Pre-membering December

Our annual club World War 2 competition, Remember December, is coming up in a week. Every year we take the time to remember our clubmate and friend, Nick, who left us suddenly four years ago, and play a one-day event for a trophy in his honour with the primary goal being all about not being a dick.

This year, it'll be 55 point Late War Normandy / Italy Flames of War V4 and...I didn't have much of an army. All my kit is, excepting my insane Beach Defence company from V2, is Eastern Front so it was a bit of a battle to come up with a workable list. 

Pooch pointed out to me that there is a FallschirmStuG company and, since I had StuGs for Eastern Front, maybe I should just use those. Funnily enough, this was an excellent idea and so I set to work crafting something. And then got stuck. Over and over again. My collection was not helping the design. But, in the end, I have come up with something utterly hilarious. 

So I did some new stuff first: 

I broke my Panzerschreck team off it's medium base and put them on small bases to bulk out the infantry platoon in my Remember December army. 

Pooch's other excellent suggestion was to add in a captured tank. And it just so happens he had an Open Fire Firefly kit and that fitted nicely. The kit is....not BFs best work but for this purpose, it'll do. I even had an old Panzer commander to drop into the turret. 

Most of the rest of the army. There are seven StuGs, all told, and I've got the Tank Escorts command card to put the Beach Defence Platoon able to ride into combat. That's going to go badly for me, but y'know what? I don't mind too much. The concept is cool and the way that Tank Escorts have come out in V4 I really like - a lot more than I did in V3. 

Next Time

A report on how successfully I went scoring 0-3 in Remember December! HA! And then we'll launch into the summertime projects before a bunch of us lunatics kick off some new and hilarious projects in the 2020.