With the CO pressed into a work gang on a roofing project for the local "Party Boss", (read his Dad), the Komissar had to direct things today. We had a decent turn out at the meeting today. Met some new people and spread the word of the Winter Offensive next weekend. Talked a bit about the new direction Battlefront is going with their minis, specifically the new plastic offerings. We also took a look at some WWIII board games, such as "Team Yankee", "Assault", and "NATO".
More significant, was Bob dropping some big cash for the version 3 rules and 6 (yes sports fans) SIX German Elefant tank destroyers.
Front armor 15, side 8, top armor 2, anti-tank 16, ROF 2, firepower 3+ is pretty intimidating, but present a challenge being overloaded and unreliable. If used well, they will be a tough nut to crack in any mid or late-war Flames of War list.
Lastly, we sat down to a new game of "D-Day Dice". It's VERRRRY "beer and pretzels", perhaps even more a "gateway" game to wargaming, but it was a fun change of pace and team oriented rather than adversarial... a little different in a wargame.
Players roll the dice to collect re enforcements, courage, command points, and tools to advance onto the objective at the end. Roll a red/white/blue combination and recieve extra bonuses. Players slowly make their way forard, negotiating obstacles, machine-gun fire, mines, etc, purchasing leaders, weapons, and other assistance along the way. The game ends when all the players reach the objective. Ken and Bob took it easy on me, and we played the very easy training scenario. Assaulting legitimate enemy beaches will be much more difficult.
So at the next meeting we are going to help Bob get his Elefants up to muster, and bust those suckers loose on a table! It'll be as epic as 200mm of frontal armor!
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