Podcast: No Dice No Glory Episode 91: Interview with Hermann Luttmann
Phil and I sit down with the prolific game designer Herman Luttmann. We talk about his latest game “A Most Fearful Sacrifice”, game design and all of his amazing previous titles.
Sloop There It Is: Converting the Sloop of War ‘Sophie’
By Glenn Van Meter
One of the coolest parts of is the ships you get to use in the game. Firelock knocked it out of the park with their line of ships, even beyond just making a game where incorporating ships into gameplay is as seamless as possible. But to add to all of that they took the ships they make kits for and then added even more ships to the game based on those hulls. The difference is that the extra ships are simply rigged differently. While they point out that it isn’t necessary to actually change the rigging on your vessel, the modelers among us enjoy tinkering and making those variants.
The Charge of the Super Heavy Brigade
By Paolo Paglianti
Since arrived, we’ve seen four new books coming in place of the “old” (still valid) ones. Every new book has some sort of new equipment (as the BMP3 for the Soviets or the Warrior for the British), maybe some new formations (like the Gebirgsjager Brigade for Germans). But the new leading stars are definitely the new super heavy tanks. Each of the four new books has a new super-tank we can field, with armor so strong they can face almost any unfriendly attention without worrying to be killed. Are they worth their price?
Beginning a Soviet Horde in Bolt Action
By Troy A Hill
One of the joys and pitfalls of moving into a new area, and joining a new gaming group is that many of the local players in the new area already have their army builds done. When I lived in Southern California, there were a mix of players and armies. In my regular gaming group, no one was playing British, so I picked it up to compliment my US and my German Armies.
But, when I returned to North East Indiana in the States, and looked up the local crew, the most popular nation to play in the new local gaming group is… yep, British of one flavour or another.
What was I to do? Americans are the vanilla “easy mode” according to the Juggernauts. In my 15mm WWII wargaming days, I began with Americans and soon tired of them. Germans are definitely challenging. And with my grandmothers coming from lineages of Kaiser and Sigsbee surnames on one side, and Bechtel on the other side of the family, the German army seems like a good fit for me. So far, though, my interest in all things German seems limited to the DAK.
Well, when I played Warhammer Fantasy, I loved the horde armies of the goblins. Guess I should look at… The Soviets?
Podcast: No Dice No Glory Episode 90: March Madness: The Final 4
We are back with the Final 4 games of our contest. Part one can be found
War in the East 2 – First Look
by David Garvin
Sometime back in the mid 1980s, I went to my friend Stephen’s house for the weekend. He was one of the first people who had a personal computer. On it he had a game called War in Russia. It covered the Eastern Front in its entirety, and between the two of us, we spent hours on it, using its now quite-dated graphics. We were not strangers to games on this level; however, the designer, Gary Grigsby, found a way to have the battles resolved down to the lowest levels.
Team Yankee West Germans Spoiled
By Howard West
The next new army book for has made it to our bunker in West Virginia and it is called WWIII West Germans, which will upgrade your FRG force to the same V2 standard we saw for the US, USSR, and the British. WWIII West Germans provides you with a single sourcebook for all of the West German forces in Team Yankee, this combines the inaugural book Leopard and Panzertruppen booklet with six new exciting formations. The book also provides some tweaks to the majority of the legacy formations and their respective units in them. If you have been waiting for the next Generation of Leopard-2 tanks and Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles you will not be disappointed.
Painting World War Two Romanians
By Kreighton Long
The backbone of the World War Two Romanian army was the humble riflemen. Romania lacked the quality and quantity in armor of their German or Soviet peers and the heavy artillery that rained destruction on their victims on the Eastern Front was sorely lacking in Romanian arsenals. Without powerful armor formations or heavy guns the Romanian military was forced to rely on manpower rather than firepower.
The average Romanian rifleman was equipped in fairly simple, but functional, gear. Color photographs of Romanians from the war are hard to come by but illustrations from Osprey Publishing and photographs of contemporary reenactors helped to guide my color choices. The Romanian soldier wore a cotton tunic during the summer which bleached in the sun. During the winter the Romanian soldier wore woolen tunics which retained their darker khaki color. Woolen trousers were worn year round and maintained their color like the woolen tunic.
Podcast: No Dice No Glory Episode 89: Tails of the Sail EP15
The “Tails-men” are back with another great podcast dedicated to
Flames of War Missions Pack Update
By Richard Steer
Battlefront has released an update to the Missions Packs for and . This update, available as a free download (located and ), adds a number of new missions including some that were first published in the D-Day series of books, and introduces an expanded version of the Battle Plans mission selector.
Vanguard Mission
The Missions Pack introduces a new style of mission: Vanguard. This is a Meeting Engagement with the deployment areas in opposite corners, with reserves arriving in two waves. You deploy a Scouting Force of up to 15% of the points total, which is not allowed to include Battle Tank Units (using the same definition as the Deep Reserves rule).
The first reserves to arrive are your Vanguard, arriving from Turn 3. This is followed by your Main Force, which must comprise at least 50% of the points total, arriving from Turn 5.