9/23/2017

Attack-defence

This is our first attack-defence game at 500 points. I'm playing Germans as the attacker. My initial deployment was all my scout units plus up to three units and I picked a panther platoon.
The Russians rolled 2d6 to see how many units he could deploy and scored 7. He deployed two T-34, one Zis, a commissar, an artillery spotter, a senior officer and a comm relay. He thought his 3 of-board 82 mm mortars were more important than deploying some infantry to defend the objectives, and that was a mistake.

Germans entered on the left. Russians bought some defences and deploy two minefields close to the river, a trench and reinforced cover for the AT gun.

 Getting ready for the Germans...

 On the first turn I drew up an air attack card and got a Stuka with 37mm cannons. At the beginning of the second turn it dived and destroyed one T-34!

Russians did not puy units on opportunity fire so I raced forwards with my recon, moving 24" twice and seized an unguarded objective.

But I did not realise about the other T-34 that could spot me and destroyed my Sdkfz 223. That was the price for the German arrogance.

After that, my tanks rolled onwards and crossed the bridge and one Panther destroyed the last T-34. The AT gun was destroyed as well by Tank machine gun fire.

It was the end of my turn 4 and the Russians were going to receive the rest of their army as reinforcements, so I tried to get the third and last objective which was in the trench. My time artillery strike failed miserably by rolling 5 ones with eight dice; then the Stuka failed with its machine guns, and finally I assaulted the trench with one squad of Panzergrenadiers. The machine gun team suppressed the Russian senior squad and the the assaulting infantry team wiped it out, forcing the Russian to take two Battle Rating counters that made him to break and lose the game.

The game was over on turn 4 and before the Russians got their reinforcements, by Germans 15, Russians 32. Great game, and fast too.

9/18/2017

Bring them back alive!

Here you have some pictures I took during a Blood Eagle game we had in August. We played the scenario bring them back alive with four players at the local shop Kraken. We had to capture a VIP character standing in the middle of the board and escort him out of it.
The game turned into general slaughter and brutal tongue-in-cheek swearing, brawling, challenging, leaders duels with scared peasants in the middle of it. Great fun by Thor!









9/09/2017

Battlegroup Kursk fourth game

Another game, this time playing 500 points and introducing German Panthers and PzIV as well as Russian T-34s and one Su. Again German major victory, winning 31 to 13.
Russians had to defend the bridge but Germans were able to deploy all their forces before the Russians.


The were other three objectives apart from the bridge, the small house and the central hill with the fallen fighter which were quickly captured by me, and the big house near the bridge which was also taken by two squads of Panzergrenadiers a few turns later.


Russian tanks entered the board moving a firing and missing all the shots. Then the awaiting Panthers killed two of them.


PzIV in position, controlling the crossroads.


More Russian tanks destroyed while one Panther trying to outflank.


 Russian T-34 had a lucky shot and destroyed one of the Panthers.


Things getting even worse for the German when one Zis destroyed the PzIV


The Panther missed both shots scoring two consecutive ones, and then when it got shot and rolled for morale test and scored another one, with the crew abandoning the tank!


The T-34 then had time to shot the second round to the Sdkfz, destroying it.


Fortunately Russians broke up and Germans finally won the match. Fast and fun game. Eager to play more!