Games night 20 July

This month we ran another mini tournament of Flames of War. It consisted of 800 point early war forces from the Blitzkreig book played on 4′ x 4′ tables. Each game was timed for one hour and there were three games in all. The lists were drawn up prior to the game and then rolled at random to see which armies people got. We had a British Armoured Company (John), a British Motor Company(Heath), and a French Cavalry Company (Chris) versus A German Schutzen Company( Brad and Adam) a Mittliere Panzer Company (Terry) and a Czech Panzer Company (Nathan).

The games featured three objectives placed on the centre line of the table and the idea was to take and hold these objectives. An objective was held if the hour ended and you had troops within 10 cm of it and no enemy within 15cm. This was worth 1 point. Every enemy platoon destroyed was also worth 1 point.

There were four tables and everyone was rostered to fight a different opponenet and nobody played on the same table twice. Each table had different challenges. One had bocage, one had a heavily built up area, one had a river running through the middle of it and one was open.

The eventual results were:

John – 14 points

Nathan – 6 points

Brad and Adam – 5 points

Chris – 4 points

Heath – 2 points

Terry – 0 points.

Overall the Allies were victorious and the Blitzkrieg was stopped.

It was the first time that Terry or I had played against the British Armoured Regiment and we were both wiped out within the hour. I can see why people have complained that the points for the BAR, even though they are amended, are still broken! Nasty, nasty list.

Last month’s games night was a mini-tournament in the same style using the Late War lists, and it had been a lot of fun too. We will definitely do it again.

It was Adam’s first trip to the games night and he had never played Flames of War before. Brad is up from Taranaki and visiting Heath but had not played FoW since first edition. So we put them together and voila – they came third! Well done guys.

Sorry no photos – I forgot my camera and even though there was one handy, no one got around to taking any pics – we all too busy having fun.

Next month’s games night is Friday 17th August.