MW Panzers, full steam ahead! 1650pts

Operation Speeding Tracks

The description of the operation is an attack of a reinforced Panzer III platoon.

Situation:

The enemy Battlegroup has set up a defensive positions in point X with strength Y.

Task:

The Battlegroup will defeat the enemy it encounters at the point Rämä and will preparing to continue the attack towards point Z after an order is given.

The battleplan and the role of the platoons:

Panzer III's primary task is to try to close with enemy forces as soon as possible. A secondary mission is for the PzIII platoon is to destroy enemy armor, as well as the destruction of infantry weapons AT weapons. Panzer III platoon will be strengthened, where necessary and mission permitting, with three Flammpanzer IIIs, whose function is to allow the Battlegroup to successfully assault the enemy positions. Battlegroup will be reinforced by the battlegroup commander with his own Panther.

Intelligence Component's primary role is to disrupt indirect fire units and a secondary task to perform intelligence activities.

The Panther platoon will work as a fire support, the main task will be the enemys armored forces and the secondary task will be to disrupting of the indirect fire units.

Supporting troops:

Battlegroup won't be supported by indirect fire. The Battlegroup will base on the terrain and the movement to protect it while carrying out the task.

Battlegroup configuration:

http://forces.flamesofwar.com/FOWPrint.aspx?list=9688f752-2069-44b4-a9e1-65bd99e3f9a0&PDF=Y

Battlegroups Service:

The Battlegroup will be maintained and supplemented after the operation to its full strenght at the point K, at time determined later. During the operation, Battlegroup relies on local support units.

Fighting ID: Vauhtikone
Password: Räjähtävä-Rullalauta

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Project 2016, 2. Gebirgsjäger Division, Gebirgsjägerkompanie

Hi there!

Some of you might already have spied on my FB page and/or Instagram feed and noticed the Project 2016 and seen what it's all about. Well today I'm going to talk about it here took.

The Project 2016 is about building a themed army, my first actually, and fullfilling my all time love for one force: Gebirgsjägers. The brave men that trained to fight in the mountains.

Lets talk about what got me into building a themed army. First of as Battlefront changed their points limit for Late War tournament scene, I went to think about all the different forces I had used before, Panzergrenadiers, Schwere Panzers, Panzers and so on. The one force I haven't properly tried was foot-slogging infantry without trucks or half-tracks.

The history of Gebirgsjägers is also full of details, fought in Finland (yes, there were actually several Gebirgsjäger Divisions fighting in the Finnish Lapland) and Caucasus mountains, and all Gebirgsjägers can draw their heritage to Austria, a place close to my heart.

So there are many reasons for me why I should build this army.

But why a Late War army and not Mid War as the ETC is Mid War themed this year? Well mostly because the local meta is Late War and because in Late War you get to field all sorts of great tools, and I like the thought that I can upgrade this force very quickly to 1750 or more with, lets say, Jagdpanthers. Also there is an OOB directly available for one unit that fought in Finland, 2. Gebirgsjäger Division, found in Gebirgsjägers in the West PDF.

About the force that I'm working. I tried to make it as balanced as I could, taking template weapons, a mobile unit, anti-infantry power and a lot of anti-tank power with all the panzerfausts and panzerschrecks. It's not propably going to win many tournaments but it will win games and it will give some headache to any opponent who faces it. I'm not going to go into details here of why I picked a certain platoon as everyone of you whole play Flames of War can propably already see the use for every platoon.

What has been done so far? I have bulk of the army already at home, some of it painted, some of it not. Few platoons are yet to come but all of them have been ordered and I'm confident that Battlefront can deliver the rest of thd force soon. And as the title says this is a project for 2016 so I still have many months to complite this.

For the end I'll let you all see the platoons that have been painted and that have just been assembled. Thank you for reading and as always comments are welcom

Talvisota (Winter War) 2016 tournament picture dump

The Talvisota (Winter War) 2016 tournament has ended. There were five main games, Flames of War, Warhammer 40k, WH Fantacy Battle 9ed, Infinity and Warmachines/Hordes, and a few minor games and the different game systems brought together 130 gamers.

Tournament was very well organized (by Nopat & Taktiikka) and was supported by gamers and gaming groups from around the country. There were also very nice prizes supplied by gaming companies.

Personally I enjoyed very much of the event. I had great games with great opponents, a lot of laughter and joy and some frustrating moments. There were many very nicely painted armies.

All in all a very pleasant weekend. Now it's time to relax and head back to real work (and back to painting my this years project).

Thank you all!

My armylist:

 

Day 1:

Day 2:

Results:

Day 1:
1. Battle, No Retreat, 6-1, win
2. Battle, Counterattack, 3-4, win*
3. Battle, Encounter, 5-2, win

Day 2:
4. Battle, Surrounded, 1-6, loss
5. Battle, Breackthrough, 2-5, loss*

In the results the first score is always mine and the second one is my opponents. Every battle marked with * is where Carius was killed so I lost 1 point and my opponent gained 1 point.

Final standings:

1. Jussi Vepsäläinen 26 (4 voittoa)

2. Oskari Holm 25 (5 voittoa)

3. Mikko Hellemaa 24 (4 voittoa, SOS 84)

4. Samuli Salovaara 24 (4 voittoa, SOS 82)

5. Aito Paloheimo 21 (3 voittoa)

6. Immo Tynkkynen 20 (3 voittoa)

7. Toni Wirtanen 18 (3 voittoa, SOS 92)

8. Olli-Pekka Värri 18 (3 voittoa, SOS 73)

9. Risto Tepponen 17 (3 voittoa)

10. Antti Arajärvi 17 (2 voittoa, SOS 92)

11. Jaakko Björklund 17 (2 voittoa, SOS 76)

12. Santeri Ronkainen 16 (3 voittoa)

13. Leo Tuominen 16 (2 voittoa)

14. Juha Jokinen 16 (1 voitto)

15. Jussi Perttilä 13 (2 voittoa)

16. Jussi Lindeberg 13 (1 voitto)

17. Mikko Tuulio 10 (1 voitto)

18. Tuomas Mustapää 9 (0 voittoa)

19. Antti Vilkman 5 (0 voittoa)

Best painted: Juha Jokinen

"Talvisodan henki": Olli-Pekka Värri

Other sources:

Day 1: http://maalaus.blogspot.fi/2016/01/talvisota-started.html
Day 2: http://maalaus.blogspot.fi/2016/01/talvisota-continued-on-sunday.html