O GROUP Demo game

My gaming buddies Steve and Chris have been talking up O GROUP  for a while now, I was keen to see the game in action so they played the game while I followed on with  my PDF rules of the game.

They used my 10mm figures from Mini Figs and vehicles from Arrowhead miniatures that I had painted up many years ago before I was swept up by Chain of Command and moved up to 28mm minis.

I build the module desert Hex terrain  from scratch, many years ago in  preparation to play another set of rules which I never got around to playing. Anyway it was great to see how O GROUP played out and we are planning another demo game in two weeks.

The objective of the game was for the 8th army (Steve) to secure and hold the village from the  DAK forces (Chris) which they managed to achieve. The DAK forces reached their 3rd FUBAR token and game came to a end. 

Steve and Chris gaming.

The objective secure and hold the village.

As I have not based by 8th army and DAK figures we utilized some late war figures instead.

Crusader Platoon taking up a Hull position while engaging a platoon of Panzer III's. 

Crusaders managed to destroy one of the Panzer III. 

FIRST GAME OF CHAIN OF COMMAND FOR 2024

Set up my gaming table at home and started gaming again, last time I played CoC was Christmas 2023, Early war Brits vs early war Germans, played the Hasty defence scenario from the 1940 handbook. The Brits were holding the Germans at bay and preventing them from achieving their objective but we did not conclude the game as it was getting late. 

Here are a few images; 

Cheers John

DICE TOWER with built in silencer

I made a portable dice tower, with 5mm MDF equipped with a Perspex window to view the dice tumbling down the tower, unfortunately the lack of thickness of the wood resulted in  one very noisy dice tower. 

To combat this I made another dice tower but this time I purchased a thin rubber sheet from the 2 dollar store. Once more, I used 5mm MDF and cut out all the parts of the tower, then applied Gorilla glue onto all the inner surfaces of the dice tower that would be in contact with the dice and placed them on the rubber sheeting. 

Once the glue dried, I carefully cut out each piece of  the tower from the rubber material. I sprayed all  parts of the tower  black that were not lined with the rubber material with black spray can. 

Allowed a couple of days for the paint to dry, then carefully drilled pilot holes for the tiny screws, secured all the parts together first with glue and then added the screws. I drilled suitable holes on the underside of the tower to accommodate some small earth magnets and glued them in place, then aligned thin metal strips on the bottom plate of the tower to enable the tower to be used with or without the base.

Happy with the results of  the silenced tower.  

My completed new Dice tower with the internal rubber sheeting and removable base.

My first Dice tower without the internal rubber sheeting.

The new silenced Dice Tower with the internal rubber sheeting.

The benefit of the removal base is that once the dice are rolled the tower can be removed to reveal the results of the dice throw. 

The thin black rubber sheet I used for the tower.

The new portable tower next to the fixed tower (I built a long time ago) we used in my gaming room.

Cheers John

EARLY IMPERIAL ROMAN CAVALRY

Taking advantage of my holidays I am painting and modelling different items and periods for the hobby, here are my plastic 28mm Early Imperial Roman Cavalry from Victrix miniatures for INFAMY INFAMY, lovely plastic figures.  

It's my first time painting horses which I found a bit of a challenge but after doing a couple I managed to get into the swing. 

Cheers John