Flames of War Late War Armies

So my son has asked for a rematch, in fact we played twice this afternoon once with him commanding the Panther and once with him commanding two Panzer IV’s.  I think I need to play on his side against someone to improve his tactics, but I can’t do anything about dice luck.  He still enjoyed himself, as did my youngest who moved my Shermans and rolled my dice.  More 3D buildings/ruins hit the table today and the road network is expanding, next to print the roof for the one building and then we had better start painting them.

I purchased a couple of Sarissa Precission buildings at the same time as Hit the Beech and we have built and painted them, but two buildings a Town do not make.  I backed a couple of Kickstarters from WOW Buildings and am currently working on printing the rest of the damaged town out.  So far I have completed the Town Square area and a couple of bit of road, buildings and more road ways to come.

So my son wanted to play Tanks, to be honest he has been asking for a little while.  This morning we played two games using the scenario from the rulebook.  He took the Americans and I took the German, a combination of him learning and my dice rolling meant that he lost both games.  Fortunately he wants another game, but he wants to play the Panther.

I could have posted a while ago about the progress with this, the Hit the Beach set is all assembled and joined by a unit of M10s and a unit of Priests.  Thanks to the deal offered on Tanks by warzan we also got some more shermans, another Panzer IV and a Panther and Jadgpanther.  I have also tried 3D printing a Panther.  Only need to assemble the last Panzer IV, but my son is now an expert at using the side clippers.

We moved on to painting last week.  Some of the shermans had been undercoated with Humbrol Dark Green spray paint, we gave them a wash of Army Painter Army Shader to provide some depth.  Today we painted the details on the tanks so they now they are ready for decals and then weathering.  The next batch of Shermans have been undercoated as has one of the Panzer IV’s.

So around the time of the bootcamp I went to Broadside Wargames show in Sittingbourne and picked up the Hit the Beach starter set.  I recently sat down and built the Shermans (3 x 76mm and 5 x 75mm) and my currently 8 year old (soon to be 9) wanted to help with the building.  Well I rush based the infantry last week so that I could play a game with them on Friday.  On Saturday my son pushed to want to play the game, we agreed (my wife not being keen on him getting too involved) on him starting with painting.  So we sat down outside to build the Germans.  Lesson number one was how to use the side clippers with the sprues to cut out the tank parts.  I did the glueing.  By the end of Saturday we had assembled everything in the box.  Next is on to the painting and getting him to be careful in how he uses his brush.