Best of Last Week's BLOGs & Wargames Sites: 20-26 February

All Bones About It paints #138 of Bones I

Anatoli's Game Room reviews The Witcher Adventure Game

Beasts of War reminds us of Acqusitions Inc.'s live D&D at Pax East...tune in, it's quite entertaining.

Beasts of War has Wildwest Exodus week 

Brigade Models BLOG posts Hammer's Slammers AAR in Photos

Buck's BLOG works on Litko Buildings

Campaigns of General Augustus Pettigrew, Chapter 71

Chariot Gamer paints a Mitanni Chariot

D6 Generation reviews Among the Stars

Dalauppror works on Cabo Corso, the Swedish Colonial Wars in Africa 1650-1665

Der Alte Fritz Journal How to Build a Continental Regiment

Dicetower review of Temple of Elemental Evil

Din of Battle plays the SYW

Don't Throw a One posts photos from Cavalier

Dressing the Lines reports on 3D Printed Maori Pa and Buildings

Fawcett Avenue Conscripts go to Legio Con

Gaming with Too Fat Lardies Game 4 Chain of Command Desert Campaign

I Mostly Paint at Night plays Lion Rampant

Matt's Gaming Page paints Afghans, Annamites, Carroballista, Sikhs, WW1 Pilots and more...

Miniature Mayhem plays Russo-Finnish War with Chain of Command

Osprey Publishing consolidates resources for their various miniature rules

The Raft Plays Wandering Star

Shed Wars has photos from Miniature World in Hamburg

and a collection of Photos from Tactica

with the latest on the Volcano project

Super Galactic Dreadnought builds an Amphibious OGRE

Tom's Toys Soldiers plays SCW Chain of Command

View from the Duckpond has a How To Base Figures Video

View from the Duckpond has a painting guide for SCW Regulares

and SCW Footage

WargameRabbit Lists some of his AAR's

1. Ancients and Medieval era AAR (COE):  Spartans vs. Persians,  Etruscan State vs. Early Republican Rome,  Battle of Mantineia 362 BC,  North (WR) vs. South (DK) Ancient Indian,  Battle of Granicus 334 BC,  The Batavian Revolt 70 AD,  Megalopolis 331 BC,  Spartan Revolt vs. Macedonians,  Late Spartan Greeks vs. City State Greeks,  Late Hoplite Greeks vs. Achaemenid Persian,  Republican Rome vs. Seleucid
2. French Revolutionary wars AAR:  Battle of Alexandria 1801,  Battle of Dego 1796,  Lodi 1796 like,  Cosseria 1796,  Battle of Montenotte 1796,  Battle of Voltri 1796,  Battle of Gaza 1799
3. Imperial Napoleonic era AAR:  Battle of Sacile 1809 revisited,  Battle of Sacile 1809,        Battle of Gilly 1815,  Westphalia vs. Imperial France,  Battle of Teixeira 1808,  Battle of Alcolea 1808,  Battle of Ligny 1815,  France vs. Russia 1812,  Doubles Game Napoleonics,  Battle of Salamanca 1812,
4. Bob’s Napoleonic AAR:  Multiple Tables Scenario,  French & Allies vs. Russians 1812,Ottomans, Spanish and Bavarians,  French & Danes vs. Austria, England and Russia,  French Allies vs. Grand Alliance,  France vs. Russo-Prussian 1813,  France vs, Russia 1812,  French vs. Russo-Spanish Coalition,  French vs. Prussians 1815, Two Farms,  French & Allies vs. Austrians, Center Hill,  French vs. Russians 1807
5. 20th Century era AAR:  Roncey Pocket 1944,  String of Pearls,  Barkmann’s Corner,  Re-Assault on Hill 105,  Assault on Hill 105,  D-Day Omaha Beach,  Breaking the San Fratello Line; Sicily 1943

The Wargames Website has a great series on building a 6mm Hougoumont

The Wargames Website has a great series on building a 6mm La Belle Alliance 

The Wargames Website has "Playing Future War Commander/Cold War Commander/Blitzkreige Commander with 3mm" with stunning terrain that is worth a look.

Sulawesi National Army

With permission from John Treadaway:

In the late 290's TW, Malaysian colonists from Terra arrived on Sulewesi. By the turn of the century, having found the planet and its two moons to be rich in iridium, molybdenum and beryllium, the colonists began to build an industry with the objective of to turn Sulewesi into the premier mining system of the sector.

By the early 320's, however, all was not going according to plan on Sulewesi. The early settlers and their families had established a functional hegemony Later arriving colonists pushed for inclusion. When those who held the power seemed less than willing to share, a political movement and subsequent armed conflict broke out.

This is a New Force Link.  The Army is taken from David Drake's story "Night March" in the Hammer's Slammer's Anthology. Use the new South African 15mm vehicle models from Brigade Models." It is also suggested that the Colonial Defence Infantry be used from the Ground Zero Games.

. The Sulawesi can function as a complete force with multiple detachments trained to two levels (Veteran and Trained). It can also be used with its 'historical' allies (or rather employees) the Slammers. See the play sheet. In addition, it can also be used as its own opposition as the Sulwesi Rebels with support from the Zaporoyskiye Brigade or the Brazillian Brigada Independência – the "Smoking Cobras."

Armored Vehicle

Light Transport

 APC

Please note: Tony of Brigade Models supplied photos and renders to John Treadaway who provided the official documentation, pdfs, colouring, etc. And me, I'm a huge fan of the genre, figures and the game...

Hammer's Slammers, The Crucible Miniatures

Hammer's Slammers

Some of my Hammer Slammer's by Ainsty

 Tank Platoon escorting A Combat Car Platoon

 Closeup of Tank

 Close Up of Combat Car

 Entering the City

Tanks in the Fields

Rules and Information here:

http://www.hammers-slammers.com/home.htm

and Miniatures here:

http://ainstycastings.co.uk/index.php/cPath/71