Knightly Gaming Generals day, 16/11/13

Last Saturday I attended the FoW Generals day held at my local gaming shop in Lanark, Knightly Gaming. There were a few players there, none of which I've played before, so it was interesting to see other peoples armies.

As it worked out I was matched against a 750pt late war Russian Tank Company... I'm afraid I didn't catch my opponents name but we had a very friendly game together and we both picked up bits and bobs rules wise we had been doing wrong. His force consisted of 9 T34/85's (daunting to be sitting across from). The other tank company present (a German late war list) was his regular opponent, so my Highland Division mechanised force was up against a wall of tanks!

I tried to go for a balanced list with my 2 infantry platoons backed up with a troop of Shermans and 4 x 6 Pounder anti tank guns.

The table (at the end of turn one)

As it turned out my infantry's mobility wasn't used - I basically unloaded into buildings and dug in. The battle was just a fight to the death, so no objectives to take and hold. My veteran infantry in buildings (concealed and gone to ground) proved impossible for the t34's to shift. They needed 4+ basic, 6+ for concealed and gone to ground and 7+ due to the russkies hen and chick rules. 

Despite losing my Firefly to the first round of shooting, my Shermans actually gave a really good account of themselves. My command tank adding to it's impressive tally of tank kills!

With my infantry and guns dug in, the Russkie advance continues...

With the T34's on the left flank failing their motivation test (and taking the HQ unit with them), it left my two remaining guns and Shermans to handle the right flank (while my infantry hid and took PIAT shots at anything coming near!)

I decided one of my Infantry platoons that had been on the left should redeploy to get it's PIAT into the fight... so began their epic chase! (I forgot I could have recalled the transports).

Before finally the last Russkie tank was dealt with.

Yes, that is a Sherman model, my opponents force had been a mid war soviet one prior to being rejigged.

Some of the other games:

A good day and I think I learned a good few things about my understanding of the rules. One of the Battlefront 'Rangers' was present and taking pics, so there might be a chance the event gets featured on the Battlefront website.

Thanks to Brett at Knightly Gaming for hosting the event! Attendees also got a free plastic Sherman or StuG model and another gamer very kindly gave me their Sherman Firefly plastic kit as well as the standard Sherman V I got :)

Wargaming in Lanark

A quick wee post to expand on my earlier comments about Knightly Gaming in Lanark. The shop has a good few tables and has a wargaming night on a Thursday from 5pm. I also attend the roleplay game night on Mondays. I believe they also run board game nights on Wednesday and ccg/card game nights on Friday.

As the shop has space and is a handy venue, I can be found there most Thursday nights and hopefully get some mid week games in!

Knightly Gaming

Quiet weekend with my girl, so not much gaming.

I did however manage to get along to the opening of a local gaming shop. A couple of the FoW Rangers guys were along and there were some demos of a few other games. Not sure that the shop has a website yet, but info about them can be found here.

They have a good range of Vallejo paints and while I didn't spend a lot of time browsing they did have 40k, Warmachine, Dystopian Wars and a range of roleplay games. There were also KRC cases and a load of other stuff.

They also had 3 tables set up and I think the owner is planning to run gaming and roleplay nights.

Great to see something like this in Lanark, and I wish them every success! Hopefully I'll get a chance to do a bit more gaming through them!