Bogged Down Again

Aargh rivers again!

Why is it I choose to cross rivers when playing FOW when there's a perfectly good bridge normally causing my tanks to get bogged down. Well for two reasons actually.

The first is that although bridges are quicker they also form a natural bottleneck making it easy for the enemy to ambush you. Secondly crossing the river itself means that more armour is available and in some circumstances makes the hull down. Of course the risk you run is each tank becomes bogged down on a roll of 1 on the dice thus making it useless and a bit of a sitting duck (pardon the pun) until the next turn.

Yesterday my brave panzers nearly made it across but no forsaken by the dice gods yet again. When they did make it out they were ambushed by a platoon of Allied M10 tank destroyers and massacred. Still it was a risk worth taking and if it had paid off would have lead to a brilliant flanking manouvre.

Unfortutunately I had to leave early leaving my German collegue in sole command of our forces. He was having better luck on the other flank with his Tiger tanks and no river. Hopefully he sent the Brits packing back to old Blighty with their cucumber sandwiches and lashings of ginger beer.

A Good Deed Gone Bad

The other day one of our club members was playing in our local gaming store when he noticed a young guy really interested in a Space Marine Tactical Squad. The young guy couldn't afford to buy them so our good natured club member made him a deal. He'd buy them for him to keep on two conditions.

The first was that the young guy had to assemble them and paint them up the best he could. Secondly he had to come along to our club for a game or two try them out. So really it was a pretty sweet deal. The kid was really happy and went away to show his dad who was waiting outside.

However not long after in storms the kids dad who was pretty annoyed at this kind gesture and angry at our club member. Telling him he's got a nerve and to get stuffed amongst other things and storms off with his kid in tow. Needless to say our club member was speechless as were the others in the store.

Some people are so ungrateful and hearing this really annoyed me. In this day and age it's nice to know that there are those good natured people out there though. Too bad some people to take it and says something about the society we live in.

A Dark Foggy Night

The Emperor's Shield Tank Company came up against an Ultramarine armoured column on a dark foggy night. Communication failure resulted in both sides for the enemy and carnage prevailed. Maybe the dark forces of Chaos has a hand in it.

Both sides fielded 4500 points of vehicles only. Setup was lengthways on a 10' table. The Night Fighting and Fog severely limited the range of any guns. Not only that the guard found the moisture jammed affected the ammo resulting in less shots hitting home.

The Ultramarines made good use of suicidal Rhinos and rammed several armoured vehicles before having them destroyed. Trying a flanking manuvre the guard deepstriked 3 squads of Sentinels at the rear of the marine lines in an attempt to blunt their artillery. They caused marginal damage before the marines responded with deepstriked speeder squadrons.

The Ultramarines ended up winning but both side looking for a rematch under normal conditions.

Cadian Macharius

Here's something from my workbench. Being to cheap I decided to build my own Macharius instead of buying a Forgeworld one. Started off with a Landraider Terminus and a Baneblade turret.