October 2020 ... La Piccola a lot of new projects

Despite the Covid 19, one of the reason for which I love my wargame club is that every person is free to share his interest with others. 

For example Valerio and his group are continuing their develop of new Improved Panzer Leader scenarios

Other club mates, as Nevio, can see their efforts published. The "Black Sheep" ... a new role play manual

Another group continue his work on Italian Independence wars 

While others play naval fights between English and Italian navy during Ww2 ...

 ... or work to convert Perry miniatures for new army and battles ...

... or prepare new scenic elements to test new rule systems

 

General test ... How to play ww2 scenarios with different rule sets - September 2020 Part 1

In the last months we played a lot of ww2 scenarios using different rule sets. 

It is a kind of general test for our next idea that it is to play Stalingrad battle but with different miniature scales and manuals. 

Below there are some pics I took in the last period of my miniatures in 20 mm used for: Iron Cross, Rapid Fire, Bolt Action and so on.

Some panzer crews in action

Some American M10s 

An Italian Autoblinda captured by Germans

Two different US squads

Colonial wars - Oct 3, 2020 TMWWBK

The colonial wars are one of periods that have seen a great development over the last few years by wargame lovers. Some rule systems,  for example Black Powder and The Men Who Would Be Kings, allow to play fast and with few miniatures epic battles in a Egyptian deserts or in a tropical jungle.

Last week my club mates played some matches using two different scenarios.

A first fight was set during the Mahdist wars … one of the scenario I prefer. It is impossible do not remember Gordon’s epopea 

... Charles Gordon, a gifted English officer, who was nominated Governor of the Sudan. His try to keep Karthoum is legendary and his death was romanticised in a popular painting by George William Joy: General Gordon’s Last Stand.

My friends did not play the Karthoum's siege but a field battle in a sandy Egypt desert. All miniatures are 28mm and painted by Ivano.

The second-one scenario was a border clash between German troops and local tribes

Also this time miniatures are 28mm. Germans are painted by Ivano while the locals by Giancarlo

Bolt Action - Italians vs English Sept 17, 2020

Some week ago my club mates played a classical scenario using Bolt Action ... The battle organized by them was an Italian army post Armistice (Ivano) vs British troops (Riccardo).

Below I tried to write a kind of battle report ... 

The starting postitions

Italian and British soldiers are approaching to their attack positions

English troops decided to take the cover of a small wall while ...

... other Italian companies arrive

The English commander and his men try to take the control of an house on the Italian's left but ...

... the an Italian airborne unit and the sniper team contrast them and ... 

... at the end the Italians take the house

In the meanwhile the fight in the center of the table becomes hard ...

... also the Italian HQ enters into the game ... 

... and ... at the end the Italian troops control the obj winning the game

Star wars legion - August 2020

We rarely play non-historical periods ... but when one of our old friends asked us if we would test Star Wars Legion rules with him ... knowing his painting skills the result can be only a small masterpiece. Riccardo and Biagio played in the morning and I arrived to the club in the afternoon so I didn't have the opportunity to follow the whole battle but I still took some photos.

Biagio painted all the miniatures and ...

... all the scenic elements they used for the battle

The Imperial AT-ST tries to hit the rebellious scum 

The rebel X-34 Landspeeder is old but can be used to kill these evil Stormtroopers

"I'm your father!"