Sunday, 26 January 2014

Valleycon 2014 games

  • Game 1 was a nice easy Free for all vs Matt Martin who was using Trained Fallschirmjägerkompanie very simular to mine but he had panthers instead of stugs It was a close fought game but ended out being a 5-2 win
  • Game 2 was No retreat vs Ken Camel i was defending against his KG Knaust which was Pz3's and 4's with heavy artillery and infantry support i hung on for another 5-2 win. Although i was starting to see what my army was lacking which as infantry based AT only having 1 Pnzfaust in each squad was hard to defend against tank assaults i was very lucky for the dice to fall my way in 2 assaults.
  • Game 3 was Breakthrough vs Russel Briant He was using a Stug Battery supported by 2cm AA flak battery, Pioneers and a King tiger. Again in this game i was very lucky some dice went my way as his StuH42's didn't do much hitting meaning i still got saves. The terrain was in my favour with lots of buildings helping my defence. i ground out a 4-3 win in this one very close game.
  • Game 4 was Dust up vs Benjamin Lindsay He was also a Stug battery supported by FlaK36 battery 105mm artillery and a small recon platoon. This game is where it all started going downhill for me again the lack of infantry anti tank meant i couldn't force his tanks away from an objective and the game ground down to a 3-2 draw in his favour close game but we timed out in the end.
  • Game 5 was fighting withdrawal vs Cameron Wansbrough using a Tiger 1 company backed up by recon rocket artillery and Air support. I hadn't taken any AA thinking in a 1350pts game no one would take aircraft and i think only 2 people did. With my Pak40's the only thing with even a chance of punching through his thick armour i knew i was up against it i just dug in kept my head down and tried my best to weather the storm in the end it was a heavy 6- l loss all i killed was 1 tiger and 2 recon half tracks game was a good challenge.

I think next time i would of gone with trained FJ troops so i can equip everyone with Pnzfausts and maybe some AA or 105mm artillery although my heavy mortars couldn't smoke in a few games did kill quite a bit. After finishing 1st Equal on day one 7th in the end wasn't too bad considering where i have finished in the last 2 valleycons. Oh well next event for me is Natcon in Christchurch cya there.

The Placings



Name Army Placing
Russell Briant German 1
Benjamin Lindsay German 2
Warren Hart German 3
Cameron Wansbrough German 4
Ken Camel German 5
Damien Tyson German 6
John Fletcher German 7
Tony Bates German 8
Alex Martin German 8
Matt Martin German 10
Che Tibby British 11
Paul Waechter British 12
Andrew Olds German 12



My army game 1


Benjamin Lindsay's army


Russel Briant's army


Valleycon 2014

Well Valleycon is over for another year Thanks to Nick for running it. It was a market garden themed event I thing someone had forgotten to tell the allies that though as out of the 13 Players that where there only 2 where allied. I ended up finishing 7th in the end.
I used a list out of the Bridge by Bridge book and took Fearless Veteran Fallschirmjager.

My army


PlatoonQtyUnitPoints
Headquarters
Fallschirmjägerkompanie HQ (Veteran) p.26
2Cmd SMG team55
Combat Platoons
Fallschirmjäger Platoon (Veteran) p.26
1
6
Cmd Panzerfaust SMG team
Rifle/MG team
195
Fallschirmjäger Platoon (Veteran) p.26
1
6
Cmd Panzerfaust SMG team
Rifle/MG team
195
Fallschirmjäger Platoon (Veteran) p.26
1
6
Cmd Panzerfaust SMG team
Rifle/MG team
195
Regimental Support
Fallschirmjäger Heavy Mortar Platoon (Veteran) p.28
1
2
4
Cmd SMG team
Observer Rifle team
12cm sGW43 mortar
185
Fallschirmjäger Anti-tank Gun Platoon (Veteran) p.29
1
4
Cmd SMG team
7.5cm PaK40 gun
240
Support Platoons
Assault Howitzer Platoon Confident  Veteran Allied Platoon  p.121
3StuH42 285
Company Points:1350

X-Wing minitures game

Ive had a go at the X-Wing table top game and must say i quite enjoy it has a cleaver turn based real time rule set which can make for an interesting game.
Michael and my self were playing ive been using his game set although ive been buying some ships.
So far have a B-wing, A-wing, Millenium falcon, and a HWK-290. There is a Star trek version of this game call Attack wing which i would also like to get.