Launceston Visit

Had to go to Launceston for work.  Played Bolt Action with Terry

The marder wiped out my forward squad

 

Rod reading the army lists

Chris with a take-away curry

Terry bringing on reinforcements

My M16 did great execution -- until a panzerfaust got it!

Terry tried to sneak a victory, but in the end ran out of troops.

Daniel and Dennis had a game going

Last Game at LGC for a few months

Had a game at the LGC with Rob and Malcolm.

It was 2 on 1.  Technically we lost, because on of the Russian companies broke -- even though the other got to the objective and handily held it.

Last meal at Harri's Curry

Malcolm setting up

Rob with a box of terrain

Rob leading the charge

Some Panthers came out of ambush and destroyed a platoon of engineers!

Rob looking concerned

But this is the sort of die rolls Malcolm got all night!

On the other flank, my IS-2's walked over the objective.  The Germans were speed bumps.

Shooting Fish in a Barrel -- and Missing

Played a game of Flames of War against Malcolm.  He had his 21st Panzers.  I had British Armour.  It was a long drawn out game, with each side missing easy shots.  But the British luck can be summarised by the fact that 6 armoured cars tried to scoot around the British flanks and get side shots on the British armour.  They missed, but the return fire missed.  And this happened for 3 turns in a row!!!!!

Eventually Malcolm won:a 4-3 victory.

A French village to attack

Malcolm happy with the number of smoking British tanks.

Those pesky Armoured Cars!!!!

Somewhere in the Jungle

Flames of War Vietnam -- Nick (Vietnamese) vs Malcolm (US)

Malcolm has obviously played Flames of War Vietnam before.  he chose a devastating list.  Three infantry platoons (one each to hold an objective, and one to attack with), and an insane amount of artillery.  Couples with 4 helicopter gunships that rotated back to their base so there were always two gunships able to fire a full salvo of rockets.

I did try to spring a couple of traps -- a mortar company came out of ambush and direct fired onto some yankees.  The return fire from the helicopters was brutal!  A recoilless rifle platoon did the same, and was savaged the next turn.  The total sum of damage done -- one US infantry wounded (who the medic killed)

I had hoped to ambush my AA under some helicopters, but Malcolm was incredibly careful, making sure the helicopters only flew over ground occupied by US infantry.

After half a dozen turns the Vietnamese had been ground down, and melted into the jungle.

New Member, New Mat

We had a new member at the club -- Malcolm.  Malcolm has just moved to Launceston from Melbourne.

And, when we showed up at the club, the club had purchased a new mat or two!!!!!

We did a 3 player Flames of War game.  Malcolm had 1750 points of 21st Panzer.  Lowell had 1000 points of Russians, and I had 750 points of Russians.

Malcolm destroyed my force, and technically won the game.  But Lowell and Malcolm kept playing, and Lowell pulled out a win.

KK Practice

A practice game for the Kingston Kup.

Rod was German, with a German Herman Goering Infantry list that was just deadly on paper.  However, the practice game showed it lacked maneuverability.  I left the infantry core and picked of the maneuverable components.

KK Practice

Rob and I each tried out armies for KK.  Rob was German, with a horde o' tanks!  I was British infantry, with some AT (but not enough AT).  Scenario was Pincer.  Rob overran the foward objective and walked to victory!

X-Wing Gone Wild!

A massive X-Wing battle with the big ships!!!

1.  Big ships are super cool
2.  Too many big ships really crowd the table!

Ships provided by Daniel.  Nick, Lowell, and myself as resistance.  Heath, Daniel, and someone whose name I have forgotten as Imperial.

The resistance was destroyed.  To paraphrase Admiral Akbar -- It was a trap!!!

Flying Circus

A quick game of Wing of Glory at the club.

Nick (Germans, with an Albatross and a Fokker DR.I) vs Lowell (with a Bristol and a Hanriot)

A swirling melee developed.  

The Fokker DR.I was spinning around all over the place spitting lead, but a shot by the Britol rear MG gunner caused an explosion, and the plane was down in seconds!

The Albatross ran for home, but the Bristol got on its tail and shot it down as well

Lowell Rickenabaker celebrates his victory

Meanwhile, on an adjacent table, the Taliban and some Rangers were going toe to toe!

Tie fighter horde

X-Wing at the club tonight.  Daniel showed us some tricks, given he has several years experience.

We had 100 points each in a 2 vs 2 game.  Me and Rob as the good guys, while Daniel and Lowell were those scum resistance folks that keep blowing up our ships.

At first the empire was doing well, when we shot down Bobba Fett (who was a mercenary for hire for the resistance).

But then the resistance got close.  They had autoblasters, and their close in firepower was destroying a ship or two a turn.  We just couldnt stand against them!!!

The battle was actually close.  If we had rolled a bit better, and taken out the resistance B-Wing, we could have kept our distance from the resistance and blasted them at long range!

X-Wing

X-Wing with Rob.  My Tie fighters were comprehensively destroyed by Rob -- I managed to hang on, but when I conceded all of my fighters were one hit away from destruction, and I had lost my two aces.