"10 / 12mm US Armored unit" Topic

Recently started a blog for my WW2 and Napoleonics. Posted today about the US tank unit, includes some discussion of manufacturer comparisons and also some conversions in case you may be interested

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Looks great Steve a very informative post keep up the good work

Regards

Richard

Excellent blog Steve!

I also game WW2 in 10-12mm, and although I have collections in 1/285th and 20mm, it's my favorite scale for "battle gaming" the war.

I've been doing the Western Desert and Eastern Front, and had vowed not to start collecting for NW Europe too, but have succumbed lately. :))

You blog topic here on US models available is very timely – thanks!

A few pics of my 1/144th scale stuff in recent action.

I started off with 1/72 growing up – but just too big for any large battles (and expensive!). Tried 6mm and even though GHQ very nice just found everything too small – 10/ 12mm is definitely the Goldilocks scale for me; just right!

I have avoided the desert but have lots of NW Europe, Italy and Eastern front. Still a bit to add but I would like to do more minor allies than another theater.

You stuff looks nice, I particularly like the Russia scene. Are those Arrowhead (wargmames south) RSO Ost?

I will be putting up more of my NW Europe stuff as I go along to inspire/ tempt you!

Steve

I'll be staying tuned for your next blog entry Steve.

On the Eastern front pic above, yep, Wargames South RSOs, some WTM Pak 40s w/CGD crews, Can.Do Jagdpanthers, and Pendraken Soviet infantry way off in the distance (pre-paints all repainted). I play-tested the pictured scenario a few days ago for a session I'll be presenting at a local con here in June (Die Con in Collinsville, IL). Here's another from that game as things started heating up.

Steve, I'd love to see some of your Italy stuff too!

Very nice and thanks Steve! Have quite the 1/144th collection myself and love a resource semi-dedicated to them. Excellent rundown and comparisons.

I have just posted a run through my US combat engineer squad. This is one I have done for an Italy scenario that I will post about later on (I have a lot of trenches to do first).

Just curious on your Russian game, what rules do you use?

Steve

Steve, that is some GREAT looking stuff!

I really like your US engineer units too, as the way you've arranged the figures on their stands conveys real action and motion.

Super looking Italian buildings also, but they're Time Cast afterall. ;)

I've developed my own rules over the past dozen years called BattleTactics WWII. Units are platoon based, and the system is grand-tactical, aimed at the Task Force/Battle Group/Kampfgruppe level of play. Without giving away too much (because I think the rules are marketable), here's a pic showing a bit about how units can be grouped to create combat teams, which are activated as formations during the flow of the turn sequence. Hex bases just work well to maintain formation cohesion, but command distances between models works fine to do this too. The creation, maintenance, and ability to add and cross-attach units allows for using combined arms tactics, while the breaking up of these formations due to combat results can cause attacks to bog down – it's all managed pretty effortlessly within the mechanics of the game system.

Anyway Steve, I've hijacked your thread enough here with my own stuff, but it's so great to run across guys who dig collecting and playing WW2 in the 10-12mm game scale too, and in your case do it so well.