{"id":11744,"date":"2019-04-08T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11744"},"modified":"2021-10-29T03:06:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:06:41","slug":"wargaming-week-08-04-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/wargaming-week-08-04-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Wargaming Week 08\/04\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let\u2019s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 1st through to the 7th of April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ladies and gents, this is going to be a short one. And mostly about Salute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BLOG&nbsp;STUFF<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_20190402_073311-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11720\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/impressions-spectre-operations-version-2\/\">My Impressions of Spectre Operations Version 2 are up!<\/a> As I say in it, this new book is a real evolution of the game, rebuilding what was needed to make the game even better while still maintaining the core that made version 1 such an interesting game. You&#8217;ll be seeing me playing this a fair amount &#8211; as much as I love Skirmish Sangin, writing scenarios and handouts for it can be a bit of a slog. I&#8217;m working on making a way of speeding this up but for when I just want to grab a rulebook and go, Spectre has returned to being my go to product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NEWS<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>SALUTE HAPPENED &#8211; EVERYONE GOT READY FOR SALUTE AND THEN WENT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PURCHASES<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_20190406_133008-scaled.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_20190406_133008-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_20190406_133008-scaled-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I may have been a little busy at Salute &#8211; lots of wobbly shelves throwing items into my bag. Let&#8217;s run through the damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Spectre Miniatures &#8211; Carefully pre-ordered on Wednesday as I knew they would be sold out by the time I got there otherwise.<ul><li>Baba Yaga &#8211; This year&#8217;s special edition will be a great addition to the undercover or bodyguard range. A nice dynamic pose really helps to see the character it&#8217;s supposed to be portraying.<\/li><li>Minivan &#8211; FInally! Steve from Spectre will stop having to listen to me begging for this! I&#8217;ve been desperately wanting a Minivan for operators to pour out of after watching S.E.A.L. Team do it in the very first episode. Civilian vehicles really expand the possibility space so get more on the table is always good<\/li><li>Objectives &#8211; I&#8217;m always looking for things to spark new scenario ideas and oh boy do the new objectives cover that in spades. I&#8217;m already looking at a few ideas, especially with that warhead.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Hasslefree<ul><li>Modern Archaeologists &#8211; Okay, I love the games that inspired these two figures. More importantly, for all the things the remake of The Mummy with Tom Cruise did badly, it did interest me in the concept of some scenarios featuring archaeologists or treasure hunters working in an ongoing warzone. Keep your eyes open for these two popping up in a future game.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Militia Miniatures<ul><li>Republican Guard &#8211; I\u2019ll admit, I had taken a glance at the <g class=\"gr_ gr_42 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"42\" data-gr-id=\"42\">kickstarter<\/g> for these guys and not been entirely sold on them. However, Westbury Wargamers (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWargamers\">available on twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/westburywargamers.com\/\">at their blog<\/a>) showed them off in the metal and they looked pretty interesting. To add to my ongoing focus on the Middle East, I pick up all three packs for the Republican Guard. This should give me a team of regime loyalists\/Bazi Royal Guard, complete with a nice commander figure ideal for a Special Forces team to attempt to snatch and grab<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>White Dragon <g class=\"gr_ gr_43 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"43\" data-gr-id=\"43\">Miniatues<\/g><ul><li>Taliban &#8211; So this is a big one. I have been keeping a very close eye on these as they went through development and were previewed earlier year. Having now seen them in person, I just had to pick up the entire range, in a <g class=\"gr_ gr_44 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"44\" data-gr-id=\"44\">varety<\/g> of heads, and get them on the board. There are some very clever design decisions, including some weapon combinations you just haven\u2019t seen in use in other ranges. I think the double barrel will be a nasty surprise for an operator trying to breach and clear a location.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HOBBY<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_20190402_231805-scaled.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_20190402_231805-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_20190402_231805-scaled-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Between work (including some good news that might be slowing my hobby WAY down in May) and going to Salute, I&#8217;ve had a really slow hobby week again. I did manage to get a few odds and sods done, getting stuff mounted on bases and continuing some paint jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s it for this update, expect more updates next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 1st through to the 7th of April. Ladies and gents, this is going to be a short one. And mostly about Salute. BLOG&nbsp;STUFF My Impressions of Spectre Operations Version 2 are up! As I say in it, this new book is a real evolution of the game, rebuilding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[903,948],"tags":[954,914,941,905,939,955,926],"class_list":["post-11744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wargaming","category-wargaming-week","tag-modern-wargaming","tag-skirmish-sangin","tag-spectre","tag-spectre-miniatures","tag-spectre-operations","tag-ultramodern-wargaming","tag-wargaming"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Michael Charge","author_link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/author\/chargedog\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Wargaming<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/wargaming-week\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Wargaming Week<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Wargaming<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Wargaming Week<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/wargaming-week\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Modern Wargaming<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/wargaming-week\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Skirmish Sangin<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/wargaming-week\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Spectre<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/wargaming-week\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Spectre Miniatures<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/wargaming-week\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">spectre operations<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/wargaming-week\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ultramodern Wargaming<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/wargaming-week\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Wargaming<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Modern Wargaming<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Skirmish Sangin<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Spectre<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Spectre Miniatures<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">spectre operations<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ultramodern Wargaming<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Wargaming<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 08\/04\/2019","modified":"Updated on 29\/10\/2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 08\/04\/2019 12:00 pm","modified":"Updated on 29\/10\/2021 3:06 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvEn5-33q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11238,"url":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/wargaming-week-15-10-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":11744,"position":0},"title":"Wargaming Week 15\/10\/2018","author":"Michael Charge","date":"15\/10\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Let\u2019s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 8th through to the 14th of October. BLOG\u00a0STUFF This week's post was taking a look at Spectre's S.W.A.T. team! These guys were fun to paint and I'm really happy with the final result. Now I just have to get them operating. 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Only just back from my airsofting weekend away. Much pewing was done. I'll be back next week with a proper update. 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Three more Spectre MENA miltia ready for the board. Tomorrow will be more productive - probably to counter-act all the purchasing that will be done once the Spectre technicals and Russians arrive","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Features&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Features","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/features\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170127_232603_246-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170127_232603_246-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170127_232603_246-1024x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6530,"url":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/08\/29\/skirmish-sangin-plausible-deniability\/","url_meta":{"origin":11744,"position":3},"title":"Skirmish Sangin &#8211; Plausible Deniability","author":"Michael Charge","date":"29\/08\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Emergency post! You're getting a post tomorrow but just been given the go ahead to talk about something cool. Radio Dishdash has just announced the next Skirmish Sangin book entitled Plausible Deniability. Focusing on Special Operations, this book will have all sorts of stuff in it to expand Skirmish Sangin.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Features&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Features","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/features\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-30-at-7.04.31-am.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-30-at-7.04.31-am.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-30-at-7.04.31-am.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-30-at-7.04.31-am.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5501,"url":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/05\/02\/wargaming-week-02052017\/","url_meta":{"origin":11744,"position":4},"title":"Wargaming Week 02\/05\/2017","author":"Michael Charge","date":"02\/05\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Let\u2019s start, covering the 24th of April through to the 1st of May. 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