Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 112 – Battlegroup Overlord & Chain of Command

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Neil Shuck in Meeples & Miniatures // 9 Comments

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Welcome to Episode 112 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast

On this show I am joined by co-hosts Mike Hobbs and Mike Whitaker.

Mike H and I review Battlegroup Overlord, and then Mike W and I talk about Chain of Command(again).

Finally, we all discuss some final thoughts about campaigns in World War II, and share our modelling projects for the genre..

We hope you enjoy the show.

9 Comments on Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 112 – Battlegroup Overlord & Chain of Command

dmchodge // September 9, 2013 at 00:07 // Reply

Regarding your regularly schedules slaggon of Bolt Actio, I’m really looking forward to them presenting a scenario for Pegasus bridge using a model longer than rifle range.
Piers // September 9, 2013 at 21:04 // Reply

Well you will be pleased to know we are gonna do some vehicle cards for the Battlegroup books to save your wrists from page turning! Probably playing card sized, one per vehicle.

Just on the release schedule for Battlegroup, confirmed so far its Barbarossa, Blitzkreig and then Early North Africa.

Cheers,
Piers
- Earthquake // September 10, 2013 at 00:23 // Reply
  
  …and there was the sound of much rejoicing!
  - Piers // September 10, 2013 at 01:11 //
    
    …and I forgot to say, the next book – Fall of the Reich – has tutorials and a linked campaign in it!
    
    The main issue the tutorials didnt make it into Overlord was simply lack of space, the same fate befell the linked campaign we had for the book too. Hopefully these will all show up either in our free fanzine we are working on or possibly in a Normandy scenario book we are thinking of doing.
  - Michael Hobbs (@M_A_Hobbs) // September 10, 2013 at 21:28 //
    
    Superb stuff, Thanks Piers
Andrew Stewart // September 10, 2013 at 01:17 // Reply

Great stuff guys. For CoC: re. adjusting platoon strength pre-game – is this adequately handled by the random force morale roll at the start? And the randomness of the support roll? Isn’t this enough grief to put on the platoon?
But anyway, would be easy enough to just drop a figure or two from some teams.
Paul // September 15, 2013 at 04:07 // Reply

I don’t like the regular slag off of Bolt Action. Some of us like it.
moocifer // September 15, 2013 at 10:07 // Reply

Mike-H is right about the reason why many people don’t wargame WWII. Far too many vehicle & weapon variants ..
- Andrew Stewart // September 18, 2013 at 03:42 // Reply
  
  Yet it’s still the most popular historical period in wargaming (both figure & board)!!!
  There’s enough of us who like all that detail;) – or who don’t, if you play strategic stuff.