Picking up those brushes again.

Hi and welcome to the occasional mutterings of Dave Doc, a military modeller and some time gamer. Gaming and model making has given me a real education, History & Geography(obvious really), Artistry, Politics, Economics, Logistics, Project Management -you try building miniature armies without the last 3.

I will use the blog to record my creations & the odd occasion I actually do some gaming.

I have always been inspired by the aesthetic side of gaming. Playing on well constructed terrain using excellently painted units is always a joy.

Sunday 7 May 2023

Gaming - 7DTTR.

There hasn’t been much hobby time lately , so I took the opportunity of the 3 day weekend to squeeze a small one in as Martin and Angus were both free. I set up a meet with my French and Soviet forces for 7 days to the Rhine .

We managed 2 games after turning it round after Martins Soviets quickly overrun the French defenders who had set up too far back and with the loss of their 3 AMX30 MBTs in quick succession the French bugged out to save their Infantry . We turned it around and swapped sides . Martin had learnt from Angus’s mistake and deployed 2 Milan teams and supporting infantry further forward. This caught the initial Soviet recce force early and hard. At this point Martins Milan dice were on Fire and so were the advancing vehicles and Angus proceeded to roll 1’s for activation stopping his teams advancing - and they were able to be picked off again. The Soviets eventually chased the French off the forward hill but as they rounded it they encountered the AMX30s who followed the high dice rolls of the Milan’s . Comrade Angus is heading to a gulag somewhere right now .


Soviet entry side of the table 

 
French tasked to defend the village for 6 turns 



 











A reasonably fast paced few games . A few things we git wrong in hindsight  but they didn’t really have that much impact in the end we thought . Overall fun was had , it was good to get a game in .




4 comments:

  1. Great looking table to fight over.
    Cheers
    Stu

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  2. Fantastic mate, I really should get my finger out and finish some more Cold War kit myself!

    Cheers
    Matt

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  3. looks great. i wish i had this amount of space!

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