I have just received the sad news of the passing of Martin Clemens, the Scottish coastwatcher who helped the US Marines on Guadalcanal. He long aided...
Based on the Singapore Photo, the Hamburg Line ships seem to have kept their civilian colors. Hospital ships would have been white, with little red crosses on...
... Jim could you enlighten me regarding the Singapore Photo i'm not sure if i've seen this pic. So i can paint the Hospital Ship Orel like you say above. I'll...
Visit the WTJ Articles page. There is a feature entitled The Russian Baltic Fleet, it is a copy of the panorama I found a few years ago. A point I do not...
Adjoining panic is governed by: "Adjoining Panic - A division will roll on the panic index if any adjoining division within 8cm becomes panicked during the...
Sorry for the delay in responding Jon. To answer your question, yes it would. I considered only having it apply to heavier cavalry and not light, but decided...
hi, im knew to historic wargames and really interested in naval nepoleonic and naval ww2. I dont know which rules to get or which models to use. If someone...
Hi Simon, a lot depends on scale and complexity. I tend to the simple in smallish scales. So I use 1/1200 Langtons ships for Napoleonic using the Langtons...
Hey Simon, Try finding the nearest gaming convention near you and visit that, you can often see a variety of games going on. A while back I wrote an article...
In some of the "Quickfire" scenarios, they mention "points" (specifically a reference of over/under 24 points) for merchants/transports passing a certain...
Hi Dennis, Some scenarios refer to size points - usually a total number of size points. For example, a player might need to pass a total minimum of 16 size...
Jim and others, OK, how would points be awarded? By tonnage? Arbitrarily? Are there charts for mechants, transports, etc, giving point values? Sometimes I get...
You should note ship Size on the data charts for each nationality. Formulas for calculation are in Quickfire Ship Stat Formula link, and are based on tonnage...
As Stephen already noted, the size points are calculated by tonnage, with each point equalling roughly 1,000 tons. The breakdown is modified slightly both by...
I would like to hear from anyone interested in science fiction and sci-fi gaming for a new project I have developed. This will not be posted at WTJ, but WTJ's...
Jim, What models do you recommend for the following Yosemite and Antonio Lopez http://web.archive.org/web/20050204161957/home.coqui.net/sarrasin/antonio.htm ...
Hi Steve, You know, the funny thing about predreadnought period ships is that no matter how many are made, there's always one more that does not look like any...
Jim, Thanks for the help! I may very well go with the Orel and Foudre and try my scratchbuilding skills to modify them up a bit. In the next month or so, my...
Both ground and space ops eventually, although it's technically ground units that I'm releasing first. I say technically because the miniatures are not like...
All sent. Once I'm done getting some initial feedback and made some final corrections, I'll post the link on-line, etc. The next step after that will be to get...
Just a quick question regarding speed boxes. Are players required to announce which undamaged speedbox they intend to use for a ship during the movement phase?...
Hi Carlos, I would say in most normal situations there would (hopefully) be no need for that. However in situations where it matters, players might want to...
Thanks for the input so far. I've gotten in the main lot of miniatures and completed all of the initial copy editing for the stories and rules. The link for...
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