What have I been up to?

Despite there not being much activity on my blog, I've actually been VERY busy with Flames of War! Reason why it's been so quiet over here is because I created and have been posting on our community page over here.

It's been great. In all likelyhood I shall continue to post over there by way of showing some club support and driving traffic to our local group. Feel free to subscribe over at The Calgary R.E.G.I.M.E.N.T.

Pumas Completed

Spent a good couple of hours last night finishing the decals and antennas on all of the Pumas. They're looking good, I'm quite happy to report. Here are some pics.

I put squad markings on the side of the turrets. Some pictures I saw had just the two numbers (For platoon and vehicle numbers. I"m hoping that's at least somewhat historically accurate.

The commander is number 00.

Notice the Lehr symbol on the lower left corner of the chasis.

And the pics that were requested.

LOL! Yup, actually happened!

Apparently the lense gets in the way of the flash.

The 1750 list I'm toying with.

Line of Pumas

Based Panthers

Panzerwerfers and Sdk Kfz 10/5 (2cm) AA guns

The woodland scenics forest kit to start making terrain for my board. :)

I'll post some others once I've got the Pumas decaled and put on antennas.

Update: Painted Pumas and Grasslands.

Had myself a right busy weekend in the hobby world. I managed to get the rest of my Pumas done which is 7 over the course of this last weekend! I just need to decal and put on antennas to them. I should be able to get that done in the next couple of nights. Once that is done I'll post some pics.

I also had a chance to base my Panthers, Panzerwerfers (with support crew), AA trucks and all support transports. I'm hoping I'll get a good chunk of this done over the course of the week.

I also had a chance to go to a local hobby store and pick up a really nice grass matt for the table that I'm working on at home. :) I'm quite pleased about this as it'll allow me to host games at home as well as take what I hope to be very nice pictures for the blog.

Monday Night Fights 2: Panzerspah vs. Canadian Armoured Rifles

Well ladies and gents. A fortnight has been and gone and so has another one of our Monday Night Fights in Calgary.

This time I had the opportunity to play against David's Canadian Armoured Rifles, albeit, very badly.

In this game we played 1750pts in a Dust Up mission. David was Defender and I played the Attacker.
Who attacks and defends doesn't matter that much in this mission as each player has pretty much the same advantages and disadvantages.

David pretty much steamrolled my army, forcing a Company morale check, which I then failed. Didn't matter too much anyhow, since I'm pretty sure that he would have been able to take the objective from me with his Crocadiles in Turns 6 anyhow, provided my Panthers weren't able to punch through any armor (Doubtful with 13 front armor on the Crocs).

In retrospect, instead of holding the 2 Gepanzerte Panzergrenadier platoons, the Sd Kfz 10/5 (2cm) Anti Aircraft Guns and the Panthers in Delayed Reserve. What I should have done was at least field the Panzerwerfers with the Panthers, AA and a unit of Panzergrenadiers and turtled until I could have had reserves come to help me out.

Fortunately, when you are pushing around toy soldiers you have the advantage of learning from your lessons.
Looking forward to the Kelowna tournament.

I decided to adjust my list somewhat, taking the Hummels out and replacing them with 2 full squads of Panzergrens, Panzerwerfers with extra crew and Panthers instead of the Panzer IVs.

MNF: Panzerspah vs. Tines and Tees

I have a terrible history against Tines and Tees. Twice I've faced off against Drew's Tines and Tees in tournaments and in both cases not only have I lost but I played terribly sloppy games.

Seems that history was destined to repeat itself, despite being way over in Calgary. :)

Field testing our 1750pt tournament lists didn't fair so well for me against Jeff's very well put together Tines and Tees force. We played the new Third Edition rules and happened to role the Counter Attack scenario. Unfortunately I was deployed in a kill box and kind of had to get out of it. Jeff immediately picked up on this terrain feature (or absence of terrain!) and wisely capitalized on it!

Despite the tragedy of watching my beloved Pumas eat it time after time after time (like seriously, Puma guts everywhere) it was a fun game and Jeff is an awesome sportsman! Even though we were the last folks at the shop after 11pm he took the time to help me tailor my list. Looking forward to playing him again!

WIP: Cryx Slow Grow

So I've been playing Menoth in this slow grow league that I've been doing with my buddy Cody and a few others. I like Menoth. I do enjoy the models and I like how the army plays, it's very synergistic.

But it's not really my style. It doesn't feel... Like the usual finesse armies that I tend to go for.

I tend to enjoy armies that typically are very fast, have low armor but do tricky stuff and really can create some problems for my opponents.