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Hello all, recently I have decided to do a big campaign with some friends of mine. What kind of campaign? It will be a Strike Witches campaign. If you don't know what Strike Witches it is an anime that is worth watching repeatedly. Now, as the title says it will be a cross over campaign, meaning it will not only be strike Witches, but will contain several games and worlds. So far what I've decided on is:

First portion:
Firestorm Armada (Miniatures and System)
Battlefleet Gothic (Miniatures)
Any other ship models (Miniatures)

Second Portion:
-Ground Combat: Flames of War (Miniatures and System)
Robotech RPG Tactics (Miniatures)
Miniatures to help represent the Neuroi
-Air Combat: Roboteh RPG Tactics (Miniatures)
Miniatures to be used as Neuroi and Allied aircraft are undecided as well as the System to be used, though some Robotech RPG Tactics Zentradi models will be used as Neuroi

For this campaign I want to tell the story of how and why the Neuroi have come to Earth and why they are fighting us. For those of you who don't know and don't want to look up Strike Witches, the Neuroi are an alien race that for all that has been seen are not biological and are more of a mechanical plague/virus capable of taking various shpes and infecting then controlling abandoned or destroyed vehicles/ships,weapons. Thy are the enemies in Strike Witches, on the other side we have humanity in the middle of 1944 (the date of the anime, the neuroi have been fighting us for a while), the witches, as their name suggest, use magic to operate Stiker Units. Essentially flying gear modelled after real world WWII aircraft that allow the witches to use WWII weaponry (M191, MG42, BAR) to fight the Neuroi. Unfortunatly only girls between the ages of 13-20 (give or take) can use their magic for combat purposes.

The first part of the campaign will consist of space combat, showing the Neuroi homeworld and their attacks on other civilizations. Long story short (I don't know how it's gonna happen yet), the Neuroi piss off several other speices and in a battle that takes all but a few ships they try to jump away but their ships are damaged and are thrown to an uncharted region of space along with a single other ship. They crash on Earth.

This leads way to the second portion, where the Neuroi are trying to harvest our resources to build a new fleet and return to their home. Meanwhile our scientists found the other ship that crashed and we have managed to replace the Witches' Striker Units with aircraaft (Robotech veritech fighters) as well as large walking tanks (Robotech Destroids), together these new technologies fight alongside the tanks and infantry of World War II to defeat the Neuroi.

This campaign will be narrative and I'll try to write a fanfic along with it just for fun. But for the most part we're going to try to avoid using points and just use what units look right for the situation and also very loosely using any sort of force organazation charts for the given gaming systems. This is mostly because we are mixing so many different systems and the points do not always match up the way they should to keep things even. So we will use specificc survivors from previous games and such in certain battles to help tell the story.

I'm hoping that by using this P&M thread as a way to keep motivated and that others will throw in their opinion and give suggestions and critisism.

Interesting idea, i'll be keeping my eyes on it, to see how it pans out,

also, isn't Strike witches that balls out weird anime with the anthropomorpic warplanes?

I don't have pics of it but I got 2 Revell 1:535 scale Missurie battleships that I'm gonna use as Neuroi from the Tiger in Desert manga.

They are not anthropomorphic lol they are just things they wear on their legs that are based off airplanes.

Well some bad news, and a bit of good news.

First the bad news, the whole space portion is going to omitted and replaced instead by fluff do to us not having (and not really wanting to collect) enough ships to do it properly. And I figure it's best to just get rid of it than try to do it half assedly.

Good news is, hopefully I can start putting pics up, I've got 3 Plastic Soldier Company Panther tanks coming in the mail. I'm hoping to have all Karlsland and Liberion (Stike Witches names for Germany and U.S) units painted and ready by the time RRT ships out (Hopefully sometime this month but who knows)

First pics are up! :3

Now, some more background for those who don't know what Strike Witches is, the names of countries are different:

Karlsland = Germany
Liberion = US
Gallia = France
Britannia = Britan (Idk if it's with one or two N's)
Orussia = Russia
Romagna = Italy

I'll add more tidbits as I realize I need to ^^;;

So I have a plan for the full FoW force I want to collect, sticking with the units and models I really like and I'll fudge rules here and there to include units that I want. It won't be anything too crazy, just the addition of platoons that typically woulnd't be allwoed, such as KV-2 heavy tanks.

But over all the organization will be:

1st Allied Assault Regiment
1st Battalion (Liberion)
1st Armored Company
2nd Armored Compny
1st Marine Company (Para Rifle Company)
2nd Marine Company (Para Rifle Company)
1st Mechanized Marine Company (Armored Rifle Company
2nd Battalion (Karlsland)
1st Schwere Panzer Kompanie
1st Panzer Kompanie
1st Scwhere Panzerjager Kompanie
2nd Schwere Panzerjager Kompanie (Elefants)
1st SS-Panzergrenadierkampfgruppe (Totenkopf)
2nd SS-Panzergrenadierkampfgruppe (Totenkopf)
3rd Battalion (Orussain)
1st Gvardeyskiy Tyazhelyy Tankovy Polk
2nd Gvardeyskiy Tyazhelyy Tankovy Polk
1st Tankovy Batalon
1st Tyazhelyy Samokhodno-Artillyeriyskiy Polk
4th Battalion (Britania)
1st Tank Company
2nd Tank Company


Now these just refer to the basic units that will be fielded within the company, other units such as extra infantry, armored units, and artillery will be pooled together and all companies will share them. I may also get ride of the Strelkovy Batalon and replace it with a Gvardeyskiy Tankovy Batalon (Company of T-34/85's).

And yes, I am fully aware that Marines were NOT in the ETO in WWII en masse. However, I prefer the Marines to the Army so fluff wise that's what they are.

I have one of the Neuroified battleships assembled, don't know when I'll paint it but the other will be done either tonight or tomorrow, tomorrow night at the latest. It wasn't too hard, just flipped it over put the turrets wher they don't belong and used Necron canoptek spyder legs for it's legs.