New Wargame : Triumph & Tragedy Sneak Preview

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Looks really good, maybe you should ask the prof for a rules question board here in the forum.

yes, it will be a T&T board very soon

[Driscoles]

Thanks Poli, Pete and Ralf !

Pete !  Thanks for the special compliment about Chris and me. This is such a darn friendly forum !
Instead of Graf Spee, Rammstein, Heino, Nicole I will send you this !!



 

I sent a number of copies to Lon on friday with air mail. It must be there
soon !

Thanks for supporting us Pete !

Cheers
Björn

[Aaron]

Great news. These are at the top of my shopping list for Fall In.

[MaxxVane]

I'm eagerly waiting for my copy to arrive, think I'm gonna use them for SCW

[Vanvlak]

Hadn't read through all this thread before... and now I'm really glad I bought the rules      
I may also have found a use for my pig tank  :wink:

 http://www.hlj.com/product/TACTG-2

[PeteMurray]

I'm really glad I bought the rules      
I may also have found a use for my pig tank  :wink:

I hate you for two reasons.  

[Vanvlak]

I'm really glad I bought the rules      
I may also have found a use for my pig tank  :wink:

I hate you for two reasons.  

More than two - there are LOTS of pigs with the tank.
And I think I could rub one reason out too.

[Gluteus Maximus]

Hadn't read through all this thread before... and now I'm really glad I bought the rules      
I may also have found a use for my pig tank  :wink:

 http://www.hlj.com/product/TACTG-2

 Pig tank!

 :love:    ::  ::

What a fantasticly bizarre yet beautiful model!
I just love the fact that you also get a cook, a waiter & a mascot with it.  I've only just realised how much I need a pig waiter.
Mind you, I wouldn't want to live next door to the designer - he must suffer from some serious psychotic episodes  ::

Shame about the price, but I might just try & save up for one.

[Plynkes]

That thing is just mental. It reminds me of some anime thing I saw once about an Italian pig that was a pilot in the Great War (or something like that). Those Japanese, they so crazy!

[Vanvlak]

What a fantasticly bizarre yet beautiful model!
I just love the fact that you also get a cook, a waiter & a mascot with it.  I've only just realised how much I need a pig waiter.
Mind you, I wouldn't want to live next door to the designer - he must suffer from some serious psychotic episodes  ::

Yep - those models add so much character   As for the designer - I wouldn;t mind being his neighbour. He is none other than Hayao Miyazaki, an anime designer of international renown. For more pigs (and seaplanes), check out his Porco Rosso cartoon:
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/porco/
The seaplanes are based on historical models.
The tank itself is a fantastic extrapolation of the bizarre heavy tank designs which appeared between the wars, and is featured in manga short story penned for a modelling magazine.
This link:
http://www.hlj.com/product/TACTG-1
shows the kit bits for the previous version - identical, but with just 3 pigs.
The new version with full crew is grand  
Pity you can't see the waiter well - he's in the front rank behind the commander.

[Vanvlak]

That thing is just mental. It reminds me of some anime thing I saw once about an Italian pig that was a pilot in the Great War (or something like that). Those Japanese, they so crazy!

Plynkes wrote in as I was looking up the sites! That's the one, Plynkes - Porco Rosso      

[Plynkes]

I just found it on Amazon.co.uk for six quid! At that price it is a must-buy, I reckon. I Just put the order in.

It's dubbed (doesn't seem to be a Japanese option with subtitles), but you can't have everything. Can't really complain about it at that price.

[Hammers]

Lovely. Wrong scale, isn't? For Pulp I mean?

[Vanvlak]

Lovely. Wrong scale, isn't? For Pulp I mean?

Ah, but to what scale are Pigs who wear uniforms made.... ?  :wink:
The good thing is there are no recognizable weapons, and even if so, they are built to piggy scale. Said pigs are, by the way, slightly shorter than GW Ratlings and Halflings, except for the tiny mascot.
I guess I'm not the purist I once was - it's so liberating to think I once refused to mix (e.g.) GW and Ral Partha models and have now gotten over these constraints. Scale is a more serious issue, but since I have no 28mm pigs and do not plan to include war boars from some fantasy game, then these trim-uniformed chaps can fit in without problems - for me, at any rate.  
Oink!
PS - the model is so big it still towers over 28mm scale  troops! And the turret is bigger than some 1/35 scale tank turrets....

[Westfalia Chris]

I just found it on Amazon.co.uk for six quid! At that price it is a must-buy, I reckon. I Just put the order in.

It's dubbed (doesn't seem to be a Japanese option with subtitles), but you can't have everything. Can't really complain about it at that price.

Well, you get an Adolf-Hitler-Lookalike acting as a referee in a fight o´ fisticuffs towards the end, so I guess it evens out. And those planes are just darn swell.