15mm WWII (FoW) - Late War British Rifle Company

My (very) slow build Flames of War British Rifle Company is now done. I've built it to a point where i can swap a few units about as desired so it doesnt get too stale to play with. I've now got both a British and a German army based and painted for Flames of War  (both at around the 1750 - 2000 point mark) and I'm happy to leave it at that for now. 

Painting styles used were; Drybrushing, Heavy washes over block painting, and Army painter on the 25 pounders and the objectives ( i got very lazy towards the end!!) This project was more of a chore than any ive done before, I'm glad i stuck with it and am pleased with the results. I'm now looking forward to pushing this force around the table.

 

Plans for 2012

This year i didn't make a great deal of progress due to moving and buying a new house, but now that all is settled I've managed to lock in my projects for next year. Here are the 3 majors for 2012, followed by my additions to existing armies and 'finish offs' for current projects.

• 28mm Peninsular War, large scale skirmish - Perry, Victrix and Front Rank are the likely figures to be used. Sharp Practice by TFL looks to be the early contender for rules at this stage but I'm open to any suggestions? I'm wanting about 30 - 100 figures per side.

• 28mm Battle of Brunanburh - Using Impetus and Piquet as the rules of choice. 17-18 Units per alliance, I'll be mustering the Saxons for battle while my Uncle and gaming buddy Gavin Shanks will be collecting the Northern Kingdoms. Army sizes will be roughly 17 - 18 units per side and at this stage about 12 figures per basic unit. I've already got a great start to my army after picking up some lovely figures from Matt over at Storm and Conquest (thanks mate!)

• 15mm 3rd Crusade - Using the free Basic Impetus rules found here and thanks to Giuseppe from  Legio Heroica, I now have enough of his buetiful "Holyland" range to build each Basic Impetus list for the Ayyubids and Crusaders  respectively. The army lists can be found here. For anyone down here in Australia thinking about ordering from Legio Heroica I can highly recommend them, Giuseppe has to be one of the best traders I've ever dealt with in the industry and postage is very reasonable.

• 15mm WW2 for Flames of War - Finish off the British Rifle Company and touch up and re-base a German Grenadier Company.
• 28mm Fantasy - Continue on with the High Elves, Skaven, Dwarves and Ogres.
• Warhammer 40k - Continue on with the Iron Warriors Chaos Space Marines and the Tau armies.
• 28mm Pirates - finish painting my crews from Black Scorpion for Legends of the High Seas.

Overall I think it's pretty manageable, of course there will be the inevitable side-project that rears its ugly head but I'm still pretty confident that I'll be able to complete these projects before the end of 2012... or the world according to some...

Happy New Year!

Late War British Rifle Company

One of the absolute favourite games down at my local club (QLD Northern Knights) is Flames of War. Being new to FoW i’ve taken a fair amount of time deciding on which way i want to go army wise. First off I plan on building a British Rifle Company for late war using the Fortress Europe intelligence handbook. The following list is more or less a Vanilla starting point that with added extras would be roughly 1500 points and can easily have units added to round it up for larger games.

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HQ

Command team + Jeep

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COMBAT PLATOONS

Rifle Platoon w/ 3 Rifle squads. (Command team, PIAT team and Light Mortar team included)

Rifle Platoon w/ 3 Rifle squads. (Command team, PIAT team and Light Mortar team included)

Rifle Platoon w/ 3 Rifle squads. (Command team, PIAT team and Light Mortar team included)

**each rifle squad = 2 bases of Rifle/MG **

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DIVISIONAL SUPPORT

Armoured Platoon ~ 3x Sherman (including 1x Firefly VC) all armed with .50 cal AA MG’s

Armoured Platoon ~ 3x Sherman

Field Battery, Royal Artillery ~ Two Gun Troop w/ 4 25pdr Gun sections x2 (8 guns total) – obs team + command included

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I've just about finished all the Rifle Platoons, so will post some photos in the next few days.