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| The game opened well, with a long range shot from one of my Panthers (I think of them as companies) hitting this Sherman. |
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| Sadly there were many more Shermans. Many, many more... They soon did away with my garrison in the village. |
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| My Panthers looked rather menacing atop the ridgeline - but were magnets for Canadian AT shells. |
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| A price was extracted however. |
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| On the left, my Panzer IV dealt with a stray Sherman. |
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| Another photo of the smouldering Sherman. This was the high point of the game for me. |
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| A lucky long range PIAT shot did away with the Panzer, and I was hampered by cards which mostly activated units in the (empty) centre sector. It made a change from the dice being against me... |
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| The end is nigh. The Germans' last chance perishes. What a rotten game! |
11 comments:
You cannot win them all Tim. Nice report however.
Good to see the Canuck's give 'er eh?
That looked very good! Those little pieces that indicated 'hits' were well done. I can't believe a PIAT managed to hit anything! :) Ho ho...
Paul
It certainly felt like a Canadian walkover. Clearly Panzer Meyer had the day off. Or an off day.
Stephen Beat
The blast markers were by Litko (http://www.litko.net/categories/Tokens-%26-Markers/Blast-Burn-Smoke/) and were provided (at great expense) by John. It looks as if the man-portable AT weapon may have a future...
Nice idea, I have often thought about using Minis for M44 and Battlecry. I was at a CON and saw battlecry done using 54mm minis on a huge table with terrain.
Thanks for sharing.
afilter
That must have been something to see! Do you have any photos?
Oh Dear, Carpiquet-bagged by Canadians.
I think there are some pictures of some 54mm Battlecry games in the photo albums on the Littlewars yahoo group. I'll see if I can find them.
Ross Mac
Just lucky cards Ross...
Tim,
Here is a link to one:
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq132/adfilter/Little%20Wars%202011/DSCN3248.jpg
Aaron
afilter
Thanks for the link - most impressive!
As these are company-ish sized elements (based on the historical OBs, roughly a brigade on each side) then I suspect the 'PIAT' was actually a section of 6pdrs. Still a lucky shot to finish the Panzer IV company off at long range (one dice needing a 'tank' symbol).
Still working on some tweaks to make Mem 44 as flavoursome as CnC Napoleonics and Ancients but without bolting skirmish detail onto a grand tactical game which the Mem 44 supplements tend to do.
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