Flames of War - Desert Rat's Early War Tournament results!

Last weekend I had the privileged to run a Flames of War Tournament at a local Game store here in the Greater Phoenix Area.

As gamers we are blessed with not one but several great Gaming stores spread around the area and our Flames of War group tries to host FOW Tournaments at all the willing game stores.

On May 19th I ran the Desert Rats FOW Early War Tournament at Empire Games.

We had a 3 round 1500 point Tournament set in the Early War Period.
Mission played were...

• Free for All
• Surrounded
• CounterAttack

We had a good mix of forces. From the obligatory Panzer Companies to Polish, French and German Gliders. We had a total of 12 people show up for the event.

Standings were as follows

1st Jake H  - British Infantry Tanks  - 14 pts  -  Overall

2nd Jake D - German DAK  - 13 pts - Best Sportman

3rd TJ - German Schutzen -12 pts 

three way tie for 4h place

4th Sam - German Armor - 11 pts.

4th Tim P - British - BAR - 11pts

4th Tony - British Honey Armor - 11 pts  - Best Painted

7th Ty - German Glider - 9 Pts

8th Jeff  -  French Tanks - 8 pts

9th Aaron -  Italian Tank - 7 pts.

9thth Tom - Polish Infantry - 7 pts.

11th Mike - British Infantry - 6 pts.

Now onto the pictures, as usual click on the photo for a larger image.

Some of the Armies...

Ty's great looking Glider force.

French S-35 Somua Horde

Italians make the scene

German DAK

The Best Painted winner - Honey Stuarts

British Infantry Company and more Matildas

British BAR roll in style

German Schutzen Company

German Panzer Company

Exciting Action shots!

BAR Regimental Commander

The BAR Drops the Hammer on French Light Tanks

Poles rush into action!

Flaming Laffly Trucks! Oh the Humanity!

Death from Above!!

Italian Guns in trouble

Some Beautifully painted DAK

Rommel and his pals

Best Painted Winner- Honey Stuarts

Char B's crush a field of Gliders

French in the desert

BunkerFlaks!

Polish Artillery holding the line

The BAR burns in the desert