Major General Maxwell Taylor and an Objective

All my (new) US Airborne minis are painted in the Normandy uniform color. Just to keep Army coherency.

Major General Maxwell Taylor



An Objective named: A Daring Plan.
The plan was to submit this objective for the BF painting competition. But for me it was not looking good enough to submit. My conclusion was correct looking at the results of other submitted objectives.







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Cleaning up a blog.

I made some changes to my blog.
First the most important one. At the left side a new section is included named: Pages. This was something that i wanted to add for sometime now but never did. But after reading a post in Indierockclimber's excelent blog: What Would Patton Do? (if you love AAR you sure must check out his blog), it gave me a push to add it.
The first page added is Army files. This is an index of all FoW army files made by me and at the end you will find a link to the side with a lot more files made by others. All new army files that i make will now be found on the Army File page.
Labels. Instead of one long column that only grew longer with each new label i added, i changed it into what it looks now.
The sections Army Excel Files (with the new army file page this is no longer needed) and my what to do list (i never liked this one) are deleted.
If people have any comments or like to see some more things changed let me know.

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Updated Army file for British and Canadian 3rd Division

An Updated Army file for British and Canadian 3rd Division (Monty's Meatgrinder) available.
Repaired the wrong point cost in the OoB for 1st Machine gun platoon if you take a Piat.
Also if you selected the 1st Machine gun platoon the 2nd machine gun platoon also appeared on the OoB. This is now corrected.

Direct download of the file
Monty's Meatgrinder

or go to site were you also can find a Excel 2007 file and a OpenOffice file.
Flames of War army files


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Today in Dutch WWII History: Liberation of Camp Westerbork

Today 65 years ago, 12 April 1945. The Canadians liberated  Camp Westerbork.

As of 1 July 1942 the Nazi's used the camp as Durchgangslager Westerbork (Passagecamp Westerbork).The departure point of a sum of 93 trains to Auschwitz, Sobibor, Theresientadt and Bergen-Belsen.
With the 93 trains a total of 107,000 people were transported to the deathcamps, only 5000 returned.

Today a commemoration will be held to remember it is 65 years ago that Camp Westerbork was liberated.

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Photo's: Anne Frank Werkstuk

Update for the US Airborne HH Army file.

Changed the bombardment range from the M3 105mm Light Howitzer from 64"/160cm to the correct range 56"/140cm.

New file:
US Airborne HH (V2.1)

Or on the website
Flames of War Army files

90. Leichte Afrika Division Schützen Kompany part 3: The Combat Platoons

When i was painting these 2 platoons i suddenly realized that i posted the wrong army list in 90. Leichte Afrika Division Schützen Company part 1: The List. I have changed that now.
Further before i even could start painting i had to remove a lot of mold lines. Also some mini's are a little deformed. I tried to remove and fixed as much as possible but some is still visible.

On to the platoons.
Each platoon contains 1 Commander MG team and 6 MG teams. Added are 1 Anti Tank rifle team and 1 Mortar team. For now i have decided to leave out the transports.


Afrika Schützen Platoon 1

For more pictures click on the "Read More" link.

Update for the Armia Krajowa Army Excel file

There is an updated file for the Armia Krajowa army excel file available.
Cell C5 "Combat Platoons" and Cell C7 "Support Platoons" weren't working properly.

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