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  4. Feb 20, Early-War 2016 FoW Tournament @GG (official thread)

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    We have more prizes than in recent past: 8 so far.

    Adding in the Dunkirk Award from tournaments past.

    I also rounded up some sponsorship.

    Will heavily talk this up during the Jan 30 event at OCC.

     

    I unfortunately won't be able to make the tournament this weekend because it's my son's 8th birthday party...

     

    I've also posted on the miniatures page, though their tournaments / events page doesn't seem to get much traffic...

  7. Team Yankee - M1 Abrams color schemes and tech data

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    The color schemes on Battlefront pics of their T-72s look like sun-bleached museum pieces, or sun-bleached tanks in Afghanistan.

     

    I think their research is usually really good.  However, occasionally, I disagree with their end result. The Soviet tank and helo color schemes are two of those occasions.

     

    When it comes to paint colors, unfortunately Battlefront will use the "home brand" over anything else... even if it isn't quite right.  Their new line is a bit limited, and I understand they're working with "scale color" and colors designed to have washes over them - which works just fine for infantry, but much less well for armored vehicles.

  17. Raiding Aces League Mar-May 2016

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    Quick question on list building - at the 500 point level there is the following restriction:

     

     

     

    You can take any platoon listed as Company HQ, Combat or Weapons Platoons. However you cannot take Support Platoons at this stage in the campaign.

     

    With your opening the campaign up to non-raiding lists, is this still in effect?

  24. First Look at Team Yankee Armor

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    I've been madly putting together tanks for Team Yankee (having picked up both the US and Soviet boxes).  

     

    First impressions - the Abrams is extremely cool because you get parts for the M1 and M1A1 versions - though there is some oddness with the rear armor skirt and the retaining plate - I still haven't decided what I'm going to do about that yet...

     

    Abrams%2BTrack%2BSprue%2Bdetail.jpg

     

    The T-72 overall is pretty nice as well.  Getting the gun cleaned up with the multiple points of attachment is a pain, and the rear auxiliary fuel tanks are also a pain (join seam in the worst possible place - but that's common to T-72 kits in just about ANY scale).  Otherwise it's a shake 'n bake (throw some glue in a box, shake it up, finished miniature comes out).

     

    Fun comparison of a Panzer IV Ausf H, T-72, and T-35 to give you a sense of the scale:

     

    T-72%2Bcomparison%2Bshot.jpg

     


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