Flames of War Late War Armies
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About the Project
Building and Painting Hit The Beach with my 8/9 year old.
Related Game: Flames of War: The World War II Miniatures Game
Related Company: Battlefront Miniatures
Related Genre: Historical
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Christmas holidays Game
The boys wanted to play Tanks again today, so out it came. They decided to gang up on me with US (3x Sherman 76mm) and Brits (2x Comets and 1 Sherman V) for a total of just short of 150pts. I took the Germans and fielded 2 Panthers, 3 Panzer IVs and 2x StuG G’s (Yes I know in the photographs one isn’t a StuG G!).
If my eldest hadn’t rolled his comets up right in front of my Panthers and one StuG G it might have gone differently.
Lockdown game 3
Actually I think this should be game 4, but I missed one out. So my youngest is now the one begging to play Tanks so on Saturday I got the table out and we played @85 points a side with my eldest picking up the Germans and my youngest taking some US, whilst I took some Brits. Yes, since I last played a unit of Comets have reached the painting table!
Lockdown game 2
My eldest has been begging to play the full flames of war since our last game of tanks – I have the Hit the Beech starter. We’ve put some more paint on the Shermans and now need to put on the decals and then do some weathering on them.
I decided to limit our game of Flames of War to just tanks, to minimise the rules I was introducing to my son. The Germans are a little short of tanks (I need to purchase a few more) so I set down to work out how many points we could field and then matched the Americans to that.
Germans (Me)
- Panzer IV Company HQ (2x Panzer IVs)
- Panzer IV Platoon (3x Panzer IVs – only actually had two so had to sub something in).
- Panther Platoon (3x Panthers – only have 2 so used a Jadgpanther to round it out).
Americans (My son)
- Sherman Veteran Company HQ (2x Shermans)
- Sherman Veteran Platoon (5x Shermans)
- 76mm Sherman Veteran Platoon (5x Sherman 76mm)
- M10 Tank Destroyer Platoon (2x M10s)
We also don’t have enough space for a full 4’x6′ board so we played on a 4’x3′ board, which fits on the dinning table. I have the TT Combat tiles for a 4’x4′ board but they don’t hold together well to sit 6″ off each side of the dinning table yet.
The board set up as a small village in Normandy with church and railway startion.
The end of the first round, the 76mm Shermans have managed to destroy one of the Panzer IVs and the return fire at the 75mm Shermans has destroyer two of them.Looks like I forgot to take a photograph of the end of round 2.
The Panther tanks took out the M10s and the 76mm Shermans managed to knock out one of the Panzer IVs, leaving that Platoon down to one tank – thankfully he didn’t want to leave.
At the end of round three the Panthers have engaged the 75mm Shermans on the far hilltop and taken out one and bailed out another. The Panzer IVs in the centre have managed to destory two of the 76mm Shermans.
Round four, the Sherman 76s got onto the flank of the Panthers and their close range fire knocked two of the Panthers out, fortunately the thrid want to stick around for revenge. The Germans advance on the Sherman 75s and knocked out another one, the last Sherman ran away!
Nothing much happened this turn with the German and Americans maneuvering for position on each other.
The last turn, the American Company HQ moved to engage the Panther lurking behind the building, which was their final mistake as they found the Panther and 2 Panzer IVs. The close range fire from the three tanks demolished the two Shermans, the up side of this round was that the final member of the Panzer IV Platoon ran away. With only one unit left the Americans had lost and the Germans held onto the village.Lockdown game 1
So my sons wanted to play a game of Tanks last week and I’m just getting round to posting the pictures up. I tried to take one at the end of every turn.
He elected to play 100 points and picked his German forces of two Panthers and one Jadgpanther, with my youngest I took the Americans and took two 76mm Shermans and two 75 mm Shermans.
The setups of the tanks, the Americans split their force into two equal parts.
The German's end up split into three groups with the Jadgepanther heading straight down the main road, the 76mm Shermans aim to slip through a very small gap.
The tanks engage with Shermans exchanging fire with the Panthers.
The jadgpanther turns to face the Shermans, but is unlucky with the shots.
On the other side of the road the other two Shermans engage one of the Panthers.
The Shermans look to regroup whilst exchanging fire with the Jadgpanther and Panther.
The Shermans set up a bit of an ambush as the German tanks bunch up on the road.
With one Panther knocked out the others move in closer.
Two Panthers and One Sherman knocked out, it's now three on one.
The final round of the battle, the jadgpanther takes a fatal hit.The church is completed.
So this week I got on with painting the church from the WOW Buildings Kickstarter. Again it is painted with the brown stone and dark blue tiles. The Ivy growing up the sides of the tower actually conceal a slight error on my part with the join between the tower and the main body of the church.
Paint hits the railway station
Having had a zoom hobby session with 3 of my best pals I cracked on with painting the railway station that I had printed. Having spent time looking at buildings in France (I admit I’ve travelled through the Pas de Calais a few times this year, and not Normandy) I realised that the stone used was browner than the greys we find in the UK and that roof tiles were generally darker. So here we go the first building painted.
I nearly lost this one.
So my son wanted another battle of Tanks today, it’s been a while I know. He wanted to play 100 points and selected a pair of 75mm Shermans and a pair of 76mm Shermans. To oppose this I sent out a Panther, Jadgpanther and a Panzer VI. It came down to one Panther vs one 76mm Sherman, unfortunately for my son his crew had bailed out of the final tanks and so I had a clear and free shot.
He played really well and I missed out on using Blitzkreig more often.
The town centre grows
Whilst I’ve had the school’s 3D printer at home this last 2 weeks I’ve been busy printing, some of which you’ve seen already. Today I’ve had to pack it up to go back to work, so I thought I’d put out everything I’ve printed with it, having used up over a kilo of filament (a couple of failed prints in the mix) I have this lot:
Now I need to get on with painting them up, a bit of preparation first though with the walls needing a good sand and in some cases a bit of filler. I’m going to use my airbrush to prime with vallejo primer and I’m hoping that will fill some of the lines that I miss with the sanding.
