{"id":1801,"date":"2016-06-23T15:11:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T15:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2016-06-24T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:08:08","slug":"fow-at-challenge-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/fow-at-challenge-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"FOW at Challenge 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to skip Britcon this year.<\/p>\n<p>I can recommend the BHGS Challenge event. Easy to reach airy venue on the outskirts of Oxford.Good friendly atmosphere and competitive gaming. Flushed with near success at Britcon 2015 I decided to take panzer pioneers and mixed tankovy \u00a0to the mid war tournament ( the pioneers have never won a game but are cool &#8211; pity I got the list wrong). My delusions of competence soon evaporatee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1090.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1807 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1090-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1090\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pionier deployment game 1 Hiding from 3.7in AA guns<\/p>\n<p><strong>Game 1 Fighting withdrawal \u00a0 New Zealand Infantry Lost 6-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forgot people bring big toys to tournaments 4 3.7 in AA guns in the ground role on a ridge Gulp Assaulted on foot rode my luck against 25 per bombardment. Killed one platoon defending objective before matildas in ambush got me and my infantry died in a hail of 1s and 2s under bombardment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He looks happy He&#8217;s got 7 Panthers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1096.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1808 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1096-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1096\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Game 2 Free for all Kursk Panthers \u00a0Lost 6-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See above re big toys Needed a shturmovik \u00a0or artillery Got my heroic \u00a0T 70s on his objective before \u00a0my army broke in a hail of 75mm L70 \u00a0fire<\/p>\n<p><strong>Game 3 Cauldron \u00a0 \u00a0American Paratroopers \u00a0 Lost 4-3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of yanks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1812 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1111-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1111\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Decided to cruise on in my half tracks \u00a0and got half bailed or ko&#8217;d by howitzers and big mortars. Girded my loins and went again on foot after reducing the enemy mortars and guns. Killed \u00a0a platoon of infantry defending the objective and 3 other platoons not bad against america&#8217;s finest dug in in a town Things were looking up<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes like a fool I came back for more<\/p>\n<p><strong>Game 4 \u00a0Breakthrough German panzers \u00a0 Lost 4-3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hiding again this time from Tiger I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s working<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1811 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1108-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1108\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I could have had this lot if they hadn&#8217;t bought a Tiger. Spent half the game hiding from the big cat Excellent shoot out between mark 4 s and 3 s on the left flanks which the matildas won \u00a0if we could have got one more mark 3 we would have been looking at a company test for the germans. In the end my last KV1 was on the enemy objective when his commander and 2 mark 3 s overran my gallant infantry in the churchyard<\/p>\n<p><strong>Game 5 \u00a0 \u00a0Cauldron\u00a0Russian Tankovy \u00a0 Lost 6-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Too many Russians to kill with my limited AT Got one company of T34 S with Hornisse and 88 fire . But my platoons had to scattered widely and the isolated depleted one got overrun by stuarts after a fierce dose of tanks fire Only one tank off maybe breaking the other t34 company so not all one way traffic<\/p>\n<p>Excuses \u00a0, excuses,<\/p>\n<p>The pioniers need more AT and more half tracks for the command elements and the tankovy need artillery or a shturmovik to play in competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Great weekend All of my opponents were sporting friendly and fair &#8211; happy to allow rolls where phases were missed and knew the rules well I will be back next year with the pioniers.<a href=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1817 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1104-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1104\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Victory can do this to a man<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to skip Britcon this year. I can recommend the BHGS Challenge event. Easy to reach airy venue on the outskirts of Oxford.Good friendly atmosphere and competitive gaming. Flushed with near success at Britcon 2015 I decided to take panzer pioneers and mixed tankovy \u00a0to the mid war tournament ( the pioneers have never won &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/fow-at-challenge-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FOW at Challenge 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flames-of-war","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}