Warlord Games

by Matt Varnish

Good morning everyone, hope all is well.    While I have been slaving away the past few months with rebasing entire units of French and redoing every single officer, and painting WAY too much gold braiding, I have also taken some time to make up a few characters for Sharp Practice.    Sharp practice is a semi skirmish ruleset for a variety of time periods, but is in the adventurous vein of Sharpe’s Rifles, the excellent show where the good guys always lose (the French)

In Sharp Practice, in addition to the usual infantry, horse and skirmishers that anyone with a Black Powder army already has, there are also leaders and heroes as well as some other characters on single bases.   There are a great many charts to roll up for them and see what special abilities they had, and a LOT of them under the Cad section has them chasing after women.. I mean, this IS AFTER ALL based on Sharpe !

By Kreighton Long

I recently stumbled across Father and Son Gaming’s Organic Shapes MDF Terrain Base Set and thought about the improvement they could offer my current terrain set-ups.  For years I’ve collected trees, a couple at a time, from various conventions.

I’ve used those same trees on nearly every table I’ve thrown together.  From time to time I’ve had a minor hiccup where my opponent or I would need to reposition a tree or two to accommodate units moving through  the clusters of trees and in doing so would lose track of the intended outline of the trees.  For the most part these are friendly club games and we’ve been able to work through it for the spirit of the game.

By Kreighton Long

Thanks to Great Escape Games I finally worked up the courage to take a crack at painting horses with their Romanian cavalry.  Fortunately for me, I have a former equestrian a shout away to lend her expertise.  A goal I had for my mounted Romanians was to have an eye-catching amount of variety with the different mounts.

Of course with my partner passing my painting desk every so often to quality control my progress I was able to work with her to incorporate some authentic colorings.  Below are some of the different colorings I ended up with and the corresponding colors. All paints used below are from Vallejo.

By Kreighton Long

As I work on improving my Bolt Action Italian army I found myself needing a little extra firepower and maneuverability by utilizing the Armored Car slot.  After looking through the options for the Italians I settled on an Autoblinda AB 41 and was lucky enough to stumble across one at a brick and mortar store I visit whenever possible.  While looking into different paint schemes for my new speedy-pew-pew I was inspired by photos of Italian armor painted in a three tone paint scheme with a base of tan with blotches of green and brown known as Continentale. 

The Continentale paint scheme was used on a few Italian vehicles predominantly in Italy as the Allies pushed the fighting from Africa to the Italian peninsula.   Gaps between the brown and green where the undercoat showed through created a unique looking vehicle camouflage pattern that I decided to reproduce.  After some trial and error I found a process that allowed me to reproduce the paint scheme I wanted in the least painful way possible.

By Troy Hill

Images courtesy of Warlord Games

Warlord is doing it again!

What are they doing?

Creating another game that expands into an underserved niche. If you feel the need to run some tank on tank combat in 28mm without all that pesky infantry bogging you down, Achtung Panzer! could be the game for you. 

But we have a ton of WW2 games now!

I hear you. Warlord’s flagship is Bolt Action, WW2 level Skirmish platoon level combat on the tabletop. There’s also Flames of War in 15mm at the Company level. Not to mention the Too Fat Lardies range of WWII games, and countless others available via sites such at Wargame Vault.

Warlord even has their Tank Wars variant rules for Bolt action.

But this is not Bolt Action rehashed.

By Kreighton Long

World War Two served as both the testing grounds and the high water mark for airborne operations.  All the major powers trained and equipped their own airborne corps with some getting more attention than others.  The Germans were the first to gain notoriety for their use of airborne forces during the early war period and the United States and Britain learning from Germany’s successes and improving upon them in their own airborne operations during the mid and late war periods.

By Kreighton Long

During the 1930s, the Soviet Union began developing a camouflage pattern for use by scouts, engineers, and snipers.  The amoeba camouflage pattern, officially known as makirovochnyi kamuflirovannyi kostium or MKK, was produced and utilized throughout World War Two.  The amoeba pattern was produced in summer/spring green and autumn/winter brown versions.  I decided to paint my Soviet Scouts in the green version to better match my current terrain collection.  The paints I used are Vallejo’s Russian Uniform (924), Black (950), Chocolate Brown (872), and Buff (976).

By Mitch Reed

I have been hiding a secret from many of you, over the last three years I have not been painting. I have mentioned this on podcasts numerous times and if you ran into me at an LGS or a convention, I probably told you bluntly, “I have not painted in years.” I have no idea what caused this, perhaps from playing too many board games? Could it be that I have all the painted models I need to play the games I love?

No matter the cause, the passion was gone, however recently my passion returned, and the flame was relit.

By Kreighton Long

On October 7 I had the opportunity to compete in the Bolt Action tournament at the Call to Arms convention in Williamsburg, Virginia put together by veteran Tournament Organizer Kalissa Skibicki.  Eight players competed throughout the day in three rounds of games using the Heartbreak Ridge, No Man’s Land, and Key Positions scenarios.

As always, the tables were a true treat to play on, drawing in many passersby, and creating gorgeous photo opportunities.  The atmosphere was relaxed and friendly. Kalissa’s tournament highlights echoed this remarking on the friendly and good nature of all players, an overall feeling of relaxation, and overhearing several suggestions between players giving opponents better cover advantages and better placement of objectives.

By Kreighton Long

Back in August Warlord Games announced their newest campaign book, Case Blue, and made it available for pre-order.  We here at No Dice No Glory were given the opportunity to preview the book and boy-howdie am I ecstatic to share with you what’s in it!

OVERVIEW: Case Blue is a 176 page supplement for Bolt Action written by Alexander Smith and Ryan Smith that covers the southern region of the Eastern Front from December 1941 to July 1943.  Within it’s pages are 19 historical scenarios, 33 new units for 5 different factions, 34 new theater selectors for 6 different factions, and a new army list for any players interested in building a Slovak army.