Weekender: Racing To Moscow Atop Our Battle Pulpit!
November 16, 2019 by crew
Come and dive into some awesomeness with us today as we're looking at a load of ace updates from the world of wargaming.
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Make sure to delve in and explore these topics with us as we always enjoy hearing what you have to say about the things that have caught our eye this week.
Updates - Campaigns, Themed Weeks & More
So, we've got a couple of neat things to talk about this week. First off, make sure to get involved with the D-Day Global Campaign which has moved into Phase 3 this week with Phase 4 coming very soon.
We also have news that on 25th November 2019 we'll be starting off Firelock Games week looking at Blood & Plunder, Blood & Valor and also Oak & Iron from across their game range.
You can also get yourself a code to get money off purchases from Heresy Miniatures. So, if you want to get your hands on your own Boris you can snap this up and use it yourself.
Phalanx Games - 1941: Race To Moscow
If you're interested in finding out about the new board game from Phalanx Games then make sure to join us as we chat about Race To Moscow which will be coming to Kickstarter very soon.
This also gets us thinking about the idea of supply lines and how you could use some ideas from this game in your 28mm tabletop experiences.
News
Make sure to join us for a walk through the news this week too...
- Marvel: Crisis Protocol Releases - This new Marvel game is now in the wild from Atomic Mass Games
- Batman Previews - Check out Batman, Crew Updates & Harley Quinn in these Knight Models previews
- Spanish & US Fleets - Some new options are on the way from Warlord for Black Seas
- Nords For Conquest - The fourth faction has been shown off by Para Bellum Wargames
- Sisters Of Battle - The new Army Set and some previews of what's next popped up from Games Workshop
- Warhammer Underworlds - Some new Goblins and more arrive for those skirmishing in the Mortal Realms
- Courage In Contact - We take a look at some of the heavy weapons in the mix for this Modern Warfare game
- Infinity In December - See what you think of these releases coming in December
- Grimdark TTCombat Terrain - What kind of stories could you tell about this terrain?
What did you think about the news this week?
Kickstarter
On top of the news, we have two campaigns which you should check out...
- Odyssey: Anthropos - What do you make of these Sci-Fi Greeks?
- Uncharted Realms Of The Abyss - See what you make of these new monsters and more from AntiMatter
Are you tempted by either of these campaigns? Make sure to let us know in the comments below...
Have a great weekend!
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F-I-R-S-T!!! Only Joking @LloydJohnston, H-A-P-P-Y S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y everyone!!
I hope this is a hint and not something else…
It’s the Weekender!
Hope everyone has a great Hobby Weekend and gets a lot of hobby time in in the next 48 hours!
Am hoping to have a serious lump of hobby time, and actually get some finished miniatures in the cabinet. I’m also interested in getting into this new fangled discord malarkey!
The Discord Server connected to OTT is FUN and Informative.
I”ve learned some stuff and been entertained to no end. There are jokes and music vids galore!
Hi templar007, it sounds far more interesting than the mixture of Skype meets texting that I had imagined it to be!
Happy Weekend!!!
Campaigns are the obvious choice for managing those things. Sharp Practice Campaigns have very good and simple supply mechanic that also includes transporting wounded men, dealing with a baggage train, the penalties for ditching that baggage train ect. @avernos is onto something here. Our battles take place on such a small scale that we can’t really bother to do things like food or supplies. Ah yes the King a movie that focused on the History so much but forgot to actually get a lot of it right. If you want to do Supplies you need to do Campaigns or linked… Read more »
@elessar2590 I was watching The King last night. Nearly turned off so many times especially during the battle
Race to Moscow looks very interesting
The simplest way we found for trying to simulate the operational side of things in a tactical battle is to have supply form part of the units rating. So at a basic level a badly supplied veteran unit might only count as regular when it comes to morale. You can make this as complicated as you like by adding other factors as you see fit like Gerry mentioned by limiting ammo supply etc
It’s the Weekend!
Although I may not get much hobby time as a work project is over-running and I need to catch up. (I blame a certain stupid puzzle for chewing up time yesterday!)
Always time for this though…
Race to Moscow; let’s see:
Logistics?… Solo play option? … Tiny tanks and planes?… Means of balancing for different player levels?
When does it kick-off?
I love the idea of counting ammo but it brings up the old book keeping problem, and sure the A-Team never ran out of bullets so I don’t want my wee mens to either. :). Ammo counting should be an important part of Go For Your Guns, when you get round to finishing that 🙂 🙂 🙂 Strangely I never liked Dawn of War because you had to build stuff and the stuff you built, made your tiny fighty men. That wasn’t 40k to me and plus I suck at real time games. Turned based only please. I think the… Read more »
I always like it for the fascism. Probably why I never played orcs.
person swallowed by a whale and lived
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Ben, wouldn’t the Nords make a Logen Ninefingers Band?
For logistics in 28mm, how about simulating the geographical distribution and numerical predominance of troops and unit types, as well as squad formations, etc., etc., with some sort of roll, or rolls to determine what untis are available to put in into the battle and how much those units will cost (in points or whatever)? Depending on the scenario, the number of vistory points you are willing to make the objective(s) worth, whether or not you’re willing to take certain unit types as part of a formation or not, and other factors (i expect), certain units will be more or… Read more »
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I always liked the cold brutality of the Ulysses 31 premise.
Great Show. Happy Weekend for everyone.
the rage, the disappointment, the confusion
new sisters of battle sold out after breaking all the websites
Battle Sisters did interest me initially, but not so now.
Too much like crazed zealots in tin cans. More fantasy than SF in my opinion.
Race to Moscow looks like a really interesting game.
My genestealer cultists want an official new throne mini!
We’ve quite often small logistical elements in our Bolt Action games. The Battle of the Bulge campaign book has a ‘fuel shortages‘ rule, you roll a number of dice before the game and get to distribute the result number of fuel for your vehicles, which will then be the maximum number of time the vehicle can move. There’s the book keeping aspect, but for few vehicles is not a big deal. And recently for an umpired tank war game, we had a custom rule for supplying anti-tank sections with more ammo. Every turn you got to make with trucks to… Read more »
Operational rules: How about a universal rule set that sets 3 operational parameters. A player can sacrifice 10% of their points total before the start of the game to prevent a rule affecting them in the game. 1) Ammunitiom: Any unit with ranged attacks must roll the turn number or less at the start of its activation or its ammo is exhausted for the rest of the game. 2) Reconnaissance: At the start 0f the turn the player must roll the turn number or less. If this roll is failed any objective points scored will be halved from this turn… Read more »
Race to Moscow looks sweet hope theirs a demo coming soon.North Africa would be really suit this style of game. if its not to expensive will be very tempted.
Happy saturday guys!
Just got my Marvel Crisis Protocol in! Going to “Assemble” this today 🙂 Too bad i can’t prime indoors (because of the smell and already have snow outside!), i would like to contrast paint the Hulk first.
See you guys on XLBS
Yay Saturday
The heresy gargoyley demons look fantastic.
The race to Moscow game could be fun haveing to juggle resources to win.
Jotnar Brian blessed brother?
As you were talking about at first. Once upon a time, we tried the (what happens before a battle, affects) which we used first a 6 sided dice for every 10 men in a unit, but went down to a 4 sided dice. You both have your force already listed up and placed on the battleground then you would roll. So say you have 40 men in a unit, then you would roll 4d4 taken off that many figures. This works well for Ancient Napoleonic American Civil War times. But not Syfy. And as the Dodo we stopped using this… Read more »