Two WWII games were hosted on Monday night. One using Rapid Fire Reloaded, the other, Flames of War. The FoW game witnessed marauding hordes of Stuarts/Honeys go head-to-head with one another in a US vs British Mid War encounter - there were 28 of them on the table at one point!
It was interesting to see some 1939 Poles take the field to defend against the distinctively marked German Panzers of the early war Polish campaign. I think that the Polish infantry, despite shooting up quite a few German infantry units on motorcycles, ran out of anti-tank options and were eventually overrun by their better armed opponents.
It is believed that there is some Polish armour on one of the club member's painting blocks currently, so hopefully we will see them take to the battlefield soon.
The other games are one set in the Sudan, and a Prussian vs French Napoleonic match-up.
In this somewhat unusual scenario, a force of WWII Russians, spearheaded by 2 T34/85s, had to 'escape' off the opposite side of the table. To complicate their objective, a German force had to try and stop them.
Bizarrely, the Germans seemed to have more troops and equipment than the Russians, despite the nature of the Russian objective. Indeed, a number of German units didn't even get into action, they were so numerous. Also, the availability of a road block and barbed wire entanglements forced the Soviets into attempting to leave the table at the only point available to them - the far top corner of the board.
This resulted in practically the entire game being played in the top corner 1ft x 1ft square, leave the rest of the 6' x 4' table free from any combat whatsoever!
At one point this looked like 'shooting fish in a barrel at a turkey shoot' for the Germans, but, to everyone's surprise, when the Victory Points were calculated, the Russians had won by 16 to 14 points. So go figure!
Some of the games hosted last Monday:
Four games were hosted on Monday night, three of which are posted here, representing a huge span of military history from Medievals to WWII (the fourth one - sci fi - is covered in the next post).
These match-ups included Byzantines vs Normans, French vs Spanish and British vs Germans.
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