Chain of Command Questions

[BritTorrent]

Hi all,

Long time 40k player looking to switch over to WW2 historicals. I've played at the shop a few times, you might have seen me playing Team Yankee/Seven Days.

I'm currently torn between Bolt Action and Chain of Command. From what I've seen in the CoC rulebook, 28mm works perfectly fine with that system so I was looking at this scale. Warlord's starter kits are great value so I was thinking of picking up the British Airborne Army starter kit and the German Panzergrenadiers kit too, so I've got an army on both sides. I could build them for CoC but then for the most part they'd be compatible with Bolt Action.

Do most people around here play 28mm? I've seen a few people using 15mm online, which would be ideal as 15mm is even cheaper! Plastic Soldier Company sell an entire airborne company for about £30. 15mm would also scale up to the TFL company level game pretty well too. I feel like 28mm has a bit more character though, so I'm torn.

I figured the best bet is just to get the same scale that the local community has. So what's it like around here? We got many CoC players? And what scale do you play at?

Cheers,

Jordan

EDIT: TFL have also got 'O' Group coming out soon, a WW2 game that lets you play at battalion level in 15mm. Which looks really interesting. So that's another plus for 15mm, you'd be able to scale up or down to all 3 games with the same models. Useless if nobody is playing though!

[Baldie]

Hi There

Me, Dale, James and Reece play COC in 28mm.
I got N EW German force that can morph into MW also got some EW French but not started on em yet and Russians and Partisans for the whole shebang.
James got an EW BEF force
Dale has Japanese that are pretty good with all their knee mortars.
Reece has Wermacht and SS

We also play BA

To be honest any COC force only needs a few bits like a tank and mortar and it is a 1000 point BA force.

For me COC is superior rules to BA but BA is a great scrap like playing a commando comic.

The 1000 point BA starter sets are a great start.

I have 15mm for FOW, TY as and Battle Group then drop a scale again to 6mm for Northag


Go 28mm and get COC and BA they both play so different they are both worth having.

What force you going for?

[BritTorrent]

Hi Baldie,

Cheers for that. Looks like we have a decent community then!

Thanks for the info, so it seems fairly easy to make a force that can work both in CoC and BA. That's good. I'll probably pick up the 1000pt BA starter kits then and go from there.

I'm looking at late war British Airborne and German Panzergrenadiers. I've been researching some battles from the Ardennes involving 6th Airborne so I'm looking at modelling them based around that. At the Battle of Bure. My thinking is if I have a German and and Allied side then I'm always gonna be able to have an historical matchup.

Both the British Airborne and German Grenadiers starter kits seem like good value. Looking at the CoC rules as well it seems like Airborne are a pretty elite force so won't have many supports other than maybe a mortar or a AT gun. So should keep them on the small (and cheap!) side too.

[Baldie]

Hope we all get to play before end of the year.

Whilst you prep your forces there are enough around for demos.

We the Janco massive are not shackled by historic accuracy, O&G have masqueraded as Norman's, New Kingdom Egyptians have fought Ancient British and the Germans have for sure fought the Japanese.

We do try where possible to have historic games but push the boundaries a little.

[leopard]

Hope we all get to play before end of the year.

Whilst you prep your forces there are enough around for demos.

We the Janco massive are not shackled by historic accuracy, O&G have masqueraded as Norman's, New Kingdom Egyptians have fought Ancient British and the Germans have for sure fought the Japanese.

We do try where possible to have historic games but push the boundaries a little.

my Japanese are known for occasionally getting very lost

I may eventually get my SS usable as well

[Baldie]

Got a couple of games this week

Game 1 at gimps with my LW Russians facing the Germans. I am attacking so expect heavy losses but do have 6 more points of support at least. But with a minimum of 6 MG34 to run up against it may get very bloody indeed especially as I am running lengthways.

Game 2 at shop vs Reece, my EW Germans vs his EW French. Basic probe with just two support points each. Unbelievably it allows the French to take a Schneider AMC P16 armoured half track. With just MG fire to try to drive it off and torrents of VB fire my Germans may have another tough fight on their hands

[leopard]

the internet expects a full report, complete with names of all casualties, assuming there is enough space on the internet for such

[Baldie]

Loved chain today, apart from losing to Le Frogs.

[leopard]

Loved chain today, apart from losing to Le Frogs.

losing is bad enough, loosing to Reece is worse, losing to the French too

loosing to Recce playing French is like loosing cubed

[Baldie]

Bought one of the special lardie publications it has a COC PSC in it.
It is designed for EW but really any force.
Germans have to get to table six for full victory, Fench need to take table 1 to stop a bridge being completed.

Looks interesting and has chance of French win on turn 2 so may be a quick campaign.