1/300 Aircraft Games

Another area I have been broadening my interest has been in the area of 1/300/285  WW2 planes.  I have had the Actung Spitfire, Buffalo Wings and Whistling Death games from Fighting Wings for a while and played them a bit.  Its hard playing solo.  With DP9 (Heavy Gear's company) starting shut down lines of different games (Jovian Chronicles and Gearkrieg)  I decided to buy up a bunch before they became impossible to find.  Luftkrieg the air game for Gearkrieg was intriguing.  Being a fan of the old video games where you could fly the German jet fighters of WW2, I was very interested in the neat cross-over storyline.  In the search for miniatures I stumbled across MSD's Luftwaffe 1946.  Combining these and buying some other minis from other lines and on ebay I have assembled quite the air flotilla for each of the major powers. In order to prep them I have drilled and placed magnets into many of them and then primed them white for painting at a date ...TBD.  Anyways, with really cool telescoping magnet flight stands from Corsec I am looking forward to some great dog-fights in the future....also TBD....hopefully before I die.

Left to Right - P80s, Spitfires, Ascenders, Zeros, Shinden, P38s Ki-84s, German Pre Mig-15s, P54s

Near and far term objectives to get in some gaming time coming up...

I won't reiterate my frustrations with school on this blog as I did in my SciFi one, but needless to say...moving on!

1) FIW - I got the guys ready and even have some game for them to hunt, so I am going to run the Long Rifle Campaign I was planning starting in the beginning of April.  We will see if there is any area support for playing at the LGS.







2) My Asian Fever has returned and I am looking to restart some Chinese/Korean/Japanese action going.  I should have my Koryo, Tang, Ming, Choson, Muromachi/Kamakra Shogunate warriors ready to take each others heads.  I plan on running the some Choson vs Toyotomi Hideyoshi skirmishes first with some twists (like the Koreans actually had a good army prepared to fight in 1592).  Or maybe the Shimazu Raid on Okinawa.  I planned a campaign years ago ad never actually carried it out.  The other campaign pending will be battles against the Wako Pirates in the Koryo and early Choson period.  I got mongols too....ooww so many options!
As for rule sets, I think Road to Osaka, Naginata or maybe THW Rally around the King

     





3) WW2 Skirmish....lower priority, but I might do a historical version instead of the Wierd War/ Alternate AE-WW2/ SOTR game I was planning.

Painting Report

1) I received some of my Weird War 2 Germans back a couple days ago from the painter (Hoard Painting Service).  Fantastic paint jobs.  They are very detailed and well worth the price.  A couple more groups are coming back soon, so Im looking forward to a SOTR/Incursion or AE-WW2 game soon.

2) I decided to finish off my odds and ends of my Dystopian Wars Fleets and sent them out.  A lot of carrier and airship action.  These went out to TCP.  He does fantastic work on DW minis.  Cant wait to get them back.  Then all I will have left will be my CoA Feet and Army.

3)  Next I expect to get some FIW minis back next week.  I have two painters working on them.

4) Last but not least will be my return to Ancient Asian Skirmish.  I have sent out orders of Tang and Sung Chinese to the painter.  I have a bunch more Korean and Chinese to get painted and then I can look at playing out some historical skirmish from the Sui/Tang/Silla vs. Koguryo/Beakje/Yamato Wars.

This is my Historical Wargaming Blog.  I have several areas of interest throughout history and it might seem like I have ADD from time to time as I jump from period to period, but they are pretty specific eras and are also generally limited by scale as well.

1)  Asia:  My interest in Asian Warfare seems to be by shear number of miniatures, primary.  My period interests include Chinese, Korean, Mongol and Japanese armies.  Chinese (Tang and Sung, 28mm), Korean (Koryo and Choson, 28mm), Mongol (25mm and 28mm) and Japanese (Edo and Sengoku-jidai, 25mm and 28mm).  Also as a period extra, which should fall under Japan, are some Wako Pirates (28mm).  These round out my Oriental Armies.  Now I add some post Civil War  US Marines for play in the Korean Conflict in 1877.  This allows me to play pretty much every thing from about 500AD to 1890.  Pretty cool!  I think the only thing I need to get would be some Japanese Meiji and Manchu Troops for the Sino-Japanese War and then later on the Japanese Invasion and Occupation of Taiwan.

2) Dark Ages:I bought a bunch of 25mm Plastic Vikings and then some metal as well.  The plastic were all painted wonderfully and all for $5.  Can't beat that.  I had wanted to play out some games with Vikings raiding villages or monasteries, but firstly never acquired an opposite force of the same scale painted (because Im too lazy to paint them myself) and secondly never found someone to play against.  With the printing of THW's Rally around the king I can now play skirmish and full set battles solo.  This is great and I am really looking forward to playing out some games once I get moved in to our new house.  A new friend here told me about another new game SAGA, which if I get a chance might be something to check out as well.

3) WW2:  This period of interest was initially going to be towards Flame of War as the system to use, but over time, the prices and the appearance of the game seemed to be less than what I wanted.  I wanted more of a Platoon on Platoon action game, rather than Company and Bn level.  Once again THW came to the rescue with NUTS!.  The series covers the entire WW2 period with army lists and even alternate ("Weird War") rules.  This will fit in great with my DUST Tactics kits that I still have un-assembled and sitting in a box somewhere.  Overall I don't expect to increase my collection in this time period as I have a good amount of 15,20,28mm models to play with at skirmish level.


4) WW1 Naval: During my last trip to the sandbox, I really became interested in GWAS (Great War at Sea wargame series from Avalanche Press).  The game operates at Strategic and Tactical level which I really like.  It lends to playing out campaigns better.  However, when playing the tactical level engagements I thought it would be really neat to have miniatures instead of counters and so began my interest in 1/6000 ships (They are TINY!) from Figurehead.  I bought a whole bunch and painted the British fleet somewhat, but motivation, time and life all ended that pursuit.  Next engagement TBD....

5) Civil War Ironclad: I was at some schooling in VA and GA recently and went to a Civil War Naval Museum.  Shortly thereafter I impulse bought a set of Ironclad rules and the Expansion Pack.  Well, no minis yet, but it is still of interest.  Like the WW1 Naval...TBD