AARs: Show Us Yer Games!

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Re: AARs: Show Us Yer Games!

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That is a great looking Stone's River board there, Bill! I always enjoyed checking out your layouts at Historicon back in the day when I was able to attend. I remember being fascinated by scenery on your Fredericksburg game that you hosted there.

Mark Luther, I always enjoy looking at your terrain boards and always find the games you create to be very interesting with some more unusual WWII subjects.

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Cedar Creek

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A few shots here of the two Cedar Creek scenarios I wrote. One covers the morning action and is entitled "Dawn at Cedar Creek: Confederate Tidal Wave". The other cover the Union counter-attack and is called "Little Phil's Ride".

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That is fantastic scenery, fantastic minis, love the Sheridan figure. I always love to see more ACW stuff.

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I second that, beautiful work.
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That's amazing work, Bill! How long does it take you to set a board like that up and have it ready for a game?
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redleg wrote:
Sun Apr 10, 2022 10:01 pm
That's amazing work, Bill! How long does it take you to set a board like that up and have it ready for a game?
The amount of elevation makes the build-out longer, but in most cases I can build a terrain board such as Cedar Creek in 2 weekends. I build my ACW boards for a specific battle.
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That is an excellent looking game, Bill! I visited the Cedar Creek battlefield on one of my working trips back East in 2007 or possibly 2008, You do great work!

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The CoC with M1A1 and M47E2 armed with 105mm.

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Camo netting.

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Later in the engagement….

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Deception at Malmedy

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Here are a few shots of a club game I ran about a year ago. The scenario involves Panzer Brigade 150 and is called Deception at Malmedy. I converted it from Rapid Fire to Spearhead for this game. The Germans received a whipping.

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That looks awesome Bill! I love the terrain and buildings! What size base do you use for your infantry? They look nice and spread out on the base - mine always look really bunched up.
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Very nice terrain layout, Bill, and a not so usual scenario as well.

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A lot of burning tanks! Reminds me of a picture from Ukraine I just saw. Interesting game.

Chris I like your camo netting.

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Thanks Gents, all bases are 1 1/4" x 1 1/4" as called for in the Spearhead rules. I use them for CD IV ToB and other rules sets as well. Generally, the bases protect the fragile infantry figures very well.
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I was in the mood to do an East Front game and hadn't gotten my Pz38ts and multitudes of T26s out lately so went with a table inspired by actions with the 7th Panzer and 3rd Mech Corp in Lithuania early in Operation Barbarossa.
Almost all armor for this game-Well, 1941 standards for armor at any rate. I Ain't Been Shot Mum rules. And not so much loads of burning tanks, but abandoned.
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Image1 BA6 and 1 PzII burning by Mark Luther, on Flickr

ImageThe T26s move to face the panzers by Mark Luther, on Flickr

ImagePz38ts prepare to advance by Mark Luther, on Flickr

ImageHeading for the bridge by Mark Luther, on Flickr
ImageAnd the T34s finally activate by Mark Luther, on Flickr

ImageClose range combat by Mark Luther, on Flickr

ImageOpen area on the southern half of the table by Mark Luther, on Flickr

ImageLots of trees by Mark Luther, on Flickr


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Your games are a thing of beauty.
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