Saturday 1 August 2020

Showcase 8th: 6mm WW1 - Guns Of August

This is one of my more crazy projects. The miniatures went smaller yet from 10mm to 6mm, and the rules were actually from a boardgame (Avalon Hill 1980 Guns of August) - Heretical!! That actually describes best the reaction of most of my fellow wargame club mates. Nevertheless I always wanted some miniscale/vs grand scale map wargame going boardgame with the real "General Headquarter" feeling, and GOA was always close to my heart. The Covid 19 gap just gave  me time to really finish this, figures were mostly Baccus 6mm, and some Irregular miniatures, a few airplanes were 3D print, the map/mats, I re-designed after the game board and produced it with Tinywargames mats. Once the club will re-open the complete European WW1 is waiting for me, month by month ...

The production charts with personnel and supply points
An eternal calendar for the re-inforcements entries, and the weather calendar for west and east front


Italy and the mediterranean - all quiet on July 1914

The westfront and the alps

the westfront from the alps/swiss point of view

The westernfront from the north sea

just about getting into the 3rd of August ....

some French Cavalry at Lille

Major deployments near Verdun on both sides of the frontier



The southern East European theatre, the Balkan before the storm

The Northern East European theatre

The whole Turkish European army posing at Gallipoli for a photoshooting - still neutral


The Serbian Front from the Bosnian point of view

the Serbian theatre birds eye view

The complete Northern theatre just about round start of August

Few German defenses round Königsberg

and too few Austrians defending Lemberg

The complete Eastern front from Gotlands point of view


a pre-printed B/W monthly tracker map, also for marking the status quo for later pick ups

The complete Greek army

The complete Monte-Negrian Army

The complete manufactured "tokens" including fortress marker and a lot of barbed wire for "entrenchment" markers ...

2 comments:

  1. Stunning! Can not wait to start that game. I remember our test game and was hilarious. It will be even better to have both maps involved.

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    1. Thanks Bart! Me too! This will be a fantastic grand campaign!

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