Great Lumbering Beasts for WWI by Trenchworx
July 17, 2014 by stvitusdancern
Trenchwrox has announced a new product line, WWI tanks.
These lumbering beasts are making an appearance on Kickstarter right now and there are three different models available: German A7V, British MkV, and the French FT.
Now these will be in 28mm and cast from resin. The detail from the painted example models looks pretty good. With the added attention that WWI is getting these days (deservedly so) it is nice to see options available for players. My only thought is this might be better in a smaller scale and most battles I am familiar with during this time period were on a larger scale with trenches and such. But knowing you all out there I know one of you can find a purpose for these.
Will you be adding a lumbering beasts to your arsenal?
Would love to get a hold of both the German and the British tank for an ork conversion. The problem with 40K though is that its so much larger than normal historical 28mm games ike Bolt action.
The warlord tanks looks tiny next to an ork boy 🙂
Those look like British Mark IV “Males”, French FT-17s, and German A7s. The painted prototypes look great in the photo, and would probably look great on a well-made trench diorama.
The site also has the Rolls Royce armoured car. Interestingly, the Rolls Royce and FT-17 could easily be used in select World War II battles (Bolt Action – 28mm) if you were so inclined to game a little off the beaten path (early North Africa, Madagascar, Syria, etc).
Laurence of Arabia hat 6 or so armoured cars fighting the Turks in the Middle East battles beating the British army with his Arab allies to Damascus.
Nicely detailed models close up as well.
That’s the only “trap” with these minis . . . mechanized warfare wasn’t that common in World War I so if you’re a historical player, opportunities to play them are pretty scarce. To play them against each other is damned near nonexistent (I think 1 recorded tank-on-tank engagement . . . one A7 vs. 3 Mark IVs . . . and no one was seriously hurt?)
I posted this before . . . but one way to get around this problem is to postulate a continuation of World War I combat into 1919 (for Avalon Hill’s Panzer Leader)
http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/forumfiles/1919.jpg
Panzer Leader… fond memories. I loved that game, Panzerblitz, and Arab Israeli Wars. Almost spent a fortune on a site that still sells the counters and boards, along with new boards and new units to game most any theatre. May still dig it out and push the counters around for old times’ sake 🙂
Great site here, “Imaginative Strategist.” Everything is free for download, but you’d have to mount the boards yourself. Dozens of boards, thousands of counters, essays, expansions, the whole PB/PL universe. All you’d need is a little patience and the rules. 🙂
http://www.imaginative-strategist.layfigures.com/
Here’s the PB/PL link I found. Could easily drop 500 bills at this site:
http://www.2xsindustries.com/Panzerstore.html
I think I saw this site once before . . . it made me slightly nervous because you can’t zoom in and see the real quality of the counters. The maps definitely look cooler on this (I love Imaginative Strategist but the towns and woods on their maps looks a little corny), I just wish I knew how they were mounted or IF they were mounted, especially for those prices. Everything on ImStrat is free. But of course your have to print and mount it yourself. We’ve gotten pretty good at it, but it does require Photoshop, a little finesse,… Read more »
I don’t mind the labour. I don’t suppose you’d be willing to part with some files, would you? I have an old Photoshop, so tiffs probably better.
Oh, my bad. That’s Mark V, not Mark IV. 🙁
Mud and mechanical problems killed more tanks than the enemy but that was true in the Second World War as well rushing tanks to the front before testing was finished.
That, and there just weren’t that many, especially for the Germans. I think 20 A7Vs were ever built (even wikipedia lists all their individual chassis numbers, and individual names). There were lots more allied tanks, Mark IVs and Vs, FT-17s and French Schneiders, but they didn’t fight each other very much because the just weren’t that many German tanks to fight. Cambrai 1917 is widely recognized as one of the first big tank actions (of course there were others before this, but Cambrai saw the use of 300+ British tanks), helping achieve a pretty significant breakthrough. But again, all the… Read more »
I think 100+ were in the battle the rest broke down travelling to or forming up before it even started
I got that wrong they had around 100 on the last day they started with 350 ish lost 50/60 day one same day two the rest were 130 ish are mechanical faults or bogged down during the fighting over the three days. the Germans lost around 140 during the battle.