mechanised warfare – The Wargaming Erratic

Monochrome provides a unity of its own

But our world loves colour – sort of – the unity is lost

With my regular “What a Tanker” opponent I took the allies and a makeshift bunch of tanks – churchill, stuart, grant and a “shy” firefly

Surprise surprise the german mechanics and fuel operators were on top gear – out come a tiger, a panther and a sturdy PzIV – needless to say flashy turrets were also on display. Its a pity there is not a special rule in WAT for complicated tech risk due to supply and logistics problems….. but this is just a table game like monopoly.

We took the long table set up with tank groups arriving in diagonally opposite corners – here the germans creep into the centre

rather brazenly the churchill and firefly just drive up the main street

The weaker allied tanks stayed out of town

The churchill caught a sight of movement – fired and took out some buildings

The stuart caught the PzIV in its sights and fired

Despite hugging the old mill house the the stuart was spotted by the panther but no fire………

The king tiger broke ground and took the Churchill head on……..

And it was all over in a tick.

The firefly got a line on the King tiger

The stuart was now being targetted by both the Panther and PzIV – no one was getting any hits on anything except a barn door

Finally some allied success – the Grant crept up on the King Tiger – in my last WAT game post the Grant had been the “dark scary dog” for the big german cats.

not this time – those roller bearings and cogs? (Frank Tank Rants has fantastic tank tech data to keep you happy for hours) were well oiled as the Grant failed to fire……Another allied tank gone

Meanwhile the Stuart was holding its own against the “B” team of the Panther and PzIV. The problem was the Stuart was hitting its target without any impact

If that was not enough the big tiger with two kills already turned up

Retreating – the stuart almost escaped before a fatal shot landed.

The Firefly finally put in an appearance but was nochantly disposed of by the king tiger

The Firefly was last allied tank standing – game over. This one was quite quick which was useful as my regular opponent does not get much game time. That is why WAT is an excellent pick up game. Also I had time and the idea to get almost all my model buildings on the table.

The buildings are a right old mix – some date from the 1970’s complete with enamel paint through decades old paper buildings where the damage is due to little insects! when in storage – ok the steeple was down to straight crushing. and some are ceramics from germany

The next battle involved Austrians and Piedmontese/French so I got good use from the temporary set up.