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Welcome to another Flames of War Friday Pacific Editon.
Over the past few weeks I've begun working on updating my Japanese infantry company in preparation for the new Banzai book and preparing for a brand new play style; fortified lists!
So let's take a look at how my troops are digging in for some defensive action…
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Welcome to our first Flames of War Friday of 2016! I'd been on a bit of a break from Flames of War for a few months while working on other projects but with the upcoming release of new books for the Pacific theatre my 15mm mojo is back.
So let's take a look at what the sunny & sandy Pacific has in store for us…
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Late last week the final thing I had left to finish off for the Early War Tournament was to prepare some objective markers. For fun I decided to do some flat painted objectives rather than scenic ones. For the first marker I found a Japanese WW2 propaganda image, printed off a template to attach to an objective base and used a paint-by-numbers approach to replicate it.
For the second I decided to be a bit more adventurous and used a combination of freehand acrylic and oil painting to reproduce an image featuring almost every Japanese art trope imaginable, with an extra addition of Godzilla in the bottom right corner.
With these complete I was packed and ready for a weekend of gaming!
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This past weekend was another campaign day for Firestorm Market Garden, however the games had a little more of an alternative history vibe this time around to allow for some Flamescon practice. So rather than restrict ourselves to lists from the two Market Garden books we could play using our lists for the upcoming tournaments.
So my Japanese infantry found themselves fighting for the Allied cause against an early war Italian tank list.
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Since Flamescon was announced I've shifted things up a gear to get my forces ready and be able to play some more games with both my Market Garden list and my Japanese.
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As I outlined at the beginning of the year in Planning this Years Project I'll be entering the Early War tournament with an infantry based Japanese army. Unfortunately due to all the other projects I've been working on this army has been on the back-burner for some time but now it's time to kick things into gear again.
This week I finished off the biggest and most onerous portion of the force, the Hohei Chutai infantry company with is the army's core. With a total of 108 infantry figures which needed painting it took quite a while and it feels great to have it complete!
Most of the work had been finished months ago so it was just a matter of finishing off the basing and a couple of infantry models I'd somehow missed earlier.
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Welcome back to Flames of War Friday. My local club's Operation Market Garden campaign began last weekend so its time to see just how the Mighty Ape 11th Armoured performed and we'll also be taking a look at the upcoming Flames of War: Great War.
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Since I've been running around in China for the past few weeks its been a while since our last Flames of War Friday but now we're back and rearing to go!
First up this week is the all important draw for the winner of ourour As Seen on FOW Friday Prize Pack:
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It's the first birthday of Flames of War Friday so we're making it extra special as this July we're giving you the chance to WIN 2 Fully Painted Soviet Armoured Units!
No doubt some of you may have been wondering why I've been painting up Soviet tanks over the last few weeks when my Flames of War army project for the year is my Japanese Infantry Force. Thanks to the folks from Battlefront and AK Interactive we got a hands on review of some of their latest releases and we also wanted to give our FOW Friday fans an awesome, one of a kind prize to win!
This July anyone who purchases anything from either the Flames of War range or AK Interactive Wargames Series will go into the draw to WIN our ‘As Seen on FOW Friday’ Prize Pack including:
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For this week's Flames of War Friday project we asked our fans over on the Mighty Ape Hobbies Facebook Page to decide which armoured unit they'd like to see; either the Soviet T-34 Tankovy ; or the Japanese Light Sensha Platoon and the ubiquitous T-34 was the winner. So lets take a closer look at the plastic T-34 Tankovy boxed set.
The T-34 was the most produced tank of World War II and is the mainstay of Soviet armoured forces for both the mid-war and late war period and this set enables you to field 2 of the most common variants: the T-34/76 obr 1943 and the T-34/85 obr 1944. The kit includes:
With both turret versions and magnets included you can magnetise all 5 tanks so that you can simply swap turrets to change between the T-34/76 and T-34/85. This gives a great amount of flexibility when choosing writing your lists and means you can use these tanks for both the mid-war and late war periods. Combine that with the similar versatility of the Tank Killer Company and you'll see that this is a fantastic perk for Soviet players.