Yesterday on tournament in Flames of War in Oleśnica also Bolt Action happend – with team composed of Daniel, Łukasz, Maxim and me we did historical recreation of battle which happend in Finland during 1944′ – fight for Portinhoikka-crossroads, part of battle of Tali-Ihantala.

Event was related to smaller in scale brother of Bolt Action – Flames of War – championship of Poland. We were there with Bolt Action, Conquest and Gods of War: Togo – system of my friend.

We are from Wrocław, Poland – if you are interested in tabletop wargaming or demo game – let’s look HERE – ask questions, someone will answer!

Finnish troops realized that something is on the road.
Keep control over crossroad was main task for Finnish soldiers.
Russian scouts going in a column.
Daniel idea was great and we tried to recreate historical struggle on one board 48 on 72
Finnish flak 2 cm.
All Finnish troops started as hidden.
Part of our company, Maxim, Łukasz and Kamil.
A lot of most popular Russian T-34-85.
Finnish T-34 hidden and in ambush.
Sturmi named Lea – officialy survived war and is in Finnish museum.
Russian tanks in mass advance to take crossroads.
T-70 meet ambush but survived shoot from Finnish T-34.
Let it burn!
IS-2 – tank painted many years ago with tactical number for famous IS-2 from Festung Breslau.
Flamethrower team tried to stop T-34-85 – without success.
Two panzerfausts stopped a tank.
In hard situations desperate moves were done – Finnish Opel Blitz delivered troops to first line of fire.
After several hours we were still alive – me was all around.
Finally, reinforcements from flanks appeard.
With molotovs in hands Finnish soldiers attempts to disable Russian T-34-85.
Then run away.
More Russian tanks advance.
Bitter fight for crossroads.

Summary:
– thank you Daniel for what you did – we managed to set up table for this event on Thursday evening in Bolter.
– thank you Daniel, Łukasz, Maxim for surviving my sense of humour during going back to our homecity Wrocław.
– many thanks to Rafał, who invited me and Daniel, to Adam – organiser and owner of Bolter, to Wiki for several small talks.
– thanks to Oleśnica Castle for hospitality and greates place to play – a castle from times of Piast dynasty is greates place to be used – a little bit HERE.