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.
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.
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.
