Somewhere else on the Eastern Front

The second game of the FoW foray. This time the Wehrmacht were defending a rail junction.

Once again the T-34s assaulted a position defended by German tanks.

Once more they didn't get far but had some success against some Panzer IVs.

The Soviet artillery, both rocket and guns, had fun messing up the parked German vehicles.

And eventually the tenacity and numbers of the Soviets told and a section of smg infantry took the junction.



 German morale broke and the Soviets were left victorious.

Somewhere on the Eastern Front...

The troops don't get out much (bit like their owner) but this weekend was the first battle in the new garage.

Went for a  Flames of War straightforward battle on a plain. It had to be straightforward as I hadn't actually played the game for four years and then only once (despite the large armies that have been accrued). The opponents were a Russian Tankovy versus a German Panzers force both weighing in at around 1800 points.

The Russians had the initiative and were nominally on the attack. 11 T-34s assaulted a position held by 5 Panthers.

 And the result was well...

Having had a starter of T-34 the Panthers moved on to a main of SU152 and finishing off with some SU 100s before heading for the Soviet artillery park.

The Russians had some success. The 88s were taken out by an accurate rocket bombardment and the 2 supporting Tiger Is didn't last against the SU 100s.

But it was a pretty one sided affair.

 

Adrian's Walls Centrepiece

Just received a large delivery of goodies from Adrian's Walls. Mostly tiles but it did include this wonderful centrepiece.

Currently it is occupied by some Front Rank Napoleonic British Peninsula Foot Artillery (painted by Artmaster Studio) but I can see the Huguenots hanging out here for some BLB or Donnybrook action; the French resistance monitoring German activity, even it standing in for the ruins at Amon Hen for a bit of LoTR skirmishing...

Excuse me I think I need to go roll some dice...

Playing at Home

Of course the main purpose of the move was so that our twin daughters (19 months at time of writing) would have a more rational house to live in. 2 stories instead of 3, bedrooms all on the same level and so on. Alas, one of the unfortunate side effects of finding such a property was that we acquired a largish garage.

Ok, to be honest I acquired it and got agreement to a permanent table set up before my better half had had too much time to think about the consequences (like where the lawnmower would live).

So, much of Christmas has been spent rationalising which has led me to several conclusions.

1. I have more wargaming stuff than I can possible paint/play or open over the next twenty years. I could start a shop if I could only bear to part with any of it!

 

 

2.       I should have enough room for a 12 by 8 board which could lead me to actually play with some of the stuff mentioned in 1

 

3.       I really need to find some time…