50cal, 1 x saloon car, 2 x motorcycles.ĥ x market stalls, herd of goats, flock of chickens, 8 x JUMP OFF POINTS (FIGHTING SEASON)īRITISH PLATOON plus supports, medic, mortars, HMG, mine clearance vallon, dog handler and sniffer dog, javelin rocket, sniper, downed helicopter pilots, British and US Special Forces plus Delta team.ġ8 x CIVILIANS plus Mr BIG - VIP or arms dealer.
I also just realised that I will have to do some flexible river/streams ready for Normandy and will include a step by step guide on methods and materials for these, along with the summer mat, roads and fields in the back of my 'Setting the Scene' book that I am working on.įlexible roads and fields, ideal for following the contours of your hills.ġ X Warrior, 1 x Scimitar, 2 x WMIK (3 x crew in each) 2 x landrovers, 2 x lorries with crates, 4 x Pickup Trucks 'Technical' with varies options - recoilless rifle, ZOU-23. Whilst making the terrain mat and roads, I also made a few fields, these were really just test pieces before making the bigger mat and I also promised John I would make him a few fields for his Napoleonics that he is doing in a smaller scale. Hopefully we will have enough room to be able to take some clothes with us for the week? Also the mat rolls up, keeping storage space down in the back of the car. Having recently made a Snow Mat and flexible roads, I decided to do the same for the Normandy table, making the mat 6 x 5 foot, so I could also use it with my existing 10 x 5 foot table. John stayed at the farmhouse last year and informs me that there is not a suitable table to game on, so I have purchased a couple of fold up pasting tables from a DIY store which won't take up too much room in the car and will give us a playing area of just under 6 x 4 foot. John Warren will be bringing along some 20mm buildings, trees and hedges and I said I will provide the terrain mat and roads. We opted for 20mm as one of the lads, Steve Lygo has a vast WW2 collection in this scale of figures and vehicles, plus it would take up less room than 28mm transporting it in the car.
We thought it would be ideal to try and recreate part of a particular action of some place that we had visited that day, onto the table top, having the benefit of seeing the actual terrain up close of what was actually fought over.īetween us, we had to decide what each of us would bring and what scale we would play the game in.
We are staying in a rustic Normandy farmhouse set in typical Bocage countryside and is set central for visiting as much of the area as possible but is quite rural. Due to its location we will probably not be eating out every night so on those occasions, we plan on playing a couple of games of Chain of Command in the evenings along with a couple of bottles of wine to help us with making those tactical decisions. We will be starting with the beaches and then over the course of the week, we plan on working inland. I will be going to Normandy in June with some friends and as we are leaving our wives behind, it will be a full week of military history with a little beer and wine in the evenings to help us relax after the many miles of walking during the day.