Poles vs Czech Panzers v.3 EW tournament AAR

Guest post by Anatoli from Anatoli's Game Room
My second game was against Patrik who arranged the entire tournament. He had a tiny tank army, which I knew would give me a hard time. The scenario was "Surrounded"  and the table we were playing on was extremely ill suited for the force I had. I had to put railway lines across my own deployment and

I faced 1 platoon of PzII's and two platoons of 38(t) tanks backed up by air support and a couple of 88's.

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German Grenadiers vs British Infantry in the Bocage!

Jon and I got together for a game, and wanted to try out some of the new artillery rules for V3.  We also wanted to get back in the thick of the bocage.  While the game was fun, and the dice rolls were all tense- the action doesn't come across quite as well in the photos.  I started writing a traditional battle report, but lost interest in keeping track of each individual loss since really the battle was so static.  So here's a quick summary followed by a picture dump!

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Poles vs Slovak's v.3 EW tournament AAR

Guest post by Anatoli from Anatoli's Game Room
My first game was against Andreas and his beautiful Slovak army, run as early war "SS infanterie". His army was tiny, and as we both had infantry armies we rolled to see who would end up attacking. Turned out the Poles had to attack. This time around at least I had a few mobile units in my tournament list.

Scenario played was "No Retreat".

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Swedish v.3 Early War tournament pictures

Guest post by Anatoli from Anatoli's Game Room
Another Early War tournament was played this weekend (February 18th). I think it may have been the first tournament to use the version 3 rules. Things worked out rather well, and everyone was happy with most of the new rules. I myself have complained about the new cavalry rules which replaced the 8" charge with 4" and a 4" hussar move in the shooting step on rolls of 4+. As my games played I failed to roll a single hussar move, and would have made great use of a 8" charge range on at least 2 occasions. So there you go.

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Arnhem Update: Some Buildings

This is just a quick update on Arnhem! I was lucky enough (annoying enough?) to convince our buddy Eric Lauterbach of the i95 gaming group to make me some of his very cool buildings. Eric sells a couple here and there, but mainly turns them out for the i95 tournaments. I told him I needed 'a few' (read: ~30!) and he foolishly agreed to make me some.

Well, I picked up a horde of them at a tournament last year and got started.
My plan is to get all the buildings painted up and then polish off the surrounding terrain.



TIP: If you have to fill in stuff with spackle, let it dry totally then go over it with a 50/50 mix of white glue and water. This will keep the spackle from chipping and falling off the model.

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Tigers!

Ted and I are preparing to go to Cold Wars 2012 and play in the i95 Flames of War tournament. We are running out of Grey Wolf and I decided to run a list with 5 Tigers. Well, the problem is that I only had 3 painted up for Late War...so that means getting more minis! Any excuse will do!


So, I of course followed my Tutorial to paint up a couple of Tigers. I did not realize until I got home that I actually picked one up with Zimmerit - oh well.

I think these look enough alike to be a platoon. Maybe the older model has just survived out here a long time on the Ostfront, eh?

The commander moves forward cautiously..... looking for ISU-122s!

These shine a bit in the picture, but do not in person.

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