British Paras: The Boots

Going to do a couple articles highlighting my Brit Paras. I painted these up in a one-night bender about a year ago, and with the new MG compilation book, I've dusted them off again.

Today, we'll look at the basic boots that form the core of the army.

Army shot

Templecon!

No pictures of shiny models or anything today, but just wanted to let folks know that I'll be at Templecon. I've got Eclipse open gaming scheduled for Friday night, FoW tournament during the day Sat/Sun, and DZC hopefully on Saturday night. If your at the event, stop on by!

Huzzah MW 1550 Photo Dump

Some pictures from the Huzzah 1550 MW tournament. As per usual, I started out with lots of pictures that decreased as the day went on.

I took a fairly anti-infantry Rota list.

I played Bruce with Hungarian tanks in round one. It was by far my closest match of the day, and a very tight game. It ended with a game-saving air strike on my behalf, forcing a 4+ company morale that he passed, winning 4-3 in his favor.

Round two I played Chuck, playing a light panzer co. I got overun pretty hard, but still pulled out a 4-3 loss in his favor.

Round three I played against Paul, who was playing a PZ3/PZ4 mixed co. I pulled out a 5-2 win with the help of some lucky air strikes and failed bogged tests on his behalf.

This event, run by Bill Dorais, was my first (and I think everyone's first) FoW tournament with chess clocks. They seemed to be well received. I'm still on the fence about incorporating them into NOVA.

Made Bruce deploy up on a hill in Breakthrough!

Well, these mortars won't last long.

Bruce has this flag that he sticks in a random terrain piece each game. I think it's a nice touch.

Look at the mess of dead tanks...

This air strike is going to hurt....

Shh. Those totally aren't A&A tanks.

A game winning double bog that allowed my infantry assault to force a company morale.

Bolt Action Frenchies!

Recently acquired a Bolt Action French army. Picked up a Defenders of France box, a MMG, a 75mm gun, and an additional platoon of boots.

I split the two squads of boots into two full rifle squads and a small platoon of 2 LMGs.

Army Shot

Rota Razvedki Reinforcements!

I've been wanting to run Rota Razvedki for a while now, and it's the last major block of Soviet troops I didn't already have done. So I painted up some Universal Carriers and Stuarts, along with some more BA-64s.

The Universal Carriers are nice because they get one transport per stand in the Rota platoon, so there's lots of MG fire to be had, and fewer chances of casualties should a transport pop.

 The BA-64s are the go-to choice for recon. You can take them in squads up to 7, but for now, I'm going to stick with four.

And of course, Stuarts! I was hoping to hold off until these were available in plastic, but I bit the bullet. With the new Hens and Chicks, even more mobile MG fun!

1250 MW Soviets vs Finns

Some quick pictures of a 1250 pt MW game I played with Al. Soviet Strelk vs Finns.

Soviet list consisted of two short platoons of boots with 2x HMG each, full HQ sappers attached out, short scouts, 4x 120mm mortars, and 4x SU-85. Finnish list was roughly two platoons of boots (one had HMGs), 3x T34s, 3x 120mm mortars, and 2x Pak40s. Mission was surrounded (gross, I know).

Strelk Blob pre infilatrate

Finns deploy in the woods with the tracks

Finns and Mortars

The scouts take a building!

Strelk moves up but gets pinned....but not for long!

Assault! Quick! While we still have QoQ (barely)!

Scouts building hopping and chasing down an observer

T34s on the prowl 

Finnish counterattack!

We push back and forth....

And come out victorious

Giant alien from space with yellow laser? Or hand with a tape measure. Take your pick.

T34s engage in a long range shoot out with the SU85s.

The objective is ours!