Rawr! This Seal Bites Back!

by Sandwyrm

 

Farmpunk and I have been playing Flames of War pretty consistently since last November. But we'd never been to a Flames tourney until this weekend. Our cherry-popper was a 2-day, 5-round event over at Games 2 Die For on the west side of town. There were only 10 players (8 didn't show due to storm damage in the midwest), but 4 of those are in the top-100 for the national rankings. Tough crowd! In fact Able Company, the local club, is the top-ranked American FOW club on Rankings HQ. Seems like we're a hotbed of expert talent around here. :)

Five Dollar Air Support

by SandWyrm

I've been wanting to try out the new improved Aircraft rules in Flames of War, but I've not had any aircraft to do it with. The new 3rd Edition rules only require one plane model to represent all the planes in a flight (1-3 depending on the roll), but Battlefront is still selling their planes in boxes of 3 for $40-50. Ouch!!!

So I decided to head over to the local Hobbytown USA and check out some other options.

Battle Report: German Panzers vs. Russian Infantry

by SandWyrm

Jerry, the owner/manager of Games 2D4 offered me a game this week, so I put together a 2K mid-war list and headed over the the store on Saturday. Jerry has been playing Russians lately, so I wasn't too surprised to see him pull out a big Red Army infantry list when I got there. Having already faced the T-34 onslaught earlier this week, I was eager to see what it was like to face a big Russian infantry horde at 2000 points.

Battle Report: Sandwyrm's Panzers vs. TheNeverThere's T-34's

by SandWyrm

So how did I do vs. TheNeverThere's horde of 21 T-34 tanks? Read on and see!

Pics: TheNeverThere's T-34 Horde!

by SandWyrm

I went down to the North Store last night and had 2 games against TheNeverThere's Russian tank horde. I'll detail the results in my next post, but I wanted to show off some pictures of TNT's T-34's first.

Getting Ready To Face The Horde...

by SandWyrm

Hopefully, TheNeverThere has finished assembling his 21 T-34s to a playable state for tonight's game. Here's the 1450-point German Panzerkompanie that I'll be trying to hold them back with.

Easy Objective Markers For Flames Of War

by SandWyrm

I've gotten sick of using artillery bases for my objectives in Flames, so I've come up with some nice print-and-go objective markers for our local players.

The Russians Are Coming!

by SandWyrm

TheNeverThere was at the North Store this past Wednesday; watching as I beat up Farmpunk with my Panzers. He had a little something with him to show off.