Various Questions on Rules
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Posted 15 August 2010 - 04:07 AM
#2
Posted 02 September 2010 - 04:02 PM
#3
Posted 10 September 2010 - 01:33 PM
Dan:I also do not base my tanks. I generally find some mechanism to identify my platoon and company command vehicles, but that mechanism may vary from one set of units to another.Some examples:The most common technique I use is distinctive markings. For this Romanian armored car unit, all of the vehicles have the hollow-outlined white Michael's Cross on the turret sides as a national marking (hardly visible in the picture), but only the command vehicles have the filled-in yellow-with-red Michael's Cross aerial recognition on the engine hoods.For my US French-North-Africa M3 Medium Tanks the command tanks have stars painted on their hull sides, in addition to the stars on their turret sides. In this formation I've also marked the Company Sargent's tank as a command tank, as it might be used to stand-in if any of the platoon CO's get knocked out.For my US late-war (ETO) M4 Medium Tanks I got a bit more lazy. The only national markings at all are the white stars on the command tanks.The next most common technique is distinctive modelling.In my Italian Saharianna Camionnetta patrol the vehicle armed only with MGs is the company commander. (This vehicle also has a crewman standing with binocs ... a common identifier for commander or observer in my forces.) The 20mm gun-armed camionnettas are the platoon commanders.For my US tank destroyers, I have the advantage that none of the TD tracks were command vehicles -- the battery (and company) commanders rode in armored cars. BUT so also did the battery (and company) sargents. So the commander's armored cars are identified by the crewman with binoculars. In this case I could also have (and still might) added a trailer onto the sargents' A/Cs, as they tended to tow the extra ammo for the unit.For my Soviet SU-152s I have put commanders in the hatches. Commander figures are chest-up cuts from artillery crew (wth their helmets filed and squeezed a bit), that have been inserted into a drilled hole where the closed hatch was modelled. The open hatch is cut and painted plastic sheet.Often enough I combine the two approaches. You may have observed some distinctive modelling in the M3s in the form of extra kit on the engine decks, which is used to identify platoon sargent (or company sargent) tanks. In my Shermans the white star indicates Commander, while the crewman in the hatch (with AA HMG) indicates a 105mm howitzer tank (which, without extra distinctive modelling, can be hard to keep track of at this scale).For the command tanks among my French H-39s I have removed the spare roadwheel, and painted a French roundel in its location. It may sound overly complicated, but it really isn't. On the battleboard it is pretty easy to tell which vehicle in the platoon is modelled or painted with some minor distinction. That's all it takes. Just some ideas. Hope that helps. Be interested in seeing what others have come up with.-Mark(aka: Mk 1)How are other players marking the tank platoon leaders. I don't base my tanks. I have put antennaes on some tanks. just curious if there were other ideas.
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Posted 10 September 2010 - 04:17 PM
#5
Posted 10 September 2010 - 05:54 PM
I like the look of antennae. But on the occasions when I've done them, they just don't last long enough for my purposes. I package my armies in hinged baseball card cases (or the little plastic cases CinC still uses, or Panzer Keepers) with foam, and my antennae "take it in the shorts" every time I put my vehicles in or out of the box. :(I still like doing the antennas though. Drill a pin hole someowhere appropriate and insert a trimmed black bristle from a cheap paint brush. They are very small and flexible.
That's very much my thinking. Visible to me, not so obvious to my opponants. That's one reason that I use different techniques on different units.However on some vehicles I like the idea of putting not so noticable mark of sorts on the back of a tank where the opposing player can't pick out the commander so easily.
Pics are fun. I love looking at other folks pics. My own modelling skills have improved by leaps and bounds by looking at the pics and chatting about the modelling techniques over on the GHQ Forum.I really like the pictures.
Oy, you got that right! :lol: As an example, my Romanian force: http://i10.photobuck...nSM79s2.jpgThis is certainly the smallest force in my WW2 "active forces" box, unless I consider my French Armee d'Afrique as a seperate force from my 1940 French Armyhttp://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a122/Mark-1/FrenchColonialsInfSqd2.jpgReally just getting started on this force ...But I have notably larger Italian, US 1942/43, US 1944/45, French 1940, and Soviet (any time, any place!) armies.You have a lot of stuff~.
Not regularly enough.Game with a gang I refer to as the BATN-PPs (Bay Area TankNet Pewter-Pushers). Tanknet is an online military discussion forum populated by ~3,500 current and former tankers, notable military history authors, and general treadhead-enthusiasts. Kind of like a support group for those who are addicted to heavy metal ... :P http://i10.photobuck...eopen.jpgSorry. Really ought to switch to decaf. ;) Besides my BATN-PPs, I also do some gaming with a few members of the South Bay Gaming Club. Alas they seem to prefer another ruleset, while I like MP. But that hasn't stopped us from having some good games over the past couple years.Here are a few pics from a recent game -- Italians of the CSIR (specifically Torino and Pasubio Divisions) try to close the noose around 4 Soviet divisions near the crossroads at Loboikivka (during the battle of Petrikovka) in September of 1941. http://i10.photobuck...amesatplay.jpgI really do need to put together an AAR of that battle! Had a blast! First time my Italians actually faced off against Soviets on a battleboard -- yet that was the reason I built that army in the first place! As I said, I really gotta switch to decaf! :lol: -Mark(aka: Mk 1)Do you have a good group that you play with regularly?
#6
Posted 16 June 2011 - 08:44 AM
Mark, those are excellent ideas, and beat painting something on the bottom of command vehicles.Danlewistn wrote:Dan:I also do not base my tanks. I generally find some mechanism to identify my platoon and company command vehicles, but that mechanism may vary from one set of units to another.Some examples:The most common technique I use is distinctive markings. For this Romanian armored car unit, all of the vehicles have the hollow-outlined white Michael's Cross on the turret sides as a national marking (hardly visible in the picture), but only the command vehicles have the filled-in yellow-with-red Michael's Cross aerial recognition on the engine hoods.For my US French-North-Africa M3 Medium Tanks the command tanks have stars painted on their hull sides, in addition to the stars on their turret sides. In this formation I've also marked the Company Sargent's tank as a command tank, as it might be used to stand-in if any of the platoon CO's get knocked out.For my US late-war (ETO) M4 Medium Tanks I got a bit more lazy. The only national markings at all are the white stars on the command tanks.The next most common technique is distinctive modelling.In my Italian Saharianna Camionnetta patrol the vehicle armed only with MGs is the company commander. (This vehicle also has a crewman standing with binocs ... a common identifier for commander or observer in my forces.) The 20mm gun-armed camionnettas are the platoon commanders.For my US tank destroyers, I have the advantage that none of the TD tracks were command vehicles -- the battery (and company) commanders rode in armored cars. BUT so also did the battery (and company) sargents. So the commander's armored cars are identified by the crewman with binoculars. In this case I could also have (and still might) added a trailer onto the sargents' A/Cs, as they tended to tow the extra ammo for the unit.For my Soviet SU-152s I have put commanders in the hatches. Commander figures are chest-up cuts from artillery crew (wth their helmets filed and squeezed a bit), that have been inserted into a drilled hole where the closed hatch was modelled. The open hatch is cut and painted plastic sheet.Often enough I combine the two approaches. You may have observed some distinctive modelling in the M3s in the form of extra kit on the engine decks, which is used to identify platoon sargent (or company sargent) tanks. In my Shermans the white star indicates Commander, while the crewman in the hatch (with AA HMG) indicates a 105mm howitzer tank (which, without extra distinctive modelling, can be hard to keep track of at this scale).For the command tanks among my French H-39s I have removed the spare roadwheel, and painted a French roundel in its location. It may sound overly complicated, but it really isn't. On the battleboard it is pretty easy to tell which vehicle in the platoon is modelled or painted with some minor distinction. That's all it takes. Just some ideas. Hope that helps. Be interested in seeing what others have come up with.-Mark(aka: Mk 1)
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