A quick post with some more pictures from a game with 'Stephen vs Steven' at the 'Country Bunker'.
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12mm 'Red 3' armour. A lovely scale for moderns.
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I was only there for part of the battle, but understood that Bundeswehr units were making a mess of the Soviet assault.
Rules were the perennial favourite '7 days to the River Rhine', which has a lot of things to like, with more plays. Only thing for me would be the card based 'random' support elements (for instance, an airstrike was nicely foiled by a triple-A card), but as a to and fro battle style system for everythign else on the ground, it is a joy to see. Having said that, there is talk of more Battlegroup Northag and even Sabre Squadron to follow.
As usual, Steven's terrain at the Country Bunker is superb. Models were 12mm - mostly Red 3, with some 3d prints from Butlers I believe. A nice upscale from the 1/200 the guys used to have (I bought it).
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Abandoned power station on the Soviet right
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'Engage and destroy Komrade'
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Soviet T-64 platoon ready to move
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...in the woods
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jazz hand
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...when the chips are down...
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Sovs using cover to advance
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'On the way...' NATO units are firing and moving ...as long as they can hold that inititive
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The whole battlefield
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NATO units inevitably being flanked in the woods
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First Soviet brew-ups
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T-80 on the flank
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Soviet recon gets hit, blinding the action in the centre
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A traffic jam on the Sov left - but they are biding their time
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Sovs in the woods
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Containers arriving into Germany, with no paperwork or supply chain issues ;)
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Leopards guns are hot...
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T-64 units move for the crossroads, and the objective at table centre (the Shell garage)
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NATO units and MILANs at the objective
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A very nice game, with more moderns to follow.
A nice table and figures Darren, I just assumed from photo one that you were doing 20mm!
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm. That's 'Steve the painter' at work. He makes miniatures come alive. Steve '2' does the terrain. I always feel like a painting/terrain amateur when I visit :)
DeleteGood to see a SDTTRR fight! Out of the list you mentioned, NORTHAG probably my favorite but Sabre Squadron would play the quickest, I'd imagine.
ReplyDeleteCheers Steve. I have yet to play Northag and Sabre has had both good and bad games. I do need to try Northag soon. Of course, I still have a hankering to get GDW Team Yankee on the table with hexes and FFT3.
DeleteSo many games :)
Terrific looking models and terrain.
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter. Every visit to the bunker is a visual feast.
Delete7DTR a nice playable set with a lot to recommend it on that basis alone. 12mm is the 'new' 15mm and getting nearly as big.
ReplyDeleteYes, has a lot of nuance and good gameplay, I think. Some of that 12mm stuff is superb, yes.
DeleteArmour looks really good in this scale.
ReplyDeleteYes - some real suprises in terms of what they can do at the scale now. Some of the 3d printed stuff also (especially resin rather than filament based) would revolutionise the industry, if it weren't so expensive in terms of manufacture, though I have sense we'll see cost reduction as resins become cheaper/easier to use.
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