Force on Force: Battle Report: Kiwi SAS vs Insurgents

Hey Folks,

The other night I played my first game of Force on Force in a while. It was a pick up game on Andys super cool new printed terrain (he's printed everything, even the baseboard and it looks amazing! It's more scifi but all good for a third world zone as well) 

My Kiwis were D10 troop quality and D10 morale and rolled on the advanced medical table so were pretty damn tough. 

Andys Insurgents were D8/D8 so pretty good as far as insurgents go but quite weak as they died on anything but a "6" for the casualty role.

The 2*4 board. I have a three man team in full armour investigating the crashed police Van...

"No sign of the prisoner or guards - it looks like the insurgents hit the van and have freed their buddies"

"Contact!" - Insurgents with an RPG and PKM open up on the squad by the van and cause light wounds on them

A UAV- eye view of MORE insurgents moving to close the trap...

Meanwhile a SAS squad moves up to cover the Van

The Squad by the Van are pinned down and are badly injured but not out. The other SAS squad moves up to cover the. While the Sniper Team cover the approach and start to lay down hideously effective fire...

"Surprise!" an insurgent squad appear in the building across the road and hose the SAS squad by the containers knocking them all down...it's not looking good...

Until some lucky Medical Table roles later and the support of the the other SAs squad on the bushes blows them all away.

In the end I had nailed 3 of Andys squads (out of 4) and while my Sniper team and the team by the Van were pinned in place and badly injured nobody had actually died yet so Andy would have had a tough time of it to try take the Van.

Cheers for the Game Andy! You needed maybe another squad (or Regulars!) or I needed one less said but it was still cool.

Terrain is AWESOME too!

Cheers

Jason

Force on Force: Kiwi SAS

Hey Folks,

A few models I traded from Andy, these were part painted so I finished them off and based them today. Been fun figuring out how to shade Maori skin tone.

This is a ten man Kiwi SAS Patrol on Afghanistan, broken down to two 4 man fire teams (each with a SAW and a few grenade launchers) and 2 man Sniper Team.

I also have a 3 Man fire team in full chat armour, they are generic troops at the moment but I might paint them up as Canadians or something :)

I also picked up from Andy a really cool 1/48 scale Apache, I need to convert this up to be a British Apache at some point!

And finally no, my squad leaders name is not Willie! (Though he is Maori!)

Cheers
Jason

28mm Ruined Church and some Fields

Hey Folks,

This was a foamcore building I picked up awhile back for War of the Ring as part of a set that included some castle walls, towers and a couple of buildings.  It was whole but I "ruined" it so as to make it easier to game with.  The most time consuming part of any terrain build is the detail work and these were nicely textured as stone blocks.

I have keep it pretty basic and only added balsa wood floors, some rubble and a large wooden Cross on the exterior.  I have tired to keep it pretty non-descriptive so as to be able to use it all the way from 1066 Dark Ages SAGA/ Impetus through to WW2 Force on Force.  Likewise the earth texture is reddish with the grass quite light, so it should be able to be used in the Pacific as well as Europe (in Summer)

The Nave of the Church - it shouldn't really have an entrance here but oh well!

Looking down on the front section with Christian Cross

And with my "crop fields" - teddy bear fur stuck to MDF bases and lightly sprayed Dunkelgelb

A lone Japanese rifleman takes cover in the crops...

So this is the start of my new non-winter terrain table.  The crop fields could be used for any scale and I will look to add hedges and walls to border them for European style games, while in the Pacific they will just be long grass bordering tracks.  I will add some more buildings, a bell tower and Monks Rectory as well as a grave yard.  Together these could easily be a Dark Ages Abbey in Northern England or a Missionary post somewhere in Borneo - with the appropriate surrounding terrain.

Got a WW2 Japanese Section Done (6 men with a type 99 LMG) and a further 6 on the painting table - looking forward to trying out some Force on Force!

Thanks,
Jason

WW2: Pacfic - Japanese Rifleman

Hi Folks,

As seen over on Adams Blog there are some USMC and some WIP Diggers are to be found on Poochies Blog.

This is for a World War II: Pacific 28mm game we are working on, using Ambush Alley's Force on Force games rule.

I am doing Japanese; here is my first horribly sterotypical Bolt Action Miniatures Japanese rifleman.

Light is really crap (he isnt that yellow) and my Matt Varnish dosnt seem that Matt, but you get the idea.

Now,  back to doing work :)

Cheers
Jason