LnL World at War Series: Blood and Bridges - Hold The Line Scenario Replay

Here's a replay of a beloved game and scenario. This time I used my Hexon tiles. In the earlier game Hotz Mats was used. See World at War: Blood and Bridges, Scenario 5: Hold the Line

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I created a word document with all the scenario information
(scanned units and counters) as the reference guide for my
group that shows all the units (enlarged) used on the table to
mitigate clutter on my table. Being able to read the counter
information because the print is too tiny on those counters makes
game play easier for these tired eyes. I believe at one point,
LnL (under Mark L. Walker) released unit cards but I don't
think they're available under the new management.  

Scenario page shows Victory Conditions with 
Turn Marker when special units arrive, etc. 
helps game flow and keeps accuracy of events 

WIP Hexon Game Board: Using masking
tape as placeholder for roads 

WIP Hexon Game Board: Using blue colored sand to
represent rivers on my custom-made hexes

WIP Hexon Game Board: Using carpet tile samples (4" squares) easily
acquired from local DIY stores (e.g. Lowes or Home Depot) and cut
to hex shape. Different colors denote burnt crops or planted fields 

WIP Hexon Game Board: Using PicoArmor Euro Village Buildings and my
custom-made rubble and building ruins to represent towns and villages 

WIP Hexon Game Board: A bigger picture

WIP Hexon Game Board: Applied colored sand mix (gray, black
and brown - again easily acquired from any craft shop:
e.g. Michael's or Hobby Lobby) for roads

WIP Hexon  Game Board: Finally coming together, most of these
components were used in the earlier posting

Close up view of some of the riverside towns
with my scratch built trellis bridges 

NATO Air Power
Top row: British Lynx
Middle Row: FRG BO-105
Tornados (flanking) and F4 Phantom 

Lynxs on the prowl
Trees are from 'We Honest' (a Chinese website
featuring cost-effective trees great for gaming)

The point of a minis table is no clutter with TMI. Instead I use
lettered beads (from Michael's or Hobby Lobby) in lieu of markers
to denote unit status (D = Disrupted, R = Reduced)

2xT80 Platoons + an HQ Unit (H = HQ)

Here are some dismounted NATO infantry supported by FVs and a Milan
Modified pipe cleaners make great missile markers

GHQ conifer trees on pennies

Red disks indicate 'Ops Complete' mode for units
that completed any action (move or combat)

Another artillery barrage landing on
a Soviet advance in the woods

Using the trees as cover the Soviets advance but is
pounded on by NATO artillery strikes

A NATO elevated over watch position 

Smoking and burning hulks are wrecks
and this Soviet HQ company was decimated

Artillery barrage represented by Paper Terrain explosion pack

Perilous river crossing for the Soviet BMPs Infantry Carriers

Bombardment aftermath: Destroyed BMP and Disrupted BMP on the bridge
Adjacent hex: Destroyed

NATO fortified position with dug-in infantry
and Dragon support weapon

Another T80 platoon casualty

2xT80 platoons out of Command Control
and effectively out of the fight

New and Old Toys, Part 5

Taking advantage of my already set up table...

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Meanwhile, Mars attacks and Earth forces defends...

More Proxying Fun: Ars Victor with MechWarrior Minis, Part 2

Using lots of found objects (e.g. plastic caps) to simulate Sci-fi Cityscapes

Hex to hex conversion
Left: Original game map
Right: Hexon and terrain representation

Before: original game map and counters

After: Hexon tile map with proxied minis

Before: original game board and counters

After: Heavy Unit represented by re-purposed MechWarrior minis

What if? Posing some microarmor with Martian Tripods for fun

What if? F4 Phantom on a flyby recon

My Favorite Martians: Tripods, Part 2

Now that the Tripods are done (no painting necessary and just dipped them in Army Painter Dark). The scenario calls for civilians and cars. So after some diligent searching I found them all on EBay. 

Plastic pre-painted people are from EBay. Giant bugs in the back under
the Tripods were an earlier acquisition so I don't know the manufacturer.
Bases are from Gale Force Nine, however.

These civilian cars are to scale w/6mm and got these from EBay as well.
Still needs some painting but they're good to go. 

My Favorite Martians: Tripods, Part 1

EUREKA! Literally. After a long search for just the right mini to represent a Martian Tripod for use on a conversion of a fan generated special scenario for LnL's World at War Board game series, "To Save a Life", I found these super cool tripods from EUREKA Games.


As I've mentioned in my past blog posts, I've been a loyal fan of LNL Publishing (which has just changed ownership) and Mark L. Walker's game systems: World at War (WaW) and Nations at War (NaW) series and the Lock n Load system for infantry platoons. 

I've been dying to try out this Mars vs Earth (circa mid-1980s) using my micro armor on a Hexon terrain table. Imagine period Warsaw Pact and NATO armor and armament duking it out with the aliens from the Red planet. Earth forces, check. Civilians, check. Civilian cars, check. All that I was lacking were the tripods. And here they be, by golly!

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Straight out of the box, these non-painted and
assembled Tripods look great

"Get away from her, you bitch!"

Thunderbolt coming to support

Poor Bloody Infantry gets into the mix