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Miniatures Adventure => The Great War => Topic started by: scarabminiatures on August 11, 2014, 03:07:12 PM

Title: June 1918 - Italian Front battle report
Post by: scarabminiatures on August 11, 2014, 03:07:12 PM

A brief report on a June 1918 assault, with some pictures and discussion regarding the Scarab Miniatures WW1 rules I am working on
http://scarabminiatures.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1740&p=10790#p10790

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Title: Re: June 1918 - Italian Front battle report
Post by: Hombre on August 12, 2014, 08:48:48 AM

very nice table, looks like a good game! I like the scarab miniatures, just finished my first austrian stormtrooper platoon. Now i have a look for the late war French troops!  Your rules sounds interesting, do you release it when they are ready?

Title: Re: June 1918 - Italian Front battle report
Post by: marianas_gamer on August 12, 2014, 09:57:07 AM

Very nice looking game  :-*
LB

Title: Re: June 1918 - Italian Front battle report
Post by: scarabminiatures on August 12, 2014, 07:00:48 PM

LB and Hombre - thank you yes its our intention to print the rules

Second report from the British sector now online via the same link  :D

Title: Re: June 1918 - Italian Front battle report
Post by: Metternich on August 29, 2014, 02:34:52 AM

Nice looking game - and nice to see something besides Western Front !

Title: Re: June 1918 - Italian Front battle report
Post by: joroas on August 29, 2014, 07:54:33 AM

Nice looking game, as a side note, I would never have thought of putting water effects into those GW shell holes, they give them some depth......

Title: Re: June 1918 - Italian Front battle report
Post by: scarabminiatures on August 30, 2014, 09:51:13 AM

Thanks gents,
Joroas - yes it works nicely, and a small touch of paint adds some murkiness.

Metternich - the interesting thing about the Italian front from a gaming perspective is that you can have battles in mountains, wood and full scale river crossings with pontoons, boats and wading.. When coupled with the fact from the end of 1917 you have Austrians, Italians, Germans French British and even a small contingent of Americans there , it makes for an interesting club or gaming group campaign setting with some interesting options.

I have done the pontoon crossing as a game, (pictures from several versions on the Scarab site although a server malfunction may have deleted some!) and more recently did an article for Miniature Wargames which featured the British attacks in 1918 across the Paive via Papadopolis Island