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2016 Review

2016 was a very busy year which impacted the hobby for me. No figures painted, terrain made or shows visited, or campaign weekends in 2016. I did manage 13 games, plus I kept up to date with all the Star Wars Armada and X Wing waves, and acquired all the latest 7TV, Battle Group, Hail Caesar and Black Powder publications. I even managed to buy some figures adding a brigade of French lancers to the plastic pile (courtesy of Warlord Games sending me vouchers) and 4 7TV starter casts from Crooked Dice whose 7TV Directors scheme I joined.

Well on with the review or more correctly a list of wargame and related stuff I did in 2015.

Places Visited 

Very few this year and nothing military. I will work on putting this right this year 

Games played - 11 (down 6)

I had 11 games with the Conwy Wargames Club. 1 solo game. All written and posted on the blog!

Finished models - 0 (non mover)

Shows visited - 0 (down 2)

Blog posts - 53 (less than 2015 by 29)

Kickstarters backed - 0 (down 1)

Books Read
This year I managed to read lots, but not many historical books. The historical books I read were

• Ottoman End Game
• Quatre Bras
• Quatre Bras: A French Perspective
• Waterloo:  A French Perspective
• Collapse of the 3rd Republic: An Inquiry into the fall of France 1940

Non fiction are too numerous to mention but I was mainly reading these authors:

• Stella Gemmell
• Eric Flint
• John Birmingham
• Christoper Nuttall (discovered in 2016 and most read)
• John Scalzi
• Peter Hamilton
• Neal Asher
• SM Stirling

Favourite Films - that inspire games

Star Wars Force Awakens (Rogue One is better but watched this year)

Anything Marvel - I'm now almost up to date

Warriors of the Rainbow (about Taiwan's resistance against the Japanese 1890 - 1900s)

April 9th (about Danes fighting the German 1940 invasion)

Favourite TV series - that inspire games

Dark Matter

Gotham

Wayward Pines

Agents of Shield

Game of Thrones

Grimm

Lokhvitsa Campaign Day 1 - Game 2

DAY 1 GAME 2 – ATTACK/COUNTER-ATTACK VARIANT

This after action report like the previous one see link below took place end Oct/Nov 2015 (my backlog of games to write up goes back even further than this and shockingly I started writing this post back in 2015). The games' scenario and specific rules are the same as game 1 see Lokhvitsa campaign day 1 game 1

The Forces

German
See Lokhvitsa-campaign-day-1-game-1 German Forces

Total Points 447
Total BR 36
Officers 4
Scouts 3

Soviet

Pts	Forward HQ
23	Forward HQ plus T26
Pts	Infantry
58 16 14 27	Motorised Rifle platoon Medium  trucks x 4 Anti tank rifle team Infantry gun and komoslets tactor
Pts	Tanks
72	T26 platoon
Pts	Recon Units
30	Sniper and spotter x 2
Pts	Artillery Units
16 48 6	Observation Team 45mm AT gun battery plus horse tow
Pts	Additional Fire Support
100	Timed 76.2mm artillery strike

Pts     Special Units
4        Supply column
8        T5-Z6 Armoured mmo carrier
28      AA vehicle
18      AT 1 spg

Total BR 31
Scouts 2

The Game

For the afternoon game my opponent was Russ, fielding a Soviet force very much after my own heart. He took loads of artillery. In games with friends I'd been talked out of fielding this kind of force and I was about to find out why. It was classic shock and awe.

My objective marker. No it's not Mr Tumnus.

I won the recce round. First BR token for my opponent. My confidence soars. Russ deploys first then I did taking a strong position around the village.

My sniper on the right is a veteran of my childhood being a Airfix German Mountain trooper, backed up by a metal MG crew.

Russ's AA vehicle and sniper team

Russ's FHQ and infantry platoon. I love the little artillery tractor.

Aerial shot of the board

The first of the Soviet timed artillery strikes lands pinning 2 units (white smoke) my 88mm's prime mover and Pz I

The dice show that my units are on ambush fire

My FHQ, infantry HQ squad and mortar team 

Waiting for the Soviets to show themselves. My armoured car has taken the objective, another BR token for Russ.

A look at the Soviets in the distance. Not a lot visible

Another timed artillery strike pinning my MG team and destroying a Pz II

At last Soviet targets arrive

My ability to strike at the newly arrived Soviet targets rapidly diminishes under more timed artillery strikes destroying my 88mm, it's prime mover and 2 PzIIs. I'm picking up lots of BR tokens now

Oh joy, more artillery

Horse drawn limber look great, and are now on my 'want' list.

The Soviet tanks unsurprisingly take out my armoured car and claim the objective.

Just about visible bottom of the picture one of my PzIIs takes out a T26

More artillery later and there are no more PzII's in play. My infantry whoop for joy as a T26 breaks through to the road

Soviet general advance to be stopped by rifles and grenades only if they are not pinned by the time the rolling juggernaut of Soviet might arrives in range

Russ's 3 tokens at the end of the game

My many tokens. Another German massacre but I loved the game. Russ kindly wrote up his list for me so I could a) blog it and b) use it!