The Dutchmen scored a victory on their debut against the Soviets in this WWIII Team Yankee encounter. The Leopard 2s had a great game and Hollander morale held up well.
The Soviets had a poor game. The T80s couldn’t hit anything and didn’t score a single KO all game. Their AA did manage to sweep the NATO Tornados from the skies very effectively, but this success couldn’t be equaled on the ground.
IS-2s made a
rare appearance in this late war WWII Flames of War game (they are generally
considered too expensive in points to bother with). Let’s just say that they didn’t
fail to disappoint! The lumbering monsters advanced to try to clear away some
well dug-in and expertly commanded AT guns, but they failed to hit once in two turns of firing. The German
AT guns were ruthlessly effective, knocking out three of them. The remaining
IS-2 then failed its morale check and ran away.
In FoW, the
IS-2 has a worse rate of fire than German equivalents and counts as ‘slow
firing’. Furthermore, its gun has a shorter range. Despite the heavy armour, the
tank is destined to underperform, as it seems to have done historically. The lovely models (Model Soldier Company) will probably go back into their box until such
time as the point values are reduced by the gate keepers at Battlefront.
Some Flames of War Action. Late War Germans v Soviets. The
Soviets, spearheaded by twelve T34/85s found it hard work to tackle a
Panzergrenadier army, with lots of AT guns, supported by three SS Tiger Is. The
Russians were on the verge of defeat, when an objective was left open by the
Germans, only for the two remaining T34s to use their faster speed to race
through to take the objective marker, snatching victory form the jaws of
defeat.
Tonight we ran an English Civil War game. ECW is always
popular – it looks great on tabletop, there is usually an exciting push of pike
or clash of horse to keep the punters entertained and, for us, there are always
battlefields and/or siege locations nearby to visit. It’s as if it only
happened just yesterday…..
In this game the Royalists saw off the less experienced
Roundheads with aggressive use of their more confident and cavalier Cavaliers!
In this refight of Germantown, from the Philadelphia Campaign, the American rebels defeated the British quite convincingly. The mutinous colonists assaulted the Crown Forces' right flank with vigour, and sent the red coats running for their lives to the rear.
Actually, the British elite Light Infantry failed an early morale role and routed on a 'double one' die role, setting the tone for a the rest of the game. This culminated with an, albeit depleted, unit of Grenadiers failing their morale on a role of a 3 on 2d6, leaving traitorous units of Continentals to maraud through Germantown!
Meanwhile on the British right flank, the Hessians took ages to dress their lines and to move to to engage with the American militia. By the time they had, the battle was essentially over.
