The Warlord Games German Pioneers boxed set is a really interesting and versatile boxed set. It contains five sprues of fairly generic plastic infantry, and a great selection of metal parts to convert those into engineers. I bought mine for rounding out my support options for Chain of Command. The boxed set can easily make […]
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Warlord Games German Pioneers boxed set review
The Warlord Games German Pioneers boxed set is a really interesting and versatile boxed set. It contains five sprues of fairly generic plastic infantry, and a great selection of metal parts to convert those into engineers. I bought mine for rounding out my support options for Chain of Command. The boxed set can easily make […]

Soviet Machine Gun Platoon
How many figures do you have to paint to field a platoon in Chain of Command? 30? 40? 50? Er, how about thirteen? Yes, this is my new Soviet force, and the core platoon has a grand total of thirteen miniatures. How? Read on…

German Pioneers
I painted these guys almost by accident. Well, maybe not quite an accident (it’s not like I spilled a bottle of field grey paint and there they were) but it certainly wasn’t part of the master plan. They’ve sat in my “to paint” box for waaaay too long (look, here they are unpainted back in […]

Dug In British Infantry
I’m now putting the finishing flourishes on my new late WW2 British force for Chain of Command. Well, I say British, but these guys are just as likely to be played as Polish or Kiwi infantry, although at the moment I’m mostly playing as the 49th (West Riding) Division as we play through Operation Martlet. […]

Field Defences
Nothing says 20th century warfare like miles of barbed wire and signs ominously warning “Achtung minen!”: