Lost Wargamer in HK: October 2011

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Secret - New Terrain

Terrain in SOTR is really tough. As there is a need for very dense terrain, I am busy in cutting, gluing and finalizing terrain.

Living in HK bring also a special difficulty which is space optimization.

So I am completing my terrain for the next game that will be featured in city. The last 2 buildings have been completed and I just purchased 5 new pdf from Dave Graffam productions and that will be gorgeous.

Ruined Wall

Bombed House

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Battle Rep - British against German - Recovery mission

The battle for Sicily is getting tougher.

The first battles (no battle reports) saw the first fights between Germans and an ad-hoc force of British para for small towns. the Germans got the upper hands in 1 of the battle and a draw in the second.

Last Satursday, Von Kleith, the Commander of the Kleith Kampfgruppe invading Sicily sent a platoon to recover materials buried during the first invasion by the Allies.

Mr Smith (Sicily covent) was informed and sent a unit of British para in the village.

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The battle field.

For the setup, we experience a new way to build the terrain. We roll 2 dice to know how many element of terrain we will have, set the terrain without knowing where we will start. After, we placed the 4 crates and finally roll again 2 dice. The higher score decided if he has the 1st turn initiative or if he select the side he will deploy.

50RP on each side, German took special units such as Werewolves, Wolf runners and zombies, while the British took Mr Smith, Temple squad and British Steel.

The center was occupied by remnant of the town destroyed during the 1943 Allied invasion, a small wood was occupying one flank, and a former flak bunker the other side.
The German chose their deployment, the British attacked.

(note : We found out there was not enough terrain to have exciting deployment, I'll need to do more paper craft with the Dave Graffam buildings)

Turn 1
The British concentrated most the fire to the zombies who were the mst visible unit at the beginning while the Germans position the werevolves and wolf runners in the wood to recover the crate. The German HMG and LMG repositioned. The Para Squad moved to the house and toward the bunker crate.
few casualties in each side.

Turn 2
the German start to fire HMG and LMG to the house, suppressing the 2 teams in the ground floor, while the "wolves" start their camping in the woods. The mortar kept on being not fully efficient but more zombies are gunned down. The para squad and the mech grenadier fire at each other with 50% of each team gone (not much wounded, many instant goners).
The British Steel try to flame the wolves in the wood but if the flame reach the wood, it failed to be close enough. Mr Smith is killed by heavy fire.

Turn 3
The werewolves move out of the woods and the Temple face them to death. In the mean time German kept on suppressing the ground floor team and British focus on the bunker crate with success. The Aufklarer take a big load of fine and are reduced in number while German HQ take hits too.

Turn 4
The British steel fell against the Werewolves while German are loosing their backbone unit, Mech Grenadier and Auflklarer gone, the HQ unit badly shaken. The only bright side for them is the suppresion of the central british para and the decimated british flank opened to their werewolves.

Turn 5 and 6 are cancelled due to real life duty.

Aufklarer firing at the house

Mech grenadiers hidding behind a wall

Summary :
The fight was tight and nobody could say who would win it. The objective was the recovery of the crates and what was inside. What we did is that evevy turn, we would draw a discovery card (see Get me that Mad Scientist discovery cards) and cumulate the points. The Germans had 0.5 points, the British 1.5 after turn 4. The British then won a minor victory in respect to their loss.

British weapons in cards

The great tool, rules on a tab!

British force

The bunker: Mech Grenadier and a unique para in close combat

The house of the suppressed

Mortar and HMG

The meat wave taking the hit

Run I'll cover you (I'll try at least)

view of unpainted Mr Smith

Near Medina : Werewolf Camping, 2 star camping


highlight of the Zombie fashion week

More ammo lad'

We'll get them

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Vehicle template

Last week, while playing a game, I saw some flaws in the design of the vehicles, as they are not matching the roster I made (Standard Roster). So I designed, at least for the vehicles, a new template that would better fit.

Here are the different templates and some of the vehicles I have.