Another Flames of War Game. This time 200 points on an 8'x6' table. This worked a bit better than the Team Yankee game we tried on the same sized table, although the infantry are pretty useless in that all they can really do is hold objectives.
The Soviets eventually won by KO'ing one Ferdinand, the second one failing its morale test, stripping the Germans of their best unit.
A brand new army graced the table - The Saxons - in this Napoleonics encounter. The Saxons, supported by some French heavy cavalry, went toe-to-toe with a joint Austrian/Prussian force.
The respective centres never really grappled with each other properly before the end of the game, although the Austrian Grenadiers did make contact with some Saxon Guard. On the wings, the Austrian and Prussians had the better of the evening, although the action was gentlemanly deemed 'inconclusive'.
Great to see one of the more over-looked armies of the period make an appearance, with interesting uniforms, standards and command vignettes.
This was one of the most exciting games of FoW in a long time. The initiative swayed too and forth right up until the end, until the Germans eventually landed the knock out blow.
The stars of the show were some German 7.5cm infantry guns that held up the Soviet surge for several turns, knocking out a couple of T34s (with rear shots) and a few BA10s in the process. The knock out blow was delivered by the PzIIs when they arrived from reserve and shredded the Russian infantry holding the objective.
It was also nice to see the Germans uniformly kitted out in feldgrau, rather than the late war dunkelgelb.
In our traditional large Napoleonics game before Christmas, a British-Prussian-Austrian Allied force must have eaten too many Brussel sprouts and mince pies before the battle as, apart from the Prussians, they seemed to crumple against the French, who were fired up with lashings of mulled wine and Christmas pudding!
