Lists: Soviets -Moto HQ w/ 1 company with 3 platoons, 1 company with 1 SMG platoon, sappers, 4 AT guns, 5 T-70s. Germans - GepanzertepanzerGrens HQ, 2 platoons, 4 panzers, 2 pak 38s.
Deployment: Soviet horde company on the right soviet objective. AT guns on the left Soviet objective. Soviets deployed first and get first turn. German AT guns on their left objective. One platoon of GepanzertepanzerGrens in the middle. Scattered Reserves for both sides.
Turn 1: Soviets fail to dig in. German Pak38s move to the rock wall.
Turn 2: Soviets bring on 5 T-70s on the far right flank with Scattered Reserves and they come down off the escarpment and line up with the infantry. Sappers come on at the farm house by the left Soviet objective. Germans get Panzers right in front of the Soviet light tanks an bail 2 T-70s and kill one.
Ok so this one is a doozy. 28 pics plus video, but then again we ended up getting 7500 pts for the Battle in the Ukraine. Sit back, grab a brew, and enjoy the fruits of months of painting in this huge battle.
Pregame shot, Russian players await the german push.. BTW, click pic for close up of Brett's 'Bitch please' face. Perhaps he just found out the official soap of the GameSummit WFB tourny is... NONE!!
Well, another GameSummit is upon us, all the hard work of painting 2 FoW armies and terrain and so on has paid off.. Here are some shots of the FoW demo table that I'll be running with my 8th army Brits vs 21.Panzers, and the HUGE Ukraine table for tomorrow's massive 3000 pt per side Soviets v Germans. Not pictured: Beer... Beer is available at the Steve Yzerman Sportsplex.. HUZZAH!
Video below has all sorts of other shots of the event on the quiet night before the main days (Sat and Sunday) and of my terrible selection of beer..
I offered to help Corey out again with some prep work he needed done. Last event I helped with painting some boards. This time he asked me to paint up a Fortress of Redemption. Its a decent chunk of plastic. Lots of nice details. I had to cut a few corners as I only got the piece a week ago and had FoW models to paint up as well...I think it turned out OK.
I added a new page to track the league, and posted the basic rules for tier 1 and such. I have posted the armies people will be working on, and will put the lists up once I receive them all, so no one can peek!
Stay tuned for Game Summit coverage this weekend - lots of pics and vids to come from our Eastern Front Mega Game!
Here is a close up shot of the Sherman III's with their new antennas. The key is what to use for the antenna.. I didt want to use brass rod, as any pressure would likely snapo it, or worse, snap and damage the resin model. Plastic thin rod isnt flexible enough. However, clothing tag ties from a dept store work perfectly, they have some bend to them, are thin enough, and are plentiful (ask for a handful)
Rob Kelly's awesome desert table.. Afghanistan/Italy. Though the white exercise ball in the background reminds me of the Rovers from Prisoner......
My escort unit is Panzer Grenadiers in the crazy french halftracks.. U304(f)'s Also.. anyone recognize those buildings with the thatched roofs? They are Marty's horrible Christmas dollar store buildings, with like 20 dollars worth of spackle, static grass and paint to cover up the snowdrifts on the roof!!
His target for Ambuscade? 510 points of StuG IIIG's.. his ambuscade unit? 6pdr's .. Here is hoping they do better vs side armor 3 than vs Chris' T34s last week.
That grape orchard is perfect scale for FoW, and the Desert Rats look great on this table
Rob chose Priest battery and the Recce Carriers as his on-table platoons, and deployed them on the hill overlooking the highway.
Recce moved his Carriers right up against the stone wall near the small farm, and I decided to get the SP Artillery set up ASAP as my first reserve unit.
Ambuscade was deadly, killed 2 StuGIII's and the platoon command hightailed out of LOS to them, only to get killed by...
.. the Priest Battery up on the hill. I had placed him out of LOS to one observer team, but failed to spot the second one, who ranged in first shot.. One platoon down on turn 1, out of 4 platoons, and its a third of my points!!!!
Side shot down the road towards my artillery.. they did nothing all game apart from pinning observers... which does nothing.
Game ends prematurely as my Marder's, AKA StuG Hotchkiss39's get vaporized on the far right flank, and I have nothing to contest that objective. Lose my CO tank, and promptly auto-lose the game, since I had 4 platoons to start, and Marders and StuG's were already destroyed.
Thoughts: Well, for the first game using Germans, they didn't do so hot, but losing 1/3 your points turn one will do that. My Arty did nothing, would have been better off with more tanks probably, like PanzerIII's or a few IVs.. who knows. Video below as always.
"Hmm, perhaps we are reading these captured maps upside down, what do you think, old boy?"
We decided to finally try Roadblock. I was using my Motor Rifles with Priest and RAF support, while Chris rolls a d6 to select an army list to use, and gets all tanks... thankfully not the KV-1 list though..
I choose his unit of T34s as the target unit (bottom left on road), with the 6pdr's as my Ambuscade unit, and he decides the escort unit should be his BA-10's (bottom right) I question this until after his recce move, they are in position to wipe out my 6pdr unit.
Priests and Sherman IIIs deploy behind the large hill.. I decide to ignore the objective near the field (above).. to concentrate on the one that has a forest to cover my approach (below).. Ambuscade: With 12 shots hitting on 2+, I hit 11 times. Str 10 vs side armor 5 SHOULD have killed more than 2 tanks out of 5.. but my ammo was clearly faulty, and Chris was pretty lucky with his rolling 6s for armor saves.. in the end, my Ambuscade kills 2 tanks, including platoon command, and bails another.
His reserves come in turn 1 from either end of the roadway, so his truckriders come in (above)... While his Commanding Officer in a T34 (above) can appoint a new T34 command.. smart thinking.
My 6pdrs face the wrath of the BA-10s and T34 MGs.. They would lose enough stands to fail a platoon morale...
Meanwhile, his SU76s move off the road to threaten my Priests, forcing me to move them. I would bail most of them, and lose a Priest in return.
RAF Hurricanes pick off the last few T34s My infantry assault and finish off the last SU76
RAF are unable to do much to these Stuart IIIs though.. In the end, this will be my downfall, as they cut down my infantry trying to move up to within 16 inches of the roadway objective. Victory to the Reds
