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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · 1d

I just painted all these exact same minis for Burma! Mine look uhhh somewhat less good

The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who has used Chain of Command rules for Very British Civil War settings (I assume you're out there!): Are there army lists published somewhere, officially or otherwise? I've seen folks play CoC in all sorts of cool settings, but haven't found references for most. #wargaming #spreadthelard

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · 4d

It took a long time because we introduced a lot of new (to us) rules: tanks, mortar barrages, fortifications etc. But still a good narrative and it'll only be quicker in the future!

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · 4d

Second game of Chain of Command with @buckyizzy.bsky.social! 🇲🇲 1945: The bloody British assault on the Kyat Phud Kan monastery peters out amid stubborn Japanese defense, but a mortar barrage and a Sherman of Probyn's Horse threaten to break the deadlock! Battle inconclusive due to lunch.

Three 15mm British soldiers very close to a concealed bunker with a firing slit

Japanese infantry advance across a plain to a jungle area

A Sherman tank crossing a stream and approaching a Japanese position alongside a golden pagoda

Clumps of Japanese troops covered in cotton smoke clumps and some alarming red "pinned" markers

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · 15d

Further Burma progress for Chain of Command: A couple platoons' worth of British and Gurkhas, and the medieval Buddhist holy site of Kyat Phūd Kan (cat food can) #wargaming

Note: US pennies seemed like a good idea for bases at the time. They were decidedly not!

A selection of 15mm miniatures depicting British and Gurkha soldiers from World War II, all in jungle green uniforms

A golden Southeast Asian-style stupa glued cheaply atop a metal cat food tin

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · 29d

(I believe I saw @desmondo.bsky.social's Burma setup with multiple figures to a base, but I'm sure others do the same!)

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · 29d

Seeking more wisdom from the #spreadthelard community as I start CoC2. What modifications do players make to use multi-based minis in, say 15mm? Do any rules (line of sight, teams, etc.) have to be changed? If so, has anyone written a guide?

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Sep 16

Poor man's Burma continues to expand: A table's worth of jungle and bamboo, plus some foamcore-and-varnish rice paddies. Elmer's glue and green sand doing a great deal of work here! #wargaming

Rice paddies made of foam core rectangles painted green and brown and slathered in varnish

A bin full of jungle terrain made of florist foam, cheap plastic palm trees and hardened green sand

More jungle terrain, this set with lots of bamboo trees

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Sep 4

Foam-and-paper Nagaland continues to grow! #wargaming

6 x 4-foot gaming table with gray-green cloth and a ton of green foam terrain bits with palm trees and bamboo sticking out, with a little village and river among them

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Sep 2

I wonder whether there was a transition point at which wargaming moved from floor to tabletop. Was it once they no longer involved flinging objects (like in Wells' "Little Wars")?

iain @iain2411.bsky.social · Jan 16

Yes, Henry Cavill is a great ambassador for the hobby, however, Peter Cushing would be my personal choice for 'Warmaster of Wargaming.'

If I'm not wrong, I believe he has a copy of HG Wells' 'Little Wars' in the last photograph too. 👍

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Aug 31

Florist foam + cheap plastic trees + old Axis & Allies minis = extremely cheap Burma setting (in progress) for learning Chain of Command!

M3 Lee tank and some British infantry on a jungle copse made of green florist foam

Lots of blocks of florist foam with little palm trees

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Aug 26

Loving all this inspiration as someone working on a (much less attractive!) Burma setting to try out CoC for the first time

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Aug 19

Can any #spreadthelard folk advise on US-friendly sources for Chain of Command markers and tokens (even printable PDFs one can cut out)? I refuse to let my fascist government kill my interest in a new system before I've even tried it!

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Aug 11

Beach vacation reading list a pretty good cross-section of my obsessions

The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, Hammer and Hoe by Robin DG Kelley and Burma, the Forgotten War by Jon Latimer

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derinselaffe.bsky.social @derinselaffe.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ambush on the North West Frontier! An Imperial column is about to be attacked by Waziris. Bring up the Lewis. #wargaming #upthekhyber #nerdlings

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Jul 29

Very British Civil War inspo

RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · Jul 29

#OTD in 1940, Littlestone-on-Sea. Pretty special. A 4-inch and a 12-pounder gun, made mobile. #WW2 #HISTORY

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Jul 28

I only know of it because my dad lived in Arundel for a brief time; in the process of designing a Siege of Arundel Castle campaign to play with him, I had to learn about all the tiny engagements surrounding the siege.

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Jul 27

Whoops, River Adur! Pardon my local English geographical knowledge from several thousand miles away

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Jul 27

Taught a friend Pikeman's Lament today. His Royalists walloped my Parliamentarians at a loosely recreated Battle of Bramber Bridge (1643). The River Arun is lost! #wargaming

Two 28mm armies face off across a stream and a bridge. A ruined tower stands in the distance.

Red-coated pikeman guard a river crossing

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Jul 27

Thanks!

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Jul 26

Asking the #spreadthelard folks: We're thinking of trying Chain of Command to use some already-owned 15mm minis.

If I want to play e.g. Burma scenarios, can I use the new rules edition? Or is Far East only doable under the older rules until more army lists are released? Never tried either!

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Jul 26

First run of Fistful of Lead: Horse and Musket was a success! A skirmish on the streets of Paris ended with Ethos of the King's Harquebusiers rescuing two spies from a band of mercenaries.

The mercenary leader was left badly wounded after finding himself on the wrong end of a pike. #wargaming

A sword-armed 28mm musketeer with a lusty woman in tow

A man with two pistols faces off against a musketeer

A man with a musket watches over a street from a balcony

A miniature street fight with wounded markers galore

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Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · Jul 24

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Jul 14

My aspirations are small -- I mean a single barricade or alley, maybe a half-dozen Communards against the same number of soldiers!

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The Board Turn'd Upside Down @theboardturned.bsky.social · Jul 14

(Should stress that I am not the artist in the image above -- purely aspirational!)