Bolt action AAR somewhere in Prussia 1944

 This week we finally got my Soviets on the table, about four years after painting them! Up against Des's SS again, this time Ben took command of them while Des checked the rules.

I'd left the terrain up at Des's suggestion as he thought it looked great, flattered I did, unfortunately after we diced for set up Ben ( understandably chose to occupy the buildings with height and nice views, necessitating me to advance the length of the board again except with two pak40s better sighted , a panzershreck and a tiger! With one pak 40 in the ruined factory another pointing down one of the roads and the tiger on the other road I decided to split my forces and push the T34 followed by the bren carrier towing my 76.2mm anti tank gun plus an infantry squad with the inexperienced squad , flamethrower and anti tank rifle on the other side, in the centre was the  mortar , heavy machine gun and another infantry squad, all squads considerably bigger than last time! I pushed up on both sides and moved forward in the middle, lost the flamethrower team to a squad that came outside in the open , the free inexperienced squad opened fire and mostly missed! I  moved the  central infantry squad into the graveyard to shoot at the exposed squad, which took some casualties but mainly so I could have a unit in the graveyard as we all agreed looked good! The T34 and bren/anti tank gun kept going and then the tiger hit the T34 through the ruined building in the row of houses, we ended up with a crew stunned and a lot of pins! The tank riders dismounted and were brought into combat with the team that included a panzershreck, on the other flank a German flamethrower turned up but was largely ineffectual, the Soviet medium machine gun moved up next to the church and took out one of the pak40 crew. The tiger turned up and eliminated the machine gun crew and then hit the chaps in the graveyard, a German motorbike and sidecar combo moved down my right flank to attack the troops moving up and a German sniper in ambush hit an anti tank team crossing the road. Mortars  from both side continued to be ineffectual! I  deployed the anti tank gun and set it up in ambush and pushed my infantry unit into the building ready to assault the Tiger , we took out the largely ineffectual motorbike and sidecar combo ( sorry Keith!) and had run out of time..it was a bit of a bugger losing the toss and having to fight my way up the board again, this time against a better deployed enemy with more anti tank firepower and of course a Tiger! In the end it was a pretty even draw. I  do think the church now needs a bit of work compared to the rest of the terrain, maybe some filler mixed with paint and a bit of work on the roof? It just seems s bit flat/mdf? All in all a fun game with maybe too much terrain?

All the best 

Iain