5th Showcase: the late WW1 platoons

well I got 2 German platoons, one stormtrooper and one normal with (most of them) iconic gas masks. fitted with some extras as a Mark IV "Beutepanzer" as well as an A7V and some HMG/Mörser and flamethrowers...
The only adversary to this is a British platoon with a Mark V and a HMG ... I'll keep thinking of who/what could be my second allied platoon be made of ... French/Americans ...?

Breaking News ... fresh from the printing press...

... even if its from the 3D printing press. Shapeways marvelous WW1 Sopwith Camel and Nieuport 16 synchronised arrived and I could not resist to paint them. In "Guns of August", just the allies, the French and the British have 1 respective air unit. The Germans apart from one "Bloody April" and some weeks around the start of the Verdun offensive, didn‘t have much aerial weight to justify one unit in the game as well ... the air units will appear in 1918 to deliver combat boni...

Continuing against all odds ...

All OK - no distress signal from me - I was quite busy the lately ... also a birthday last week I had to take care of ... so this is just to showcase what I've been up to and what comes next out of the mental metal meneken manufacture ... the 10mm rest of my Franco-Prussian War project AND (almost) the rest of my 6mm WW1 Guns of August project ...

all of it ... not much!!  - I need to order navals and 6mm US army!!!

10mm FPW the Voltigeurs of the guard are coming together quite nicely 

- in the background just 3!! stripes left

The 6mm complete Serbian army (yes I forgot the Monenegrians ... will come ) 

The complete Turkish (European) contingent

The Romanian Army

The Italian Army (finished some in the foreground)

The complete Russian army (apart from the already finished artillery and engineers)

In the foreground fort markers and in the back entrenchment markers

Absolutely nothing's new on the western front

Hello! This Tuesday (Thursday polling - club was closed), we decided to go Great with 28mm First World War with a muddle of rules (Chain of command mixed with Through the Mud and the Blood - or simply Muddy CoC). The British, after extensive barrages, got into the first German trench line, A platoon of veterans trying to survive until the rescue would come, played by Peter. While Alisdair played the German platoon who supposed to help a platoon of stormtroopers (played by Bart) to get back what belonged to the kaiser, at least in his point of view.

The tanks were bombed out the barrages otherwise occupied, we just wanted to see what two platoons vs one plus a HMG would do. Aand the stormtroopers had a flamethrower ...

Well turns out it was probably too advanced towards the end of the war, as both players were reluctant to risk an all out attack at the same time and after some honorable advances and fire fights and losses it ended pretty much as a draw.

Still I had fun, but I would like to have seen more slaughter. Next time we will just do 1 or 2 set off points in the trenches and two to advance/fight out ... and we will incorporate some tanks ... without the german rabble seems too frightened to get over the papermachee top ....

Below some pictures from our Kaiserlichen Kriegsbericherstatter sampled photographs, achieved and shot under extreme conditions and danger of life.

The Initial set up

Stormtrooper before the storm

Normal Germans on their way to the slaughter 

Massed infantry before the storming attack

The trench packed with Brits

Ready to defend the new captured trench

To kill as many huns as possible 

While these huns "approach"

until the end of the foremost post

Meanwhile the stormtroopers

storming in their trenches

and firing with rifles at the enemy

The Brits get hurt but not too much 

Crucially not the heavy machine gun

and their supporting mates

they even fire their mad minutes

But the Germans somehow 

are stuck in their trenches

The British officer reading the news

while the storm troopers attack via the connection trench

but everybody get shot who sticks out their noses

The British line seems impenetrable 

Then in the last hour all advance - Attack!

Even the stormtroopers get near to melee with a British unit 

But in the end ... nothings new on the western front.