Unit Cards - FFL and CMG

As I don't play with cannon Hammer's Slammers units I  thought it about time to make my own unit cards.  So today at lunch time that what I did.  they are not pretty but they work for now.

Commonwealth Maneuver Group (main TUs)

Free Foreign Legion (main TUs)

Both need artillery and transports etc.  Most of the photos are placeholders, I'll replace them  and names of vehicles eventually.

The Aftermath

A quick game using Hammer's Slammers: The  Crucible rules

The bombs fell years ago... ...nature begins to reclaim the space

Until the howling of turbines shatters the peace.  Commonwealth armour enters from the south east

From the west a FFL armour patrol appears 

The FFL tanks enter the ruins cautiously

 Commonwealth armour crests a small hill

 The unit sweeps forwards

 Contact!  FFL unit seen

 Commonwealth tanks engage, drawing first blood

 FFL advance to engage

 Missiles ripple out from the FFL (using 'Rapid Fire')

 The Commonwealth has no answer, missiles inbound!

 And again

 FFL fire KOs a Commonwealth tank's main gun

 Missile time!

 Boom! another Commonwealth loses its main gun

 While a third learns that the combination of ATGM missiles and no point defences can be deadly

 Commonwealth tanks rush forwards to flank the FFL, hoping to KO the lighter tanks in the weaker side aspects

 The sole intact Commonwealth tank moves into overwatch position for the attack

 Frantic fire from the Commonwealth heavy support weapons finds a weak spot, one FFL tank down

 Boom!

 The overwatch tank ranges with its main Railgun

 And KaBoom! a supersonic projectile rips the length of the second FFL tank

 Things are not looking good for the FFL

 However, the FFL unit passed its morale (When the bullets Fly) and goes on the attack

 FFL closes to knife-fighting range

 Launching a salvo of missiles at the overwatch tank on the way

 At point-blank range the FFL main Powergun KO's one Commonwealth tank

 The other unit fails to scratch the FFL's front armour, and the overwatch tank misses  - UuOh...

 Fortunately the ATGM pings harmlessly off the overwatch tank

 The FFL seize the initiative and go for it again.  Missile out!

 Speed forward to gain a rear deck shot on the Commonwealth armour

 Only one missile gains target lock

 While the main gun shreds the Commonwealth tank

 Final approach

 View across the valley

 View from the other side, incoming missile!

 A hit! the ATGM KO's the main gun

 Next turn the FFL misses with their main gun, but gain another missile lock

 The Commonwealth are taking a pasting, the tank becomes immobilized.  At this point the crew bail

Leaving the sole FFL tank as the victor

A quick and fun game to remind myself of the rules in prep for the GZG ECC.  There will be more soon.

Tanks are a bit shiny as they need varnishing and its just been too cold here to varnish.  I hope I can get it done next weekend before the Con.

When will the snow end...

Not today, its snowing, again.  This year's snow has been a tough, here in Boston we've had enough.  Its time for spring!

Anyway, other than shoveling excessive amounts of snow the last couple of months have been busy ones prepping for the GZG ECC.

I'm running two games, on Friday its going to be a Cowboy fight with my 20mm gunfighters.  I just managed to score a bunch of Kibri Westerns buildings so over the summer my town is ready to expand.  On Saturday I'm using the Crucible rules (Hammer's Slammers) to run an armour clash game.  I've been working steadily over the winter to finish off a couple of forces, my Free Foreign Legion and Commonwealth vehicles.

FFL Vehicles seen below Comonwealth armour

The entire Commonwealth force.

Most of these vehicles are on the lighter side so I wanted to get some super-tanks.  I opted for Khurasan's Siller and big gravs (WIP below)

They are HUGE, in a great way!

I've also been working on another game, to play this game I wanted to have a lot more urban terrain.  Inspired by a bunch of gamers I've been steadily buying some Kato N-scale city buildings.  The boys and I set some of them up the other day to play over

City block

Traffic jam.  Afterwards for fun I tried to see how dense a downtown I could make

This is 2'x3'  A good size for games like Ambush alley

Highway into town

View from the man in the street.  Once cars and other street furniture are on this will really come to life.

In other news I've finished basing another infantry company

But forgot to take their picture, this was a WIP pic.  I've based up another couple of platoons, including some powered armour for the HS games, and I finally painted and based my GZG NI figs.  So now I have lots of options for troops and vehicles.

So its time to get some games in...

And finally a quick plug.  The GZG ECC is coming up at the end of the month, its a great convention, very friendly and has some super folks running games.  I'm looking forwards to it a lot.

GZG ECC URL: http://www.warpfish.com/gzgecc/gzgecc18/index.shtml