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Market Garden, Cadet bolt action introduction
Recommendations: 310
About the Project
A couple of years ago the Squadron got involved in a ww2 wargame at armed forces day, when asked recently if there was anything new they'd like to do of a parade night someone suggested wargames. As such I'm building a couple of forces to introduce them to the game hopefully extending to a full blown campaign.
Related Game: Bolt Action
Related Genre: Historical
Related Contest: Bolt Action: Western Desert Boot Camp
This Project is Active
The demo game
Turn 1 saw the American pathfinders land fairly centrally into positions that remained virtually unchanged, able to inflict casualties straight off the bat, whilst the germans need to adjust their sights
Turn 2 saw reinforcements arrive for the germans but they were only able to inflict 1 casualty on the AmericansTurn 3
Heavily pinned 1 german section fubar’d and fell back, the Americans placed their first pannel only for a rapid german dash to steal it at the end of the turn.
Unfortunately the game had to end here as we needed to pack up for the night.
Lessons learned
Set up needs to be started much sooner possibly even the night before
I’ll run another game for my senior cadets so they can cascade to the younger guys working in smaller groups to keep everyone focussed
To start with games are going to take time and may require deviation from our standard program of concurrent training
Also those plastic trees need better bases…
Trees
Turns out you really can mess up the drill and broom method, so heres another alternative.
Drain pipe cleaner, on offer at wickes it works out a similar price to broom heads
You'll need to trim your way towards the wire before cutting with pliers, we found if you use 2 pairs to untwist the area your snipping its easier to cut
Tree ready for shaping
Trimmed and ready for cross branches and flocking as per the hobby labs video https://www.beastsofwar.com/sci-fi-wargaming/hobby-lab-making-trees/
Terrain
BOW style hedges drying on mass
scratch building houses, cardboard supplied by the local book shop, sealing it with PVA.Currently mass producing buildings from cardboard, the plan is to create flat pack able buildings that can be stored easier and easily transported, to this end cardboard is being cut with guillotines, covered in PVA, once dry holes are punched through for pegs (cocktail sticks) and any windows etc cut out.
next will be using superglue to reinforce the edge’s and to secure the pegs into the edges of the board
