Nick's British Platoon for A War Transformed.

[nicknorthstar]

The tank is now green.

[Metternich]

I was thinking of using my SCIBOR Otto von Bigsmark as a Troll.  He is 28mm scale (I have 28mm German and French WW I armies), making him 48mm from feet to eyes.

  https://www.sciborminiatures.com/i/28mm_2008/big/Otto02.jpg

     

[Ultravanillasmurf]

The tank looks good.

By the way, is that the tank on the North Star site?

How is the wrecked boat going? Are you going to try to get the lower planks on the multi-plank attached to the ribs?

[nicknorthstar]

The tank looks good.

By the way, is that the tank on the North Star site?

How is the wrecked boat going? Are you going to try to get the lower planks on the multi-plank attached to the ribs?

The tanks are by Skytrex: https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=20&cat=153&sub=705&page=1

The boat is built, it doesn't come with more planks. I'm just going to base it & dry brush it.

[nicknorthstar]

My sunken boat rose from the floor of Doggerland this evening in a game with James Morris.

I also increased my cavalry army.

[fred]

The boat looks good - I like the addition of the greenery to it.

And the cavalry look splendid! How did they fare?

[nicknorthstar]

They got murdered.

4 figure units can't cut it when there's open fields of fire. That's what happened in reality of course, but right now I can't find a use for cavalry in AWT.

I even used Vanguard to put on unit behind his lines. But you have to form outside of charge range, so the German just turned around and shot them up.

[fred]

We have found similar! Long ranges and generous spotting rules, make shooting very deadly. The most effective they have been is charging around a wood to tie an armoured car in melee. Which might have been deadly for the A/C if it hadn’t had some infantry to come to its aide.

They have proved useful in the back lines for chasing down manifestations - but this was after their advance had stalled.

As I write this I do wonder if a force of pretty much just Line Infantry with Armoured Cars would be a very effective force. The regulars generate lots of Command Tokens, the A/Cs as Elite are easy to buy and are much more useful than HMG teams.

[nicknorthstar]

I think my army in the last game but one was the most deadly. MkIV tank, Field gun behind a hill and the Line Infantry hunkered down to create the command points, let the tank and gun blow everything away in front of them.
It's why we played with no tanks and no arc of fire weapons last night.
The next game I think we'll add more terrain to reduce fields of fire.

[fred]

That sounds similar to the force I used in my first game - it was good, but felt very slow, and I think would be a bit scenario dependant. We have had variable results from Field Guns - in the first game it was pretty good, but in the second due to deviation dice it was much less effective.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

The boat looks good.

[nicknorthstar]

5 games in, and still working through the rules. Found I'd missed a crucial Cavalry rule last time.

What's amused me, and my gaming buddy James, is we've asked some questions on the Facebook pages about game play, and it's bloody obvious none of 'em have bleedin played yet, but still pontificate on in a vagally patronising fashion about WW1 tactics.

James and I are both very familiar with WW1 tactics, we're asking other players their opinion on how the GAME works 

(Photo of my last game with James, it's all his terrain. My British have occupied the central objective, mostly due to me using Advance order to steal a march on him.)

[fred]

I like the obelisk / standing stone - very atmospheric. And I’d managed to miss the blue dismounted cavalry before, they add a nice bit of difference to the force.

What's amused me, and my gaming buddy James, is we've asked some questions on the Facebook pages about game play, and it's bloody obvious none of 'em have bleedin played yet, but still pontificate on in a vagally patronising fashion about WW1 tactics.

James and I are both very familiar with WW1 tactics, we're asking other players their opinion on how the GAME works 

Well it is Facebook…

I do love it on forums when you ask about a GAME and get lots of REAL WORLD hypothetical answers.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

I agree that Standing Stone looks good.

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Great to see your force featured in WI432.

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain