tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post3699005633255675915..comments2024-03-18T23:25:24.574+00:00Comments on Megablitz and more: Red Recce ReportTim Gowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00561988214539953646noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-26391591876847033512013-02-17T10:11:17.225+00:002013-02-17T10:11:17.225+00:00Dancing Cake Tin
feeble fascists fantastically foi...Dancing Cake Tin<br />feeble fascists fantastically foiled and f**k off back to Fatherland...Tim Gowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561988214539953646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-55420739207378215572013-02-16T14:43:05.098+00:002013-02-16T14:43:05.098+00:00Rampaging Reds wreck radio in really ripping recce...Rampaging Reds wreck radio in really ripping recce report.The Dancing Cake Tinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05942718929841617253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-42403671902650454462013-02-16T10:56:54.966+00:002013-02-16T10:56:54.966+00:00Martin Rapier
"...the first in a series...&qu...Martin Rapier<br />"...the first in a series..." You mean we have to do this again?Tim Gowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561988214539953646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-18810917626383965212013-02-16T10:53:11.446+00:002013-02-16T10:53:11.446+00:00Stephen Beat
I'm afraid I have copyright on th...Stephen Beat<br />I'm afraid I have copyright on the term 'Super Hamster'. The special rules for them are available in the form of a £29.95 supplement....Tim Gowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561988214539953646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-55729805170118740092013-02-16T10:51:28.525+00:002013-02-16T10:51:28.525+00:00Archduke Piccolo
I think I may have exceeded my ow...Archduke Piccolo<br />I think I may have exceeded my own orders - by fighting to the last bullet!Tim Gowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561988214539953646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-48726378065874281322013-02-16T10:50:15.443+00:002013-02-16T10:50:15.443+00:00Michael Peterson
Glad you enjoyed it.Michael Peterson<br />Glad you enjoyed it.Tim Gowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561988214539953646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-30931756583843805782013-02-15T08:59:59.057+00:002013-02-15T08:59:59.057+00:00"Yet another one of Hitler's damnable sec..."Yet another one of Hitler's damnable secret weapons - hamster bedding."<br /><br />The black hamster bedding is fairly innocuous. I also have bilious green bedding which I use to represent chemical weapons attacks. I think some features in a couple of Tims reports about our WW1 games.<br /><br />As for empty trenches... the fortified combat outpost represented is roughly 150m x 150m in area, plenty big enough for a platoon position.<br /><br />The scenario is from the Skirmish Campaigns book 'Red Guards at Kursk', the first of a campaign sequence covering actions on the northern flank of the Orel salient.<br /><br />Martin Rapierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16788664847205341619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-76618526119361603732013-02-15T07:05:15.999+00:002013-02-15T07:05:15.999+00:00Yet another one of Hitler's damnable secret we...Yet another one of Hitler's damnable secret weapons - hamster bedding. The by-product of genetically altered super-hamsters perhaps? Are there rules for them?Milgeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08791475027247097256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-56321808847423148682013-02-14T23:30:06.532+00:002013-02-14T23:30:06.532+00:00Even games in which you are set up for a defeat ca...Even games in which you are set up for a defeat can be fun and entertaining. One feels, though, that the Soviet commander exceeded his orders a bit. Unless they came in the form of: <br /><br />'Go reconnoitre that bunch of trenches over there and report back that they are unoccupied!' <br /><br />'Da, Tovarishch Major...'Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-36177564706794898272013-02-14T19:51:08.390+00:002013-02-14T19:51:08.390+00:00Hamster bedding inhalation is always a good reason...Hamster bedding inhalation is always a good reason to carry your gas mask.<br />This AAR was great fun, thanks.Mad Padrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-27318544947516108272013-02-14T18:14:39.280+00:002013-02-14T18:14:39.280+00:00Nick Grant
It's dangerous stuff. Probably why...Nick Grant<br />It's dangerous stuff. Probably why you never see hamsters playing Wargames....Tim Gowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561988214539953646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-70539853388407045182013-02-14T18:13:37.191+00:002013-02-14T18:13:37.191+00:00Martin Rapier
I was simply quoting from the offici...Martin Rapier<br />I was simply quoting from the official German report of the action!Tim Gowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561988214539953646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-737733476520621892013-02-14T15:24:36.285+00:002013-02-14T15:24:36.285+00:00Nice report - 'specially the hamster bedding!Nice report - 'specially the hamster bedding!Nick Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15668435293578877174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-44206170226696140952013-02-14T13:58:30.298+00:002013-02-14T13:58:30.298+00:00It wasn't quite as one-sided as the photos imp...It wasn't quite as one-sided as the photos imply. For a while most of the Russians were pinned down under a hail of MG42 fire, and it looked like game over.<br /><br />They eventually sorted themselves out and did the fire & movement thing and once they finally broke into the trench system, they rolled it up quite quickly.<br /><br />The booby trapped building was indeed quite funny, especially as the Russians laid on a very deliberate assault against it with preparatory fire and everything.<br />Martin Rapierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16788664847205341619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-46832930431626370962013-02-14T11:15:51.856+00:002013-02-14T11:15:51.856+00:00Stephen Beat
It was an entertaining game - even if...Stephen Beat<br />It was an entertaining game - even if I was vastly outnumbered. And the dice were against me.Tim Gowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561988214539953646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152572458899289416.post-39123041516961488362013-02-14T11:07:05.023+00:002013-02-14T11:07:05.023+00:00Ha ha ha...Love the booby trap!
Once again this i...Ha ha ha...Love the booby trap!<br /><br />Once again this is one of those entertaining game reports that piques my interest in the gaming side of things.<br /><br />I'm afraid I would be a Soviet fan-boy though...Forward to Victory Comrades! ;)Milgeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08791475027247097256noreply@blogger.com