I think we need some operation Blue for WW2 eastern Front. This was the operation that eventually led to the Stalingrad defeat but there was a lot more to it than just Stalingrad.

Well obviously Tom Baker was the best Doctor of all time…no one else can hold a candle to him…Sylvester McCoy suffered from silly stories so never liked him much but he was better than Colin Baker.

Of the modern era I actually think Peter Capaldi is doing an awesome job. But David Tenant was good.

Oriskany steals the show again 🙂
The topic of ‘what ifs’ in terms of WW2 can get some people very hot under the collar because they will say that if Germany did X instead of Y, then everyone else would have done something to respond in an effort to counter Hitler’s moves. I don’t think any German venture into Russia via Poland in 1939/40 would have succeeded. They had a tough enough time of it when they had significant numbers of Panzer III and Panzer IV in 1941 but even in Barbarossa there was still a numerical reliance on the older smaller Panzers. There would also have been the likelihood of a second front opening against Germany in the west so I really don;t think that would have panned out even against a weakened Soviet armed forces.
What would I like to see Oriskany cover next? It does not have to be WW2 by the way 🙂 How about Desert Storm?

Fave Doctor: Tom Baker. Fave story: City of Death. I have most of his stuff on DVD.

Doctor Who miniatures game – yay!!!!!

I will stop myself from correcting the endless mistakes made with the lore etc.

Old Who, I think I will have to go with McCoy, followed by Troughton
New Who, Tennant

Enemy – Old school Cyberman from late Troughton era onwards

Movie looks great, really want to back the Blu Ray, but let me win and save me money guys.

I can’t believe I’m dispensing Firefly trivia, especially to a Firefly fan, Justin, but Wash was killed because the actor who plays him couldn’t commit to a sequel to Serenity. Likewise for Book.

Also, do people over the age of 8 really find Dr Who episodes scary?

Favourite Doctor who stuff
New Era Doctor: Christopher Eccleston
Classic Doctor: Jon Pertwee
Best Foe : The Sea Devils or the Automan

The doctor from the old Dalek film was Peter Cushing

@Oriskany I think for WW2 article should go for the invasion of France 1940 or even if you want a complete different favour how about the Race for Rangoon 1944 starting with the Japanese attack at Imphal and Kohima and ending with the fall of Rangoon. You have Chindits, Merrill’s Marauders, the Chinese, the commonwealth forces, the environment and the Japanese and their allies. Also it is a forgotten part of the war too and deserves light shone on it.

Without the detailing the Dwarven terrain might also work quite well in a sci-fi setting. The angles and panel lines give it the proper sense of ‘not of this world’.

A thousand and one thanks once again to Justin, John, and the Beasts of War Team for another chance to ramble on the Weekender. 😀 While the articles themselves were discussed in a previous episode of XLBS, I think the team wanted to talk a little about the accompanying battle reports run in the forum thread, and so here we are.

These were the games actually run for the Barbarossa series, but of course there wasn’t room to include detailed battle reports in the articles themselves. And to avoid the “walls of text,” these reports are done almost entirely with a series of photos.

I wanted to also thank all the BoW community members who posted on these forums and kept the thread going, such as rasmus, jamesevans140, chrisg, yavasa, figure 11, witmann007, dorthonion, buggeroff, mamlukomar, victioriag, benc, warzan, limburger, iplay40k, torros, all the people who’ve shown so much interest and kept this thread going.

These battles were all run in Battlegroup, by Ironfist Publishing, available through Plastic Soldier Company, played in 15mm. We start off with some, ahh . . . **functional** tables. I mean, they get the point across. I’m happy to say they get better as the series progresses.

One “fudge” we kind of make with the rules in these battle reports is how the battle counter ratings worked. Normally when you have to draw a battle counter rating . . . again, these determine the overall, almost “psychological” condition of your battlegroup and how its mission is being perceived by higher levels of command, you keep these draws private. It’s part of the fog of war of the game. You always know how much damage you’ve taken, but you never really know how much damage you’re doing to the enemy. Anyway, in these particular battle reports, we’re showing those draws in the open to help the reader track what’s happening.

Of course, there could be a lot more to do in the Eastern Front. Like we say in the interview, this is the first five months of a war that would last just short of four years. 😀 After this, just as a sample of highlights, you have the Demyansk Pocket, Operation Carnivore, First Battle of Khar’kov, Case Blue, Stalingrad, Rhzev, Second Battle of Khar’kov, Third Battle of Khar’kov, Kursk, Orel-Belgorod, Kiev and the Dniepr Bend, Cherkassy, Bagration, Oder-Seelow, Berlin . . .

Seriously, this whole article series we’ve had is the first movie in a “nine-movie galactic saga.” This is barely scratching the surface (yes, I just compared my article series to the Phantom Menace ) . . . 🙁

So what’s next? Well . . . first up, we want to see how things unfold for Operation Zeus – the proposed Beasts of War campaign for an alternate mid or late war alternate-history World War 2 setting involving all the European factions. We want to follow up on the great success of Operation Flamestrike for Infinity and the Battle of Xilos for the Gates of Antares. I’m definitely excited to help and support Zeus in any way I can and certainly participate full-force in the campaign itself.

So I don’t want to get sunk too deep in anything else until we see where we stand with that. Meanwhile, some other alternate history ideas for World War II, my Leopards are coming in from Battlefront, and myself, @gladesunner, and some local gamers here in Fort Lauderdale have been putting together a pretty serious series of sci-fi armies of all things . . . so who knows?

Blast! I have to wait for Tom Baker!

Great show, alway goose to see @oriskany and I enjoyed the battle reports

Great show, always like to hear about WW2 and from Oriskany.

I’m with you Justin, Amy Pond…sigh.

I really like those dwarven buildings, but I’d like to see a roof kit option for flat roofs with battlements. I’d prefer to use peaked roofs for above-ground/outdoor settlements and flat ones for underground. While roofs make sense for a house in a cavern (they keep in heat), peaks do not (no rain or snow to keep off). Battlements just work for both game purposes and esthetics; a dwarf’s house is literally his castle.

“I was born ready!!” So whats happened to Warren???

4th Doctor, Tom Baker, the greatest Doctor ever.
David Tennant’s 10th Docter close second.
Greatest Dr Who villains A tie between the Classic Daleks (Creepy & Funny), the New Cybermen (Intimidating) and the Weeping Angels (Bowl Loosening Terrorizing)
On the subject of the USS-Enterprise, it’s widely believed that the unofficial rule is that the ship gets blown up each 3rd film.
Dreadball KS looks very tempting.

Well done again @oriskany. Some of, if not the most interseting re-enaccurate battle reports that I’ve ever seen.

The “Ironsides” Daleks & WW 2 ?
That would be “Victory of the Daleks” with #11 (Matt Smith), Churchill and Amy Pond.
The scientist was Dr. Bracewell.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1577258