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I wouldnt mind if people wanted to add a BAR to a squad here or there. They are kinda cool looking weapons after all and were used by all kinds of infantry, from Paras to Marines to good old GI's.In Battlegroup they are only ROF 2 anyway.

But I think Lucius is right. Mechanized infantry could carry .30cals and their ammo a lot easier and I think their TO&E reflected that.

so guys, what is all of your opinions on cost of 1/72 vs 15mm in regards to premade terrain? lets also factor in availablity.

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
so guys, what is all of your opinions on cost of 1/72 vs 15mm in regards to premade terrain? lets also factor in availablity.

I am a functioning 4ground addict. Their 15mm houses are readily available from eBay retailers and run about 20 bucks a piece for a small row house. Maybe a bit pricy for some.

I wish I had more 4ground.

 frozenwastes wrote:
Peter Pig makes packs of 8 BAR armed troopers in 3 poses:



http://www.peterpig.co.uk/us.htm

Shipping starts at £4.50 so if I ever order from them, I'll probably get a decent variety of stuff. It's a long way away though, as I still have 200+ infantry and 10+ vehicles to paint for my germans and soviets.

Essex also makes some pretty nice BAR gunners (though they call them Browning light machineguns)

http://www.essexminiatures.co.uk/collections/15mm-world-war-ii-american







I like them better then the PP ones.

The Essex ones do look good. I won't be putting an order in for BARs until after my Soviet and German companies are done, but I'll keep them in mind. Back when I played DBA regularly, I had a bunch of Essex ancients and they were pretty good. Dated sculpting style, but their castings were high end.

i hope that you guys dont mind the questions but bolt action at 15mm has really piqued my interest. i was wondering if anyone knows why it seems that tanks in BA seem to have such a bad reputation and is it as bad as people make it out to be? playing in 15mm certainly opens up the door to include a lot more tanks. smaller, cheaper and they take a lot less room to use.

They are a lot of points and even the ones bristling with weapons rarely through out that many dice during a game. Their value goes up based on how many vehicles or other hard targets the opponent takes, but if you spend a couple turns with no good target and then whiff on some die rolls, they can feel like a total waste compared to the same points spent on infantry.

I've been playing Bolt Action in 15mm for quite a while now. I generally play on a 6x4 table and keep all measurements in inches as it does look a lot more realistic. Here's one of my games in progress-



I tend to do early war and I'm currently building up all the forces I need to do Operation Seelowe games.

I love those teddy bear fur fields!

Gotta echo Easy E: those look awesome! Especially the "trails" that are left behind from the vehicles.

May have to trade out my jute sisal mat "cropfields" for teddy bear fur, looks awesome.

I am waiting for m friend to send me the pics from our game this past monday. We played an envelopment scenario with my russians trying to tackle the german menace! However things did not go to plan so well.. it took a meager 3 and a half turns for my soviets to be annihilated.. my bad dice rolling with his unbelievable meant that I killed 1 hanomag and three grenadiers, and he wiped my force out to the man.. I had a ba-10 alive but immobilized and a kv-1 on fire.. sheesh.. I had a blast despite this but dang!!!!

Tried a mini game in 15mm using cm instead of inches, the playing area is 3'x2'...

Sorry guys. Been a bit since I messed with my historicals.. I was introduced to the devil... aka Infinity! Its a great game actually. That said how has everyones BA 15mm Been going?

I've been tempted away by horse & musket era stuff and have only played one game since my last post on the subject. I did however, end up trying some new weathering techniques using oil paints and am really liking the results.



Needs a bit of cleanup and work on the tracks and gun barrel, but close to done. It's one of Zvezda's cheap 1/100 plastic KV2s.

I've got to get some of that teddy bear fur that Mick A uses. That just looks great.

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That KV is beautiful!

The process is just a coat of the russian green, a dry brush with a bone colour (you can see that without any weathering on the gun barrel and the wheels inside the treads) followed by some sponging on of paint chips in a very dark grey. Then a coat of gloss varnish (very light) and then the classic dot filtering method scale modellers use. Then the areas where the paint is scraping off got shaded with a pencil to make them shinier.

Basically you paint multiple tiny dots of different oil colours and then take a thinner damped brush and brush in the direction that water might flow off the tank until all the dots blend together as an indistinct filter.

After that's fully dry, I varnished again. Then I went back and did raw sienna and ocher oil dots for rust here and there.

My KVs are ones that were produced in '39-41 and managed to stick around into the later war, so I'm weathering the crap out of them.

Those fields look incredible. Going to have to try that whenever I get around to making some terrain.

I've got so many loose figures for my Germans and Brits in FOW that I'm going to have to give this a go. Looks so much more, I don't know, "cinematic" on the table, and is more portable to boot!

Plus it lets me have a ton of little skirmish armies for dirt cheap and the vehicles can pull double duty.

 frozenwastes wrote:
My KVs are ones that were produced in '39-41 and managed to stick around into the later war, so I'm weathering the crap out of them.

Interesting comment - I didn't know any KV-2's lasted into1942 (not saying they didn't, just thought they all got knocked out during the initial months of Barbarossa). I like your weathering effects, although it does make the tank look pretty ancient. I think that once you've gone for this level of 'realism' in terms of painting, you probably have to add things like stowage to complete to picture. And I hope the gun barrel is drilled out!

I have no idea if the tanks actually did survive to that late. I know KV-1s were around until late 1943, but I have no idea about the KV-2s. I guess if one shows up in one of my games set later than 1942, they will in my alt-history version of WW2

I did some checking, and apparently virtually all of them were lost by the end of 1941. A few survived in German hands; they were going to use them to invade Malta, but ended up sending them back against the Soviets in 1942. One even made it through to 1945, where it was knocked out defending the Krupp plant.

New to this site; fairly new to Bolt Action.....currently running Chindits; played them for the first time today....lost, but had fun.

I have amassed a respectable collection of FoW miniatures over several years, but have seldom played.

I intend to use my 15mm minis for home games; we have an active, local 28mm group,and I have enough miniatures to keep playing that as well.

The 15mm miniatures will be particularly useful for Tank Wars.