bud.
unfortunately new campaign books are not reviewed and streamlined (or balanced). So they will use different powerlevels and wording all day long. Some will be very specific as to what units will be allowed in general play, some will be vague at best, others will not say anything to that end at all.
The typical tournament setup reads something like this:
1000 points
up to two generic reinforced selector (armies of x books only)
no named characters
no experimental units (planes etc)
no tank platoons
no theatre selectors
Of course this is a well intended statement, but one that glosses over all the myriad of units that were published in other books and are specifically allowed to be taken in generic reinforced selectors.
Are they legal or are they not as they are not from the ‘armies of X’ books.
Further what to make of all the units that do not detail when they may be taken and when not. like inteligence officers.
Or those that state something odd like ‘may be taken as an infantry option in a reinforced platoon from the BA rulebook’ – which in fact is not allowed if your army has gotten a ‘armies of book’. So what does that mean? its only legal in the theatre its published in, and for those few who really do play with the lists provided from the rulebooks? or did the author make a ‘small’ error in calling the ‘armies of X’ books the ‘rulebooks’? nobody knows 😀
I think to be sure you should write the list of the questionable units you’re thinking of bringing and sending them to the TO’s for review. They have the ultimate say anyhow.
I did that to see if some of my conversions and 48th scale vehicles were legal tender at big tournaments. easy peasy, but again, the organized competitve me feels your pain.
I wish it was more clear in competitive setting whats green lit and what isnt.
Hi Robert,
yes, the Sturmbataillon men had high losses, no immortal war gods. Without the new artillery tactic they would not have been able to penetrate into the enemies lines.
One should not forget the desperate material situation of the “Mittelmächte”. Everything was in short supply, in 1915 Germany even lacked the leather for the spiked helmets. So they made replacements from felt and other materials. The Austrian army situation was even worse.
Cartridge brass was short, so they tried iron. Good in rifle but not for MG.
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A typical mistake for German Soldiers is to show them ever with Stielhandgranate. (the Potato masher) In fact the Kugel- and Eierhandgranate was as common. The Stielhandgranate had a thin head and worked mainly by blast. The others, like the Mills, had thicker walls and produced heavy splinters. For clearing a dugout the blast was better. But the “Egg” could be thrown on a bigger distance and was preferred in defense.
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The differing numbers of MP 18 in literature are caused by the peace treaty. It was one of the few arms named. The Reichswehr was not allowed any SMG. But police was.
So the German army gave a low number of MP 18 as made. Stating around 10.000 being in use. Clever wording made many readers think that that was the number produced. In fact it was based on weapons surviving in army hands at armistice. So the thousands lost are not counted. And all those in factories and depots are just forgotten. The MP 18 used in China are not all made there, some ship loads came from the factory via Scandinavia post war.
The official ones for police got a stamp 1920 and conversions for another magazine. A few hundreds that did not worry the allies. But thousands went into hiding. And the Freikorps got many.
For winter18/19 the plan was to have a MP 18 for each officer, NCO and 10 % of the OR. The production allowed that.
(An enormous number of arms went into hiding. The Pour le Merite bomber Geschwader leader Leonhardy hid even Gothas in barns. The Allied search commission found some arms, mostly those they should)
A lot of work put into that Sturmtruppen man. Nice one.
Thank you very much for the feedback, invisible officer. It took some effort, as you rightly figured. The steel helmet was 3D printed. I have a WW1 Brodie helmet ready to print as well. Plus 3D models of the MG08/15, hand grenades, WW1 German gas mask containers and a variety of other items. These make conversions a lot easier.
Most of the other WW1 figures are larger – 28 vs 25mm. I prefer the latter. Woodbine figures are a good match for Warlord Games figure conversions.
Robert
Rather than investing in a printer, try http://www.Shapeways.com.
They have done several models and parts for conversions from my designs.
I may be wrong but I feel like it was intended to have two specific variants in the box but ended with a generic card. I suppose the box print and the product description was not corrected.
As the box mentions A1/U2 it maybe a misunderstanding because A1 is a plane version and U2 is a conversion kit so the card should have been for the A1 equipped with the U2 kit but the person in charge of the box design thought it was two version.
It would great to know what everyone had in their box.
May be on Propeller race cars. High speed for short range work.
One of the common public misconceptions is that everything with an air propeller was driven by an airplane engine.
But most cars had normal octane car engines.
The idea to use worn out aircraft engines was not bad. But they burned too much high octane, that made it a bad replacement for “normal” engines.
To gain 1 – 2 knots was not enough.
And that stuff was explosive, Diesel was much safer. The conversion of the aircraft engines was possible but just one Siebel got them, finished in 45. They even tried to make them run with wood gas.
In the moment I do part two of the thread. About the Pionier – Landungfähren. Pi LF or just LF. Looking like a Siebel but Diesel engines and 100 % Heer. Two variants building on desk.
