Bob’s Going ‘Nuts’

With 8 vehicles on the table each side drew 5 event cards +1 card for having at least one veteran commander.

Then I rolled and despite only 2+ for the Germans  and 3+ for the British, failed both ( I forgot the Humbers Scout ability gave me Re-roll for British).

This did mean though that I could draw alt chits out of bag and put them on the Tank Cards.

This meant that Germans had Lt Bockwurst’s Panther ,moving 1st Sgt Junkers Panzer IV 5th and Sgt Rotweilers Panther last.

The British had  Fred Colon’s Sherman moving 2nd, Capt. Carrot on 3rd   and Lt Angua’ Humber 4th. This left Nobby being 6th and CSM Sam Vimes 7th.

This 1st .ove was very much the tanks loading guns and attempting to move around  the village.

The main bit of excitement was as Fred Colons tank skirted the Churchyard, the Germans triggered a reinforcement in the form of the Panzer Knacker card.

As it happened the Germans appalling dice rolls continued and they missed, As this meant the  hurchard was cleared Fred ignored it and machine gunned the ruin on front of him that had an ambush marker, with his case Assault mg of 2 dice and one for pintle as he was unbuttoned fo 3 dice , managing to clear it on a 6.  Which gave the British 2 cleared Ambush markers.

With the excitement over, the Germans sent 3 tanks up the main road and Sgt Rotweilers tank to scout round the lower edge. Capt Carrot an headed to take up position covering down the one road whilst Sgt Colon took up postuon in the gap between the Churchyard and the 1st line of ruins.

Lt Angua took her Humber around the Churchyard and managed to spot Lt Bockwurst’s Panther coming down the road.

The remaing British Tanks moved around the flank for what they didn’t know could be a Confrontation with Sgt Rotweilers Panther, with neither side being able to see the other due to the intervening walls and outhouse.

Finally I rolled for The British Asser cards and rolled a 4 on +2 to d6 giving me 6 stars, so I picked following cards.

Finally I pit down the 8 ambush markers on the terrain , which are the potential sites that all the Asset cards are used from.

The 3rd RTR’s force from the 11 pts came to 2x Sherman Fireflys, 2 x Sherman V’s and a Humber AC. The later will introduce the quicker but less Deadly to fire 2pdr, and give the British a vehicle with the Scout ability.

So going against Historical convention,  I put my Troop Commander in the 1st Firefly which Threw a 6 for stars giving it 7.

So :

Capt ‘Carrot’ Ironfounderson 3 stars, Gunner  Cpl ‘Cheery Littlebottom 3 stars, and Driver Trooper Reg Shoe 1 star.

2nd Firefly threw 2 so only 5 stars:

CSM Sam Vimes 2 stars  , Gunner Albert Detritus 2 stars , Driver Sid Visit 1 star

1st Sherman  V threw 3 so again 5 stars :

Sgt Fred Colon 2 stars, Gunner Trooper ‘Buggy’ Squires 2 stars, Driver Trooper Pediment 1 star.

2nd Sherman V threw a 4 so 6 stars:

Cpl ‘Nobby’ Nobbs  2 stars Gunner Trooper Alf Boggis 3 star, Driver Trooper Peter Fidement 1 star

The Humber threw ( sigh of relief) a 6 :

2nd Liet. Angua Uberwold 3 Stars. Gunner Trooper Bert Downspout 1 star, Driver l.Cpl. ‘Cheery Littlebottom,  3 stars .

I rolled for Special ammo , British get plus 3 to die roll for early 45, so would have had 7 but only the Fireflys can have them, and each tank is Ltd to 2 per tank so both Fireflys got 2.

11 pts gives me 2x Panthers and a Panzer IV H, a fairly solid force.

I then have to roll for Crew stars rating for each tank using thr medium calibre on the table.

For the Panthers I rolled a 2 and a 6 so 5 Stars for one and 7 stars for the other.

The Panzer IV threw a 3 so again 5 stars .

So for Oberleutnant  Otto Bockwursts Panther I went for

3 for himself 3 for His Gunner Corporal Hans  Frankfurter 3, and lowly Driver Gunter Bratwust 1.

For the Panzer IV’s Sgt Piter Junker 2,  Gunner Ernst Focke 2, Driver Michael Wulf 1.

I rolled for Special ammo and as I set it in the middle of Battle of Bulge is early 45  rolling a 1 on a minis 3 table meant they hot no special ammo.

1. For Sgt Kurt Rottweiler 2,

l.  Gunner Sigmund Dachshound  2,  and Driver Rolf Doberman 1

For the Panzer IV’s Sgt Piter Junker 2,  Gunner Ernst Focke 2, Driver Michael Wulf 1.

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I rolled for Special ammo and as I set it in the middle of Battle of Bulge is early 45  rolling a 1 on a minis 3 table meant they hot no special ammo.

I finally rolled for the German Asset cards and rolleda +2 for the 8 vehicles in play giving me 4 pts.

Having had a fairly length of Novo Virus the last two weeks , I have been unable to much hobby, nor concentrate much on anything ,but have loads of time to think so began actually thinking about playing a game.

Now it’s going to be ‘Achtung Panzer’ for a couple of reasons.
1. It’s Tanks
2. In the final days of bug I actually managed to read the rules and it’s been a whiles since read or played ‘Nut’s’. Plus I’ve watched a few let’s Plays on YouTube so got it in Brain.
3. It’s Tanks
4. Still have Terrain to build for ‘Nut’s’ game.
5. It’s Tanks
6. I have now sufficient German Winter vehicles finished for a Balanced Game.
7. It’s Tanks ( for John)
8. There is no reason 8
9. It’s Tanks.

So last week I  the odd moments I didn’t feel like death warmed up I set up my main games table.

Trees for  the purist’s are not  in winter no leaves configuration  , as they are the tree’s  I have, though it had got me thinking about raiding local Park, for fallen twigs for making Winter Decidous Trees.

Therefore I have wintered it by liberally sprinkling two tubes of White scatter over the top..

Most of Trees are old GW, , with some recent additions from Battlefield in a Box. A couple were custom trees I picked up the Old Dungeons ans Starships shop which used to be in my home town.

The centerpiece Terrace was from some guy on ebay. Plus various resin buildings collected over the years, Newer editions

are some of the excellent pre painted WW2 buildings including 2 ruins that were brought out for Achtung Panzer by Micro Art Studio’s, with some of Warlords Ruined Farmhouse bits from various starter sets.

I picked mission 1 aptly for 1st game ‘Armoured Clash,  both sides having 11pts . Funny number you may say but that no gave the best equal side on the fast pts option. The starter forces give an advantage to Germans I  they have 8 to the British 7, and I didn’t have any Armoured cars to make it even 10.

This means when rolling for crew stars all vehicles will roll for medium calibre.

For those (Gerry and Oriskany) who wasn’t some historical context  , this is going to be a slight variation on thec1st engagement between the Advancing 2nd Panzer Divisio , and the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment of 11th Armoured Division just to the East of the Meuse River. The actual initial engagement ad in one of YouTube videos was a Britis Ambush as opposed to this meeting engagement.

Initial Deployment as I’m solo playing is basically were I plonked the models when putting them on the table!!!

Having had a fairly length of Novo Virus the last two weeks , I have been unable to much hobby, nor concentrate much on anything ,but have loads of time to think so began actually thinking about playing a game.

Now it’s going to be ‘Achtung Panzer’ for a couple of reasons.
1. It’s Tanks
2. In the final days of bug I actually managed to read the rules and it’s been a whiles since read or played ‘Nut’s’. Plus I’ve watched a few let’s Plays on YouTube so got it in Brain.
3. It’s Tanks
4. Still have Terrain to build for ‘Nut’s’ game.
5. It’s Tanks
6. I have now sufficient German Winter vehicles finished for a Balanced Game.
7. It’s Tanks ( for John)
8. There is no reason 8
9. It’s Tanks.

Having had a fairly length of Novo Virus the last two weeks , I have been unable to much hobby, nor concentrate much on anything ,but have loads of time to think so began actually thinking about playing a game.

Now it’s going to be ‘Achtung Panzer’ for a couple of reasons.
1. It’s Tanks
2. In the final days of bug I actually managed to read the rules and it’s been a whiles since read or played ‘Nut’s’. Plus I’ve watched a few let’s Plays on YouTube so got it in Brain.
3. It’s Tanks
4. Still have Terrain to build for ‘Nut’s’ game.
5. It’s Tanks
6. I have now sufficient German Winter vehicles finished for a Balanced Game.
7. It’s Tanks ( for John)
8. There is no reason 8
9. It’s Tanks.

Well I’ve been painting and Hobbying on this project for a while now, so it’s time to play with some of new toys. Now strangely it’s not going to be ‘Nutt’s’ but ‘Achtung Panzer’.

There’s a few reasons:
1. It’s Tanks (for John & me)
2. I have at last finished sufficient Germa armour to make it balanced
3 It’s Tanks
4. Still have odd bits of terrain to build for
‘Nut’s’ game.
5. It’s Tanks
6. I’ve recently actually read the ‘Achtung Panzer Rules whereas been a bit since reading ‘Nut’s”.
7. It’s Tanks
8. There is no reason 8
9. It’s Tanks

Anyway I’ve layed out a suitable layout on the main games table, and wintered it using two pots of white scatter, I was going to give it a liberal spray of resolution xmas snow , but tin had dried up!
(I know the trees have too much foliage, but don’t have any winter tree other than the xmas furs, but they are on other table, though think might do a Warren and raid local Park for fallen twigs to make winter trees)