Gaming

By Tom Gall

PSC’s new line of 10mm figures for Battlegroup: NorthAG is beginning the reach the hands of those who ordered. We’ve looked at in the past so let’s take some time to look at some of the hardware PSC makes for the game and paint it up.

, contains 10 T-64, gobs of infantry (>100), 10 BTR-60s, and 2 BDRM-2s. Everything comes on a sprue, so you’ll need to snip them off, and file a little excess as normal.

At 10mm scale, the first thing I noticed was the material, which isn’t hard plastic, but not exactly a soft plastic either. PSC calls it ultracast. It’s quite pliable, surprisingly so, bending a comparable metal or plastic gun barrel, you’d be looking at some amount of damage. This material impressively takes it no problem.

By Chris Jackson

The new US book has been sent to the gaming stores and I was able to look at a copy, so after a long, anxious wait we can finally play with the American Army we have seen in news reports and grown to know and love.

Tanks that can swat anything in front of them like flies with near impunity, armored transport that can kill tanks and armored vehicles with the same ease they move across the battlefield.

Aircraft that kill from beyond the reach of most air defense systems, and other technology that allows the Americans to come and to dominate the battlefield like no one else can.

The downside to all of this high tech and nigh-invulnerable equipment is that it comes at a steep price. Even with the elevated points of the 2020 tournament season, a single platoon of M1A1 HC tanks could make up 60% of your points.

Believe it or not, it’s the first time since I was 16 I haven’t been playing 3D (tabletop miniatures) wargames for 12 weeks. I can’t remember a period so long in which I totally suspended my gaming activity. Even when I got married, or moved from one job to another, or had my newborns, I always managed to sneak in some wargame nights with friends. Probably, a good psychologist could have a say on this, but I am also pretty sure most of you will agree with me.

Even if I am an avid PC gamer (and I also work for a videogame publisher, Slitherine, totally focused on strategy games), I always wanted to play the “physical” game. Collecting the miniatures, painting an army, deploying on the table with a friend and some good beer is something socially unique. For this reason, I never played before the Pandemia. Boys, I did a mistake.

Quarantine. It’s a word that has embedded itself like a shipworm into the hull of our modern lexicon, isn’t it? I was going to start this article off with some history about the quarantine of the English fleet which defeated the Spanish Armada. That story is a bit grim though. Besides, unlike those sailors, we have modern distractions: Netflix, Social Media, and Grubhub binges. And now, we can add the new from .

With so many days at home in this pandemic, I painted a lot of “old lead” (and plastic) have in my reserve. One of the projects I was lingering is a WW2 desert Italian army for . The infantry was already done, so I focused on tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, wheeled guns, and some planes. The entire army in a single go: I started to paint it deployed on my table for each step, and I discovered it was a natural “timelapse”. Here are the photos, with some tricks on painting the WW2 tanks!

Recently Manny Granillo from Hoplite-Research (HR-Games) contacted us about his divisional level World War two miniatures game called . It is a game that none of us here at NDNG ever played and we were excited when Manny sent us a copy of his rule set that just celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Besides the basic rules, HR-Games has a plethora of campaign, scenario and nation specific books that not only cover every combatant of WW2, but also other conflicts such as the Great War and contemporary battles.

With Red Devils book coming out end of May, we have almost all paratrooper lists for the MID period in – we just miss the Blue Berets from USSR. Time to see how the Airborne troops improve their original army, and which one adds the most to the original roster.

By Robert Kelly

Photos by the Author

This is part 2 of Robert’s visit to the Norwegian and Danish War Museums.

My wife is Danish, and we usually travel to Denmark each spring. We secured two return tickets on the Copenhagen to Oslo.

The cruise leaves Copenhagen each day at 1630 hrs, arriving at Oslo for 0945 hrs the next morning. You get to spend the whole day in Oslo, and then the ship leaves Oslo at 1630 for Copenhagen, arriving at 0945 hrs the next morning.

I didn’t actually see the Danish War Museum after getting off the ship, but it makes for a better story, so let’s pretend. I’m actually using photos from a number of previous trips.

by Dennis Jensen

I was at my local hobby shop and they had the GaleForce nine Galactic Warzones Bunker for sale at 40% off.  I’m not sure what I’m going to use it for but at normally $35 it was irresistible at only $21!  The Galactic Warzones line is clearly designed for Star Wars Legion and is 28mm scale. The GaleForce nine buildings are pre-painted and are solidly cast.

As you can see in the below pictures they are nicely painted, and the piece would look really good on the table.  With that said I couldn’t help but add a little more detail in the form of weathering and painting up the control modules.  For an extra 15 minutes of time this piece really pops.  Whether you plan on re-painting this piece or leaving it as is I highly recommend you finding room for it in your hobby bunker!

By Robert Kelly

Photos by the author

Next week we’ll showcase part 2 of Robert’s trip, the Danish War Museum.

My wife is Danish, and we usually travel to Denmark each spring. Though my understanding of the
Danish language is not too bad, hanging around the in-laws’ place for two to three weeks straight tends to get rather boring.

So, I’m always looking for other things to do like going to sporting events, checking out the gaming scene at clubs like Tinsoldaten in Aalborg, or Einherjerne’s in Aarhus. We always take a side trip or two, so when my sister in law offered two return tickets on the Copenhagen to Oslo mini-cruise we jumped on it.

The price of the tickets was very reasonable and included a room with a washroom. We found out that they seem to have made most of their money at the onboard restaurants and duty-free shops.  It was $120 Canadian for a buffet diner for two with water. The cruise leaves Copenhagen each day at 1630 hrs, arriving at Oslo for 0945 hrs the next morning. You get to spend the whole day in Oslo, and then the ship leaves Oslo at 1630 for Copenhagen, arriving at 0945 hrs the next morning.