His experience in farm vehicles landed him in the tank corps. The three crews are committed to driving out the German invaders they may not have much fuel or ammunition and their tanks have a few dents in them, but they are not going to surrender, they will fight on to the bitter end.Ĭaptain Nikolay is a young farmer who worked on his parents’ farm and joined up to defend the motherland from the fascist invader. These inexperienced survivors have got together to carry on the fight after the German Blitzkrieg cut them off. He is mounted in his KV-1S, supported by a T34/76 and an OT-26. We asked each of the generals to come up with a little backstory and flavour for their chosen tank platoons:īernard – “Young Captain Nikolay is leading the survivors of his battle group. Good luck to us all and may the most sporting person win.” Although being a veteran of many a Warlord game these would actually be my first-ever games of the second edition, and Jon had yet to play the game at all! In that regard both the Conors had an advantage over us, but that wasn’t to matter – this was all in the interest of camaraderie and good fun – and mocking is bound to ensue for anyone who takes it too seriously! For added fun (or more accurately gloating rights) we’d also keep a tab of points we scored individually.Īfter a few gentle nudges for tanks to be stuck together and painted we finally managed to get going. The fourth round game would be a doubles game of Axis vs Allies. The first round would represent blue-on-blue training games, a straight shoot-out, with subsequent rounds introducing objectives until each player had fought each other player. Over to him for the rundown!īernard – “I decided we wanted two Axis and two Allied players for an even spread. Warlord Games HQ’s own advocate of very loud shirts, Bernard Lewis, recently rounded up three eager volunteers from around the business to participate in a Tank War mini-campaign.
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