So. Elefants. Yeah.

 The Whole Army

I kind of love how the whole thing came together in the end. Oh, and in a most surprising and ridiculous turn of events, the package of foliage arrived on the THURSDAY night before Panzerschreck. Seriously. I was SO pleased. So the OP and the quads that will remain in the 653 formation got foliaged as well. It was still drying when we put the box in the back to go north!

Panzerschreck?

This photo basically sums up the weekend:

People getting their much faster medium armour on the flanks of our Elefants and mostly, amazingly, whiffing. We lost two Elefants destroyed, two fled and the rest survived the weekend. MVP of the weekend was the Elefant CO who took 7 IS-2s solo to hold a flank to save the one game we won. 

All in all 1 - 1 - 3 for the weekend but the highlight perhaps was we lost game 3. The last six stands of an American ARP ran through a minefield and then all the American armour opened up on the 2 StuGs and 2 Elefants on the objective. We lost both StuGs and one Elefant (shot in the side by failed-blitz, stabilised Sherman 75s on 6s, I might add) and then the two stands that surivived the minefield charged out. The Elefant shot the Bazooka and the one remaining rifle stand shoved the Elefant off the objective. It was a great game to play and a great way to lose that game. 

Thoughts?

The list was sub-par. Okay on paper but also coloured by previous Panzerschreck experiences and not in a good way. If we had our time again, the list would be: 

653 Schwere Panzerjager

Elefant HQ

2x Elefant

2x Elefant

3x Quad AA

Hetzer Company

2x Hetzer HQ

4x Hetzers

4x Hetzers

4xHetzers

Support

3x Wespes & OP Panzer III

2x Puma

Sturm Platoon 

 

We missed an infantry platoon for all the bloody minefields and also getting dudes out of buildings and the StuGs were just outclassed by all the M10s, M10Cs, Sherman 76s, T34/85s etc so Hetzers would give us 50% more hulls for no appreciable change in cost.  

 

Next Time

No idea. I suspect I need to get into the stuff I need to have painted for our next round of slow-grow 40K. I have an attack bike to do, an Outrider Chaplain and a couple of new Primaris to build out a new Primaris Kill Team. I also need to buy some things...