A Return To The Eastern Front

Dave popped over to OHQ for a game today, we had decided to do a World War II game, we had not done one since January. As it was Dave's birthday today I decided that we would use his favourite WWII set, Rapid Fire.
I decided on a nice straight forward(ish) game on a 4'x4' table, the objective for the Dave's Russian force was to clear the village of Germans in eight turns.

The Church Takes The Full Brunt Of The Initial Russian Katyushka Strike Also Taking Out The German Observer Team

The Russians Advance On The German Left 

The Russians Enter The Cornfields, Which Were To Prove Heavy Going

The German Pak50 Takes Out The Russian SU76

The Russians Struggle Through The Corni

Taking Advantage Of The Second Katyushka Strike The Russians Storm The German Right Flank Position

Which Is Overrun

The Russians Finally emerge From The Corn To Late To Secure A full Victory, The Boss Will Not Be Pleased.

By turn eight the Russians had overrun the German right flank trench line and had eventually emerged from the cornfields the T34's had also made a belated entry. With the Germans still having control of two positions in the town though a draw was declared.

Next weeks game will be over at GHQ where Huttus Baldinus having raised fresh troops will renew his campaign to overthrow the tyrant  Pompous Maximus.

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Ballista, Warrior Of Rome

I have painted up the Ballista figure based on the character in Harry Sidebottom' s Warrior of Rome series, this was a freebie if you bought Simon's To The Strongest rules or Harry's new novel on Sunday at Partizan, this is now available with a minimum spend in Simon's shop, click on the Big Red Bat Cave link on the right for more details.

The dead Goth is from the Foundry, Casting Room Miniatures dark age German range. The shield transfer from LBMS, it is from the Footsore Late Roman/ Arthurian sheet, it just needed a slight trim to fit the shield provided

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