Today we played in Bolter our first one on one game with Franek. Scenario was invented at place by me – there were two farm building with supplies – holding each of them at the end was counted as three victory points, plus every destroyed enemy unit was worth one dice each. Each of us has reinforced platoon of 1500 points.
It happend somewhere in Finland, during continuation war with Soviet Union.
I was a little bit late, so Franek started with setting up terrains.
Ruins and farm in the middle were objectives.Sisi run forward.Sturmi took position to keep crossroad safe.Another Sisi squad advance from Opel.Artillery ready to start fire.Soviet troops advance.IS-2 emerged from the forest.Last three of Soviet submachine gun squad.Advance toward the ruins of farm.Brave BA-6 in Finnish service.Finnish troops try to take better position.Assault Engineers advance in the center.BA-6 destroyed by heavy mortar.Artillery and mortar destroyed engineers.
Summary: – thank you Franek for a game! – artillery and mortars did many casultaties on both sides. – I charged with sniper team and then panzerschreck and was defeated in close combat, – at the end, when we counted points Franek was winner – his 7 against my 5.
Today we played a game where were two sides – attackers and defenders and convoy of truck which was main objective – for one side to defend it and to the other to destroy. Each truck was worth four order dices in case of counting victory – for attacking side for destroying each, for defenders side for moving them from one side of board to another,
On attacker side were my Finns and Franek’s Soviet Union, on defenders side were Kriss Australians and Karol’s Germans. Each player had 750 points platoon.
Some wrecks of scouting party.First truck arrived – visibility on the right side of the road was limited.First truck crossed the bridge and heads to the town.Artillery started shooting.
Summary: – the Australians and Germans won this battle, all trucks survived but non left the road. – I losed my Sturmi antitank gun when it started duel with German Panther. – the bravest man was from Kriss scouts, fighting bravely in bulding in the middle.
Today we played last game of our campaing during Winter War. We played in Bolter.pl, under sponsorship of IPN. Official post about this event is on IPN profile here.
Snow was everywhere. Soviets do a breakthrough from village.Some brave Finns on the flank.KV-1 destroyed they dreams.KV-1 destroyed dreams of many ppl.Finns tried to destroy tank.Bofors also tried, without success,Soviets broke several Finnish units.Less and less Finns.Red Army won, as they connected. Stalin smiles and ordered his officers!
Summary: – forces weren’t balanced, one KV-1 did most work on flanking Finns near village, – the most powerful gun used by Finns was great 37 mm Bofors, unhapilly doesn’t destroyed anything, – game was good, still we should find balance – for me most of Soviets should be inexperienced and Finns should be regular or veterans, – IPN was again sponsor, so I’m glad, that they are there and hope to see them again.
Today we played second game in our Winter War campaing of 1939′ – Soviet troops were advancing into Finnland, but brave Finns were preparing ambush – Soviet troops were separated in several pockets called in Finish „motti”. Yes, you can see there one big beast – KV-1 tank – along prototypes single tank was used for tests.
Main target for Red Army was to free they units from pockets and go from one side of the table to the other along heavily forested road. Soviet tanks in pockets have fuel issues, the trucks are objectives to be destroyed by Finns.
We played in Bolter, Wrocław, Poland – we are open to play with ppl who speak English – Germans, Russians, Czechs and everyone generally 😉 . I invited my Russian friend, but he was invited by his colleagues to a bowl.
Moment before forest started moving. Below are Soviet reinforcements.
Thank you Daniel for organising event.
Thanks for IPN for being a sponsor and for Michał!
A tree on the road, what is going on?
Soviet reinforcements – they have fuel.
Ivan, I hear something, did you?
Forest started moving.
Last Soviet pocket.
That wood is moving Sasha, look!
Finnish skii troops as well as infantry advanced on unprepared Soviets.
Comrades – our brothers in arms wait for us!
Soviet politruk ordered his squads to clear forest from capitalistic elements.
Finns soldiers ready to die in the name of they small patria.
Shooting beetwen both sides.
First pocket was almost freed.
Boom, Finns managed to destroy one supply ZiS-6 truck, other squads tried to throw Molotov coctail on the flame tank, without success jet.
Soviets arrived and then encircled Finns.
More Finns with molotov coctails arrived.
Bravely last stand gave some time for the other Finns units.
Knock, knock – we have moonshine!
That board saw many cruel things, as „war, war never change” (Fallout).
For Mannerheim, for our nation advance!
Strong in number Soviet column broke Finns resistance.
Going forward but with many buring tanks along they route.
Finally one brave soldier put appropriate bottle on the T-28. The Finns retreat back into the forest, when more and more Soviets arrived on the hill.
After all, Red Army released two of three pockets.
In historical contest for me both flags should be there, as we should remember past to build better future.
Summary: – after all it was great to find common sense in playing again Bolt Action, as it’s really great game from Warlord Games, especially playing such events. – for me we should remember soldiers of both sides, all the time I think that most of them could be a friends in normal times, of course we should remember who was invader and why. – link to KV-1 I will add tomorrow.
Today in Bolter, Wrocław, PL we played first scenario covering Winter War, when Soviet Union invaded small but brave land of Finns. IPN (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej in eng. Institute of National Remembrance) took patronage over this event – here is they Wrocław page.
After taking before half of Poland IInd Republic along with Nazi Germany and Slovakia, Soviet Union turn they eyes onto Finland – sparsely populated and heavily forested country which border was 30 kilometers from Leningrad (all the time Sankt Petersburg), too close for Soviet officials – more about it here: Winter War 1939-1940.
Finnish troops preparing for incomming tank assault of Red Army.
37 mm Bofors antitank gun hidden on the hill.
Soviet column advanced toward Finns positions.
Mortar started shooting at our medium machine gun.
BA-6 and T-26 with flame thrower bravely moved forward.
We lost one bunker from T-28 howitzer shell, then enemy losed they armoured car from some well thrown bottle.
Brave Finns assaulted first tank on right flank.
Bofors managed to pin down T-28.
On our left flank Soviet advanced.
More Finns come from the forest to assault Soviet tanks with molotov coctails.
On left flank Soviet advanced forward with loses of men and equipment.
First tank burn on right flank.
Burning tanks on left flank.
T-28 staying on crossroads for most of the game.
Another thank losed on right flank.
Succesful hit from mortar finally eliminated our Bofors.
Ski troops arrived on flank.
All tank burns on right flank.
Beautiful scenery.
Summary: – it was interesting battle and as part of campaing will be continued. – Finns held Soviet advance destroying most of the vehicles. – first game in Bolt Action for a long time of absence. – Hope that next time will remember all names of co-players.
🇵🇱 W minioną sobotę, 23.09.2017, miałem przyjemność zagrać z Hubertem w Bolt Action. Graliśmy na wczesnowojennych listach armii, odtwarzając radziecko-fińskie starcie z Wojny Zimowej 1939 roku.
Graliśmy po 1200 punktów na stronę. Hubert miał 16 kości rozkazu, a ja 13. Pomijając samą liczbę kości, jego armii było na stole zdecydowanie więcej, a stół był dość mały – tylko 48 × 48 cali. Cud, że w ogóle był – dzięki dla Rafała z Planszóweczki! Planszóweczka spodziewała się całej Drużyny Pierścienia, więc ten jeden stół i tak był sporym sukcesem.
Poniżej zaledwie kilka zdjęć – od ostatnich do pierwszych. Nie wiem, czemu tak się stało, bo wrzucałem je od pierwszego do ostatniego.
Rosjanie wdarli się do okopu, niestety Finowie oblali test morale i do walki wręcz ostatecznie nie doszło.
🇬🇧 Last Saturday, 23 September 2017, I had the pleasure of playing Bolt Action with Hubert. We used early-war army lists, recreating a Soviet-Finnish clash from the Winter War of 1939.
We played 1,200 points per side. Hubert had 16 order dice, while I had 13. Dice aside, he clearly had more troops on the table, and the table itself was rather small — only 48 × 48 inches. It was a miracle we had one at all — thanks to Rafał from Planszóweczka! They were expecting the whole Fellowship of the Ring, so having even that one table was quite an achievement.
Below are a few photos — from last to first. I have no idea why that happened, as I uploaded them from first to last.
The Russians stormed into the trench, but unfortunately the Finns failed their morale test, so the close combat never actually happened
🇵🇱 Podsumowanie: – Fińska piechota, w tym Sisi, jest bardzo dobra, nawet bez broni maszynowej. Wszyscy piechurzy mieli zasadę Tough Fighter, dzięki czemu podczas obrony byli bardzo groźni w walce wręcz. – Dobrze ustawiony Bofors po prawej stronie planszy celnym ogniem zniszczył T-28, co pozwoliło utrzymać dalszy opór. – BA-10 płonęła, miała 7 pinów, ale mimo to przetrwała do końca gry i zniszczyła BA-10 Huberta – w tym przypadku trudno nazwać to inaczej niż czystym fartem. – Po raz pierwszy, odkąd gram w Bolt Action, mój moździerz w ogóle trafił – jego ofiarą padł DSK z uszczuploną, bo już tylko trzyosobową załogą (czwartego członka wcześniej wyeliminowała rusznica przeciwpancerna). – Fiński snajper działał dobrze, ale jego potencjał nie został w pełni wykorzystany.
🇬🇧 Summary: –The Finnish infantry, including the Sisi troops, is very good, even without machine guns. All infantrymen had the Tough Fighter rule, which made them very dangerous in close combat while defending. – A well-positioned Bofors on the right side of the table destroyed a T-28 with accurate fire, which made it possible to continue the defence. – The BA-10 was on fire and had 7 pins, but despite that it survived until the end of the game and destroyed Hubert’s BA-10 – in this case, it is hard to call it anything other than pure luck. – For the first time since I started playing Bolt Action, my mortar actually scored a hit – its victim was a DSK with its crew reduced to just three men, after the fourth had earlier been taken out by an anti-tank rifle. – The Finnish sniper performed well, but his full potential was not used.
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