"Weird World War 2" Topic

The first battle with my son went well, using some rules I found around the internet, I set up the scenario for the boys. The players were my son Jarrett and his best friend harry. The scenario was the Nazis had discovered a working dimensional gate and were using it to acquire allies to win the war. I built a Star gate and finished painting over 40 Nazi troopers for the battle.
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The boys had a mix force of American and British commandos and five super heroes, captain America, the Slayer, Indiana Jones, Lobster Johnson, and The Doctor.
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The Nazis forces included about 40 infantry, 2 heavy machine gun bunkers, and 3 super villains, Colonel Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, The Red Skull, and a super soldier by the name of Fritz Von Doom (enhance strength). The battle started with my son taking a team of British commandos, The Slayer, and Lobster Johnson rushing up a fortified hill where the heavy bunkers kept the main force pinned with heavy machine gun fire. He lost about 50% of the commandos rushing the bunkers, but Johnson and the Slayer reached the cusp of the hill, but where attacked in close combat by a squad of infantry and the super soldier Fritz. Johnson slipped away from the combat and The Slayer took on the entire squad, killing three troopers and wounding Fritz heavily before being brought down with
a cascade of heavy blows.
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Captain American and his forces headed straight for the Gate with the American commandos, The Doctor was kept off the field in his TARDIS. The Americans were also under attack by about 20 infantry, losing about 4 commandos to rifle fire; the commandos fired back then charge into close combat, destroying the entire Nazi squad. Captain American ran past the skirmish and attacked the Nazi infantry next to the gate, attacking a squad of 5 and killing three troopers and routing the rest. Ruprecht Kroenen and The red skull charged Captain America, a brutal close combat ensued. While the battles rage around the table, The Doctor warped in by TARDIS and deactivated the gate with his sonic screwdriver. The British with the help of Lobster Johnson captured the bunkers, and Captain America routed Ruprecht Kroenen and the Red Skull. The battles was won but with heavy loses, The Captain was on his last hit point, when the American commandos made it to the hill where the gate was deactivated.
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Great battle report and well painted figures from a wide source. Well done.

Tony
dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com

Awesome and inspiring report. You had a great mix of superheroes and villains, and The Doctor materializing in the heat of it to deactivate the stargate is classic. I'd love to see more pictures and hear about further games.

The boys had a fantastic time, and we will be having more WWW2 battles in the future!

I love the way you have used the warzone bauhaus figures as nazis

Very nice slobberblood;

Looks and sounds like a fun game.

great terrain and use of various minis.

Thanks for sharing;
Joe

Very nice. I also like the way you used the Bauhaus plastics.

Would you have been using the Nuts! Weird War II supplement by any chance?

WW2Fanatik I'm using rules from a few sources…
battlegroundweirdwarii.com
I also have World War Warhammer 40K Hybrid rules.
and a few other sources. It worked out well.

Battleground WWII seems to be the rules I'm going to go with.

Aw yeah, that was a AWESOME report! Love the Warzone minis as your Nazis. Got minis for both Dr. Jones but haven't painted them yet but just the idea of Cap and Indy together gets my imagination percolating. Got any more pics?

Brian
battlegroundweirdwarii.com

PS
You should post that report on the Battleground Weird War II Forum to.
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Where can you get Battleground WW2 rules anymore? Are they still out of print? I thought I read a while ago that someone had bought the rights.

You can get them at the following sites.

Neo-Forge
neo-forge.com

Pacific Sky Games
pacificskygames.com/default.aspx

Brian
battlegroundweirdwarii.com

Ok Brian, I just posted my first post on your forum.
Here are some more pictures! Forgive the blur….
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Pacific Sky! They were the ones. Didn't know about Neo-Forge. What books other than the core rules do I need to play the game? Does the main book cover the usual four -- Germans, Americans, British, Russians? Do I need Tankers Challenge to do tanks/armored vehicles?

Also, does any one sell the books as pdfs? (Not shown as such by NeoForge or Pacific Sky). I'm trying to keep the cost down if I need 4-5 books.