Oh - and a correction. 316th Funklenk Panzer Company was not attached to the 101st SS Heavy Tank Battalion in Normandy as I said earlier - but was with the Panzer Lehr Regiment. (That will teach me to take something I read on Wikipedia at face value! :D ) 316th Funklenk Panzer Company had 6 Tigers a...
The most important point that most WW2 german wargamers miss is that no matter how many tigers a unit was supposed to have on paper the numbers that actually got into action was only a fraction mainly due to breakdowns. A great book on the Normandy campaign, is Normandy Now and Then full of great p...
...incidentally - none of this turret nonsense should ever stop you fielding your splendid Henschel turreted Königstiger models in Normandy games. Anyone who tells you they should have Porsche turrets should be told to go to the bar and buy the drinks! I don't have any 28mm WWII stuff myself, but I ...
Sorry my mistake! Nothing to apologies for my friend, and - for the record - I wasn't trying to score any points off you. I was genuinely interested in the question. I already had a sinking feeling, that that would mean more Porsche turreted Tiger II then were build. :shock: If the whole Abteilung ...
There were actually quiet a few Tiger II in Normandy, including a whole Abteilung with the Porsche turret. The whole Abteilung Burkhard? I thought it was just one company of the 503rd Heavy Tank battalion with about half a dozen Königstigers? (The rest of the battalion was Tiger I's) Mind you, I'm ...
Like, I suspect, a few other forum members, I can still recall Bryan Ansell's infamous 'open letter' on an early mid 90's incarnation of the Foundry website when he claimed quality 28mm figures were being undervalued and the 1980's boom in 'cheap and nasty' 15mm ranges had ruined wargaming! I dread ...
I would concur regarding the rules Dave. I've not bonded with Black Powder. Not a 'bad' set of rules by any means (and I do play them from time to time with friends who like them), but for me there's something about the BP gaming experience that is strangely unsatisfying. And yet, despite the obviou...
I also might add that since we gamers already have scale out of whack (or most of us do) with trees and hills, it is not too much of a stretch to do the same with buildings. The visual telltales of models being taller than some buildings, especially in the case of cavalry, and most certainly taller...
Who makes 20mm buildings for ECW/WSS? No one I can think of Justin - not specifically for that period. Some of the German made model railway HO-OO buildings are 'old world' enough to do the job if you can track them down. I seem to recall Dave Brown having some very nice Bavarian looking ones in so...
A lot of commercially available 28mm buildings (if 'true scale' - for want of a better description) do take up too much table space, unless 1:1 skirmish gaming is the bag you're into. However, like His Highness the Emir, I think employing 15mm buildings with 28mm figures might be a scale drop too fa...
