Saturday 3 June 2017

Beutepanzer in Musselburgh – Two Fat Lardie Day

We had the joy to present a game of "Muddy CoC" on the Two Fat Lardie game weekend in Musselburgh near Edinburgh today. I played the Germans with Jim, and Angus and another Jim (on old SESWC club defectant) who played the French. Two platoons each side with 2 d6 support points are trying to get to a centre stranded "Beutepanzer" Mark IV. An engineer has to get there and on a roll on 5-6 in a 6 he can restart the engine. Another objective was to destroy the other morale.

Jim and me were opting for an extra Medium machine gun a flame thrower and a granatenwerfer.
I basically rolled abysmal and sent section after section into the meatgrinder, just to get to the centre staged Beutepanzer. To my surprise Jim, the old one, didn't roll very well on his fire dice for his MMG or grenade rifles. Thats what saved me in the end, my troops got shot under  my feet away but my engineer got in the damn tank and after two fails started the bloody engine!!! 6 inches, if you are under constant fire, can be damn far away. But in the end, I would say, you can't come between a Schneider (me in this case) and his Beutepanzer! It just ain't gonna happen. After all, we had more casualties, but our morale was still fine, band with the panzer in our hands , it was a straight victory!

The second game was a Napoleonic one, where I was gang pressed into fighting in the Grand Armee against the Habsburgs. The rules where OK, but as I never studied them enough, I pretty much played on automaton and failed spectacularly, as I charged and rolled a double 1(!!!) and the opponent rolled a double 6!!! We were finally beaten by Austrians, yes my dear friends it cannot get any worse!

One battle you win the other you loose - Fortuna is a not a lady!

Still a very enjoyable experience!!!

The un-varnished (re-touched) truth on display for your entertainment:



The defectant Jim and Angus
and the other Jim 



























7 comments:

  1. You did not forget to take pics, for our real pleasure...Fantastic WW1 report, looks awesome!

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    1. Thanks Phil, yes I could have taken more pictures from the other battles, but the ww1 was too exciting! It seems that next year in the club some mates and me are planning to do another WW1 terrain ... modular ... some whisper ... watch this pace ... :)

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  2. Napoleonic was a great game. We did not lost our game, but we get a draw. None of our brigades get broken, they were battered, but still in action. Our Cavalry was on the flank of the battered Austrian brigade and soon or later they would be broken too. After that we would be fighting with 2 understrength + 2 full strength brigades against 2 Austrian... I don't think we lost that game ;) It was just temporary difficulties ;)
    Anyway well spend day.

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    1. True - I guess I was just exhausted ... Napoleonics aren't my thing :)

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  3. Lovely looking ww1, scenery figures and of course tank and very nice napoleonic battle and I will have to remember the "we did not lose, it was just temporary difficulties "line for future use!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks Iain! Well, as a German I can pledge disillusional ignorance if it comes to victory conditions ... but that was Bart - he‘s Polish, what can I say ...

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