Flames of War - The Armoured Panzer Grenadier Company

So its been a little quiet on the blog front again, looks like I am a once every couple of weeks kinda guy!

After a year or so of looking I have decided to buy a 15mm WW2 army. After looking through a couple of books, I liked the idea of the German Armoured Panzer Grenadier Company. This was partly influenced by the availability of some nice plastic alternatives to the Battlefront models. So following a few discussions with people at the club and some old friends that have been playing for a while I ordered my models!

The first delivery is below.

I cannot recommend the Plastic Soldier Company enough, they have great response times, customer service & prompt delivery. I asked them to swap out one of the tank boxes from one of their current special offers and they where more than happy to do so. In total I got 5 Stugs (not shown), 5 Panzers, 15 Sd Kfz 251s, and a ton of infantry (inc machine gun teams) for £82.50 including delivery.
To go with this I ordered some laser cut MDF bases and some Panzerfausts & Mortars from Peter Pig.

The Half-Track kits are excellent, the close ups below show the kits, the instructions are not brilliant, but the models are not exactly complex. They do how ever come with an excellent selection of accessories to make them look different.

The infantry have enough for 10 officers stands, 15 LMG teams & radio operators. I plan to use the radio operators on both command stands and spotter teams.

The Peter Pig models where the best way to get the Panzerfaust upgrades for my SMG teams, I ordered a couple of packs of mortars to see if I can convert a couple of the Kfz 251s into mobile mortar teams.

I will be assembling these over this week and will have some pics up soon.

Update on Games

Well its been a while since my first post......

Work and social life been getting in the way, one of my clients i moving to SA and we had a leaving do on a Wednesday that ended with 4 of us in a strip club at 3am!

So had couple of games since the last update;

Siege vs eKreoss

This game was pretty close - I learnt that Bastions are awesome and even under Sieges feat they are hard to kill, the game ended with a bastion killing Siege under Kreoss' feat.

eStryker vs Mortenebra

Having discovered one of sieges weaknesses at 35 pts is he can easily be pushed around in certain scenarios i have gone for eStryker. Played using Murdoch and Boomhowler, JWC, SB & UA, Rowdy, B13 and an Ironclad. Started with a pretty even deployment on my side, Cryx deployed heavily to my right seemingly intent on focussing on the 2 control points on that side. I rushed the center and left points with Boomhowler and the JWC, centre with the 2 jacks and Stryker and moved the SB up to threaten the right point hoping to draw the cryx jack line forward. This worked and the DJ, Slayer and Reaper all advanced on that flank. My next turn i assaulted against the jacks and managed to get one SB into melee with the DJ, mostly ineffective but killed a scrap thrall that exploded killing his Necrotech and one of the Withershadow! The nex turn saw Morty blow her feat and the DJ trampled all the way across the SBs killing 4 and whacking Rowdy's Cortex out! My next turn saw more movement with Boomhowler assaulting a few targets, Stryker, Rowdy failing to kill the DJ. Morty moved fowards, pulled the DJ out of melee (got slagged with FS) the moved the reaper up for an assasination run on Stryker, Rowdy was having none of this as he had come within 6" to gt the shot off! So rowdy charged and blocked LOS to Stryker. The remaining Withershades charge Rowdy and fail to kill him (which if i am honest may hav changed the battle significantly). Next turn Stryker turns up the juice in his armour, velocities over a wall and charges Morty and one shots her!

All in all a good result for eStyker's first game out, Mehmet will watch for that next time, but generaly pleased that i could start to threaten scenario from the off.

Got a few more pieces nearly painted to hope to have a few more pics up by the end of this week.

First Post - Including pics!

So I have finally chosen a name and started taking pictures for my blog, the name was the toughest part if I am honest, most of the good ones have already been used up!

I have been doing a spot of painting this week with my Siege about halfway completed and a little work on my gun mages to get them a little closer to being finished.

I am pretty happy with the way the jacks both look, not bad for my first completed models in 20 years! (More pics on the Cygnar page)

Played a couple of games against Terminus this week at 35 points, proxied in a Stormclad and Ol'Rowdy. I NEED to buy both of these models. If I am honest I am not sure how I lived without them! Terminus is a tough match up for Siege with tough and Sacrificial Pawn, its been a fun challenge to find ways to beat him.


Missed games club this week and will have to try and get more games in next week against other opponents of which Menoth is high on the list. Got a solid blasting by eSevvy and 2 Reckoners last time and it was nasty! Also need to get some games against Hordes with Siege, don't think I have faced a single warlock yet.