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jeffersParticipantYes, Max. That’s the good general answer. The ammunition was of more use on the perimeter, as were Brens etc.
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jeffersParticipantAbsolutely gorgeous!
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jeffersParticipantRegardless of drill:
“As retreating units came into the perimeter, they were instructed to destroy vehicles and heavy equipment and in many cases, they were relieved of ammunition and automatic weapons by the rearguard soldiers to bolster the defender’s armoury.”
From here: http://dunkirk1940.org/index.php?&p=1_17
There’s the answer for your youngest. 😄
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jeffersParticipantMy understanding was that in the retreat to Dunkirk the BEF was cut off from a lot of its supplies: the ammunition that was available was redistributed to those troops defending the perimeter. The priority was getting people out, rather than delivering more ammo that would probably be lost, so most of the AA defence was from the RN off the coast and RAF inland. Once the army AA ran out of ammo it was ‘spiked’.
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jeffersParticipantI was happily using Timpo, Britains and Crescent figures together when I was three, so really cannot understand a mindset that works on an ‘x figures for x rules’ thing. It would just never occur to me. Mind you, I’m of the opinion that I build an army based and organised how I want and make the rules fit them. None of that rebasing nonsense.
And I have gamed platoon actions with 1/6 figures. Lots of fun!
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jeffersParticipantLooks like the mystery has been solved. The buyer obtained CCTV footage from his building which showed the driver just dumping the parcel by the door and a woman stealing it an hour later. Police are now involved, DHL have sacked the driver and have coughed to being at fault. Now I just have to wait for eBay to grind through their process.
So probably a sad end to my nicely painted Elheim and Britannia BAOR: dumped in a bin when the thief finds its not a Gucci handbag.
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jeffersParticipantQuick update….
The buyer is genuine and does not hold me responsible. His complaint is against the courier in NZ and it seems I have been caught in the crossfire of eBay procedure. He has all my UK tracking info, but as eBay has already registered and tracked it on the GSP it should put me on the clear.
Looking at the community emails this does not seem to be uncommon, but so long as tracking shows delivery to Lichfield eBay leaves you alone. But it’s not a particularly pleasant experience.
UK only from now on! Or as Willz says, start looking at Etsy….
Thanks again!
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jeffersParticipantChaps
Thank you for the very prompt and reassuring advice!
I did use the GSP and have proof of post with a tracking number, so fingers crossed I’m in the clear.
I think in future it’s UK sales only…
PS Mike – I had the same from a UK buyer who miraculously had a delivery just after showed him the delivery confirmation…
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jeffersParticipantBaufix dark yellow, Army Painter Black or Skeleton Bone or Halfords/whatever the local Car Mart sells for motors.
I had the same problem with Army Painter White peeling off S&S models. Nothing else did, so not a problem with the models. Unless Shaun uses some kind of white primer repellent in his resin mix…😁
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jeffersParticipantIt says Mess Bill! The trailer was a spare from Cromwell, I think. Needed to be put to better use than water or petrol.
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jeffersParticipantIf I ever get the chance to play again! I’ve always liked RF – it does what it says on the tin – but I’ve been in groups where one or two ‘haters’ have stymied any chance of adopting it. RFR gives me all I need for the desert war and, like you say, there is always RF2 (or 1) if I find something that isn’t.
And, of course, you must have read my spiel about RF players being nice people… 😁
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jeffersParticipantWhat about the old Atlantic ‘Stampede’ set? Couple of imposing longhorns in the set that might fit the bill.
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jeffersParticipantDo I spy a Hinchliffe in there? 😎
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jeffersParticipantCheers Willz! That’s pretty close. I’m using EWM Pz3s but I’m always on the lookout for models that would fit with my 1/76 kit. I find the die casts are a bit of a mixed bag for scale. I’ve some M13/40s for my Italians that are a perfect.
Merry Christmas!
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jeffersParticipantSuperb! How do they compare size-wise to the Matchbox Pz3?
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jeffersParticipantIndeed, I maintain Type 1 Airfix are the ideal wargaming figures. They were designed for children to paint and look good at ‘playing distance’. They are also quite robust. In other words, suitable for the majority of wargamers!
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jeffersParticipantThat’s what I was thinking. Any wargaming I do will involve travel, so it gives them a bit of protection on the move. Also, I have some diecast Italian tanks and the tracks tend to go a bit ‘sticky’, despite layers of wood glue.
Off to Minibits for more MDF bases, then: brace yourself, Leon!
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jeffersParticipantAh, you wonderful beastie, Willz!
On my painting table at the moment is an Airfix Pz4 and a Matchbox Pz3 (and two EWM Pz3s) all getting ready for 15 Panzer Div. I’ve finally relented and going the Rapid Fire route, but cannot decide if I should base my vehicles or not. This is swaying me… fab work. 👍
PS: My Revell/Matchbox Pz2s are wrapped ready for Christmas, apparently.😁
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jeffersParticipantAcceptable to whom?
Mike H +1.
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jeffersParticipantDid you know his dad is Robert Pine, the sergeant in CHiPs?
I’ve played D&D twice. The first time the ‘DUNGEON MASTER!!!’ (he was very important and wanted us all to know) spent most of his time trying to get my character killed: I later found out he had the hots for my then girlfriend, so I suppose what he couldn’t do in real life… Later somebody tried to introduce it at the club and I found more entertainment gazing aimlessly out of the window. So don’t feel you’re missing out… 😆
I suggest watching Lawrence of Arabia and The Dam Busters instead!
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jeffersParticipantIrish – watch Carry On Sergeant! Filmed in 1958 and indistinguishable from late WW2 in 15mm.
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jeffersParticipantNo idea, but the cost to my mental health cutting the bloomin’ things out was high.
For the sake of balance, the buildings are very good and the ECW book is worth buying for the rules alone!
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jeffersParticipantEvery time I open a kit box I’m twelve again. The benefit of age means I don’t have to endure skool.
Mike H – Snap! My mum insisted for my 11th birthday I had something that wasn’t Airfix related, so alongside my Modern German Infantry I had to be grateful for a Swingball. A few months later, it was stored in the shed and I was using its box as Lufthansa 181 – stormed by the Modern German Infantry posing as GSG9.
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jeffersParticipantI’m glad someone mentioned RAF. It’s a work of genius and easily the best solitaire game I’ve played – alarmingly, I cannot even recall the others apart from B17! St Lo might have been, but it was so dull I didn’t manage a full game.
I think it takes a lot of design experience to get right and not everything is well-suited to solitaire play (strategic air warfare may be the easiest, I don’t know…), so I wish you luck in your endeavour and would love to hear the results. I have certainly never been able to ‘solitaire’ anything and just play both sides with equivalent evil intent. I grew up doing it so it’s second nature.
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jeffersParticipantThe name of my blog indicates my Eureka moment! But I rate 1983 as my second formative wargaming year. In late ‘82 I discovered Esdevium Games in Aldershot and spent most of ‘83 perusing their rules-packed shelves. Got into loads of things: Pony Wars, WRG 1950-85, Newbury Colonial, cowboys, Zulus, AWI, WW2, 1/32 in the garden…. and if I had no figures, I just used card strips.
Great soundtrack to the year too, even if it did start with Renee & Renato.
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jeffersParticipantWhat can you see at arms length? Do that.
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jeffersParticipantCheers Jim but it’s another Super Mystere. Nice touch with the base, though!
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jeffersParticipantCheers Willz. I’ve got the Super Mystere but it’s the IV I need to complete the set. I think it’s dropped into the ‘collectors market’ silliness now, hence the price tags, so I’m being a bit of a chancer but I’d be happy with a battered made up one I could repair.
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jeffersParticipantLeon – I hope my recent order clock-up didn’t cost you too much on the packing front… 😬
On the upside you know I’ll be back… 😉
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jeffersParticipantSuperb as always.
I didn’t know Hat had released their ACW sets. That’s the final nail in my Blue Moon coffin lid. I’ve already assembled a load of Airfix I had in the loft and bought some Jacklex to bring my ACW in line with my other projects.
43 years of Wargaming and I’ve come full circle!
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jeffersParticipantI have a big idea, check out all the nice kit available, plot & plan… and then my credit card bill comes in. I look at that, see how much money the dog costs me and cry. Any spare money is now put towards my ‘sack, brick & one-way ticket to the Kennet & Avon’ budget.
I’m currently on a drive to sell things that will either never be finished or not 20/small 25mm, so anything that enhances the latter is paid for by the former. I actually find the time I have available to paint stuff is more limiting than a budget.
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jeffersParticipantWillz – same happens with die cast vehicles. The tracks and wheels go glossy and sticky despite being smothered in PVA both before and after painting. I stopped using them in the end and went to computer printed.
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jeffersParticipantReally, you should be using Terry Wise’s Airfix rules …😄
I have Airfix type 1 8th Army & DAK. I don’t varnish because I use acrylic which forms a mini gimp suit around the figure and won’t crack like old enamels. The trick is to make sure the figures are covered top to toe and there are no gaps. Indeed, Type 1 Airfix were robust figures anyway and my original 1969 box of 8th Army I painted in 1977 or thereabouts are still in good order. They are at the top of the page here: http://battle77.blogspot.com/2019/08/little-acorns.html. Later figures with spindly weapons would flake enamel by harsh words alone.
Now, it’s acrylics all the way for me and I only varnish metals (and I use special metal primer too).
Apologies for hijacking the thread!
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jeffersParticipantSane Max – I’m keeping quiet about my current obsession with 1/100 aeroplane models… 😉
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jeffersParticipantHere is a handy online guide for my family:
https://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/household-waste
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jeffersParticipantI spent a lot of time in Esdevium Games in Aldershot! The Zulu rules, Once Upon a Time in the West (all purchased about the same time) were shiny. By ‘85 I’m pretty sure they were all plain card; certainly the sets I bought were. I probably notice because I have a hypersensitivity thing about particular textures. Not superior knowledge; just a bit… well…🤪
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jeffersParticipantThe blue shiny version is like mine, purchased in 1983. If memory serves me, TTG rules tended to have shiny covers at that time but as the decade went on they opted for cheaper covers, which is when PW went yellow. They are both genuine but one seller is more of an optimist… Can’t see the card inserts in either though.
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jeffersParticipantThere are two sets of rules on evilBay at the moment: one is £3.99 and the other £228!
Of course, there is nothing stopping anybody from taking the rules and adapting them to smaller tables, fewer figures etc. It was the mechanisms that made it entertaining, not tonnage of metal.
But I agree, a pdf download running alongside a comprehensive range of figures would be better.
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jeffersParticipantHere we go…
http://vintagewargaming.blogspot.com/2009/04/following-three-posts-are-series-of.html
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jeffersParticipantOf no help to you whatsoever, a friend of mine still has his original copy of Bish Iwaszko’s WW2 rules. They are over 50 years old and rather battered! It would be nice if John Curry could republish them, but they were printed in an odd format so doubt the feasibility.
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