76 Volks completed & 6mm terrain.

I finished the 76 Volkssturm figures for Alister on Saturday morning with the two machine gun teams. Once again a quick video seems to give better results than my phone camera, please excuse my gruff voice! They will be heading home to Brighton Monday morning.

I'll prep up another 9 figure regiment of 20mm WSS cavalry this evening for Tony and these will be painted this week along with a 28 figure unit of Peter Pig Berdan's Sharpshooters for Graham.

So with a free Saturday afternoon I decided to take the plunge and mark out my folding card table in a 75mm square grid by carefully dotting out just the corners with a yellow paint. The results are pleasing as the grid is quite difficult to see when you stand back a couple of feet or so. The previously made woods sit nicely into 2 squares and it's possible to place a unit base along any edge to represent it being inside rather than placing it on top! The first experimental hill was made from 4 layers of 5mm foam board covered in matching green cloth, superglued on the underside and trimmed round. I'm pleased with it as the one thing I really do not like about the 'Portable Wargame' concept are square hills. The road needs to be narrower and slightly more twisty I think so that's the next job along with field textures to break up the bare green. I'll be basing everything on the same thin plastic sheet as the figures to avoid any hard edges where possible. 

I'm working on pulling the rules together now, I won't go into detail yet but suffice to say they are mostly Commands & Colors based with a simple DBN style activation roll so no cards and squares instead of hexes, and a DBN inspired roll for attacker/defender with defender choosing which of the four table edges to defend while the attacker deploys opposite and get's the first activation throw. 

. I have just one aim with this and that's to have some fun with quick play easy set up, portable style wargames that allows me to indulge myself in painting tiny soldiers and messing around with terrain! 20 units completed now plus command stands, I have another British infantry unit on the go to be followed by a unit of Greek Legion in traditional attire.