Bolt Action AAR - Search and Rescue

Last week, we played a 1000 pts custom scenario with a friend at the FLG. We had 8 custom scenarios and rolled:

Scenario: Search and Rescue

Force: 1000 pts per side, deployment in opposite corner.
Objective: Retrieve as many civilians as possible in 6 turns.
Victory points:
for each unit destroyed: 1/2 value points
for each civilian retrieved: 120 pts.

We assumed the following:
1944, a force of partisans is about to capture pro-German officials and German officers. Their convoy has been destroyed by Soviet airstrike. The partisans plan to bring them to people's justice.
German local security forces are rushing to the site to save as many as they can.

The 10 civilians. from left to right. Gestapo, Assistant, local religious leader, accountant, German crew, collaborationist, SS doctor, local police head, Gestapo and Gestapo doctor.

German force:
1x Flammpanzer B2
1x Sdkfz 222
1x 1st Lt with bodyguard
1x MMG
4x Heer squad with LMG (7 soldiers each)
1x sniper
1x Flamethrower team

Partisan force:
2x trucks
1x captured sdkfz 251D
1x captured flame hetzer
2x inexperienced pistol squads (9 and 9 men)
3x regular squad with 1 pzfaust and 1 LMG (7, 6 and 6 men)
1x regular squad with LMG (5 men)
1x 1st Lt + 2 bodyguards
1x 2nd Lt
1x sniper
1x bazooka

The square where the 10 civilians had been scattered. German arrived from top right, Partisan from bottom left

German deployed

Partisan sniper is covering the square

First shot of the game, the German hit one of the partisan truck, killing only

Partisan drove like mad men to retrieve the civilians quickly.

Forward! Kill the terroristen!

German deployed. A partisan truck reached the square in no time.

Partisan rushed into the tall building. The Gestapo butcher was hiding on the 2nd floor.

German won 3 activations in a row on turn 2. They had to shoot with 3 units to kill my first inexperienced units. The leadership rolls were "2,1" and "1,1". The last remaining soldier was butchered by the German. Note: with 2 civilians captured, extra damages might have killed them. It was a risky business for the German.

Calm to the end, smoking his cigar, the last partisan stand proud in front of his murderers

The Flame Hetzer arrived, it will annihilate most of the German units before running out of ammo.

the German sniper did nothing the entire game.

Partisan try to attack the German in their back

 

 

German MMG is covering units

last 2 turns, the Flammpanzer took the square and interdict units for moving (shooting his main gun)

 

 

German have retrieved some of the VIPs

Partisan bazooka hits twice on the German tanks by the bazooka, but no penetration!

the Partisan 2nd Lt kept the girl

The Inglorious bastards captured the SS doctor and the German crew at the last minute

Last view before end of the game

The German won the battle. We both had 4 civilians captured, but the German destroyed more "points" of Partisan (damned trucks, I lost the game because of them).
It was a good fun. I made 2 big mistakes during the game: Sending my truck right in the middle of the square on turn 1 and sending a team in the middle of the square in mid-game only to have it burned to death by the B2.
To my defense, I had about 50% more activation dice and on turn 2, when my inexperience team was supposed to run to cover with 2 civilians, my opponent activated 3 times in a row. Bad luck.

Defi APO Semaine 2 - Le non-reveil de la Force - SHK (Self Hobby Kidnapping) Week 2 - the Force doesn't awake

Ok, bon alors semaine 2.

Résultats: montage des VASA et soclage. J'ai décidé de les monter sur des socles en bois puis après de les monter sur des socles transparents.

Progres / progress

J'ai surestimé le nombre de piétailles VASA, découvert qu'il me manquait 1 paire d'ailes pour les troupes volantes et sous-estimé le nombre de mecha (2 au lieu d'un).
J'ai sous-couché (pas de photo) et c'est prêt.
J'ai aussi fait une erreur et j'ai monté 23 genestealers (dont 2 avec les bras gauches manquant), comme si j'avais le temps. :)
Ce que je vais devoir peindre:

Mecha de mêlée

Mecha de combat à distance

2 équipes (corps à corps et combat à distance)

Troupes volantes

Tentative painting scheme

main character

trooper

Ok,sp, what about week 2?
Summary: building VASA and glue on the base. I use wood base to paint and at the end, use transparent base.
I overestimated the number of foot soldiers, found out I had 1 wing missing for my flying troops and underestimated the number of mecha (2 instead of 1)
I base-coated (no pix) and it's ready to paint.
I also made a mistake and built 23 genestealers instead of focusing on the main job.

Painting Break - Hasselhoff-someness

Because sometimes there are things more important than painting.

Hasselhoff

 Bambi II, the return of the comeback

And of course, Star Wars VII

Defi APO Semaine 1 - Quand faut s'y mettre - SHK (Self Hobby Kidnapping) Week 1 - All start need a beginning

Beware, first dual language post, because,... hum, why not.
Attention, premier post en double langage, parce que.

Moi, lisant vos blogs / me reading your blogs

Alors, j'ai décide de me lancer comme un inconscient dans un APO lancé par un site que je suis depuis mon siège en faux cuir.

Comme à mon habitude, j'ai bazardé plein de trucs  qui me passaient par la tête et je pensais que ça ne se verrait pas. Malheureusement, Sieur RafPark (Mr Park, ou Mr Raf, or Mr. f'Park Râ?) a vu ma tentative de bravade électronique.
Donc turbo boost, et quelques coups de pinceaux maladroits, j'arrive à un début de commencement, même si je suis loin de l'objectif principal: Finir mes Vasa qui me regardent depuis leurs boites. Oui, je vous aime, mais je n'ai jamais eu le courage de vous toucher.

Donc point de Vasa cette semaine, mais quelques zombies qui viendront hanter mon USS Serenity et des bateaux nains qui viendront tâter du bretonniens du grand large.

5 zombies font une horde / 5 zombies make a horde

So, I have naively decided to start a SHK (Self Hobby Kidnapping) that was started by a blog I followed from my sky leather chair.

As usual, I threw stuff that came to mind assuming nobody would notice. Unfortunately, Sir RafPark (or Sir Park, or Sir Raf, or is it Sir f'Park Râ?) saw my weak e-bravado.

So, turbo-mod, and few blind brush strokes after, I started a beginning of something, not even close from my main goal: Finish my dust-collecting Vasa army. Yes, I love it, and Yes, I never had the guts to touch them.

So no Vasa this week, few shambling zombies here and there about to board the USS Serenity and dward boats about to taste Deep Blue Bretonnians.