See http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/News.html for details. New HaT and Valdemar sets have arrived HaT have released their latest batch of new figure sets....
Thanks to everyone who attended the 2 days of Napoleonic Wargaming at St Brendens School over the w/e.Bryan Fowler did a fantastic job putting it together and...
Oh I know the answer to this. I watched in horror during an exercise when the gun line used the 105mm Light Gun in an anti-tank role. Other than that, the...
I forgot, our Scorpion crews considered anything more powerful than 9mm to be an AT weapon, made them very nervous to have 7.62 pointed at them. G [Non-text...
Carl Gustav. G ... From: Simon Dennan To: NZWargaming_Discuss@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [NZWD] NZ Army 80s/90s Carlie...
I had an idea to try to put together a 1/300MSH or WRG NZ army. But it seems it would be dog tucker. Any advice ont hat front? Or would Aussies be better? Or...
In any sort of combat at that level of over company size where support of any type is required the NZ Army would be dog tucker under any rules. We had no...
Some ideas on the Aussies from a WRG perspective. Infantry may be on foot or APC (M113) and in the cavalry units have the upgraded model with Scorpion turret,...
That was my understanding, although I'm not sure on the exit dates you mention. By the way, this is a common 'fit-out' for the region. The NZ Army was never...
The NZArmy uses a manual called the P86 - staff officers handbook, It has detailed equipment lists and Orbats which are a wish list of what a full modern NZ...
Hi, For those of you interested in 6mm Spearhead competition proposed for at NATCON 2007 updated competition information has been uploaded to the official...
Hi - I just wanted to lend my support to Allen's email. The refight for Jena was great fun, and I appreciate the large amount of effort that went into the...
Guys, Apologies for cross posting but hopefully all will be interested. This weekend I played my second SH game using Keith McNelly's Spearhead Scenario...
Not to detract from Kieth's efforts, but this terrain setting capability has been in the WRG rules since 1988. How would a scenario system work when players...
... And some of the least realistic terrain you have ever seen results from it too! So you see lots of square towns but none of the much more realistic "strip"...
Hi A rather disappointed turnout and the convention was held in their club rooms in a basement. 15/17 mostly locals. 4 DBM 25 mm John C (Ham) Wayne (Ak) Gordan...
... No one is claiming this is new or rocket science. ... The plan for Nationals is to limit foreces to 1944 because of this very problem. ... Agreed, the...
Are people following the UK led debate about the death of DBM? Is WHAB taking over in NZ for anc ients & medieval wargaming? [Non-text portions of this message...
I guess there are a variety of reasons traditional attendees weren't there. In my case the budget was going to be about 300 bucks and I couldn't justify that...
Similar reasons for me too. Went last year and enjoyed it. However, this year had already been to NP for Nicon; the cost etc of another trip there didn't quite...
Steve Hodgson
shodgson@...
Oct 24, 2006 9:08 pm
11348
In WRG either destruction (absolute) or manouver are the way to win, but usually a combination of both for attackers. Defenders could set own objectives in a...
_________________________________________________________________ Need more speed? Get Xtra Broadband @ http://jetstream.xtra.co.nz/chm/0,,202853-1000,00.html...
Hi all Here's a battle report with lots of photos from a large predread game we had recently. The games was based in Asia and features US, Germans, Japanese...