US 7th Armoured Division vs Heer Armoured in Dust Up

A massive armoured column is to tempting a target for Rudel to ignore!

Game 1 of Operation Cobra (1650 LW) was against Matt and the mission was Dust Up.  Matt was playing a mixed German armoured force against my US 7th Armoured Division.  His list looked like this:

Heer Armored Company
HQ Panther
2 x Panther platoon
3 x StuGs
3 x Whirblwinds
3 x Panzer IV Hs
Infantry platoon with PaK 40 and 15cm gun
Stuka Rudel

US 7th AD
Patton
OC in E8
2IC in Jumbo
4 x Shermans (2 x E8, Jumbo and M4A1)
4 x Shermans (2 x E8, Jumbo and M4A1)
4 x Stuarts
Armoured Mortar platoon
Recon platoon with 1 section
3 x Preists
AOP

Set Up

Objectives are bottom centre, the white near the centre of the table, by the craters 3/4 of the way up and finally in the woods top centre

Operation Cobra 14

The hardware!

The CFB Gagetown gaming club hosted their first ever Flames of War tournament the other weekend.  It was a 1650 Late War event with 3 games called Operation Cobra (or Summer Fling according to me).  It was held at one of the local churches out building and was very well run.  Here are some pictures of the armies, I will be doing up battle reports as soon as I can.

Shawn Morris' Germans (they look better in person and I have a bunch of close ups)

USMC vs Iraqi Republican Guard in modified Free-for-all

USMC Airmobile units deploy into the Iraqi rear supported by a Cobra gunship

Matt Varnish from the Dice Devils and I played a game of a modernized Flames of War game using the Stopping the Red Tide rule set. If you haven't checked out www.stoppingtheredtide.blogspot.ca I highly recommend it.  Both Matt and I were more interested in having a thematic game where we could get a ton of cool pictures more than anything else.  We definitely made some mistakes while playing but as you can see from this battle report it looked stunning.  The mission was a modified Free-for-all with both of us holding some units in reserve and with 3 objectives in the centre of the table.  Basically whoever held the most objectives at the end of the game would win. We used a variety of models from converted Battlefront, QRF, Peter Pig and some scratch builds.

Matt Varnishes Iraqi Republican Guard (Confident Conscripts)
OC in T80 with reactive armour, 2IC in T72
3 x T72s
3 x T72s
3 x T72s
3 x T55s
3 x T55s
Infantry platoon in APCs
2 x AA guns (SP)

Big Willie's USMC (Fearless Trained)
OC and 2IC in HMMWVs
Infantry platoon in HMMWVs
4 x M60s
Infantry platoon in Sea Knights (Chinooks)
2 x TOW HMMWVs
1 x Cobra Attack Helicopter

Set Up

The USMC spreads out along the South side of the border town of Nisab ready to capture key points and reinforce the Recce element who had been engaged earlier in the day.  Against them was some of  Saddam's favoured tank forces.  The MC would have their work cut out for them.

USMC and Iraqi Armies

The USMC ready to roll into Iraqi after freeing Kuwait

On Tuesday night Matt Varnish from the Dice Devils and I had the chance to play a game of Stopping the Red Tide.  If you guys haven't seen the rule set, it takes the Battlefront Flames of War rules and modernizes them to 1986.  You can check out his website at www.stoppingtheredtide.blogspot.ca We took it a step further and played with USMC and Iraqi National Guard Armies.  I'm working on the battle report of it now but figured that everyone would like to see just how awesome the models look.  I hope you enjoy.

The entire Iraqi tank army

PanzerKompanie vs Russian Tankovy in Counterattack

Panther's in the killing fields surrounded by burning hulks!

Game 2 of the Paths of Glory 1500 MW tournament was against Ian.  Again it was tank company against tank company but this time I won the roll to be the attacker.  Ian was running Russian tanks that had a Canadian connection based on the Valentines that were produced in Montreal and lend leased to Russia.

Ian's Tankovy (I'm not sure what some of the names are so if you know them let me know and I'll update)
OC in T34
6 x T34, 2 x T34/85
6 x Valentines
4 x ISU 76 (I think)
3 x Assault guns
3 x Recce cars

Big Willie's Panzers
OC in Panther
2 x Panthers
4 x Panzers (2 x III Ms, 1 x III N and 1 x IV G)
2 x 8-Rads
2 x AA guns (SP)

Setup

T34's are in the field and on the hill on the right side of the board.  The assault guns are held in ambush.  Objectives are in the wheat field and beside the rocky hill bottom right.

PanzerKompanie vs Aussie Div Cav in Fighting Withdrawal

RAF Hurricanes rock the Panzers!

Game 1 of the Perkins 1500 MW tournament was Fighting Withdrawal and it pitted me against the Dice Devil's own PhantomRescue.  He was playing Aussie Div Cav and I was playing a PanzerKompanie.  He won the roll to see who the attacker was, so my Panzers were going to be playing defence this mission.

Aussie Div Cav (from North Africa)

OC and 2IC in Crusaders

3 x Crusaders

3 x Crusaders

3 x Shermans

3 x Shermans

3 x Universal Carriers

1 x Rifle Platoon

Limited Hurricane support

PanzerKompanie (from Eastern Front)

OC in Panther

2 x Panthers

4 x Panzers (2 x III M, 1 x III N, 1 x IV G)

2 x 8-rads

2 x 2cm AA (SP)

Setup

Panzers lurk along the left with the Aussie ready to advance on the right.  Objectives are in the field top left, by the canal and bridge in the centre and in the open by the ruins bottom left.

Paths of Glory 2014

Xander's MW Americans (ok this wasn't from the tournament but it's awesome!)

Today Perkins held a MW 1500 tournament for FoW.  It was 3 rounds and a special thanks to Luggs for running the event.  The only hang up was the delayed start time, but that was because of Hydro One and nothing the tournament organizers or Gary could have helped.

I played 3 games which will becoming as battle reports shortly but I wanted to show the armies.  They were fantastic!