Nothing Much Happening on the Western Front

The title says it all. Chock-a-block in the middle of exams so not much getting done. Still, little progress is better than no progress.

In this case the progress materializes itself in the form of a new halftrack for my AhDom (space Nazis).

A nice little mobile HQ for the squad...

And a little bit of cover for advancing over open ground.

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Now, this may be the time for a little back story on the Ahrian Dominate.

I have no idea where they came from, or "From Whence They Came" as we like to put it in English... :)

They are, however, definitely here, (not Heer) and they aren't moving.

Due to their rather radical approach, they have alienated themselves from many other space going societies. They learnt quickly that they would have to change tack if their nation was to survive.
Although they are slowly getting better on the diplomacy, most of their contact with other nations is through their many and diverse military wings.

Most advanced technology in the galaxy seems new to the AhDom, and they are eagerly busy incorporating new discoveries into the Wehrmacht. Even so, many of their military forces are still ill equipped with almost obsolete weaponry. Due to the lack of modern equipment, the AhDom Wehrmacht has learnt to make do with what they have.

The many assorted wings of the Wehrmacht will be discussed in more detail at a later stage, however, the concept of the strange anomaly, the Werwolf Garrison Armies needs to be described here and now.

Relatively early in the emergence of the AhDom as a military power within the Determinate, it became clear to Werhmacht high command that they simply did not have enough man-power to wage a war of conquest against other highly advanced space-faring nations. In true 1945-fashion, high command came up with an ingenious and most importantly impressive-sounding solution that would indiscriminately waste the little resources they had available to them.

This was the creation of "Werwolf" Garrison Armies. The idea was to distribute forces to underpopulated areas of enemy held worlds where they would be able to lurk and cause fear and mayhem behind enemy lines until the time was right for the Werwolf to transform and wage full blown total war upon their enemies. In this way, the AhDom laid claim to vast areas of space by "Garrisoning" key planets with Werwolf armies.

Werwolf Armies were almost always undermanned and underequipped even by AhDom standards, and spent most of their time hiding away from local authorities. Occasionally a Werwolf Army would receive air-drops of equipment, orders, or reinforcements, however most of the time, they were left to their own devices.

The only recorded successful "transformation" of a Werwolf Army and the subsequent capture of a planet happened on the small world of Squathe. This world was made a satrapy of the AhDom and the nation was renamed as the Kruger Frei-staat. This small victory encouraged AhDom high command now end...

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Oh, and lest I forget, I finished up three little Fallschirmjagers... more about them later.

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Thanks for reading!

Regards,
Joshua

Deutschland Deutschland uber alles...

I like Germany in theory (having never been there myself). And, while not being a fan of a specific ideology commonly associated with dearest Deutschland, I am in fact, a fan of said ideologies military aesthetic.

That being said, a few years ago, I purchased a bunch of Warlord Games German Panzergrenadiers and Halftracks, most excellent products I must add. However, in typical me fashion, after painting only three models I became distracted with another nefarious project. However, the acquiring of those models was good money well spent as they proved useful for conversions for many other sci-fi projects.

As you can see, all of these models are based off panzergrandadier bodies.

So after establishing how much I love Warlord Games and all their assorted goodies, and taking into account how much I have enjoyed these plastic Germans, I decided to take the plunge and buy some more. However...!!!

This would not be a frivolous purchase! I had to prove to myself that I could (and possibly would) paint them. So with no further ado, I whipped out the last sad bedraggled remains of the old grenadiers sprues and whipped up a squad. It did help my motivation that I had already planned out a background for them as well as faction background. You see, these weren't any sort of Nazis, they were space Nazis! Now before everyone dies from sheer amazement, no, they do not look it. (Even space Nazis need grunt level troops...)

Seeing that they were from Warlord Games, and so are my minis for Beyond the Gates of Antares (the ruleset I use for pretty much everything), it was perfectly natural for me to want to use them in the same setting. Therefore I created a (very unofficial) new faction for Antares, known as the Ahrian Dominate (AhDom for short).

More information on AhDom may or may not follow eventually in another post.

But now onto the crux of the matter... the miniatures. I indeed managed to surprise myself by painting up the models that I had set out to do (for once!), and I have decided for further motivation (and a sad lack of other content) to do a post on them.

Right off the metaphorical bat is a five man squad with STG44s (Although they will be SG-somethingsomething else in Antares).

Then we have a little sniper team... not sure why he's using a KAR98K in the happy sunshine of the far future but eh...

Then the most interesting and worst photographed pair, an LMG team... The chap with the MG42 has a greenstuffed mask and generator/backpack thing... note that I did the conversion years ago when Konflikt '47 was first released. Interestingly he was the inspiration to do any of this in the first place...

Here we go, all nine of them! Suitable for tabletop use...

And best of all, this allows me to go ahead and purchase some new minis!

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That's all for now, with hopefully a couple of further posts in the near darkness of the bright future...

Mild apologies for the rambling, hopefully more organized next time...

Thank you for reading!

Regards,
Joshua