Noodling along

 I played most of a game of Victory at Sea yesterday with Blogger Tank, when the Regia Marina and the Kriegsmarine had some wargames in what looks very much like the Pacific... 

Moments before the Vittorio Veneto launched a full broadside into the Admiral Scheer

This time I got to land both MAS and MS boats (oh my!) and launch a lot of destroyer-based torpedoes. I also got U-boated (is that a verb?) and that went less well. The Tirpitz is a beast of a ship and I shot a lot of torpedos into her and really struggled to get past the torpedo belt.

I also got my Jagdpanzer IV/70s out against Blogger Pel's Desert Rats. He's working hard to make them work in LW and I reckon he's cracked it. We played Scouts Out, a mission that neither of us has played and looked, on the face of it like it would be over super quick.

Jagdpanzer IV/70s in ambush

I expose not just the Jagdpanzer CO's flank but also it's rear armour!!

Totally wrong about that - we ran the game through to 7 turns in the end and had Pel not taken an opportunistic shot on the flank of my CO Jagdpanzer by moving his two PIAT-armed carriers away from the objective and that allowed my 250 OP and most of a platoon of Panzergrenadiers to give his Para platoon what for and win the game. Had he not, he would have taken the other flank with his Stuarts who were definitely giving me hell, having taken out my Wespe battery and the two SdKfz 7/2s left holding the objective weren't going to hold it! 

The Jadgpanzer IV/70s aren't quite done yet, but they're coming along. Pel suggested using a cocktail stick or something similar to make the ambush camo dots and I rather like that idea so will be trying to knock them off this week. I was pretty happy to get all the basecoats and details on to get them to be table-ready! 

Workbenchy things

I've finished the last of the prep for the new Byzantines, epoxying in the last of the lances and spears that needed to be reattached or attached and getting them ready for primer so they'll be hitting the paint table soon. I'd really like to get the basing of the whole army done in one hit so that'll be a fun job coming up. I'm enjoying ADLG and it's nice level of complexity so I'm currently on the hunt for another army. In the meantime, I've rebased my generals: 

Crusaders

Finally done! :) 

 

Now I need a parts order from the UK to get here and I'll be able to finish up an OP Leman Russ I'm working on and should have a new and interesting small Guard army to try out. 

Next Time

I've got some 15mm Hummels on the workbench for my 15mm Flames of War Germans and the massive basing job on the Byzantines. Having played a game of Victory at Sea with Tank's sweet islands, that's got me encouraged to do mine, I just have to finish sanding down the some of the PLA and maybe find some filler primer.