FoW vs. Chex

Another great game. This saw the Canadians vs Italians teaching Chex how to play. 

I changed up the list again a bit and tried out some Shermans.  I liked the flexability they offered in having two units of tanks, but I do need to use caution as they are much more fragile than the Churchills I'm used too. 

All in all a great game with both of us learning a lot.  

Next post I promise will not be about FoW...

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Flames of War - Battle Report

Alex and I played a 1750 point game of FoW tonight at the Game Castle.  Joe, the owner pretty much held the store open for us to finish.

First off, I got my extra bitz and Mortars so this weekend should see the re-basing of a couple of the teams and building of the mortars.

We played 'Fighting Withdrawal' and his American Mechanized company was the attacker and I was to defend a small town and surrounding areas.  (Need to learn to remember to bring a camera from now on.)

The objectives were set up evenly spread throughout the zone.  Left and right placed by the attacker and the center placed by the defender.  The defending Canadians dug everyone in prior to the start.  The town, and an objective to the east was defended by an anti-tank platoon, a rifle platoon, and a couple of Bofors.  The West flank saw machine gunners, heavy mortars and some commando's.  The center was defended by another rifle platoon and a stray bofor looking for some action.

The americans sent many troops at us and got a bit bottle necked to the west.  The troops on the East dismounted just outside of town and continued on foot while the american artillery pounded down on the canadians forcing their heads to sink further into their fox holes.

Eventually his Shermans broke through and the battle to the West was well under way.  the mini soldiers traded several blows but in the end the Canadians did not hold and their lines were broken.

Next battle, Alex and I are going to switch sides on the same scenario and I will let you know how that goes.

I think in the end my set up was fairly solid and a couple of unfortunate die rolls on my part and fortunante ones on his part lost me the game.  Ohh, and learning the proper rules for Ambushing 3 Churchill's could have helped a bit.  That being said though, it was a great game and hard fought by Alex.

Look forward to the next one.

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Flames of War

After a long hiatus, Alex, Chris, and I have been playing Flames of War on a more regular basis.  We've been playing smaller games which is a bit refreshing as my Canadian Infantry Company had become a bit stagnant.

It looks like I'll need to get a package of Heavy Mortars.  They really seemed to provide much needed support.

I also need to get another Bofor AA gun, even though they didn't seem to help too much, they require 3 and alas I have only 2.

I have a couple of special order parts on the way to upgrade my Universal Carriers into MMG Carriers, as well as a couple of extra PIAT teams.  I also need to re-base my machine gun teams as they are based the wrong way right now.  Perhaps that project I'll start tonight.

Lastly, Will and I have been looking into paper terrain, buildings mostly, and we have stumbled across quite a few great items.  Look for a more concise list soon but check out this page here, about 1/2 way down the page.

I plan to build these in FoW scale (and 20mm for another project,) and hope to have them finished soon(ish.)

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