Sunday Church services

About 3 weeks ago I bought a set from Flames of War
Caen Church is the name of the set and it's a painted built set of terrain which I have added to my collection. It works within many different historical periods
It is scaled for 1/100 but I've put 1/72 figures in it and they work also.
Pictures will follow

makes for a nice ruler holder as well

A Very British Civil War actions for 2019

I'm still throwing around some ideas I have for this little project between the wars. I am still trying to think of which figures to use with which factions.
I have first war and second war figures which could be used against each other. I find my Italians and First War germans could be used as some of the Facist units.
Marxists I may just have to bring in some of my Cowboy types with a few Communits Russians thown in for fun.
Soviet Cossacks as Marxists Border Reivers against some Scottish Infantry might be interesting. And I have a few 1930s style vehicles I've been picking up which could become objectives.
I was able to find some more armed civilians and a truck so we now have a mobile flying column!
The hunters look like a gentleman's club so I should think they will be either an Anglican League group or Royalist group in support of Mosley's Fascist regime

The Great War : Gheluvelt October 31, 1914

ok, Ive missed out on the centenial years to fight various actions, but there are a few projects I have had in mind over the years.
In order to field sufficient kit, I shall have to draft in various Commonwealth units and French to make a coordinated attack on German positions.
Gheluvelt was four miles south east of Ypres.
The battle between the British and Germans consists of 2 battalions attacking 8 German ones! Plucky I should say.

The scenario is covered in Miniature Wargames November 2001 issue.
The British have 52 figures for the Worcester Regiment 2nd Battalion
With 2 Vickers

The South Wales Borderers consists of 31 figures with 1 Vickers

The Germans consists of 300 figures! However I shall either have to draft in some of my WW2 infantry minus the smgs

The objective of the British is to hold a
Chateaux and a sunken road for 4 turns.

So during the Covid 19 Crisis of 2020, my son and I have begun the battle

 the station next to the Chateaux. Initially the British were in the position but fell back when confronted by 7 German battalions.

the sunken road was the ultimate objective of both sides

the support Battalion reacted well, but kept falling back to their initial positions 

Brigade HQ in the far. The Royal Artillery remained here until just before the end of the battle.

observation balloon shows the situation.

this was where the British lost the battle. The Germans rushed forward and flanked the line. Despite the Royal Artillery firing on the spot, it failed to clear out the Germans.

the initial British position resulted in falling back to the sunken road, they never again were able to push back into the Chateaux 

Bolt Action games for 2019

With the new books I got at Christmas, I have several different campaigns I can now carry out. The main one will be some British vs Germans in Normandy, British vs Germans in North Africa, Commonwealth vs Germans in North Africa, Australians vs Japanese in New Guniea, British and Commonwealth vs Japanese in Burma
Soviets vs Germans on the Eastern Front.

I've done lots of games with the Canadians so I want to give them a rest and see what we can get up to. Of course, the Canadians will definetly put in a showing somewhere this year, but I really want to see how well the other divisions can hold up.

Toronto Scottish Regiment, Canadian War Museum

Wermacht Panzers: Panzer III tank

I have put some pictures of the Panzer III up before but haven't really talked out them much.
From my last count, I believe I have four of these. Two of them are Airfix or Matchbox kits from the 1970s my Dad built, while the other two were Italeri kits I bought for my son

he did a really good job for only being 8.

Ian's first job at building a small tank

He was happy to get some more tanks for his Germans.

One of the older Panzer IIIs

Panther Tank

The Panther! Now this is my favorite German tank. The Tiger gets all the glory, but the Panther was my favorite tank.
I mean, for any Canadian or British or Russian tank has to hit it hard.
I have 2 in my collection which my father had bought and built. I'd eventually like to get two more to build up my SS Panzer Division

 Panther in the Canadian War Museum collection