Curia Julia

Continuing with my Italian theme, and to support my US forces, I decided to paint another vehicle. This time a Sherman. The kit is from Rubicon and it went together quite well (a bit confusing in some parts of the instructions) and it was really fun to paint. I dont really like the crew models from Rubicon, but that has more to do with my bad painting then the models themselves. Now that I understand how to paint vehicles, I hope to do more. There is a hope that I can play a game of What a Tanker! now. Maybe the Sherman can verse the little Stug that could , or some Italian Armour that I have.

I have recently built and bought some Terrain for my Italian board. This was the first occasion I could pull together enough stuff to make a 4ft x 4ft board and play a game. Not everything is perfect – I want to do more work to the field, base the trees, build hills and rocky outcrops, drybrush the roads, build/buy new walls and paint more miniatures. But I finally got to play so I was very happy! I played a solo game of Chain of Command. The basic fluff was the allies have landed in Sicily and after an easy day on the beaches they begin to push inland. The scenario was flank attack with the US 82 nd Airborne attacking and the Italian Aosta Infantry Division defending. With the scenario and force rating differences the Italians had nine support points and the US had four. The US brought a M8 Scout Car and a predatory bombardment (I’d imagine naval guns in the Mediterranean). The Italians had a tripod MMG and a M14/41. To start the patrol phase the Italian star