What A Tanker game

What A Tanker is a new to me set of tank vs.tank combat.

   Cecil and I got together at the Hamilton Road Gaming Group to play a pair of games,

   Cecil provided the printed rules book (I have the PDF and my home printed copy, shows my ancient printer needs to be replaced soon) and the dashboards. I supplied the tanks terrain and many of the dice.

   Much of my 20mm has not been used in game in 5 or more years.

First game a pair of mark IV's versus a Sherman and a M10.

Game 2:

Pit a Pershing and Jackson, versus a Mark IVH and and a Konigstiger

The Pershing and Konigstiger go head to head.

Mark IV one shotting the Jackson (M10 proxying as)

The Mark IV going for its second kill of the game

28mm east front terrain

I needed some 28mm terrain that could stand in for eastern europe and being creative (and cheap) deciced to make my own.

I am not ready to try my hand at log houses, yet, so I went with this type of house.

I made it out of foam board and this I what I have so far.

Since I was already making one I figured I may as well make a second, so the first one wont be lonely.

And what rural house doesn't have a garden.

I think they look pretty good, but they are not done yet, though I should have angled the gable ends of the roof, well next batch.

Need to hide that join better.

Towel glued on then painted with diluted white glue aka PVA glue.

Game at Game Chamber

Game at the Game Chamber

I offered to run a game at my FLGS (the Game Chamber) March 24th starting at 12.30 PM.

The gamers at The game chamber mainly play Science Fiction and or Fantasy (in 28mm) the only "historical" rules being played are Flames of War (in 15mm).

I thought I would offer them something different, so I chose to run a game of Battlegroup Kursk A World War 2 East Front set of rules, and a different scale, 1/72nd A.K.A. 20mm

Since most of the clientele play some version of War Hammer, I chose a rules set that uses similar processes i.e. mainly D6 rolling, cover saves, IgoUgo turn sequence.

The OoBs (Order of Battle)

Soviet Union

Total Soviet Force

A Platoon of Soviet Infantry, platoon HQ section , 4 squads, a Medium Machine gun team, a 45mm Light Mortar, and an Anti Tank Rifle team,

Two extra rifles squads and a rifle scout squad

A platoon of T34/43

Company HQ and a NKVD unit

Standing in for a BA-10 armored I'll use a BA-6 Armored car

The Germans

Total German force

Company HQ

A platoon of Infantry, the Platoon HQ with a truck, three squads, a MG34 on a tripod, a 82mm mortar, and a combat medic.

A scout rifle squad

A Mark III M Panzer

A Mark IV H Panzer

A supply truck

I still need to paint a few more Germans i.e. the mortar crew and the Company C.O. and make a supply pallet for the supply truck.

Then I'll turn my attention to terrain layout.

Stavka sends reinforcements

More Soviet infantry.

I picked up a box of Pegasus Hobbies Soviet infantry in summer dress Saturday. I then washed them and glued them to pennies that evening. I also added  a few figures from Plastic Soldier Company's Soviet Heavy weapons box.

I started painting them Sunday noon, by dinner time they were painted, that evening I glued sand to their bases.

Monday I painted the living room ceiling, while it was drying I used some Army Painter Quick Shade (Strong tone) ink/wash whatever they call it, in lieu of my minwax Polyshades miracle dip.

Fit for the battlefield, once I green wash the sand.

Pegasus Hobbies Soviet Summer infantry

Pegasus Hobbies Soviet Summer infantry

PSC's Soviet Heavy weapons figures

PSC's Soviet Heavy weapons figures

I didn't paint a few of the Pegasus Hobbies figures as I didn't have enough bottle-caps to blue tack my bases to.

What I've been doing

What I've been doing

When in previous posts I said I hadn't done any war gaming related things I was exaggerating slightly.

Since August, I was doing stuff, but I would sit down, do a little bit and lose interest after a few minutes.

Recently I finished off a bunch of things that had been sitting around.

The rest of my Plastic Soldier Company Late war German Infantry, the SMG ers

The rest of my Plastic Soldier Company Late war German Infantry, the Rifle armed troops

A Pair of Armourfast Pnathers

Trumpeter Sturmgeshutze III A

Italeri Opel Blitz Ambulance

A pair of Armoufast Sd.Kfz 251/1, technically not finished I need to add the MGs

A pair of Pegasus Hobbies Soviet BA-6 Armored cars

More 15mm Buildings

More 15mm Buildings

My friend got another shipment of 4Ground buildings, from the Game Chamber, London's Ontario's newest and best gaming store, and asked me to build them for him.

His order consisted of 4x15mm and 4x28mm buildings, all from the the Europe at war range.

The 4ground buildings are very easy to build, these kits took somewhere between 60- 90 minutes each. The instructions are better ordered than the previous kits I built, but I didn't follow them, I mainly used them to determine what pieces went with each floor.

I built three of the 15mm buildings and these are the results (The penny is for scale, I don't have any 15mm figures to use)

First up: North West European shops

Front

Back

Side

 I had a problem with this kit, the roof end gables were just a hair to short which resulted in a bit of a gap, I discovered it after I had constructed the roof and let it dry :(

This picture shows how incredibly small the sizing error of the end gable is and how big the gap is.

I had to cut apart the roof and reattach the shingles with a bit of a gap

Here it is in floors

 Next: North West European Semi-detached house, type 1

Front

Side

Rear

By floor

Next: Terrace 2

Front

Rear

By floor

   I was preparing to do the last kit and noticed the bag had a hole in one corner. I laid out all the sheets and discovered one of the pieces had fallen out and was nowhere to be found. Desperate I trudged, uphill into the sleet, to the Game Chamber in the vain hope they had found it in a box somewhere. No such luck, fortunately, the store is, at most, a five minute walk for me.

   Cecil offered a piece of Balsa wood  for me to make a replacement piece, the missing piece is an internal roof support, and no one would see it. I declined as I had big enough scrap pieces for me to construct one, but I really didn't want to scratch build if I didn't have to.

  Before heading to bed I e-mailed 4Ground in the vain hope I could get a replacement piece.

   I was mentally preparing a blistering indictment on the modern practice of not supporting a product after it has reached its end user.

   This morning, I checked my E-mail and the 4Ground Public Relations machine had completely blindsided me by replying the missing piece will be dispatched ASAP.