To Infinity and beyond!

Taking a slight break from painting my Prussians I decided to paint up some Infinity figures. First on the painting board is a test figure to see if I like painting urban camo.

Turned out alright I guess. Not to sure what to do with the bases.

Fracas, Bring back the Bish

Just got back from Fracas. I came first with my South African Bishop delivery system. Over the 5 games I only dropped 2 points. 2nd was Dominic with his German Pioneers and 3rd was Rob Groom with his Luftwaffe field company (who I beat 5-2 in the final).

The day started  at 4:45am with a drive up from Wellington to Wanganui. One extra strong coffee later I was ready to go.

Game 1: Was against a Jason's Luftwaffe field company supported by 2 Stug Fs and a single 88 in FFA. Front armour 7 is tough to crack but a charge from the slow moving Bishops saw lots of 1s rolled by the Stugs. I only lost 5 Bishops and won 6-1

Game 2: Was against Rob T's Africa Panzerspah in No retreat. He had loaded up and captured 25pdrs but had to attack me in no retreat. He assaulted my Independent team blob willing my staff team and my 2IC with an armoured car platoon and their CO. An 8 gun Bishop ambush left nothing but smoking wheels. The rest of the game saw his only other armoured car platoon try to defeat 8 Bishops and failing while his artillery failed range in checks. 6-1.

Game 3: Was against Damian Tyson who I had hitched a ride with so I had to be nice, we played FFA. He destroyed a Bishop platoon but I killed all his Romanian Tank platoons except for 1 T3. 5-2 to me.

Game 4: Was no retreat vs Derrick's Luftwaffe field company supported by 3 Stug D's, Pak38s and mortars. Lots of love from the ambushing Bishops killed off his Stugs with the Paks soon to follow suit. 6-1 to me.

Game 5: Was FFA vs Rob Grooms Luftwaffe field company with Pak38's and an artillery battery with 75mm infantry guns. It was tough and I lost a Bishop battery. Afterwards we did the math and no matter the result and both of us would be in the top 3.

Fracas was a 600pt tournament. It was played on 4x4 boards with FFA and No retreat with some modifications to the deloyment and objective areas. Lists were Mid war and had the following restrictions:
Minimum of 1 combat platoon
Minimum of 3 platoons total
No top armour 2 tanks allowed
No fleeing platoons of the board edge

My list was a South African Rifle (Transvaal Scottish Regiment) company from North Africa.

HQ with Sticky bombs (RV)
Rifle Platoon, 2 squads (RV)
Machine gun Platoon, 1 section (RV)
Royal Artillery (SP), 2 troops each with 4 Bishop SPGs (CV)

Mixing it up!

Last update till after Panzerschreck.

I have ordered enough figures to have a Lasalle force completed for Call to Arms this year. Based on the 100day campaign if has:

4 Units of Experienced troops

2 Units of Landwehr Infantry

1 Unit of Landwehr Cav

Foot artillery battery

When attacking I have an extra Experienced unit and an extra Landwehr Infantry unit.

In support I have take the cav option:

1 Hussar unit

1 Dragoon unit

2 Landwehr Cav

Horse artillery battery

These are an organic support so start on the table.

Now I just need to paint 6 units before Call to Arms. First up is the 4th Musketeer unit. Its a mixture of Calpe  figures with perry plastics to bulk it out. Here are some WIP shots.

Palmerston North here we come!

My half of our army is done for Panzerschreck this weekend. Spent Sunday around at Simon's making our bases look the same to give our forces uniform.

Here they are:

Panzerschreck, its going to be Grrrreat!

Prussians have been put on hold till I get my painting for Panzerschreck done. Its a doubles event at 1100pts per team member.

Here is the first unit done:

Good game, Bad pics

Had a couple of games vs Tim's British for a practice game leading up to Call to Arms. First game was a draw as the game ended before we could do enough damage to each other to force a break. I took a few pictures but I forgot my camera so only phone pics.
I gave up taking pics for the second game but I did win it with a mighty breakthrough from the Landwehr Cav.

Calpe Prussian Dragoons!

Finished my Dragoon unit for Lasalle tonight. Its the 2nd Regiment of Dragoons who fought in I Corps Cav Brigade in the Waterloo campaign.