I put together 5 TAM tanks tonight. These are the medium tanks used by the Argentinian Army. The vehicle is based on the Marder APC with a turret that is based on the Leopard 1A4.
To make these I used GHQ Marders (N41) and turrets from GHQ Leopard 1A4s (N72). In reality the turret on the TAM has a slightly different shape to the back half of the turret, but the standard GHQ Leopard 1A4 is close enough in my opinion.
I’ll just leave these photos here with no explanation …. I know, such a tease.
If you saw my post about a week ago titled “Before“, you’ll see that lots of progress is being made. You may also notice that the before picture was a much wider shot …. I’ve only gotten this far with the clean-up and organization. A much wider “After” shot will be coming soon.
Just did a little playtesting tonight of my TAC II rules with emphasis on Conventional Fire Factors and Infantry. I personally prefer tank vs tank games in this scale, I find that using infantry bogs down the game a bit as it adds a bit of record keeping especially when units start to get suppressed and you need to keep track of when they got suppressed and when they need to make subsequent suppression checks, etc. …. but still I like to have it as an option so did some work in that area tonight. Everything went well, I found a minor error on the infantry card for the 3rd World Infantry so I corrected that and I also discovered that the Rifle Squad conventional fire data assumed a squad with a Light MG, so I added a row on the card for a rifle squad without Light MG,,, just in case that ever comes up.
For the purposes of this test game, each figure represented a Fire Team.
Built a few new paint racks and shelves last night. Installing now.
This is a photo of what my personal workbench looked like earlier tonight. It’s a fucking disaster, I can barely get anything done there. Most of the time I spend out in the shop is devoted to filling orders for my customers but there is no excuse for this disaster. I’ll be doing some major reorganizing over the next day or two … or more. Stay tuned for a whole new look and me getting back to the point where I can actually work on some micro armor again.
This is a cross post from the TAC II Blog ( www.tac2game.com )
This is how it goes, for months I will not do anything and then I’ll start adding new vehicle data cards and I cannot stop myself. Over the last two days I’ve added quite a few cards. Here is a list of ones added in the last two days:
US
M60A1
M60A2
M60A3
Russia
T-62
BTR-50PK
BTR-60PB
BTR-80
BTR-80A
BRDM-2 (Scout and ATGM versions)
Germany
Leopard 1A3
Leopard 1A4
Leopard 2
Jagdpanzer Rakete
Jagdpanzer Kanone
Luchs 8×8
Fuchs 6×6
Marder
MAN 5 Ton Truck
MAN 7 Ton Truck
MAN 10 Ton Truck
3rd World Forces
Casspir
Ratel 20
Ratel 90
Nyala RG-31
The TAC II Rule Book is available from GameCraft Miniatures online store. This is a printed and bound version of the free PDF version that is available at www.tac2game.com
TAC II is the gaming system that I use for all my Micro Armor games, however the rules and vehicle/weapons data are in meters so the rules can be used with any scale minis.
The rules for TAC II are free via PDF download to anyone that wants them, this printed version is priced to only cover my expenses of having it printed, there is no profit for me in selling this book, this is something I’m doing because I want to.
If you are not familiar with my TAC II project, go to www.tac2game.com for all the info on it.
Please read the entire product description in the store including the important disclaimer.
http://gcmini.mybigcommerce.com/tac-ii-rule-book/
Here it is, from start to finish.
Allens Micro Armor Blog 