Ambush in the woods

A few pics of a game over Christmas with Unlucky Generals 1940 Germans and my Belgian Chasseur Ardennais. The German Recon batn were to breech the gap for the armour to charge through and off the table......that was the plan anyway....

the front line, two bunkers , wire and a fortlet

the second line of defence, two AT guns and a T15

two French FT17 and one AT gun, various Belgians dug in

Last line of defence two british vickers

The German recon arrive at the fortlet

Heavy A/C coy arrive

and the MC coy 

they clear the defensive position allowing the support to arrive

they exploit the gap

A At rifle does its job

the heavy armour arrives

a counter attack causes a traffic jam, the sacrifice buys time

The Germans failed to get off the table in their allotted turns, result Draw, Unlucky General was afraid of the 47mm AT guns making him too cautious. A rematch will occur in Feb!

cheers

Matt

28mm Bersaglieri

Off the table some time ago, the Bersaglieri are one of my favourite ww2 units, I have painted them in a mixed tropical and temperate uniform, I like it!

cheers

Matt

Australian Napoleonic Congress 2013

Some pictures from the Napoleonic Congress on the weekend, we had four games for the weekend, a big thanks to Clinton for running us through his computer / tablet based rules "Iron Duke", Mark for bringing down his 1812 games, Colin for his fine collection of British and French for our 1813 Spanish game, and to Boyd and the lads for a great Naval game that kept us all very entertained for several hours.

1/1200th naval game using Trafalger rules

Dave's Frigate came under some attention early

the French horse assault the village and British position

cheers
Matt

MOAB 2013

On the October long weekend I traveled up to MOAB (mother of all battles) gaming convention, this year I entered the Impetus 300 point 28mm tournament with my Sassanid army. The convention is Sydney's largest wargames convention. The crowds were down, I suspect that the Navy fleet review and the local NRL teams Grand final.  

It was my first competition wargames event in 14 years, an I would like to extend my gratitude to Tarty for organising the event everybody who played in the event.

A pic of the guys, missing Mick though, who only played on Saturday.

My Sassanid army was very small, 1 unit Zayadeen with general attached, 4 CM Savaran, 4 CL and 2 CL elite Savaran, a total of 18 VD, which is very small as I break at nine!

My first game was a tough one and had me asking why I had taken such a small and brittle, Robs Romans taught me a lesson about rear charges and zone of control. Rob eventually won the tournament.

My second game was against a very shooty Indian army, Alex;'s army was beautifully painted, I drew out his elephants and chariots managed to kill the all buy the forth turn, causing Alex to reach break point, with zero losses to myself. I had a exceptional rolling of my dice with two units getting 6 hits from 7 dice two turns in a row.

On the second day I drew Rex and his Normans, this was the toughest game of the comp for me, Rex tried to pin me against the table edge but I broke through his cavalry line and shot up a lot of his cavalry. I really learnt a lot in this game about the strengths and weaknesses of my army, I did stuff up, charged my cav against his and used my lights against his infantry instead of concentrating on his 3VD cavalry units that were already badly shot up.

"how the hell am I supposed to catch these guys!!!"

Rex's much loved baggage

I lost this game after failing a cohesion test after being charged in the rear, and my General died........

My last was against Dave's Persians, this army was beautifully painted! His chariot worried me, but was destroyed by one unit in the first turn. I had learnt to concentrate on high VD units by this game, so Dave had broken by turn 3.

The winners, Rob (middle) Clint (right)  and Rex (left)

Cheers

Matt

Norman heavy cavalry part one

Lots of these guys to come, Norman heavy cavalry a mix of Crusader, perry, foundry, Gripping beast in some units, 6 more of these guys to come. Hand painted sheilds all based for Impetus.

cheers

Matt

Norman Heavy Infantry part one

Norman heavy infantry from the Perry and Gripping beast ranges, flags are LBM, sheilds hand painted, another four units to come of these.

Norman Javelin

Norman javelin from the gripping beast range, these are touch ups and rebase jobs

cheers
Matt