Battalion level WW2 Now called "O" Group or the story of "Oooooh"

[Corvusboreus]

TT, I solved that problem by making my own shock dice marked with roman numerals.
They were made from a pack of 1cm wooden cubes (cheap shop craft section) spray painted mission brown then forest green, and numbered with a white permanent marker. Some were marked I-V, others VI-X (one side was left blank).
The white on green has a passable 'generic military' appearance on table, and they look different enough that they are unlikely to be picked up and thrown.
As a bonus, with the roman numbering system, anything up to 20 points of shock can be marked by 2 dice.

[Truscott Trotter]

For shock I have dials with dead guys on but orders for O Group I think is 6 but I do have some Roman numeral dice from the old DBM days which might be handy too.

[DCRBrown]

Darren,

The maximum number of HQ Orders is six - so a D6 it is!

The main reason I modelled a dice holder onto the Battalion HQ base was so that I didn't keep picking it up and rolling it, as mentioned above.

DB

[Darren]

Thanks Dave.

Just read the O-Group article in the 2020 Lardies magazine, it was the first section I read.
I'm really looking forward to get these rule

Regards
Darren

[donglewwe]

"... do I only need to leave space for a D6?"

Yes - iirc from the videos.

[dakkadakka]

I use bases with dice holders to mark casualties for units in my GdA games. I also use a different color die for each brigade, so I can tell them apart. Works really well - probably will do the same fo the OG companies.

Regards,

Jim

[zabarr]

Read the article in the new magazine. I love what I’m reading. Would it work well with 6mm?

[Truscott Trotter]

I reckon it would work as fine with 6mm as 10 or 12mm

[Contrarius]

I use bases with dice holders to mark casualties for units in my GdA games. I also use a different color die for each brigade, so I can tell them apart. Works really well - probably will do the same fo the OG companies.

Regards,

Jim

Also coming round to those bases with integral dice holders. A nifty idea. Having to move up separate casualty markers and/or pebbles/beads gets to be a bit of a chore, especially when they roll down your hills. Now, if only I could get over my aversion to using dice as casualty indicators... Like DB says, if there’s dice anywhere on the table they tend to get picked up and thrown.

[DCRBrown]

To make gaming life easier there are only three Shock levels; 1 Shock, 2 Shock or Suppressed (3 Shock).

So hopefully not too many markers or micro-dice in a game.

DB