Monday, 23 December 2019

From TomM: Voor vorst, voor vrijheid en voor recht! (43 Points)

Okay, so that title is actually from our Belgian national anthem, and translates as "for king, for freedom and for rights" but it suited as the title for this entry.



And that entry consists of my now fully painted Belgian army for Blitzkrieg Commander 4, all models coming from Scotia Grendel's Belgian range, drabbed with some French.

Coming in at a 1000 points, this is a small force I've build because 1) I`m Belgian and 2) is a good size for quick kitchen table games, either solo or to teach new players the basic rules at home.

The army itself consists of a CO and an HQ, as well as a Recce squad of infantry.



For fire support, I choose a 47mm AT gun, an 81mm mortar and a 105mm artillery field gun.

These will provide the support for 3 platoons of Infantry.

And then I took the full armoured might of Belgium (as per the rules, no matter how big the force, these are all the tanks you can take), consisting of 3 T-13 tank hunters, 3 T-15 light tanks, 3 FT-17 tanks and the heaviest we had our disposal, 3 AMC35 tanks.



So all in all for the points, this will grant me the following:

27 infantry models at 0.5 each = 13.5 points
3 guns at 1 point each = 3 points
13 vehicles at 2 points each = 16 points



For a grand total of 32.5 points of Belgian Bravery!


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Our first 6mm entry of Challenge X, excellent work Tom. I like seeing these often overlooked forces getting some of the limelight. T-13 tank hunters? AMC35s? Wow, talk about outliers of the armour world. Awesome. 

Your math is a bit off on the vehicles, so we'll put you at 43 points in total. That being said we're having a little issue with our points spreadsheet, but we have our mathemagician and spreadsheet boffin Miles looking into it, so your place on the roster will be updated as soon as we can. 

'No Miles, before you use the blowtorch try unplugging it and plugging it back in again...'

14 comments:

  1. Good to see some 6mm so early in the Challenge - nice work Tom :)

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  2. Lovely looking teeny tiny plucky Belgians!
    Best Iain

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  3. An interesting army and nicely done

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  4. I’ll second Curt’s comment on the underrepresented armies of WW2. That’s not only micro armour but teeny weeny tanks in micro armour. Looking great.

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  5. 6mm can be a challenge to paint, but you've done an impressive job with them.

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  6. Top Job on these tiny fellows 👍

    Regards Ken

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  7. FT17s. not sure if more or fewer will improve the force. excellent

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  8. Nice work on these, I've not played BKC for a long time, I'll have to look them up.

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  9. Fantastisch om een vroeg leger uit de Meidagen '40! Anyway: great stuff, I didn't know that the Belgians had so many tanks back then! Great stuff Tom!

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  10. Wonderful wee force! Nice brushwork, Tom! You have all you need except for air support! The infantry are especially splendid in the tiny scale and I like the wide dispersal as they hunt for trouble! ;)

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