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.

Our dedicated Battlefront Podcast is back for # 5.

By: Ron Winkler

After several weeks of lockdown occupied mainly with painting my accumulated inventory of figures, I felt the need to try a solo wargame. Since I haven’t had much practice with I decided on the Battle of North Point scenario in the book using my 15mm inventory of 1812 US and British Napoleonic figures.

The scenario came from the Black Powder main rule book page 144. The first picture on the page shows Continental Unit uniforms from the Revolutionary War. Subsequent pictures depict 1812 uniforms for both sides. The battle map shown displays all units deployed in line at the start of the battle. I decided to have the British march down the road then deploy for an attack to add a little variation.

With some adjustments, I was able to assemble units for both sides as provided in the scenario. Because I was using 15mm figures I felt using centimeters instead of inches for movement and firing was appropriate. Also, having no game table, I converted the dining room table for use with the consent of the WAR OFFICE (wife).

Like many I received my kickstarter copy of Oak and Iron by Firelock games and been beyond eager to get some games on the table top. Enter a slight case of the flu which added just enough delay so I could get some ships painted. Weigh anchor! Sound the drums! Load the cannon and roll out the guns!

We setup the demo game as found in the book, no terrain, but with a slight twist. I a paired up the Fluyt and the Sloop while on the other side the Petite Fregate and Corvette were matched. We didn’t add any upgrades but at this point we noticed that the core game box comes with just one untested admiral card.

by Dennis ‘Matt Varnish’ Campbell

Alright, back at it, Team Yankee Americans. In this post, I am outlining my Desert MERDC camo M113 hulls.    MERDC camouflage was designed in the 70s to be a standardized pattern that could have 1 or two of the 4 colours repainted and thus transition from region or season.   In reality, apart from some White added for winter, the camo remained and was eventually replaced.   I like the look of it for my desert forces rather than the blander tan you see on most Desert Storm vehicles.   Since I am doing Texas National Guard units (with Texas-based regforce attached) I loved finding a pic of an M901ITV from Fort Hood at the NTC in this very camo!

Disregard the green M150 TOW in the foreground

By Mitch Reed

Many of our steady readers may be aware of a great new game called that many of our NDNG staff helped play test. The first wave of the game came with the big battlewagons of the dreadnought era and now the game includes the light cruisers which played a major role in the war doing everything from commerce raiding, blockade operations and scouting for the main battle fleet.

The light cruisers were part of our original play test and we loved playing these fast ships with their deadly torpedoes. Game wise they add so much to the flavor of the game and I feel gamers will love this addition to the game.

Once again we sit down with Mike Tunez, to talk about solo play, upcoming releases (Raise the Black!) and what we’ve been painting in quarantine.

By Tom Gall

This is the 3rd in our series of articles on Battlegroup: NORTHAG a set of Cold War gone hot rules set in 1983 published by the and written by Warwick Kinrade. In the prior two articles, and then . In this one, we’re going to play a game and see how it goes.

By Tom Burgess

One of my major projects of 2019 was to complete an all plastic German East Front Mid-War army. I chose to focus on Gepanzert Panzer Grenadiers. To do this I had two boxes of Battlefront’s ‘s and two Boxes of Plastic Soldier Company’s ‘s. So I thought this provided a nice opportunity to review and compare what these two companies offer for the same model.

Both companies provide the SdKfz-251/C in unit boxes of five vehicles. The Plastic Soldier Company (PSC) boxed set cost $29.99 (US) with crews/passengers but only the machinegun armed transport option and no decals.

Battlefront (BF) box set cost $45.99 (US) and comes with parts to build all five models as the transport (with or without 3.7cm anti-tank gun), the 7.5cm short assault gun, or the 8cm armored mortar version. The BF set also the proprietary unit cards, for use in Flames of War, as well as a sheet of waterslide decals.

Like many of you I am under lockdown and I am itching for some gaming relief, well the good people at have finally released a PC port of their iconic board war game Lock and Load called . This project is one I was following for a while since it seems to been in development for a long time and now it is in early-release and has been giving me hours of fun while at home.