Going on hobby hiatus

 About to dive into a major project at work that may lead to a nice promotion... So, I am officially standing down all hobby work for at least the rest of the year.

Have fun without me for a bit, good gaming!

What a Tanker! game day Recap

 A quick recap of our What a Tanker game day yesterday at the Spartanburg (SC) county public library.  If you are a gamer in the South Carolina, North Carolina, or Georgia area please consider joining our IO Group.  There are wargamers everywhere eager for a game!

The facilities were great, we used the conference room on the 2nd floor, lots of windows and natural light and plenty of space.  Here is the table set up and ready to go.  A Cigar Box battle mat, Kallistra (non-Hex) hills underneath, and a mix of resin and 3D printed buildings.  We used my 10mm / 1:150 scale 3d printed tanks.

 A close up of the village, somewhere in Ukraine, 1943-44.

We played 2 games, the first was two T-34/76's against two Panzer IVH's.  Here we see my wife's T-34 burst in to flames after trading point blank shots with a German for 2 turns.

The players seemed to get comfortable with the rules pretty quickly, so for game 2 I mixed it up a little bit.  We shifted the teams and ran a STuG III and a Panther versus a T-34/85 and SU-152.  In retrospect it may not have been fair, the SU-152 having a ridiculous armor and strike value. 

The first game saw the players charge in for a close in knife fight, the second saw both sides being much more cautious and camping out on high ground and shooting it out from afar.  Here are the Soviets parked on their hill.

It ended with the catastrophic explosion of the StuG and eventually the Panther as well, after much backing up behind hills, running up and shooting.

We wrapped after than, each game taking right at 1 hour, with 4 players new to the rules and a referee not much better off.  

Here are the players, thanks to Charlie, Jason, and his daughter Lilly.  But most of all thanks to my lovely and talented wife, Jozi (of whose tin man I am) , who encouraged me to do this, helped set it all up, and pushed some tanks around too.

I am looking to make this a regular thing, maybe monthly or quarterly, so stay tuned. 

What a Tanker! Game coming up Saturday!

 

Quick picture from a small WaT game I played with my wife's nephew this weekend. I finally nailed his Tiger I with my T-35/85.  Russian orthodox church was recently 3d printed. 

We are playing this Saturday, June 18th.  Please RSVP using this form, I'll bring coffee and Donuts from Krispy Kreme:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRVFgw6tWvLDDju6NN2O22AfgLsPgb9OLfsUfbTrxTE3cI3g/viewform 

Spartanburg County Public Library HQ Branch

151 S. Church Street

Spartanburg, SC 29306

Harley Conference Room (2nd floor)

 

• 10:30AM  Arrive
• 11:00AM Start Play
• ~2PM End Play, adjourn to Blue Moon (https://bluemoonsc.com/) across the street for lunch

Parking is FREE at library

 

We will play 'What A Tanker" From Too Fat Lardies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWE_ShqU5L8) and should be able to get in a training game and 1 or 2 additional games. We will play with my 12mm tanks on a 6 x 4 table, late war Eastern Front.

 

I will have everything set up and ready to go, just bring yourself, your favorite dice if you like, and lunch money. 

FOR MORE INFO, see the SCHGS IO Group: groups.io/g/schgs

18 June, What a Tanker! Game day in Spartanburg SC

I have finally scheduled a Game Day for 18 June, see below for details.  I have decided to run What A Tanker!  as I can easily scale it up for down depending on how many players how up.

Please RSVP using this form, I'll bring coffee and Donuts from Krispy Kreme:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRVFgw6tWvLDDju6NN2O22AfgLsPgb9OLfsUfbTrxTE3cI3g/viewform 

Spartanburg County Public Library HQ Branch

151 S. Church Street

Spartanburg, SC 29306

Harley Conference Room (2nd floor)

 

10:30AM  Arrive

11:00AM Start Play

~2PM End Play, adjourn to Blue Moon (https://bluemoonsc.com/) across the street for lunch

Parking is FREE at library

 

We will play 'What A Tanker" From Too Fat Lardies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWE_ShqU5L8) and should be able to get in a training game and 1 or 2 additional games. We will play with my 12mm tanks on a 6 x 4 table, late war Eastern Front.

 

I will have everything set up and ready to go, just bring yourself, your favorite dice if you like, and lunch money. 

FOR MORE INFO, see the SCHGS IO Group: groups.io/g/schgs

28mm 3d Printed Pulp Submarine

This is something I have been wanting to do for a while, now I can check off another box on my hobby bingo!

28mm Pulp Submarine on Thingiverse

I needed a 28mm Submarine for villains to pour out of when boarding the hero's tramp steamer in the South Pacific for games of Pulp Alley, Astounding Tales, etc. I needed it to be fairly big, but not too big, and historical accuracy was NOT a requirement.

So... I remixed a Oral B toothbrush holder, which is itself a remix of the bathtub U-Boat, scaled it up, and split it into 3 pieces to more easily fit onto my Ender 3.

The aft section does not fit very well, no matter how much I fiddled with it using my novice Tinkercad skills. I wound up having to file and cut to get it together, so be warned. you may want to adjust it yourself before printing.

I printed on my Ender 3 using the Fat Dragon games terrain Cura profile, but set the layer height to .12