Games!: Heaps of...Scrapheap

Snuck over to a buddy's place yesterday for a day of Scrapheap testing.  I lost...almost every game, but a good time was had.  Sadly after about 10-12 games, I think this gang is probably set to retire.  Falling behind and losing too many models!

My buddy is making progress with his TT Combat 'Zone Mortalis' style board.

A Rust Warden has second thoughts about running up the stairs...

One of my buddy's best gangers flees after taking a mallet to the knee-cap.

A serf decides to attack one of my new novice brutes.

The board in the middle of the...first(?) game.

The Rust Warden runs into my Ogryn and it ends poorly.

My gang's leader 'The Silent One' swats an enemy gang with his club.

A large scrap breaks out in the 'tunnels' above the table.  We use the wall sections to represent tunnels or vents - giving the table a quick and easy two-tier set-up.

While other people are fighting, the Halfling is scrolling through 'adult content' on the computer.

One of the three or four table layouts we used.

The table for our game on a massive land-crawler owned by a crazed ex-Space Marine.

Having stolen the 'crawler', the crazed Space Marine was driving it around with a cyborg buddy.

My gang fancies a chance at finding the key.

My buddy's gang is also in search of the key.

The crazed ex-Space Marine shows up and my gang manages to kill him by swarming him with melee attacks and big hammers.

The gang leaders face off...and as usual, I lose.

The crawler bucks and bounces over rough terrain and everyone falls down.

Game two on the 'crawler', this time a level up, looking for the command post.

Still trying to find the damn key!

Games from the weekend!

Managed to sneak out-of-state for a few days to get in some games with a buddy.

 

First game of Battlegroup; Americans vs. Fallschirmjaegers.

The Fallschirmjaegers are dug in around a small group of houses on the bend in the road.

An American scout car is pinned by a 50mm AT gun.

The Fallschirmjaeger place an 88 in the crossroads to keep an eye on both approaching routes.

As they approach, the lead Sherman is knocked out by a panzerschreck team.

The Fallschirmjaegers held the road until armored reinforcements arrived.

The Americans advance down two axes.

Trying to avoid the MG teams and AT guns, the Americans try to flank wide with their infantry.

 

Game 2: Soviets vs. Germans - Soviet infantry advance into town.

On the German side, a Panzer IV creeps up.

Trying to avoid the Panzer IV's, my Grants begin hosing German infantry with machine-gun fire.

The Soviet BA-10 armored car barely escapes a confrontation with another Panzer IV.

The table for game two.

The table shortly before the end of the game.

The Grants manage to push the German flank, killing several infantry units and driving the rest away.  Meanwhile a mortar barrage smashes several advancing halftracks and their occupants.

 

We also played a few games of Scrapheap using whatever terrain we had on hand.

Ogryn slap fight!
 

 

Tokens for Zona Alfa, etc.

A buddy of mine wanted to do some Zona Alfa (which we've yet to do!) but he asked me to whip up a set of tokens for him.

I threw together a nice set of tokens which can be used for Zona Alfa or many other skirmish games, really.  Up now for sale on Gamecrafter as with all my other hobby projects.

 

Last of the Tankhicans.

 So after blitzing most of the Kasserine box upon arrival...I've finished the last model which will be painted for a while.  The remaining tanks are going on eBay or into the "for later" pile.

A Panzer III M, equipped as a Flammpanzer, or flamethrower tank.  A few crude modifications, a pump/tank applied on the back, a thicker barrel installed, and the vision ports cut/sanded off from the sides of the turret (I did this for the other Panzer IIIs as well as they're all later models).

Gave it a minor camouflage scheme so it stands out from the others and can be picked out for gaming easily.

Micro-tanks, ahoy!

Plowing through this box (wink) of Kasserine.  Some more Lend Lease action for the Soviets in the form of the adorable M3A1 Stuarts.

And...added two more Panzer III N's because...I was bored.

15mm Inventory

Needed to start re-organizing my RUBs for Battlegroup in 15mm.  Shuffling some stuff and trying to make space for all the new additions.  While doing so, I figured why not take some pictures of the whole collected force.

The full 15mm collection, both Soviets and German Fallschirmjaeger.

The Soviet armour collection (well...most of it)

German Fallschirmjaeger platoons along with their support options, aid station and AT guns.

The German armour pool.

The Soviet self-propelled gun collection with some lend-lease tanks and German spill-over.  To the right, the mass of four Soviet infantry platoons.

The Soviet support options and tractor/truck park.  Endless trucks, halftracks, tractors, scout cars, supply trucks, repair vehicles, siege guns, mortars, MG's, artillery, AT guns, AT rifles, command and scout units, aid stations, etc.

Tank Day? (Or getting 15mm out of my system...)

After spending many moons not touching my 15mm WW2 stuff I've obviously been on a kick the past few days - simply because I was getting tired of painting 28mm post-apoc stuff, etc.

Using the Kasserine box that I got a little over 24 hours ago...I whipped up two 50mm guns (shown in the previous post), and then six tanks, a platoon for each of my respective forces; Germans and Soviets.

A platoon of M3 Lee tanks, Lend Lease program for the Soviets.

A platoon of Panzer III L's - one of the more numerous models produced, one of the "final" versions.

 

Now sadly I still don't know what the hell I'm doing when it comes to 15mm tanks...so they're different from all my other ones, because I simply haven't found a perfect way to do either German beige/brown/dunkelgelb (German: dark yellow), or Soviet boring green tanks, etc.  I'm too lazy to follow the more hardcore tutorials...but these will do fine enough on the table.