With the demise of A&A Game Engineering due to retirement, David Manley of Long Face Games has begun the process of moving his titles over to Wargame Vault under the LFG label. The first title to make the move is the modern fast attack, littoral warfare set aptly named Bulldogs Away!. I have always wanted to try these out and even painted up some of the old Skytrex 1/600th scale models for a fictitious 1970's African solo campaign, but was never that happy with the range and distance disparity in this scale.
David has some 1/1200th scale 3D print STL's coming out soon, the old North Head Miniatures range, which has a better scale to range ratio, but I think I will have another crack at this in 1/3000th. I have some Navwar FAC's that would be ideal and plenty of larger warships and 'targets' that would be useful, with some sort of South American twist to tie in with my existing Chilean and Chinese modern fleets. This is a project for later in the year but a good one for a rainy weekend, so perhaps sooner than I planned, as David unexpectedly sent me a free copy of the rules today! What a splendid chap!
I picked up a copy a while ago, and have lots of 1/2400 scale missile boats, many of which I need to paint. I guess I should finish painting them and try the rules out.
ReplyDelete1/3000 seems really small for missile boats, but since you have figures in that scale ... If you want to try them in 1/2400 scale:
* GHQ (Pegasus/Nanuchka)
* Viking Forge/Sea Battle (Osa/Nanuchka/Type 022 Houbei/Type 143A/Type 148/Cyclone)
* XP Forge (Tarantul/Pauk )
I think even SeaWulf has some. You can find some photos of the Viking Forge ships at https://www.jamesokeefe.org/2023/12/a-selection-of-viking-forge-1-2400-ship-miniatures/ and others at https://whenimaginationfails.org/.
Good idea!
DeleteJamie, there are also a lot of various 1/2400 3D prints available on eBay. I've picked up various Soviet torpedo boats, landing craft, cargo ships and other minor nation FACs.
DeleteGood to know. Thanks!
DeleteI've got some lovely old Davco Nanuchkas, but other than that the models available in 1:3000 don't stir my enthusiasm. However the idea of meshing a. AK47 campaign with some 1:600 naval action and 1:600 air actions would be quite exciting! Thanks for the heads up on those ranges Jaime.
ReplyDeleteThat does sound like a fun campaign idea.
DeleteThat was the general idea...sort of Lake Tanganyika in WW1 but fast forward to 1970. There's some stuff on the blog about it way back.
DeleteAnother one of my favorite rulesets! Nothing more fun than a bunch of glorified aluminum canoes hurling missiles at each other! My fleets are 1/2400 Viking Forge and various 3D prints.
ReplyDeleteNice!
DeleteI like your characterization. I tend to describe most modern naval games as hide and seek with bazookas, which I stole from the GDW 2300AD Star Cruiser rules.