New Tanks in France

 Today we had a couple of games of What a Tanker at our club, and this time we were using a new bunch of vehicles Phil had painted (much neater than mine!)

In the first game, Phil, Lawrence and Rhod were using M-24s! AKA Chaffee (in British service)

I used one of my M-18 TDs...as there were only 3 of them!

I worked out the German force, based on my own points system and it turned out to be a single Tiger I E!

The Table for Today! Mostly Lawrence's, but with a few of my fields too!

We diced for the direction of play and were going end-to end.

The Tiger started in a corner, looking menacing.

My Hellcat was in the corner along from it.

The three M-24s were along the rest of our edge.

Phil was directly opposite the Tiger's corner.

The Tiger began by going to cover behind a field.

My TD, having initially moved toward the Tiger to attract its attention, used its speed to retreat and reposition behind Rhod's M-24...

...which had (bravely!)advanced and...

 gone behind a wall in sight of the German!

The Tiger moved slightly to look for the M-24s!

Lawrence now approached the Tiger cautiously...

Phil skirted down a hedge looking for a better shot.

He stopped at the end of the hedge...

...and tried to acquire his target.

My M-18 raced down the road...

I parked in behind Rhod's M-24.

The Tiger advanced to the road obviously having heard all those Cadillac V8 engines to its right!

My M-18 got a bead on the big beast and I fired a shot...

...A Hit!

I damaged his Drive train!

Phil, and the other M-24s fired as soon as they could...

...Though their fire was generally ineffective.

Rhod was no better, his rounds bouncing off the Tiger's thick armour.

Lawrence finally got a good hit...

...once again in the drive train.

After a pause, as my gunner looked for the right shell(!)...I got another shot.

Again I hit the drive train...

...and blew its track off!

All the M-24s were firing as fast as possible...

...Lawrence got a final shot which...

Persuaded the German crew to bail out!

The victorious M-24s...

... Lawrence's commander still reading his Paper!

In our second game, Lawrence brought out his Churchills!

...and they wiped the floor with Rhod and my StuG IIIgs!

We couldn't get through that thick armour!!!

Tempest at Troy

 Well, today I finally got my newly finished Achaeans and Trojans out for a game, unfortunately my camera was having a lot of trouble dealing with the bright sunshine coming into the hall, I have done my best to correct, but I hope they will do?!

I rolled to play the Trojans with Lawrence as my ally, while Phil got the Achaeans along with Tony, who hadn't got a game.

Lawrence had our left with Paris and Aeneas (yes, I accidentally gave us an extra unit of Trojan spearmen, but we have found it doesn't change things much, so we left it, but would the gods punish it for us?)  

I had Hector, Sarpedon and his Lycians and Thracians with Polydamus commanding the Chariotry.

Tony had the left of the Achaeans, and the light infantry, Phil had the Achaean spearmen and the Myrmidons. 

Oddly Achilles was with the Chariotry.

'Achilles!' Agamemnon called - and the Thessalian advanced! Hector lost a rep point rather than face him alone.

Lawrence advanced his Phalanx, I held the Lycians back, hoping to get a charge in.

Tony advanced some archers, I sent mine to the wood supported by my Chariots.

The Achaeans advanced in deep formation against Lawrence's centre.

Phil (of course!) got the bounce on him, and charged Diomedes in with a single unit against two of Lawrence's!

(sun messed me up) - on our left the outnumbered Achaeans beat 3 units, but in the centre the Trojans won.

Tony had advanced his archers to try and drive mine from the woods, but I charged the Greeks and they failed to evade!

The right of the Trojan Phalanx was doing well...but the Myrmidons were in reserve...

Sadly, on our left, Diomedes was cutting through our ranks!

Tony now tried an all out Chariot charge! Achilles managed to get a victory, and two 1's on my risk to hero rolls and a 1 on his Mighty Deed saw Hector die at Achilles hands (à la Iliad!)

He caught my chariots who had destroyed the archers at the stand!

Our left was falling apart! One of our spear units broke!

On our right, the advance continued, but one of our spear units was almost spent, and Tony's chariots were pushing back one of my Lycian spear units (awful dice)

My chariots were doing well, driving back the Achaean chariots, but it was too late.

The Trojan Rep count was 0. We fled back to the walls of Troy!