A German attack ! CoC AAR

Today we played an attack defend scenario with a regular German platoon attacking an American armored rifle platoon. Below are pictures of the terrain

The Germans rolled a 6 and got 4 free moves in the patrol phase.

The end of the patrol phase.

The German OBJ was the orchard behind the house.

The Germans deploy first and rolled two double sixes in a row and were able to deploy 2 squads, one in the center of their line in front of the Inn, the second squad deployed to the far right .

The next phase brought another double six and the German squad on the far right mad a dash for the American jump off point in the back yard of the Inn.

The next phase the Germans made it within 4 inches if the American jump off point denying them use of it, also denying the Americans the ability to deploy into the building.

The Americans answered with their own double six phase and deployed their machine gun squad along the back of the fence and their 60 mm mortar squad behind of the orchard, immediately bringing fire onto the advancing Germans, inflicting shock.

The next phase the Americans rolled another double six bringing more and more fire on the Germans who were shutting down the American  jump off point. The German Jr. leader was wounded, pinning the squad.

The Americans also deployed a senior leader in the orchard.

The next German phase brought a double 6 allowing them to deploy one of their support options,    an observer for the 81 mm mortar who called for a barrage. They were also able to inflict  some shock on the 60 mm behind the orchard.

The next phase the Germans deployed yet another support option, a Stug III with JL targeting the American senior leader "hiding" in the orchard. He was by himself, thinking he was safe behind the line. The HE round killed him.

The Germans fired a ranging shot for their barrage, hitting their mark right on and forcing the Americans to make a dash before the barrage fell.

The next American phase saw half the American machine gun squad run into the bottom floor of the house and the other half jump the fence into the back yard just outside the reach of the oncoming barrage. The American 60 mm also fell back outside the reach of the oncoming barrage.

The Germans in the field in front of the building on over watch poured fire into the Americans as the entered the building killing one and inflicting shock. 

The strategically placed mine field in front of the house was a brilliant move on the American's part forcing the Germans to  cross into the open on either side and not allowing them to rush into the building.  The Germans decided to stay put, and put fire into the bottom floor of the Inn. Also they knew that another American squad was lurking off to the German's far right.

The Stug also fired some rounds into the building and with combined HE and MG fire after many phases were able to kill the half of the American machine gun team in the building. But not before the Americans caused the Germans who were shutting down their jump off point to rout back behind the hedgerow, allowing the Americans to deploy a rifle squad into the second floor of the building. 

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The German squad in the field in front of the house was being withered away by the Americans in the building. The command dice didn't allow the Germans to active their Stug.

The Americans then deployed their last squad in attempt to rush the battered German squad. The Germans then played their Only Chain of Command Die of the game to interrupt the phase and shoot the machine gun team at the charging Americans killing one and applying 3 points of shock. unfortunately, that wasn't enough to stop the charging Americans. Even with the Germans thowing one more die than the American in the hand to hand, they managed to kill only one American, dooming the defending Germans. 

The battered Germans then deployed their last squad and poured everything they had on the squad that had just wiped out the German squad and pinned them.

                          (Picture recreated quickly) 

Unfortunately that's all we had time for! As we spent a great deal of time  looking up rules, really trying to get these rules down pat! 

Personally I don't think there was a clear cut winner, as we ran out of time and both forces still in pretty good fighting shape, and both sides force morale still in great shape at 8 per side.

Following the game I asked a great deal of questions on the forum. 

All in all another great game and a good time with the club mates! Looking forward to more games!

Fences

A quick way to make some great looking fences !

First grab a popsical stick and some coffesturrers (I used this old shade I had a around the house wich I think is a little thicker) but coffesturrers should get the job done nicely. Also you'll need bass wood. 

You can cut the bass wood into small pieces and glue them to the popsical sticks or you could cut them and take a long coffesturrer and glue one piece of bass would on each end and the middle wait for it to dry and then glue that whole piece to the popsical stick.

Next start cutting up smaller pieces of your coffesturrers and glue them to your long piece. These will be your pickets on your fence. (Cut them irregular) gives then a worn look

After those are all dry you cut the round ends to make them square (you should really do this before you start I didn't and decides to cut them after) next take some grout and texture the bases and then add sand. 

Next spray paint your primer I used black.

Paint white I used Vallejo white . It's going to take 3 or 4 coats to stop the black from bleeding through. Paint the dirt I used Vallejo flat brown (dry brushed)

Then a dry brush of Vallejo beige brown and a light dry brush or Vallejo tan earth. 

 Then to dirty the white and ware it down dry brush some flat brown beige brown and the main dry brush of chocolate brown all over the fence. Add flock and tufts and some woodland senic clumped foliage . Here's the finished product 

A great piece of terrain to add to the table that can be made for any scale.

Another great blog that gave me the inspiration on making fences is mgluteus.blogspot.com 

New terrain piece (hedge field)

I've been making some new terrain for my CoC game I'm putting on at a convention coming up (havoc).

I started by just cutting a piece of MDF board to the size I was looking for and taking some corrugated card and cutting a piece smaller than the MDF so it would fit evenly in the middle. Glue that and put something on top of it to keep some pressure on it wile it drys . Next take some grout and texture the whole thing around the card to blend it into the base then add your sand for further texture. After that's dryed paint the dirt. I used a dry brush of flat brown then beige brown and tan earth .paint the corrugated card. I painted mine in flat earth then a brown wash. Let the wash dry completely and then dry brush in flat earth again. Next dry brush some kaki and then Iraqi sand to high light the top.

I then cut some green furnace filter and shaped it to hedges cutting all right angles and play with it until you think it looks right. I would have liked to use some rubberized horse hair but I'm currently in the searching process for that now.  After you shape them you want to spray paint them flat brown and then a tan color along the tops to give them some contrast.

Flock around the edges and then attach your hedges.

I used Tac glue which seems to hold them tight into place. Let them dry for a wile and then tape the middle and the path ways and your ready to flock the hedges.

Take some water and PVA glue in a spray bottle and spray down the hedges and add flock and let dry over night. Take your tape off and you have your piece! Make sure you kinda play with the hedges to fluff them back up all the glue and flock can clump up and weigh them down. Remove all the clumped up flock by just flicking the hedges and gently pulling up on them and whiping all the excess. Now your ready to go! Here's the finish product ! 

If you have any questions feel free to email me .. Happy gaming !! 

Architects of war Hedgerow kit 28mm !

I recently finished a absolutely great kit by architects of war ! It's for 28mm and can be used on almost all battlefields or periods your trying to play. At 50 dollars for the set it's a bit expensive but definitely worth your money ounce you've completed it . The only thing about this set is the storage, for it needs to be somewhere it isn't going to have things piled on it or just thrown in a box. It needs to be stored correctly to be kept in good condition! Other wise you'll have problems with the foliage and trees coming loose or falling off! Besides that it's a great kit and defiantly recommended for your gaming table check out the finished set I painted below