Task Force Admiral | Limited "First Team" Physical Edition
Only 15 hours to go, so by the time you read this it will be too late.
When I saw it advertised by Drachinifel I decided I had to get it. And you get an old style physical box! I wish I could afford the upgrade to the include the book with doctrines.
I think this was the first Microprose game I ever played on an Amiga 1000: I read the manual cover to cover multiple times. SO MUCH INFORMATION.
One of the main reasons I got into Bolt Action is finding a place at Slaves2Gaming that sold figures based on attack on Bardia, as I had a great uncle who was there in the 2/2 Field Park Engineers of the 6th Australian Division.
What they don't have is an "Engineer" unit.Well https://darkcastleterrain.com/ does!
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| Mid/Late war engineers, but they would work! |
They don't work for 1941 Engineer's, but they represent what they are. Currently my only idea is to put a handcart full of equipment next to the unit.I'd really like some men with shovels, wire cutters and Bangalore torpedo's, but I haven't found anyone like that yet. If I add some riflemen to it and drop the mine detectors I can do a squad easily enough.
Video including some of the 2/2nd Field Park Company is here and some war diary's here.
They also do resin desert adobe buildings, and their resin and MDF tanks, terrain and building are cheaper than I can find anywhere else. You have to wait 10 days for it to be made, but I would not mind the wait.
I will need to get some!
For my new army list in the last post, I need one more Boys Anti-Tank rifle. I could use one of the 8th army I have, but they won't match, and that will just not do. I already ordered some more support and infantry from Slaves2Gaming Bardia range, so I'll need to order more next week. Until then, one of the spare Bren gunners will do.
What I also need to get is some of Bad Squddio women's WW2 range. Some I would want to get:
Vera Lynn as officer's assistant
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Pigeoneers for spotter assistants
WRN Despatch Riders as spotter assistants
And the Home Defense army to go with the Dad's Army from Warlord games for a British Home Defense army and some lend lease Sherman's.
Also at some point a Female Soviet army!
After much forethought and planning I decided I wanted to replace all my (so far unused!) Army Painter Speedpaints for Army Painter Speedpaints 2.0, which don't have the re-activation issues of the mark I's.
I spent a lot of time trying to find somewhere in Melbourne who sells them, without too much luck :(. Army Painter themselves does NOT list anyone in Melbourne who has them. This is fucking useless - I WANT TO GIVE THEM MONEY
I had searched the internet for sometime to try and find the colours other people use for 1941 Australians and came up with nothing because Google is fucking useless now.
But I found 2 Youtube videos - one of English uniforms 1937 pattern that I read the 6th Division was wearing, and another one of a Tobruk reinactor .
I knew The House of War has them, so instead of waiting 2-3 WEEKS for delivery (that was the estimated time span!) I headed off in the rain to get some.
And found they only had HALF of the Speedpaint 2.0, and none of the mediam I would need if I want to use the Speedpaint Mk I's :( :( :(
I got what I could, but they didn't have the Army Painter spray cans.
I asked why and was told a strange story. Apparently, they blow up.
What I said? Blow up!? How?!?!
Apparently multiple customers were just standing there and suddenly the can would open and paint would explode everywhere. So they don't carry Army Painter spray cans anymore.
I carefully avoided the Citadel ones and looked at the Vallejo. And wouldn't you know it, they have English Uniform in a spray can! Exactly what I needed! This way I can spray paint the figures and just block in the rest and do Zenhital shading from above with a sand colour to do the helmet at the same time!
So that worked out for me.
I also got some beach sand as I'll need some kind of sand for the bases. They didn't have a darker sand but I can wash this afterwards to make it more orange red. I was disappointment they didn't have Sand from North Africa,, they seemed to have it for a dozen other planets. I actually have ACTUAL SAND from both Utah AND Omaha beaches! And I got some objective sized oil drums and THE BRIEFCASE I need to paint as red and blue. We must protect the briefcase of intelligence from the enemy spy you see.
I needed some glue too. I asked the person behind the counter which of the DOZEN Superglue's I need for metal, I think they picked one randomly.
I asked when they might get more Speedpaints:
I can't tell you.
You can tell me, I'm a customer.
No I mean I don't know.
You don't know if you're getting more Speedpaints?
No I mean I don't know when they might arrive.
How can you not know, didn't you order more?
Yes but it's up to the distributor when we get might them.
I would like to give these people money but they make it very hard to do so. I took the wrong day to not try drinking. Looks like I need to order online anyway. :(
I need to write down what I got and I want I still need.
And after all that, I got home and it's raining too much to do undercoating anyway.
