Holding objectives

I'm musing about objectives for scenarios and something has crossed my mind. Should it be the case that only infantry can hold objectives? This would increase their role in the game (reflecting real life).

28mm M13/40 by Warlord review

A really nice model that perfectly captures this widely used Italian vehicle (although unfortunately it wasn't used in Russia).

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4vNUbWQftmCjcpnuI80ZmQ

British Officers Don't Duck - Warlord German Infantry (Winter) review

Something extra for the blog, a 28mm review.

Remembering

As gamers let us remember the reality of what we represent on the tabletop.

https://youtu.be/HyPCgqBVfqY

What causes casualties?

British figures, probably not untypically, suggest that roughly three-quarters of all wounds during the war were caused by shells, bombs, mortar rounds, and grenades. Bullets and anti-tank rounds added a rather modest 10 per cent; the same as mines and booby traps. The remaining and unlucky one in twenty were injured by a miscellaneous mix of blasts, crushings, chemical burns, and ‘other Stephen Bull, Second World War Infantry Tactics, Western Front

First game using the vehicle rules

 Here's a link to a trailer video of the first game:

https://youtu.be/wxPAugxtseQ

Mortars

Interesting info in Gordon Rottman's book on support weapon tactics, mortars were mainly used in a self observed role, very different to most wargames tactics. Oddly I've actually solved this already in the rules as I've encouraged line of sight fire by only requiring the first to activate not the observer and firer!