I have completed painting my army for tomorrow's 1000pt Flames of War event, "Remember December" themed on Italy in 1943. I've played a couple of test games to get a feel for the list, and it's not quite as gloriously bad as I had thought. Yes, half-on/half-off games with delayed reserves are going to be a particular problem, but the Motor Platoons, while small, each put out as much firepower as a full sized Rifle Platoon, and are hard to assault due to being ROF 2 when pinned down. The Shermans are good, provided you can keep them alive, the carriers provide 12 dice of mobile machine-gun fire that could be useful if applied at the correct time and location, and ROF 3 AT 10 anti-tank guns are always going to be dangerous. As a bonus the company counts as Infantry instead of Mechanised, so it's possible I won't end up spending the whole day having to attack.
My 14 year old son will also be playing, which is nice. It's his first FOW event, so he's a bit apprehensive, but we've played quite a few games and I think he should be fine. The main thing he wants to get out of the event is enough confidence to play FOW at ValleyCon. He's taking a German Grenadierkompanie, using my late war Gebirgsjäger models.
German Grenadierkompanie (Tunisia and Italy) - North Africa (2016 Revision)
Company HQ, 45 pts
Grenadier Platoon, 3 Squads + Panzerknacker, 160 pts
Grenadier Platoon, 2 Squads + Panzerknacker, 115 pts
Grenadier Machine-gun Platoon, 135 pts
Grenadier Anti-tank Platoon, 85 pts
2 x PaK38 + Transport
Assault Gun Platoon, 340 pts
2 x StuG III G
Rocket Launcher Battery, 120 pts
3 x NW41 + Transport
Total Cost: 1000 pts
The list is pretty handy, certainly a lot better than mine. Six platoons, cost-effective artillery, lots of firepower.
Hopefully I'll remember to take lots of photos tomorrow, and will post here how we get on. It should be a great day.
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