The Battle for San Serotonin.

[Steve J]

An AAR report of a game I played with Christian (Serotonin) on Friday.

http://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2011/07/hauptkampflinie-san-serotonin.html

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nice report.

IanS

[Hertsblue]

Nice game. Thing I liked most of all were the realistic "flames" from the burning vehicles. So hard to do convincingly. 

[Steve J]

These were Christian's and they do look good. I was happy he had chance to use them . Hopefully he can post the link of how he made them.

[Serotonin]

I certainly  got to use them, although I thought Id see a few more Shermans go up in flames!

Heres how I made them....

Hmm whats this?
A drawing pin, some florists wire and some clump foliage? Whatever for?



A drawing pin with a tail?



A lumpy PVA soaked tree perhaps?



Hmm a black snow covered tree maybe??



Noooooooo. Fiery death!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blaker]

AWESOME the best Fiery Death I have seen 

[Blaker]

The battle report was cool also 

I noticed your fields, what looks like crop rows and a build ruin terrain pieces on your table.  I have seen those types alot in batreps, question is what size are they and what are they made from?

thanks

[Steve J]

The fields are generally 6"x6" as they were originally made for PBI. They are a mixture of doormats or carpet tiles cut to size. For the ploughed fields look, it is simply ribbed carboard stuck to a base and then coated with pva glue and fine sand.

The BUA areas are normally 4"x6", 3"x5" etc, pretty much whatever looks right for the building that is going on it. If you want to be clever, make them 1:1.7 ratio as this is roughly the golden section ratio and they will look good.

Thanks for the comments guys on the AAR .

[nikharwood]

Nice batrep Steve - shocking result 

Those are some lovely fiery death markers Christian - you know that one's going to get replicated. A lot. 

[Kiwidave]

You'll need about 100 Nik... 

[nikharwood]

You'll need about 100 Nik...  

Not against you & your Japs I won't, KD mate  

[Kiwidave]

 

[Hertsblue]

I certainly  got to use them, although I thought Id see a few more Shermans go up in flames!

Heres how I made them....

Hmm whats this?
A drawing pin, some florists wire and some clump foliage? Whatever for?

A drawing pin with a tail?

A lumpy PVA soaked tree perhaps?

Hmm a black snow covered tree maybe??

Noooooooo. Fiery death!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for sharing that, Serotonin. Highly ingenious. Might just have a go myself. 

[jfariahitech]

Thanks for sharing!