Friday, 27 December 2019

St. Nazaire game preparation continues

Over the last week I have completed a few more warehouses for a planned St. Nazaire game. The game will require quite a large portion of the tabletop be covered with buildings. So I decided it was time to get an idea of how much area the ones built so far will cover.

My collection of warehouse buildings is slowly growing.
When on the tabletop the buildings will be placed on a board (painted grey) representing the built up area. They need to be reasonably spread out so my 3x3 and 3x4 inch WW2 unit bases will fit nicely in-between them. This also means fewer buildings to build.


Tomorrow I plan to construct another five buildings from cut up wood as before. This should be sufficient with few simple dock cranes to give the feel of a dockyard.


I have also found a few Airfix Commandos which will be painted up to represent the demolition teams.
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  1. Steve J.27 December 2019 at 21:05

    I do something similar with my 10mm BUAs, as it means less buildings and is certainly easier in terms of game play, as I have the buildings removable.

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    1. Peter28 December 2019 at 09:26

      This approach certainly helps with game play. At the moment I leave the buildings in place and units have to fight around them.

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  2. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com28 December 2019 at 02:08

    Looks good to me. This game will have provided a worthwhile amount of enjoyment even before it is played.

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    1. Peter28 December 2019 at 09:34

      Thank you, and I agree the project has been very interesting in terms of background reading and sorting out my buildings approach.

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  3. A J28 December 2019 at 07:08

    Good stuff. I have those same Airfix commandos somewhere.

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    1. Peter28 December 2019 at 09:36

      My WW2 units don't have many Airfix models, but I have included them where possible for nostalgic reasons.

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  4. Dan Foley28 December 2019 at 11:20

    Man I loved those Airfix commandos so many cool poses. The knife guys, sten gunners and the kayak being favorites.

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    1. Peter29 December 2019 at 07:52

      They certainly have some great poses and I am looking forward to painting up a few units as demolition teams.

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  5. Rob28 December 2019 at 23:08

    Looking good, can't wait to see St Nazaire when all laid out, en masse they will look even more impressive.

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    1. Peter29 December 2019 at 07:56

      Thank you. I am close to completing all the buildings.

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  6. Mark, Man of TIN29 December 2019 at 06:23

    Dapol still make the lovely former Airfix Railway series docks crane
    https://www.dapol.co.uk/c030-travelling-dock-side-crane-563

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