All Miniatures Great and Small: FOW Tournament Report

Coming into the third round I would be facing Ira and his German Pioneer Company out of Grey Wolf.

The Battle would be Free For All and it would be the first time I would face an Infantry Company.
He had

3 Platoons of Pioneer infantry with Flame Throwers (sudden death to Hellcats)
2 Tigers
2 88s
4 15cm Arty

The Germans stacked his attack force on my left, planning on defending his right. He kept his 88s in the middle.

I decided to hold the left and charge the right. Some misdirection in deployment and then redeployment with recon moves gave me a good sized attack force to go after the German Objective.

view of German Center and Left.

Germans on my right. This is where I would attack.

Turn 1: I charged my right flank, popping the Hellcats and rushing the Shermans. Even with my torrent of fire I only killed one gun as Ira made 6 gun saves.

Return fire from the Germans claimed a Hellcat and a Sherman.

On my left flank the German attack force moved out but they failed their storm troopers... they had a long way to go.

Turn 2. The Hellcats redeployed and the 3" guns popped at range. The Shermans raced forwards.
Gunfire killed the entire 15cm platoon and the Shermans, shooting too successfully, redeploy.

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German fire is ineffective as a Tiger bails a single M-20 on my left flank. The Infantry kill a recon jeep. The German troops on my left continue to push forward but again fail stormtroopers.

Turn 3

The three flanking platoons fire on the Pioneers around the objective followed by the Shermans launch an assault. All the Veteran Shermans score hits in the assault and eliminate the infantry and the Company commander on the objective.

End moves

Turn 3 for the Germans was short. They only platoon that could contest fails to unpin. A few long range pot shots bail a Hellcat but do no other damage. Win for the US 6-1!

Conclusions

The Pioneers were scary but poor deployment meant that I really didn't need to face many of them. The German's 88s were blocked from contributing to the assault on the objective. Once the 15cm guns were gone the writing was on the wall. My Sherman platoon was the standout player in the game.

losses

1 Hellcat
1 Sheman
2 Recon jeeps.

Patton's influence.

Only only bonus was the spearhead for the Sherman Platoon. Otherwise he just hid.

The top three were

18 points - US Tank Destroyers
17 Points - US Light Tank Company
3rd place was a tie between Romanian StuGs and German Pios. (sorry forget the points)

Overall it was a great time. I won the event with 18 points and had some enjoyable games with good opponents. (Yes, even my son Jake)

Below are some random pictures from the event.
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