Monday, 18 September 2023

Cold War Blitzspiel

 Following on from the Cold War Brigade Commander game was...lunch.  After that we reconvened for John A's game.  This has been in development for a couple of years now and John has had the questionable benefit of my input throughout.  John provided all the toys for this game, in which one toy AFV represented a real one.

I promised John I'd use this photo of his MTU-55 bridgelayer conversion.  The Sovs had a reinforced tank battalion.
The British force was built around a tank squadron, with an attached infantry platoon and Swingfire section.

Despite making a lot of smoke during their advance....
...the Sovs were soon making a lot of rather blacker smoke as the weight of British long range gunnery told.
A very jolly game which did much towards 'proving' the concept of the rules.

8 comments:

Brian Carrick said...

Are those dastardly Soviets using biological warfare? the smoke and explosions look like COVID virus.

Tim Gow said...

Brian Carrick
The smoke markers were from a toy set John found in a charity shop. The green & yellow ones look far more like viruses!

Pete. said...

A great run through of the rules- I look forward to seeing it develop with a more involved scenario.

Cheers,

Pete.

Martin Rapier said...

They seemed to be a very playable set of 1:1 battalion level rules, which is really quite iimpressive.

pancerni said...

Great looking units. I hope that you have some good reports with the rules.

Tim Gow said...

Pete
I'm sure we'll see it again soon.

Tim Gow said...

Martin Rapier
Like you say - quite an achievement!

Tim Gow said...

Pancerni
Following such a successful playtest I'm sure there will be other games.