Solo Battlegroup for testing

 The other evening I got the Battlegroup Facebook group involved in helping me randomly design forces for a 400 point solo Battlegroup game.  I only played about four turns but it was just to see how the randomization tables worked.

I concocted D66 tables for both Soviets and Germans for 1943 (just post Kursk), with both an Attacker and Defender table for each.  I had people on the Facebook group roll for me and I assembled the two forces to try them out.  It worked pretty well.

Just some pictures from the game:

A game and some Berserkers.

 Nothing much to report lately, but a small GM'ed game of Merciless.

And painted up a few more stands of Berserkers for my FSF army.

Some games...

 I picked up a small collection of Star Wars Armada to have a "one box game" on hand for when we felt like playing something a bit more laid back.

Also played a violent game of Famine, Sword, & Fire - testing out a 300 point size army vs. my buddy Josh.

Some Victrix Ancients reinforcements.

 Adding some more stands of Dacians from Victrix to my FSF army. 

All aboard the struggle bus! Wooo woooo!

 Been struggling to be motivated to do anything lately.  However, I had primed these five assault marines a while ago.  My enthusiasm for 40K has all but diminished, but I will try to see through this small 2nd edition force project.

Die-Cast Stuka for Battlegroup

 I finally took a gamble on a die-cast Stuka in 1/100 or 1/110 scale.  It was an African theatre Stuka, so I stripped it down, sanded stuff off, and repainted it in a fake generic Eastern Front/Italian scheme.

 

 

Plastic Soldier Company 8-Rads (15mm)

 I've been in a serious hobby lull since over-doing it at Siege of Augusta.  While I'm constantly working on random rules, etc...I just hadn't wanted to pick up a paint brush.

When this happens, I find 15mm is normally my easy "get out of the funk" scale since I can pick up some cool kit, paint it in an evening and feel like I accomplished something.

I grabbed the PSC 8-Rad kit (231 and variants), and threw together three of the five, stashing the last two in case I ever do grey stuff for early war.

I made a basic Sdkfz 231...one Sdkfz 233 (with the short 75mm assault gun), and a more rare Sdkfz 263 8-Rad, the weird command model featuring only a hull MG.