Ambush Alley team up with Osprey Publishing

[Axel]

While I do not have any modern miniatures, I am looking for a change in playing with 28mm WW2 or 40k miniatures. Would you recommend Ambush Alley or FoF for this?

[VERITAS/AEQUITAS]

Why don't you take the "in between" and go with 1/72 scale (20mm size) ? Cheap, a lot of plastic and resin kits available, tons of miniatures made from pewter, too.

While I do not have any modern miniatures, I am looking for a change in playing with 28mm WW2 or 40k miniatures. Would you recommend Ambush Alley or FoF for this?

Force On Force by any means!

[Axel]

Thanks. Being a hasty lot, I will probably order the PDF just to get into the game - and if it plays well I will jump on the paperbook when it comes out.

[Aiwass]

Why don't you take the "in between" and go with 1/72 scale (20mm size) ? Cheap, a lot of plastic and resin kits available, tons of miniatures made from pewter, too.

Yeah, is a nice one, I just was wondering about saving money using imperial guard as modern 28mm soldiers in AA and 40k lol

But yes, 1/72 is always nice, specially the tanks!

[VERITAS/AEQUITAS]

Thanks. Being a hasty lot, I will probably order the PDF just to get into the game - and if it plays well I will jump on the paperbook when it comes out.

With the pdf you will get quite an idea of how it plays and the new Osprey edition will expand that with many new things.

@Aiwass

have a look into my warseer blog (signature) - you be missing the one true scale if not going into 20mm, too.

[Aiwass]

Nice blog Sgt Scream. I'm a little out of scales mainly the focus on GW so a bit of help would be nice here. 20mm=1/72? Asking because there are so many great AFVs in 1/72. Thanks in advance

[VERITAS/AEQUITAS]

Basicly its the same. It depends on the manufacturer of the 20mm miniatures, some are less chunky others are more. 20mm is somewhere in between 1/76 and 1/72 scale. What matters is: they fit together perfectly.

[Axel]

For historical gaming 20mm / 1:72 is the scale to go. With hard plastic sets coming out and many specialist companies catering in metal or resin to the higher quality collectors the abundance of soft plastic is no longer the dooming condemnation it once was for some.

If you just start, go for it. If, on the other hand, you already have well over 4000 28-32mm minis sitting around, you should probably go for larger tables instead :-)

[big p from gmg]

I have used GW Imperial Guard for a few games with AA and TW during playtesting.

We set a campaign on a snow world and had Imperial Guard fighting SOTR Russians for the development games.

Im the in-house painter and one of the lead developers for AAG, indeed it was my fault VERITAS/AEQUITAS is a tester! ;-) I should choose them more carefully in the future! Just kidding Chris!

Next year should be very exciting. Just the artwork I have been reviewing for the book edition of Tomorrows War looks fabulous.

We have a number of supplements due next year for the new edition - Iraq 2003, Operation Enduring Freedom, Cold War Goes Hot and my own Ambush Valley, a Vietnam supplement. All will be illustrated with Osprey artwork, real pics and pictures of miniatures.

As for after that, well we have more books the following year, but none are as yet confirmed (slap on the knuckles for VERITAS/AEQUITAS for mentioning Africa). There will also be campaign supplements due for TW as well as other things I cant mention at the moment!

[VERITAS/AEQUITAS]

I did mention it with pointing out to the Cold War Gone Hot Supplement. I never ever said its getting an own book as - you've said it already - nothing is yet confirmed for 2012.

But anyway MEA CULPA!

[big p from gmg]

Have you seen the latest projected supplement list?

Its somewhere on the Basecamp... Personally, Im looking forward to Cold War the most... Thats gonna be the prettiest book as I have aload of unseen pics from the Big Game to use.

[VERITAS/AEQUITAS]

Have you seen the latest projected supplement list?

Its somewhere on the Basecamp... Personally, Im looking forward to Cold War the most... Thats gonna be the prettiest book as I have aload of unseen pics from the Big Game to use.

Not yet - I'll log on later and check. My mind is occupied with gigantic Battle Mechs for Tomorrow's War at the moment.

[Crazy Harborc]

1/72nd is the best scale for WWII. PLENTY of accessories are found AND not just in gaming shops. Some toys stores and MANY "hobby shops" have good stocks of goodies in 1/72nd. Then, there is the on-line sites with 1/72 goodies.

[VERITAS/AEQUITAS]

@Crazy Harborc:

Not only for WWII. In 1/72 you get almost everything from WWII until current times. And the few items no one ever had in their line of kits/models, we (the community of "modern era" gamers) even managed to get makers producing them exclusively for us (like S&S models do for example).

[Codsticker]

Are 1/72 and 20mm pretty much the same thing?

[big p from gmg]

Are 1/72 and 20mm pretty much the same thing?

Yer... You use 1/72 models with 20mm metal figures.

[chromedog]

Gotta admit, you guys have rekindled my like of 20mm gaming.
I used to do this stuff in the late 80s/early 90s (we often had weekend long games on a double garage floor with huge armies of 1/72 stuff - often just "US/Nato v Warsaw pact") we were even refighting selected battles of Desert Storm just after they happened (thank you CNN).
I've just found a box of 40 USMC infantry painted up in choc-chip (but the Esci M2 Bradleys have long since been lost)

[VERITAS/AEQUITAS]

I have something special for you today:


An exclusive sneak peek of two pictures of the forthcoming Osprey Publishing Supplement "Operation Enduring Freedom". The pictures as well as the painted stuff to be seen on them are made by Piers Brand (Big P from GMG), Ambush Alley Games' In-House painter and miniature-photographer (our stand-alone-one-man-'eavy-metal-team ). Piers used the latest releases from Elhiem Figures for the USMC depicted.

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Pretty high quality stuff, mate!!

EDIT: got one (1) more pic - Piers' favourite one out of the whole lot he has done today and that now have been sent to the publisher. But it's a really exclusively one for my blog only - so you gotta look there

[evans970]

I can personally recommend ambush alley as a 40K/infinity player great system and with the new book coming out next year should be tip top!

with your blog scream is that all 20mm stuff???

[VERITAS/AEQUITAS]

with your blog scream is that all 20mm stuff???

Yes, it is all 20mm. Apart from the forthcoming 15mm Sci-Fi goodies for Osprey's new release of the Ambush Alley Tomorrow's War rules.