WWII Special Rules from 1st Edition Force on Force

Published by Shawn Carpenter over at ambushalleygames.com
Friday 25 November 2011, 03:36

First Edition Force on Force included special rules for adapting the game for use with WWII scenarios. These sections were omitted from Second Edition (the “Osprey” edition), in which we chose to focus entirely on post-war, modern combat. We’ve received a constant stream of requests to post these rules up so that players with the new edition of the rules could also use them.

Well, here they are!

Here’s a couple of important caveats to bear in mind with the use of these rules:

1. These rules have not been modified in any way from their 1st Edition format. You may find that you need to make some modifications to use them with the 2nd Edition of the rules.

2. The rules presented here may or may not be carried over for use in an upcoming Ambush Alley Games WWII rule set.

With those comments aside, ENJOY!

- The Crew at Ambush Alley Games.

http://ambushalleygames.com/resources/downloads/31-extras

Generic Iraqi Force: Infantry support weapons

A couple of days ago another packet arrived at my home. Mark T. has sent back to me all of my Iraqi Gun crews - a mix of S&S and RH Liberation Miniatures. He was tasked to paint them to standards as he did with my Republican Guard last year. I completed the miniatures by adding a few details here and there, putting tufts etc. on bases and finally built and painted all weapon systems they are going to man. Thanks for your help, mate!

Iraqi Gun Crew #1: RH Liberation minis with RH Liberation Type 63 towed (Chinese) 107mm rocket launcher.
Iraqi Gun Crew #2: RH Liberation miniatures with RH Liberation SPG-9 73mm Recoilless Rifle

Iraqi Gun Crew #3: RH Liberation miniatures with MAC 1/72 Soviet mortar (plastic piece that comes with their UAZ jeep)

Iraqi MANPADS team: Soviet-built SA-7 Grail (IGLA) gunner (RH Liberation) with spotter (S&S Models)

Iraqi DshK team: Gun crew and DshK by RH Liberation, additional team member by S&S Models.

I saw a sign.... The Road To Baghdad: Iraqi Highway Signs

Force On Force's first supplement is called "Road To Baghdad". I am in need for more Iraqi looking terrain. I thought an "actual" road to Baghdad would just do, especially as it is used in some scenarios/missions.
Task Force 1-64 on its way to Baghdad.

I made the highway signs using styrene profiles and sheets from Evergreen.

The actual signs came from a decal sheet from TheSquare. They were applied onto 1mm styrene sheet and then glued into place.

This layout only displays a fast scene I set up for the pics. The gaming table for the scenarios will be twice this size to give the Americans a challenging distance to travel while being attacked from left and right.

These road signs aren't exactly in scale as they are from Verlinden's range for dioramas in 1/35.

Nonetheless I think they fit just fine.

Another shot of the Verlinden variant.

The roads are from ESLO terrain of Germany. Lamp poles are 1/87 H0 scale and the telegraph poles from Italeri.

TF 1-64 scanning for targets.

Just another generic shot from the miniature's perspective. :-D

More terrain to come...

Generic Iraqi Force: BMP-2 with anti air gun

After a long time I finally painted some 20mm stuff again. I hereby present my Iraqi BMP-2 with 23mm twin anti air gun. I used a mixture of wargaming models for this kit-bash.

Back view of the RH Liberation BMP-2 chassis.
Detail shot of the crew and ZSU-23-2 from S&S Models. The gun shield was made from styrene sheet. The figures were painted for me by Mark Taylor.

I went with a worn&torn look, using oil paints, paint chipping techniques and weathering powders.

Added some markings here and there to add a little colour.

It even got a liscence plate ^^

Your chance to give feedback on map size / figure photos size and amount

Ok guys, so here we have a chance to change something for the better (if you deem it necessary):

vote in this poll at Ambush Alley Games' forum, please. All feedback is welcome.

Are there enough pics of painted eye-candy (miniatures) in our supplements? Are they big enough? yes / no?
http://ambushalleygames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8473

Do the maps for the scenarios need to be bigger on the appropriate pages within the book? yes / no?
http://ambushalleygames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8472

HUMINT, November 2011, Vol. 1: new releases for gaming "moderns"

HUMINT = human intelligence. A new series of posts on my blog about news of various tabletop miniature producing companies concerning "moderns". The pictures were taken off the producers' catalogues with their prior permission. Cheers for that guys! Links to their webshops can be found within the right column of my blog (see sources for 20mm....).

Elhiem Miniatures (now also has Wartime in stock):

3rd November
New releases out now as listed by Matt himself:

Wartime Miniatures:
Bushmaster models - limited stock
New CIV2 and CIV3 sets replace old sets. I still have 2 sets of CIV3 left if you want them.

US01 02 and 03 - Modern US Army I also have US05 but, only 2 sets so first come first served!

MA7 and AVC are both vehicle crew for modern
AFVLBW5 and 6 are new


Elhiem Figures:

COLD WAR NATO:
NAT01 Generic G3 riflemen
BW01 West German G3 Riflemen

COLD WAR WARPAC:
DR03 East Germans (reworked weapons)

US 2000+:
IOT03 The Third fire team of US Army in IOTV armour.

SPECIAL FORCES:
SF10 Devgru Command team
SF11 Special Forces Support team

Somalia Day of the Rangers:
DEL02 Delta Force Fireteam
DEL03 Delta Force littlebird snipers and bench seats

VIETNAM:
VC01 New range of Viet Cong

Tomorrow's War meets Battletech: House Davion's "Shadow Hawk" painted

Another one of the famous N-scale "unseen" designs. This is an 1/144 scale plastic kit from the Dougram animated tv show.

I will change my plans. No more 15mm. I am going to use Mechwarrior Dark Age 10mm figures as they appear to be more in scale with the Mech's cockpit.

Martel Model 5 Medium laser (arm), Holly Long Range Missiles (shoulder) and Armstrong J11 Autocannon (other shoulder) in firing position

Armstrong J11 cannon in upright position and jump jets. Note the head-mounted Holly Short Range Missile pack.

Side view with more details of the armament. Warning labels included ;-)

HUMINT, October 2011, Vol. 1: new releases for gaming "moderns"

HUMINT = human intelligence. A new series of posts on my blog about news of various tabletop miniature producing companies concerning "moderns". The pictures were taken off the producers' catalogues with their prior permission. Cheers for that guys! Links to their webshops can be found within the right column of my blog (see sources for 20mm....).

Wartime Miniatures releases:

new range of Modern US Army. FireTeam 1 including 1 with Door knocking equipment
FireTeam 2 including 1 with SRAAW in pack and seperate Bipod for SAW Gunner

Platoon HQ (Pl Comd, Medic and RTO)

BushMaster GPMG Gunner and Digger

Generic Nato crew

SF troops

Afghan trader

Afghan Man

Females in Bhurka

Vickers MMG + Crew

Piat Team

Reviews and Interviews - Diehard GameFAN's musings about Ambush Alley Games' stuff

You might find those articles as interesting as I did:

http://diehardgamefan.com/2011/10/12/tabletop-review-force-on-force/


http://diehardgamefan.com/2011/10/12/tabletop-review-tomorrows-war/


http://diehardgamefan.com/2011/10/12/interview-with-shawn-carpenter-of-ambush-alley-games/

100,000 views. I am speechless

Hi there,
well I just clicked my own blog today and there it is: 100,000 views as of this morning! I can barely describe how that feels. This is nothing but my private little non-profit portal showing around my hobby stuff and talk about releases of friends' little miniature companies. That I would reach more than 100,000 views within one year I wouldn't have thought possible.

Some of you that follow blogger on a regular basis might have noticed that it was a little quiet over the summer months. Obviously there are reasons. For one that I am going through some rough times with a family member being seriously ill and for second, because I have started a second blog (yeah, that's right - another one) that completely will cover my Warhammer 40,000 related hobby endeavours. You can find it at www.swordofordon.blogspot.com
Last but not least I am also still into developement and testing of Force On Force supplements and I have to take care of two forums of which I am a moderator, which means I have to read a lot and take care of "my" communities (of which most are grown up enough to basicly run on their own).

So what's going to happen here in the future? Well, we at Ambush Alley Games have another bunch of books coming up soon. Ambush Valley Vietnam will be released this month (October) as well as Tomorrow's War going to follow right away.

Work continues on another four main supplements for release next year and some additional projects that are supporting Force On Force but aren't exactly Osprey releases (which means they will probably be .pdf download only).

My moderns are on hold at this moment for I am painting 40k stuff en masse (watch the blog!). Nevertheless I have decided to finish off the mid-'90s Bundeswehr that I started years ago, I have artillery support for both, Marines and Army (US) on my painting table and the ever present Chinese PLA will get finished hopefully later this year.

I'd like to thank all of you who visit this blog and comment about my stuff. I also would like to say "thanks" to Brian, Rob, Shaun, Mathew and all other vendors who allow me to bring their latest stuff in my hobby news section. You are supporting our hobby by fulfilling our wishes!

Thanks to all of you, who also are members at the AAG forum, The Guild and the German GW-Fanworld ("moderns" part of the forum) for your support, your criticism and nice comments. You are a great community that I am glad to be member of.

Once again my personal gratitude to Piers (aka Big P from GMG) who brought me into this - its all your fault, mate! :-D

Panzergrenadier platoon for my mid-'90s Bundeswehr

These are among my first ever painted "moderns" after years of GW related stuff. I used Revell kits and boxes of infantry for those mid-'90s Bundeswehr Panzergrenadiere (all plastics in 1/72). For some reason I have never shown my early works, but as I never tossed them away and recently stumbled over the box they were in, I thought I might as well share them with you. :-D

For the pic above I cheated - the Marder IFV isn't this command squads' vehicle. I have to admit the one for these guys up to day has not even been built, although I have it sitting in my shelf for years (maybe I should finally do that *doh!*)
The whole platoon - minus its command squad.

Six Grenadier dismounts and their dedicated transport: Marder 1A3 from Revell.

The dismounts, to include squad leader, 40mm grenader launcher, MG3 gunner, dismounted MILAN ATGM starter and assist. gunner.

FlaRakPz Roland for my mid-'90s Bundeswehr

A pretty simple conversion. A Revell 1/72 Marder 1A3 was combined with the Roland missile turret of a Rocco Minitanks Roland.

Although the turret is 1/87 it doesn't look too small in my opinion.

A GW 25mm base does the trick: I used it to increase the height of the turret.

Looking at it from this angle shows that you can actually mix some different scales on some models. ;-)
I have a platoon of mid-'90s Panzergrenadiere that I never showed in my blog. I will take some pics the coming days and post them too.

HUMINT, September 2011, Vol. 3: new releases for gaming "moderns"

HUMINT = human intelligence. A new series of posts on my blog about news of various tabletop miniature producing companies concerning "moderns". The pictures were taken off the producers' catalogues with their prior permission. Cheers for that guys! Links to their webshops can be found within the right column of my blog (see sources for 20mm....).

TheHobbyDen release:

UAZ (enclosed)

Elhiem Figures releases:

SA7 Anti Air Missile teams

82mm Mortar and Crew

AGS17 Plamya Grenade Launcher and crew

SPG9 Recoilless Rifle and crew

Somali armed with LMGs

Somalis armed with RPG's

Rioting Mob

Somali civilians with AK47s

Somali mob unarmed

Somali unarmed civilians

Delta Force Snipers with support

TheHobbyDen releases:

more boxes and stowage

Land Rover

Recce Land Rover

alternative Land Rover

Container Truck

IDF Shot-Upgrade Centurion