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.

The “Tails-men” are back with another great podcast dedicated to

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.

By Richard Steer

2021 is shaping up to be a big year for with the release of the remaining books in the Bagration series, and a return to the Western Front for Bulge. To celebrate some of our favorite units returning to the game, I’m considering organizing a multiplayer event for our club. I ran something similar in 2019 for the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings, and I’ve been looking back over my notes from that day, reflecting on what worked and what could be improved for next time.

is proud to announce the newest game in their 28mm skirmish series called Blood & Yoga. Blood & Yoga is a huge departure from previous games published by Firelock Games and was developed to expand the appeal skirmish gaming beyond the typical wargame crowd by creating a game for the whole family to play and enjoy.

By Kreighton Long

As one project ends, or ends as much as any army building project for our hobby can, another begins to take shape. After building Bolt Action armies for Germans (Heer, Waffen SS, Fallschirmjager, Grossdeutschland Panzergrenadiers), Soviets (hordes of khaki), and the United States (29th Infantry Division and 101st Airborne Infantry) I started looking at a fresh new army.

I decided to take a look at the minor Axis powers. Building a minor Axis power would add some interesting flavor in my local meta which heavily emphasizes the major powers and would provide myself with a new challenge.

The first step was to pick up the book and look through the minor Axis powers with available lists.

The factions covered in the Armies of Italy and the Axis book include Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. Each faction has it’s own appeal and I dream of one day building an army for all factions but I needed to narrow down my choices for my first minor power. I mentally developed a three part criteria to help me pick: local meta, history, and aesthetic.

NDNG BattleVault Episode 16 – Wolfkrieg Edition: In-depth analysis of the longest running US Red on Blue FoW (and now TY) Tournament
00:00:41 Recent Ops – Ed and Tom cover recent FoW and TY event results and winning lists
01:08:42 Heroes of the Hobby  – Chris Fretts joins the team to to explain German List construction and Wolfkrieg in-depth analysis
01:50:40 Ed and Tom cover “Rules US Masters Players Forgot at Wolfkrieg” and Upcoming US FoW/TY events

By Robert Kelly

I’m sure that everyone has seen those red and white poles either mounted on the trails of a gun or howitzer or on the side of an armoured vehicle. I wrote about the red and white posts a number of years ago on the old WWPD site and decided to dust it off and update after reading a recent Facebook post asking “what are those red and white poles for”? So many people were trying to be helpful to the person asking the question but at the same time being so completely wrong that I felt I had to do something about it. I served 18 years in the Royal Canadian Artillery, so I feel qualified to answer that question. I’ll be describing how the Commonwealth artillery would use them, but the procedures are almost the same for most other armies.

The short answer is that they are “aiming posts”.  The longer answer is that they are cleaning staves painted up to look like aiming posts. So, what exactly are aiming posts and what are they used for?  First of all aiming posts are only used for indirect fire weapons such as artillery guns and howitzers or mortars.

March 14th, 2021

By Howard West

Hard Knox Games located in Elizabethtown, KY hosted a Team Yankee Tournament on March 14th, 2021 as part of WOLFKRIEG 2021. This year due to the state of Kentucky’s COVID-19 event size restrictions WOLFKRIEG 2021 was been broken into two consecutive weekends. Weekend #1 for Wolfkrieg 2021 took place, March 13th, 2021 was Flames of War and March 14th was Team Yankee. This report covers the Team Yankee for weekend #1.

Hard Knox Games has been hosting small gaming tournaments during COVID based on the state of Kentucky’s COVID-19 guidelines that are in place at the time of the event. Chad and the team at Hard Knox have a great store and is like walking into the vendor area at a gaming convention. This is the 12th year that WOLFKRIEG has taken place.

By Kreighton Long

I don’t remember where my interest in playing Germans in World War Two games came from but I do know that the first miniatures I painted after joining this hobby were Germans from Bolt Action Miniatures, before Warlord Games bought them. That five-man infantry squad still sits in my display case to this day. After painting and gaming Germans for over a decade it’s safe to say that the German army is my first-round-draft-pick when throwing dice with friends.

The German Wehrmacht, rebuilt after being disemboweled by The Treaty of Versailles following World War One, reentered the world stage in dramatic fashion with it’s blitzkrieg against Poland in 1939. What followed were six years of brutal campaigns across Europe, Africa, and Russia ending with the final defeat of the Third Reich in the streets of Berlin itself.