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.

By Mitch Reed

One of the best aspects’ gamers love about Blood & Plunder is its historical setting in the days of the early colonial Americas. Once a gamer has painted their miniatures, they immediately look to create a beautiful table to show off their amazing models. Firelock Games has some great solutions for those who wish to pick up some great terrain that will create that world in which the game is played.

By Tom Burgess

Editor’s note: This is the second of our two part look at 3D resin printing for wargamers.

I know what you are thinking “wouldn’t it be great if I could print the high quality wargame miniatures I want on demand?” The true wargamer response to that has to be “of course!” That’s what I was thinking when I ordered my own 3D resin printer.  But it has been an interesting journey for me with some pleasant and some not so pleasant surprises.  This endeavor has made me think about the future of wargaming and how I will fit in with it now that I can make my own models.

Quality resin 3D printers are coming down in price and there are so many people offering free and for-a-fee 3D print files, it just may be that we are entering a new age for miniature wargaming. So where might this road be taking us, and is 3D printing for everyone? These are questions that I will attempt to look at in this article. There may be some misconceptions.

So the first thing you are thinking about when considering to buy a 3D resin printer is probably that you’ll save a lot of money on your wargame miniatures.