Things be a changing........

So,

Where to start? The Drunken Gamers site is growing, and Friday Night Fights continues to be expand and bring in more players. With this, there has been talk of forming a "proper" club here in Ottawa, that will cover all the tabletop interests we share. With the club talk, inevitably talk of a "clean" name for our little club has been brought up. After much discussion, we have fallen upon the name "TableTop Tacticians" or "TTT". This name was chosen to reflect our love of miniature gaming, in the many forms we enjoy(FoW, 40k, Warmachine, Dystopian Wars, etc). You can expect the same great content to continue (and grow!).

With all this being said, we will be moving the Drunken Gamers blog over to a new site: http://tabletoptacticians.blogspot.com/

I will be moving all of our content there, and we will be registering on http://www.rankingshq.com/ and with BattleFront.

This is not so much the start of something awesome, but an evolution. We plan on sponsoring events here in the city, and with our escalation league gaining interest, bringing more people into our hobby. If any of our readers have any sage advice (pitfalls, issues you overcame) please drop the club a line at tabletoptacticians@gmail.com

I encourage our readers to follow us at the new site (once its all moved). Stay tuned for more info!

Cheers,

CA$H

Does this list make me a douchebag? :)

(put this on while you read)


So.. obviously I'm not made to run a pure infantry list, so I might try something out: Maximum Artillery.

I'm looking at running Motor Rifle British, so that I can run a full 8 gun battery of 25 pdrs, and a full 8 Priests. I could then run Hurricanes as my final template unit, and then the 2 Motor Squads and command. It will probably suck, in that there is no way I can hide them all, and I have literally nothing else but artillery :)

Anyhoo, this is what I am thinking of doing, and so I will paint these 2 units up after I figure out how to set up all the gunners between my Arty and my 4 17pdrs... the 17pdrs came with no crew from Maelstrom.

600 pt Escalation comes to a close.

Sorry to Marty: I should have posted our game much sooner, so we can see the finished US Paras.



And here are some vids

vs US Paras



600 Pt Total War mega battle, 3 x 600 point armies, vs another 3 x 600 pt armies.

SKIRMISH 2011 - Dates Announced!

Head on over to http://www.gamesummit.ca and check it out. Expect the Drunken Gamers to be in attendance with full coverage of the event!

More to come!

Tier 1 Update - Total War approaches

So, Tier 1 is coming to a close this coming Friday with the Total War game. There are still points up for grabs as the scoring system continues through the Total War game.

Head on over to the Escalation League page to see the current scoring. Dennis took some film of the games Friday, so stay tuned for those!

Cheers,

Ca$h

The Escalation Escalates - 26. Panzer-Division Support

I am very happy to have completed a large portion of my support options for my Mid-War Fallshirmjager Company.  I am holding off on gluing on the aerials until I figure a way to transport them so that they don't bend/break...

Front Row: 2 Panzer III L/Ms. 2 Panzer IV Gs, 2 Panzer III Ns.
Back Row: 2 Marder III Ms, 3 Tiger I Es

See more after the break.

Escalation League Games

Last night saw some epic struggles take place in our Escalation League. Each of us played 3 games, with 2 of them counting towards the Tier 1 scoring.  Check the Escalation League page here on the blog for the rundown of points.

Round 1, Chris' Radzeki (Scout) list vs my British, 600 points, and Duane's panzer's vs Tristan's Panzer Grenadiers, 600 points, kill the Enemy HQ



Round 2, Me vs Duane, Chris vs Tristan, Get a Unit off (the enemy board edge)


ARRs will be posted here as soon as Matt Varnish edits/uploads them - Stay tuned!

Lost FoW AAR, GameSummit Switcheroo

(above) Tristan uses the infamous British Army, while Duane and I use my german panzer army. So basically, its win-win for me.. either I win on my own for once, or my Brits win, just not with me at the helm!



I thought I had posted this the week after GameSummit, but I was mistaken. Anyhoo, after the giant Battle for Ukraine, some guys had to leave, so we had a 3 player game here, Duane and I vs Tristan, and I played germans for the first time, and Tris played Brits for the first time.

Panzer IV H Platoon

My platoon of Panzer IVH arrived in the post on Tuesday and I got straight to work. Here are some shots of the completed platoon. I used the same camo colors across the platoon, varying the pattern on each tank to maintain unit cohesion, all the while adding uniqueness to each vehicle:

Click on after the break to see some more close up shots! As always, feedback is encouraged and appreciated.

Need to Repaint German stuff... Le Sigh

(above, 15cm Howitzer Artillery on french L37 Lorraine tractor)


I am doing 21 Panzer for my Germans, and they have a tonne of captured french stuff in their arsenal, in fact most of it is french with german weapons on it. The FoW team painted up the army box models in a generic late war scheme, and it turns out there are some interesting camo schemes to be had here.. sadly, it means redoing a lot of work..

U304 Utility halftrack, the french used these to tow their 105 mm guns.. the germans used them as halftrack chassis.. Note the very dark grey camo as opposed to the reflective green of the standard colors..