Army file for the 11th Armoured Division During Market Garden

I have completely forgot to mention it here on my blog that I made an army file for the 11th Armoured Division during Market Garden, the Taurus Pursuant PDF.

Some notes:
- Important. The selection of jeep and tractors for the Light Anti-Aircraft platoon. I made it that you can select a jeep for 5 point if you take the SP guns. I know this is not official but in the PDF it says that you replace the Guns plus tractors for the SP guns. Nothing is said about the jeep. This made me decide to make it an option. The 5 points for the jeep is done because I ain't sure what else to do. I think 0 points would be better but as long as it ain't official I keep it at 5 point. It can always be changed. If you have a better solution let me know. Of-course you can always decide to not take the jeep with the SP guns.

- There is no Excel 2007 file because that one I can not update by using OpenOffice. But this should be no problem. If you have Excel 2007 it must be possible to use the standard Excel file without a problem.

- In the Excel file the links to the different sheets don't work for the simple reason that to make these links work in Excel works different compared to OpenOffice. I wanted to delete the links but decided to leave them in so people can see what company's can be found and may I ever have the change to work with Excel again I can make them work again. In the OpenOffice file everything should work fine.

- I hope that the Excel file works for everybody because the changes I had to make to the file were all done by using OpenOffice. Let me know if there is something not working correct.

Look for the links for the files here: Army files

For those who haven't read it on the FoW forum.
I have decided to stop making army files. I don't have the time for it anymore and want to spent more of the free time I have on painting minis. I go back to the point where it all started: Only making files for the armies I am playing. Of-course I will keep the files that I made up to date. Maybe in the future I will make 1 or 2 files but that's about it.

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The new Ancible Magazine: Issue 11

The people of the Ancible Magazine have released issue #11 of their bi-monthly magazine.
For those people who don't know what the Ancible Magazine is, The Ancible is a full colour digital magazine that specilises in the field of Science Fiction and fantasy wargaming and can be downloaded as a free PDF file.
Go and take a look at their site and download the latest but also the older issues.
The Ancible

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My 2011 / 2012 FoW project 5: Fusiliers Machine-gun Platoon painted.

The first full platoon for my Escadron de Reconnaissance is painted. It is the Fusiliers Machine-gun Platoon from Forced in Battle. Only thing left to do is to seal it but my spray can of varnish is empty and I want to wait with sealing the platoon until the Infantry platoon is also painted. The platoon normally comes with Laffly S20TL trucks but I will add these later as they aren't available yet.
I must say that I am pretty happy with the end result and the bases although the pictures don't do them any justice.

Fusiliers Machine-gun Platoon front

Fusiliers Machine-gun Platoon back

Fusiliers Machine-gun Platoon commander

Fusiliers Machine-gun Platoon HMG teams

Fusiliers Machine-gun Platoon HMG teams

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Today in Dutch WW II History: Stamkaart and Distrubution Coupons

Well not really a "Today in Dutch WW II History" but something I wanted to show to all of you.
These are some pictures of a Stamkaart (Ration card or "books" as they were called in the UK) and Distribution Coupons ( I have 2 sheets only 1 is pictured here) that were used during WW II here in the Netherlands. These are special to me because it is a gift from my mom. The stamkaart is on her name and the Distribution Coupons were of the family. At the time she was only a child. The Coupons are for food supply and are for Potatoes, Butter, Bread, Milk, Flesh, meat, refreshments and general stuff. The coupons for the meat are used and thus no longer on the sheet. They were at upper right corner.
Coupon-sheets were for the 11th and 12th period 1944 (1 October - 25 November). As my mother lived at that time in the south of the Netherlands (Schijndel) in liberated part of the country she still used coupons to get all the stuff. The sheets were probably already given to the family before the liberation.
The Stamkaart was needed to get these coupon-sheets.
This is the Second Distribution Stamkaart. The first one came in use just before WW II broke out. The Second Distribution Stamkaart was introduced by the Germans when they occupied the country this was done to cut off all the people that were in hiding. No stamkaart, no coupons thus no food. To get a stamkaart people had first go to the German authorities with a legal identity card. Most of the people in hiding had a false identity card and thus couldn't get a stamcard.
This measure has been thoroughly sabotaged by the Civil Resistance. To irritation of the German government there were more stamkaarten provided then, what they thought, the population was big, this without getting it clear where the fraud could be found.
During the war resistance groups go out to raid the distribution offices where the coupons were kept. The stolen coupons were distributed to people who kept people in hiding, so that extra food for those in hiding could be bought.
Even after the war a lot of stuff could only be bought with coupons. In 1952 Coffee was the last product that finally could be bought without using coupons.

Stamkaart front

Stamkaart back

Coupon sheet

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My 2011 / 2012 FoW project 4: List change and Infantry and HMG platoons primed

I have decided to change the look of my Escadron de Reconnaissance Company. I decided to make the change for 2 reasons. I did get an HMG platoon, a platoon that I didn't included in my old list but now that I have one certainly wanted to add it to my list and the other reason is that other players who wanted to make a German panzer list decided not to do so after looking at my old list because it was simple too strong for there list. As I don wanted to have an army only to stand on a shelf eating dust but actually wanted to use I changed the list. For the old list look here.

The new list  now looks like this:

HQ
1 Panhard AMD-35

Combat Platoons
Deep Reconnaissance Platoon 4 Panhard AMD-35
Deep Reconnaissance Platoon 4 Panhard AMD-35
Reconnaissance Platoon 3 Renault AMR-35 (7.5mm MG), 2 Renault AMR-35 (13.2mm MG)

Weapons Platoons
Fusiliers Machine-gun Platoon
Fusiliers Mortar Platoon

Divisional Support Platoons
Medium Combat Platoon 5 Somua S-35
Fusiliers-Voltigeurs Platoon (Colonial)
All-terrain Towed 105mm Artillery Battery

Air Support
Sporadic Fighter Intercept Moraine Saulnier MS.406

The infantry platoon and HMG platoon that were send to me as a gift are now based and primed.

Infantry platoon

HMG platoon

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Found in my mailbox.

Yesterday I found the following items in my mailbox. An early war French Infantry platoon and early war French HMG teams. They are a gift to me. The figures are not from Battlefront, the usual stuff I buy and paint, but are made by Forced in Battle. The figures look great. They have the same size as the BF figures. The figures have hardly any flash and there are no mold-lines to be seen. Maybe if you want to complain then it is about the variety of poses. The HMG teams come without an Command team but because I have some figures left over from the Infantry platoon I can use these as an Command team. Also both platoons come without bases, so I bought a blister with medium bases from BF to use these. Both platoons are a nice add to my France Early War Escadron de Reconnaissance army.

Infantry platoon.

HMG teams.

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