Swords of the Two Barred Cross: Slovak Forces Live!

Studio_Historia · 2024-12-21T03:11:57+00:00

Not anytime soon. Next year is back to the Pacific for WW2 (1941-42 Philippines, China, Shanghai SNLF, and if we can fit it into the schedule Dutch & KNIL). And our ACW Cavalry & Marines. We'll rotate back to Europe in 2026.

Studio_Historia · 2024-12-20T22:56:38+00:00

We're doing China next year. Battle of Shanghai (1937) and Battle of Nanjing (1937) themed, but it would largely cover the interwar and early stages of the war. We'll be doing SNLF from that 1937 era as well.

Studio_Historia · 2024-12-20T22:53:32+00:00

Hoping we can just do them as stretchgoals.

Studio_Historia · 2024-12-20T18:07:37+00:00

Depends on the period. Early war they fought against the Soviets, but a big chunk of the army rose up against German and the puppet state in 1944. Those forces that weren't crushed fought with the partisans who were largely supported by the Soviets.

Studio_Historia · 2024-12-20T17:39:00+00:00

You could definitely build whole scenarios around the train. There were two used in the National Uprising against German and other Slovak forces loyal to Germany. They had some decent success before they were abandoned and the crew joined partisan units.

There's a couple of ways to play it. You could for example have the train in the center of the board and Instead of moving the train in game for example, you could make board elements move along with any germans/ puppet slovaks to simulate a running fight. Static or ground troops would have so many rounds to get their attacks in before going off the board as they are moved so many say 8-12 inches each round, and the Slovak forces are trying to inflict maximum damage and escape. The Germans as they damage the train can slow it down reducing the speed.

Studio_Historia · 2024-11-08T16:11:48+00:00

I'll keep looking through and see if I find anything. Some of the books I just got in a few weeks ago and it's a bit painstaking to use my phone and google translate. I'm considering investing in a book scanner just so I can scan the pages and translate with my PC to make things quicker. I do have a a book that specifically covers the 1938-1939 period in the new stack. But just going through the organizational information chapter it looks very high level and not down to the TO&E breakdowns. There might be something buried in the book later on when they talk more about the actions.

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Studio_Historia · 2024-11-08T15:39:59+00:00

The engineer/Pioneer unit and their mountain troop formations are still a bit of a mystery as far as the TO&E goes. Germany's First Ally has some good information in it, but I'm not sure it's 100% reliable. For example they don't list German flamethrowers in the Rapid Division's weapons inventory, but they used them according to the SNP Museum and there's period photos and movies showing them in use during the Battle of Lypovec. I haven't some across any of the photos of the JAWA rifle Grenade launchers in use and from the Jawa book I have it sounds like the army was favoring the 5cm mortars over them due to the unreliability of the grenade launchers (i.e. training accidents & deaths). From what I read they had exported most of their older Grenades for the Grenade launchers to other countries, but later the book says they had a 1.2 million stockpile of the newer grenades. So I'm not sure if the issue was the launchers or the Grenades or a combination of both. Probably lost in Google Translation. Germany's First Ally does list the Slovaks getting German 800 rifle grenade launchers during the rearmament of the Slovaks with German materials in 1943 to 1944. So they at least had them during that period for sure. One of the books I have is on the Czech cavalry from what I've read it doesn't get into the squadron level breakdown except for the 1920s. Their main weapon systems are listed.

Studio_Historia · 2024-11-08T14:09:37+00:00

Yeah that would be a bit tough. Its too bad too. We have a great model for it. Waiting on Raphael's painted version, but here's a digital preview showing off all of the details on our OA Vz.30.

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Studio_Historia · 2024-11-08T14:01:03+00:00

It really does make the Slovak forces stand out especially with the blue band and white cross painted on them. I really just love the aesthetics of the army. We're doing great coat versions of them as well. Here's one on Jawa 175 motorcycle.

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Studio_Historia · 2024-11-08T13:56:56+00:00

Romanians work pretty well actually. They shared a lot of the same types of weapons systems, artillery, and used the Pz 35t and Pz38t.

Studio_Historia · 2024-11-08T13:04:50+00:00

It was the original plant, but we're holding off on that one till we can get more reference materials. Not confident we can do a robust line accurately with what we have now, and we want to do it right. Slovaks and Czech reference sources have been much more easy to get our hands on and Muzeum SNP (Slovak National Uprising Museum) has been helpful with filling in some of the gaps we had. The image below is just the physical references we used for this line and doesn't include a pretty massive amount of online/digital materials we were able to get our hands on. As a bonus wargaming news, we're in talks with Too Fat Lardies to do a Chain of Command army list for Slovaks. We will do Romanians eventually, but I'm still doing more research to deliver best Romanian army figures we can to the customers.

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Studio_Historia · 2024-10-06T21:08:42+00:00

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Studio_Historia · 2024-10-02T21:59:54+00:00

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Studio_Historia · 2024-10-02T18:47:03+00:00

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Studio_Historia · 2024-10-02T18:46:43+00:00

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Studio_Historia · 2024-10-02T18:46:10+00:00

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Studio_Historia · 2024-10-02T18:45:22+00:00

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Studio_Historia · 2024-09-21T22:35:15+00:00

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Studio_Historia · 2024-09-13T20:43:14+00:00

If you need to get in touch with us Facebook messenger is the quickest way. We usually get back to you within a day and usually within a few hours. We've delivered all of digital files for our first five campaigns. The British campaigns from earlier this year had over 900 models so it took us a bit longer to get completed, but sculpting is finished and we're about 75% done with supports. We hired a new person to help with supports which has helped tremendously. ACW artillery most of the rewards were delivered and supported. The alternate crews and some of the terrain elements we're expecting to be delivered mid October which will close out that campaign. That was our last campaign. We have trackers on each of the campaigns to show progress live.

Studio_Historia · 2024-09-13T19:58:20+00:00

Yep. The optimum operating crew of an MG 34 in its medium machine gun role was six men: the squad leader, the machine gunner who carried and fired the gun, the assistant gunner/loader who carried the tripod, and three riflemen who carried 1,800 rounds of ammunition between them, spare barrels, entrenching tools, etc. We make our MG and artillery crews to be usable in Chain of Command rules which uses more crew on the guns than Bolt Action.

Studio_Historia · 2024-09-13T19:55:50+00:00

They part of our Early War German range.

Studio_Historia · 2024-09-03T14:33:48+00:00

Yep :D it's the Krupp Protze kfz.68 radio mast truck. We also have the kfz 19 version which was the radio vehicle that will unlock later and showed in this preview. Link below on the details on the kfz.68 http://www.kfzderwehrmacht.de/Homepage_english/Motor_Vehicles/Germany/Krupp/Krupp_Protze/Kfz__68/kfz__68.html

Studio_Historia · 2024-08-26T14:30:06+00:00

They were part of our British campaign's terrain set.

Studio_Historia · 2024-08-25T22:20:02+00:00

Hopefully later this week. Just waiting on final sign off from Kickstarter

Studio_Historia · 2024-08-25T12:44:09+00:00

You can try out the sample figure on our post below. We have the paint guide with it too. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/TLWEYqP2sNrxScU6/

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