53rd Welsh Division takes on 9th SS past Caen July 1944

covering both sides, I'm wearing my Luftwaffen Field cap and my British Army Desert DPM

the battlefield, some town in Normandy

one of the objectives is the church. Right off the bat, the British open fire on the church tower taking out the sniper

Cromwells, Churchills, and Comets begin to advance

a solo Dailmer advances up the road

British HQ

German forces consist of a 9th Waffen SS group 

while the unit is small, its powerful with very heavy tanks.

Thoughts on factions for A Very British Civil War

I recently bought the film, The King's Speech and got to thinking that the factions I am going to field are going to be interesting.
First The Royalists: these are troops with the title Royal in their name. However, the Artillery may fracture.
British Union of Facists: Mosley's troops, who as the new British prime minister will have his Blackshirt support with an Expeditionary force from German and Italy.
The Albertists: Monarchy support for Prince Albert, I am going to have a large Canadian 8Australian support there.
The Anglican League: Chirch of England supporters who will support a monarch who truly represents the best I interests of the church.
The Scottish Army: Scottish Regiments who have deserted the British army and have sworn to support a government which will give Scotland her independence or a special form in a revised union.
Tje Socialists: Social and Communist inspired units,
I'm going to be fielding a game shortly on the subject

The Anglican League and the Albertists faction are holding on to a town.

Albertists from Alberta!

Albertists assault the Italian provided armoured cars, destroying them with grenades

German Expeditanry Force attempt to take the church

BUF with German and Italian supplied weapons

Royalist and British Union of Facists

The Royalists and BUF kept up an aggressive attack on the town but were badly beaten by the Anglicans and Albertists. Despite lacking heavy weapons, they used what they had and grenades to take out the Facists tanks. Seeing as to the damage inflicted, the Facists fell back.

The uprising continues!

Cromwells in Normandy 1944

 I will get my painted one up shortly 

So I've been slowly building up my kits that my Navy veteran buddy passed over.

 painted, decals and hedge cutter

Before I left Japan, I had bought and built a Cromwell MkIV which had decals for the 7th Armoured Division and the Cromwell kit from Airfix had decals for the 5th Royal Horse Artillery.
Now I got to thinking. Why would an Artillery battery have a tank. I believe that they were used as observation vehicles.
However, for my own force, I'm going to use both as infantry support as medium anti tank self propelled guns.
The extra decals for the 11th Armoured Division I will put on other tanks I have.

and since I now have this set, I shall take a second look at my collection to see how I can do them up

Between 1/72 and 15mm I'm all set

To which I've decided that I will decal both Cromwells as 7th Armoured Division marked as C Squadron of the lead Regiment..

Popski's Private Army, or how I can annoy my son with machine-gun armed jeeps

When my son and I began playing Bolt Action, he was about 7. He really didn't like my machine-gun armed jeeps as I could rush in and pepper his infantry to bits with all the guns blazing. He usually won though by using his mortars. At first I usually let him win so that i could still have an opponent to play with.
8 years later, he still doesn't like my machine-gun jeeps, and I really am trying not to let him win. I still need to learn to take out his mortars!

Going through my Wargames Illustrated issues, I have found another article which I can turn into tabletop madness.

This force can be used with the 8th Army in North Africa and Italy, great to go with my Bolt Action theatre themed book. I also have sufficient trucks, jeeps and the like to give him a headache, no worry son, Tylenol is down in the medicine cabinet.

So this force I'm going to model with the figures I've painted up as Poles in para kit, and lots of the jeeps, and some carriers. those pesky ones he really hates, like the ones with flamethrower, mortar, MMGs, you know the stuff to make Germans grit their teeth.

Skirmish game, Dad's army action in England

Ok, so this game shall be a mix of A Very British Civil War flavor with WW2, from Wargames illustrated issue 386 Dec 2019

The figures will be a mix of First World War and Second World War, depending on weapons.

And also, there is a mix of treachery. The figures are a mix of civilian types which I have, and WW2 and WW1 British.

Home Guard: 32 figures
Capt. Mainwaring with pistol, 7 men with rifles.
Sgt. Wilson with rifle, a Lewis LMG 6 Rifles
Cpl. Jones with rifle, one smg, 5 rifles
Pte Sponge with smg, 7 men rifles

Germans: 23 figures
Brandenburgers (special forces) Sgt and 7 men 1 Bren, 7 rifles
Para Lt pistol, 3 rifles, 1 LMG
Para Sgt smg, 3 rifles 1 LMG
Para Cpl smg, 4 rifles

objective is for the Home Guard to hold the post office
the Germans need to take the post office and destroy the telephone exchange.
Games shots to follow

Anhilation Afrika Korps vs 8th Army, North Africa 1942

Ian and i continue on our Bolt Action journey. He's taken to reading the rule book which means 1. he doesnt accuse me of being sneaky, 2. hes finding stuff to hit me hard with 3. Actually understanding how to resolve casualties.

The first action we are working on is a desert campaign. Just a flat table, with a small hill.
Masonry enough in the startled the access player that was in Lost His nerve and fell back in a complete Retreat that was after the 8th Army with Australian an Indian support Advance taking the high grounds which was the only High Ground on the entire Battlefield and which completely demoralized the axis player

Covid 19 means more Axis and Allies

This was one of the games that Ian my son and I have played in the last month. Despite my aggressive attack, Ian's Soviets still managed to steamroll over me.