Here are some photos of a LCW game played recently at a secret location 'somewhere in England'. The purpose of the game was to thoroughly test the tank and AT gunnery systems. Sadly the game we had planned had to be postponed due to the inevitable rain and so this game was played indoors on a 6x8 foot table. We used Centimetres instead of Inches for all measurements.
The Commie junkyard prepares to advance....
...while the imperialist lackeys await!
A salvo of smoke preceded the assault.
Soon our T-55s were taking hits from the enemy.
A Chieftain gunner's eye view. They could hardly miss!
A Swingfire ATGM hits another tank...
...and makes rather a nasty mess!
Another Swingfire finds it's target.
11 comments:
Onward Red Hordes! That's about the right ratio if the Chieftains
are having a bad day....)
Don M
Quite so. Not the most visually stimulating of games but it served a purpose. And kept us dry!
A nice wee encounter.
Just imagine if the plucky Brits had been facing real MBT's!
Paul Foster
One of the Sov tanks turned out to a be a T-62 - which stirred things up if only briefly!
The Soviets tended to have a high opinion about the Chieftain (RAC mechanics less so) and therefore put their best tanks up against it (T62s at the time) which allocating the older T55s to take on the American M60 and the German Leopard 1s. I remember visiting my Uncle in Germany in the 60s and at that time they were calling the Chieftain 'the best tank in the world' - it was only later that it was publicly admitted that it had all the reliability of a East German Trabant thanks to it's Leyland L60 engine! Still, a 120mm rifled gun can make up for a lot of failings - I'm surprised your T55s got anywhere near them! :)
Stephen Beat
The Chieftain's combination of a very big gun and very thick armour did make life rather tricky for our Commie tankers. But as Stalin said - 'Quantity has a quality of it's own...'
Looks great Tim, I like the look of the game - we advance across the open plain undercover of daylight.... still chucking everything on the table like that does speed up playtesting.
Cheers,
Pete.
Pete
It was either that or no game at all! In other news, we did manage an outdoor game later in the day....
Stu Rat
What can I say? The game was in Southern England - they're all softies down there!
Quite a large quantity of Red armoury trundling over the Hessian countryside. Of course, the thing about quantity - large numbers - is that there are too many targets for the enemy to hit in the time available to him. Long before I heard of Stalin's tag, I discovered this as a favourite war games tactic ...
Archduke Piccolo
Subtle it ain't - but it often works.
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