Pocket Panzers

I've been slowly working on this factory building over the past few weeks, tweaking and adding details until it felt right to me. I'm happy with what I ended up with, and I think it'll make a great addition to urban games, particularly battles like Stalingrad. A few work in progress shots follow. The base is cut from a sheet of thick MDF/hardboard, the walls are foamcore board, rubble made from bits of insulation foam, cork, and other scraps with sand and other bits for texture and detail. The paint job is pretty simple because the brick paper here is doing a lot of the work. It's great stuff. It was designed to allow it to be broken down for transport, but some of the walls and edges don't quite mesh up like I want. It's close, but I definitely learned a few things for the next project like this.

Got in a game this Friday, and this time we returned to the Eastern Front for a game of Chain of Command . This battle saw German pioneers trying to push through a Soviet defense line and capture a Soviet company command post during Operation Winter Storm - the push to relieve Stalingrad in December 1942. We used the German Infantry Pioneer platoon and the Soviet Motorized Brigade rifle platoon from the TFL 2016 Christmas Special . The scenario was Attack on An Objective from the core rulebook. I had the Soviets, my opponent the Germans. Table overview - this table is probably too thickly forested for the area south of Stalingrad, but we have nice new winter trees and wanted to use them View from the Soviet table edge. The objective is the thatched house near the crossroads. The Germans rolled a Force Morale of nine, and the Soviets got 10. The Germans rolled three free patrol moves, which let them make a little progress, but didn't let them leap forward like they might have hoped....