taran.shannara

very cool.

I'm checking to see if there would be enough interest for a mid-war pseudo-Stalingrad east front based tournament around Oct. meaning, only lists out of the book "Eastern Front" would be allowed.  Tournament would be held in Portland.

Forces from book include:

Germans

Finnish

Hungarian

Italian

Romanian

Soviet

Welcome to the "region".  There are people scattered about northern Oregon that play. There are quite a few that play in groups outside of games stores though too. For Portland stores, I have run tournaments at Guardian Games if that is your thing; there are players at Bridgetown Hobbies and Unplugged Games is trying to get a group. There are also a couple stores in Salem that do FoW. It seems like it is mostly mid-war and late-war but some have early war companies wanting to see some action.

There is a tournament at NHMGS Enfilade convention each year. 

We also have a friendly team/store challenge type tournament between guys in Olympia and Portland with a trophy where best general gives up this CiC and it becomes part of the trophy.  If you don't have a "store/team" you can be drafted into an existing one. This happens in Sept/Oct each year.  Info on this will be posted on this forum in the coming months. It alternates location and this year is back in Olympia.

I put the tournament results on the blog here...

ran across this... Ringo Simpkins put a video on this youtube channel about a simple contest to pay it forward. To win, one must have a painted 40k chaos force. put up a video showcasing it, or photos with the url and link to it from his video explaining the contest.  This is the video that has the details.  Simple as that.

Looking forward to another great day of relaxed FoW tournament gaming.  The award plaques are in hand, prizes have been received from Battlefront Miniatures and CGR Painters.

Remember to submit your lists to 'pdxwar@gmail.com' prior to the tournament as it will make it much easier the morning of.. and I'll thank you.

The 15th is the first Thursday after the campaign starts. so lets start then.  Take a look at the how to play section in the first post.

wwpd has announced their Italy Campaign. Starts soon and has instructions of how to play/be involved.

"The launch of the WWPD campaign coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Allied Armies in Italy (AAI) launch of Operation DIADEM on May 11th, 1944. On June 4th, the AAI claimed the prize of Rome. Our campaign will run no later than Mid-June."

As another data point.... Having painted hundreds of the OpenFire plastic figs for clients and thousands of metal figs from other blisters/box sets, I prefer the metal ones most of the time. The plastic handheld weapons seem to be more brittle and break easier when cutting from the sprue or during the cleaning stage; same for the mg42 and 34 that go with the half-tracks.  If there are mold lines I find they are a bit harder to get off with the knife then the metal with knife and file.

The detail on the plastic infantry is great though as Zeke says.  On the plastic vehicles, sometimes I find the larger flat spaces are a bit too smooth for my taste but nothing that rough primer can't fix.

got actual info on it.

"Saturday only, all sessions is $20.00.  This represents a $15.00 convention fee and NHMGS membership for 1 year.   This is not available during preregistration, only at the convention registration desk on Saturday.

Bruce"

I wondered when one of the bigger model making companies would jump into the 1/56 scale arena.  There are all kinds of possibilites here.  Hopefully some modern stuff will be in the works also....

Giuliano Malservisi and Gian Piero Parmeggiani, the founders of Italeri, say, "Italeri is very proud to announce an agreement with Warlord Games, a wargames company that produces an amazing range of historical miniatures, and the right partner to develop a new line of plastic in 1:56 scale."

full story

I noticed that the guys at wwpd announced a rankings system for FoW and they imported a bunch of the existing rankinqshq tournaments, including the NWI 2 results.   The plan is that the results from the upcoming Enfilade tournament will be submited to this system since rankingshq went down at end of feb.

wwpd rankings system

What: 1650 point Late War Flames of War tournament

Date: May 24th.

Where: Red Lion Hotel Olympia, WA

Time:

Player Check in 9:00 AM
Round 1 (2h15m) start 10:00
Round 2 (2h15m) start 1:15 PM
Round 3 (2h15m) start 4:00 PM
Awards Ceremony start 06:30 PM

Entry Fee: $20 for day only, $30 for entire weekend. Must be registered for the convention Enfilade Historical Miniature Gaming Convention but no other fee

Can only do day only in person at the registration desk at the convention.

Prizes: Best Axis General, Best Allies General, Best Sport, Best Painted/Presentation, Players Choice Army, Dunkirk, random door prizes

How to Sign Up: Sign up for convention and use the event sign up and email

Additional details: pdxwar@gmail.com   

regards,

SteveM.

well, I obviously didn't make it tonight. dang work; I do have the Hungarians with me if that is any consolation. I need to get a game in before I forgot how to play...
 

Q. Why the huge discount?  Is Vietnam not popular?
Vietnam sold well beyond our best expectations. We were so excited the community took to it, and allowed us to take it from a small Wargames Illustrated supplement to a line of its own! We will continue to support Vietnam into the future with more supplements, models, and exciting ways to play. We wanted to offer an inexpensive way for people who may still be on the fence to jump into the fray, or for those already in the suck to bulk out their forces.

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I'll plan to be @GG on 3/6 with a Hungarian 1650pt LW force.

pm sent.