The Humber Armoured Car was one of the most widely produced British armoured cars of the Second World War. It supplemented the Humber Light Reconnaissance Car and remained in service until the end of the war.
From Simon’s collection.
Category: flames of war
"The House Subscription Deal is now sold out"
If you were thinking of doing the subscription deal for the new houses from Battlefront you are now out of luck as the House Subscription Deal is now sold out.
The main advantage of the deal was the free shipping, the guarantee that you would get every house released and all the extras too.
As a bonus for subscribing to the full set you will receive an add-on set, including villagers, monuments, walls and other urban extras to the value of two houses. We will also throw in free shipping as an added bonus.
So it sounds like you’ll get these walls and the monument.
Not sure if that bonus includes the extensions?
Well I am very pleased with my Calais House which arrived today. It is really nicely done.
Update: The Calais House has also sold out, so if you want one you will need to check your local shop, but I suspect you would need to be quite lucky to get one.
Buying a house
This month sees the initial release of the Normandy style houses from Battlefront. The first model is the Calais House.
They do seem to have been very popular, with lots of pre-orders.
Our first steps into the real estate market have proved even more rewarding than we had anticipated with our first property, a sunny little house in Calais, selling so fast that we will probably be out before the end of the week. The reason I bring this up is that currently we have orders from our stores around the world far exceeding the supply and we are only three days into solicitation. As our original plan was to make a set number and then have a new one come each month we are overjoyed by the response but we will not be making more of the first house. We will have no choice but to allocate stock to stores to be as fair as possible and give at least some to everybody that has made orders.
It looks like the Calais house will sell out imminently and may have even sold out by the time you read this. After some consideration I did go and order mine, I was hoping to buy it from a local shop, but if the pre-orders are anything to go by then I would probably never have managed to get one.
I did consider doing the subscription deal, but not sure if I want ALL the buildings…
Flames of War M5 Half Track
Flames of War M5 Half Track from Simon’s collection.
Humber Armoured Car
The Humber Armoured Car was one of the most widely produced British armoured cars of the Second World War. It supplemented the Humber Light Reconnaissance Car and remained in service until the end of the war.
From Simon’s collection.
Well Chaffeed
Looking at the Devil’s Charge preview on the Flames of War I was pleased to see some photographs of painted M24 Chaffee tanks.
They look great and very tasty.
Well chuffed and hope to get some soon.
Flames of War M5 Half Track
Flames of War M5 Half Track
Flames of War M24 Chaffee in full view
Sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees and sometimes you need to have something smacked in front of you to see it.
In my previous post on the new Battle of the Bulge release for Flames of War I made the comment.
Will we see allied forces? Don’t know, but I would like to see a Comet and the M24 Chaffee.
Well, Simon, right as usual, pointed to me to this page on the Flames of War website and right at the bottom is a photograph of ten M24 Chaffee tanks.
Yay!
Flames of War – Battle of the Bulge, coming soon…
Back in February 2011 in a blog post I discussed what we might see if Battlefront released a Battle of the Bulge supplement for Flames of War.
In the July issue of Wargames Illustrated we shall see news of “Devil’s Charge” the Flames of War supplement covering the Battle of the Bulge. No news yet on possible model releases but just from the cover I suspect we might see a Schwimmwagen and a King Tiger.
Will we see allied forces? Don’t know, but I would like to see a Comet and the M24 Chaffee.
Finally, finally, finally…
Yes, yes and yes again. Battlefront are (finally) releasing some 15mm buildings for Normandy.
In my look at the Rural Church which was released in May I did ask…
What I have noticed is a distinct lack of building releases for Normandy, there are quite a few buildings in the many photographs you see in the rule books and the two source books for the battle for Normandy. I wonder if the reason is that there are already a fair few companies out there already manufacturing nice resin 15mm buildings already? Having said that a fair few are also making Russian houses and churches too.
So are we going to see any terrain for Western Europe for Flames of War from Battlefront? What do you think?
So here we are some six weeks later and in the latest Wargames Illustrated the new buildings were advertised. What is interesting is how they are going to be released. The buildings will be released on a monthly basis, rotated between the four styles. Battlefront will also rotate the colour scheme. Once a production run has been completed then Battlefront will move onto the next house and paint scheme. The idea is that you will be able to build a gaming board with a variety of houses and paint schemes without any duplication.
The first four releases are as follows.
To follow these releases will be larger houses and some shops and outhouses.
Very pleased to see these forthcoming releases and looking forward to seeing what else is planned.