PAW 2014

Just got back from the Plymouth Wargames show day one, where Jason and myself have been playing Chain of Command Gav Tylers very nice Baker Company "Winter War" where Two Ruskie Platoons with 4 tanks in support, yes that's 4 tanks were attacking a dug in Finn Platoon, with a sniper and Heavy MG in support, way of tank support went in the guise of Molotov's, and pieces of timber, the tried and tested means of immobilising Russian tanks, jam up the tracks with woods and then hit it with a burning bottle of petrol and watch it burn, see it in the great Finnish war film Tolvisota.

 

Gav of Baker company supplied the lovely figures, tanks and the terrain boards, we just sat and played two games... We were hard at work demonstrating the virtues of Mr.Clarke's CoC... oh er missus...

                                          The meagre Green Russian forces ready to roll...

                              The Veteran Finn Platoon eager to get into their dug out's and pillbox...

I was the Ruskies in the first game, wher as usual the dice gods were not looking positively on me, I managed to get troops on the table but never really got near to breaking the dug in Finns, the nearest I got was using two squads in a Uurahh!!! charge to attack the pillbox, but they all died to a man, killing three in return!!!

 

 

 

 

 

The second platoon I managed to get deployed in a wave assault formation ready for a mass Urrahhh charge, which we managed, but by the time we crossed the ground we were so depleted that we could not effectively fight for the trench line, and the remnants fell back. With only 4 command dice for the Green Russian troops and 6 for the elite Finns, it was a bit of a blood bath, with the decision of trying to move troops out of the line of fire or moving the tanks up to fire, with the T26 FT tank only having a range of 12" you have to get close...

 

The second game we played, I was the Finnish defenders, the Russians being Regular this time, the Finns remaining Elite, the Russians were able to move a little better and were able to deploy en-mass and after sacrificing a platoon to break the left flank with support of the Ft tank and the twin MG turreted T26, the second platoon soon arrived to secure the line and the Finn morale broke!!!

There was a lot of positive comments on CoC rules and we chatted to quite a few people who went off to purchase copies from traders, or were going to purchase in the future, as I've said before these are our preferred set of rules at the moment for Platoon sized games. And I highly recommend them...

Anyways we are back down again tomorrow and there's another whole day of show and gaming, maybe I will win a game, just maybe...