These look awesome! I ordered the veteran German starter army. I’m hoping it ships soon. I’m getting impatient. 😂

German pioneers benefit for the ability to have a squad of up to 10 men and 7 smgs. American engineers up to 8 men and only 2 smgs total. Russians get up to 11 men, all can have smgs and body armor and 2 panzerfaust!! If only there were more Metal German pioneers…sigh.

Looking good! I can't wait to get some of those.

Amazing paint work. Can’t wait to see those guys in action.

I love that you post these full games, I'm looking to get into bolt action and they're such amazing learning tools to watch and understand the game more

Wait…. Do they have panzerfausts in the new kit?

Fantastic craftsmanship and choice of color scheme!!

Do you belong to the Omaha Beach Wargame Club? I just discovered them to night at a small convention.

Nice job Travis!👍

You guys are doing great with these battle reports..mistakes are made, but it happens..like the cover save at point blank that others mentioned..my only comment is that at 33:30 ish when the captains track was hit and it caught on fire...the captain would have had to bail and receive a down order (pg 147 right column -immobilized and on fire = dismount)

I try to include 3 anti tank assets of some kind in all my lists.. puma stug fausts with my germans for example. brits i have a piat team a cromwell and a churchill as my 3

At least my Irish stuck around. I was hoping they would march up the road and get that flank shot off but that darn shock screwed us!

Great video and creative, thematic lists. How did you do the flame effect on the Pioneers? Is it 3D-printed?

YESSSS!!!

I've been saying for a while that i wished Warlord would produce a support weapons sprue, this is basically it. Only thing missing is a medium mortar but you can buy a plastic one of that separately anyway.

Another exciting game of Sharp Practice. Glad to see the cavalry proving to be effective today lol. Hmm. For suggestion. If you want an interesting scenario featuring artillery such as cannons. I recommend a scenario based around attacking a gun battery. Essentially the story is your force of lads (usually I’ll do it with 2-3 large groups of 3 base infantry alongside a couple skirmisher groups) have been tasked at dealing with a enemy artillery position that’s bombarding your lines. On the defender side you have the artillery battery of 2-4 cannons with crew, alongside usually 1 group of 2-3 bases of line infantry and 2 skirmisher groups. The attacker objective is to cross the fields while trying to struggle through the artillery and then assault them. The defender has the advantage of having a dug in artillery position but very little forces to defend it if the enemy endures the struggle. Also fun suggestion for those playing ACW canons and finding it a bit awkward to use canister or round shot. Effectively at this time shrapnel shells were just as much in use by some artillery as such I do provide the option for players to use them during this period. The rules (home brew) are simple. The round is declared and after presenting and firing the firer declares an area of ground in which he is initially aiming at - usually before the enemy. Roll a D6. On a 5+ the shell explodes. Roll another D6 and this is however many inches the shrapnel flies forward/down/covers. Each unit in a straight line under this D6 of inches suffers the effect of having been hit by canister (tho the number of hits is shared out like usual). If the shell fails to explode initially, roll D6+1 and move the shell that many inches forward and roll a D6 again with an increasing +1 to the roll for however many times it fails to explode. This is how far the shell has gone before it has exploded. If the shell has not exploded after 3 moves it’s considered dud and no more happens. Just thuds the ground inconsistently.

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thats not a grenadier attack, thats a panzergrenadier attack- hence all the hanomags!

Travis great game 👍. It's great to see you back in the nerd cave and putting out battle reports again after the holiday's. It was also great to see Andre at the table again. 👍. Keep up the good work. Some of us really look forward to seeing these videos. 😁

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Happy New Year Gents, great to see Andre back at the table! Nice to see the Donkey Wallopers do so well for a change!!😄

Great games! I am on the brink to start SP and therefore I am totally thankful for all the entertaining SP videos! Not going to comment on all of your videos, but certainly going to watch them all. Very inspiring!

Don't often see effective cavalry in a game of Sharp Practice. Great editing too - especially the post-tiffin moves. Very helpful for keeping the flow going for viewers.

Great game> I think Andre should use "Sharp Practice" more. He probably could have gotten some shots in before your charges. Are you guys gong to get into the Midgard rules?

Fantastic game really enjoyed a great game of sharp practice special with your ACW brilliant 🤠🤠👍👍

The Jocks are here......

Yep a Sharps practice ACW Tabletop legend was born....lol

another great one with the old gang

I thought for every platoon like a hvy weapons platoon etc you had to field one rifle platoon. If that were so you couldnt field an artillary platoon unless you fielded another rifle platoon. Can you explain the rule to me?

If those matts can be bought in shop and you got multiple, maybe do a video of them

How very dare you call the uniform of His Majesty boring?! You should feel honoured to facilitate such an undertaking! 😂

Happy New Year..... very good game to kick off 2025 with some surprises from one unit in particular ....cheers to you both.

Those smle 303's still look a bit skinny to me.

Good job! You taught me a lot about the game!

Ooh, sides look good as do the figures and terrain.

Your sharp practice for ACW is going to look great you always put on a great game looking forward to seeing it might not be able to watch the live game but will enjoyed watching at some point 👍👍🤠🤠🇺🇸🇺🇸

Your vid’s have become my go to for Lardie games! Tables are always great and games look so much fun!

What house rules do you use for the Rifled-Muskets?

Your ACW Sharp Practice games and army build video blogs inspired me to get into ACW Sharp Practice. My Union force is 95% complete (just need to finish painting my cavalry) and my Confederates are all built up ready for primer and paint!

love the CW minis.

I'm looking forward to seeing these on the board, and revisiting the pint sized campaigns. Have you given any thought to adding in a section of Airborne to your mix? Their camo patterns would give you something different to paint and still be British. As for resolutions this year, I have two: 1. To build out the War of the Rohirrim box for MESBG (Getting back into that with the new edition) - which will also be used for Midgard! 2. To build out a 15mm Russian WW2 force for Chain of Command.

Glad to hear you’ve got a plan, returning to the early days is groovy, I wanna see you and andres jumping in and out of buildings and JOP’s, trying to remember assaulting into a building 😂 , you got it down eventually and then as all realised it is/was never a first solid plan. Peace for 2025 x

Thank you for alerting me to the fact that the new Warlord Games infantry are not compatable with older Warlord Games infantry. I guess I will need to find a different manufacturer to find compatable sculpts.

Nice! I am about to start with my dad painting starter set german grenadiers and british airborne.

Nice, just started some Perry DAK. The old sets of BA, while they seemed good at the time are pretty poor when you look at them now. Warlord’s more recent British/Canadian and Commando sets are great. As for the different scales I’d rather have 1:48 vehicles but as I’ve got so many 1:56 it would be too costly to replace them

Love the thought process and utilising CoC for your ToE, it’s how my US Airborne are set up!

I have exactly the same project in mind for this year and got the Warlord starter army box set. I'm asking a friend to do the base coats with his airbrush to reduce the pain of khaki. I'm also using some RKX 3D prints to provide some variety and specialist roles - spotters & engineers in particular. The RKX Canadians will pass as Brit's no problem and they have a range of support weapons - The sculpts are bit more realistically proportioned than Warlord figures, think Perry proportions - I will ask my friendly local 3D printer to increase them a few per cent next time. Also - Long time lurker and watcher here, first time commenting - Thanks to Andre and yourself for all the content and humour over the last years. You got me and my friends into Chain of Command and we're hooked - Wishing you and all the Nerd Cave team the very best for 2025.

I look forward to seeing those old Campaigns on the table again.

Painting Brit/commonwealth North Africa stuff can be a real mojo vampire. Good luck with the new boxes! All the best in 2025!

Testament to your painting of the disruptive scheme on the Firefly, I did not notice its long barrel until you listed it off. In addition to the support section, have you considered making a couple extra Bren / PIAT / 2" Mortar teams for dismounted carrier crews?