Valleycon 2018 Day one

Valleycon 2018 has come and gone for another year and once again was a great event. I was playing Bolt action this year using my US forces the points limit was 1000pts. Three of my four opponents were new to me this year 2 of which came down from Napier. Here is what I ran.

Game 1 was vs Ethan Phillips he was one of the two Napier boys he also has a blog make sure to visit www.facebook.com/anempirefallen . He was running Japanese I had never fought this nation before and boy was I in for a shock.

Two suicidal Jap AT bombs the Sherman and At gun made quick work of them.

His army didn't look that big but when you have to kill them to the last man they just keep coming.

This Squad was the first to die. Taking a lot of fire just wore them down.

I kept my half track and vet infantry squad in reserve but they didn't turn up till turn 4. By then he was right on top of them when they came on.

My M4 Sherman was the last man standing and survived the game no matter what Ethan threw at it.

Ethan was a great opponent and got a well deserved win 9pts to 6pts.


Game 2 was vs Chris Stewart he was the second guy from Napier he was running British with a AVRE Churchill heavy tank. So buildings were a no go zone with that around.

My Vet infantry and Sherman went up one flank and everything else stayed central.

My sniper and At gun meet resistance at the hedge.

On the right side my .50cal and .30cal do their best to hold back the infantry advancing through the bushes until help can arrive.

My flanking maneuver on the right had gone well. AT gun and squad of infantry dispatched with.

The next turn though my flank march came to a grinding halt. I fired first but missed Chris didn't make the same mistake.

With my last AT asset gone the Churchill had free reign on the table but luckily the game ended before too much was killed.

Second game second good opponent. Good win Chris 6pts to 4pts.

Even though I had lost my first two games I quite enjoyed playing them vs so new opponents. But it was time to get out of the heat in that hall not helped but one of the event organizers turning on the heating thinking the controls were for air conditioning. Oh well home for the evening.

Trenchworx T-35 Land Battleship

My T-35 Land battleship from Trenchworx finally arrived in the post today and I must say im impressed with the detail on the model and the size of it. The tank came with all the parts neatly bubble wrapped each in their own bubble wrap bag. On the Plastic resin used for the hull and turrets there was very little in the way of mold lines and no imperfections like bubbling or warping I can see. The two 45mm gun turrets the main turret came with magnets to hold them on. There were two variants of 76mm gun for the T-35 main turret so there is magnets for that as well so the barrels are interchangeable. All the add on bits like hatches. gun barrels, exhausts and other bits were the white metal you get in most resin kits like Flames of War.

All the parts laid out

This tank had 11 crew 2 in each 45mm turret 1 in each MG turret, 3 in the main turret a driver and radio operator

Its almost twice as long as a Sherman but despite its size & class as a heavy tank in Bolt Action its classed as a medium tank.

Front on its a bit higher then a Sherman but im guessing King tigers and the like will be just as tall.

Well I must Say well done Trenchworx on a great model 5 out of 5.
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28mm WW2 Terrain

Ive been busy working away on more terrain for Bolt action hoping to get it all done in time for Valleycon later this month. Mostly railway lines and rail cars with a loco. But have done some buildings A V2 launch pad and fencing.

The train brand had Fenfa on the side the set I got had the tracks. train and tender, 2x container cars which are now flat deck cars, 2x passenger cars which went into making the rail gun, and 2x modern oil tankers so they became box cars. Track was unbased.

Still a work in progress but my take on the german railgun. The 280mm K5(E) Leopold. still lots to do on that.

The V2 rocket was a Pegasus Hobbies model 1/48 scale but it looks close enough.

Corrugated card, Plasticard and cardboard strips is all you see here. line in the card just cut in but not too deep.

There is enough track to do much more of a rail yard plus I have much more houses to put on.

Match sticks, skewers, and U shaped weed matting pegs used for my two towers.

Just plasticard base and high density foam for the tow bunkers.

Factory building with removable roof and the inner first floor. just a wooden base and plasticard.

The fence is wire mesh with wooden base and skewers that had a wide end so cut part of the end off for the barbed wire along the top. Which was just 2 wires twisted together.

Once all this is finished ill get back into my 6mm Napoleonic Prussians. And then down the line get started on my Russians for Bolt action. I hope to have my 28mm T-35 Land Battleship soon coming from Trenchworx in America, That was my Christmas Present. I hope it cools down a bit so I can get back into painting soon as its so warm the paint dries on the brush before you can use it.