Village Attack (Battle Report)

  Tonight saw the British rushing to try and stop the evil Professor Lange's German forces kidnapping some villagers for his diabolical experiments (scenario rules Here and build up story Here). Basically there are 3 objectives who ever holds the most wins.

Tonight's battle field

The Brits line up on the village outskirts. 

The Germans advance towards to village 

Both forces lined up across the board edges, pretty much even. A squad on each flank and the vehicles in the centre.

The British snipers climbed the church tower to get a good view of the village 

The Mudskipper concerned with the Puma in the distance advanced cautiously 

On the right flank. The British advanced through some light woods

On the left flank the Tommies advanced with Guardian Walker support 

On the Germans left flank the Schreckwulfen advanced followed by a machine gun squad

The German Puma advances down the road running through the village

 Both sides had closed the distance and the gunfire would start soon.

British sniper unit hit the German MMG team

On the right flank the Brit infantry started shooting at the Germans with little effect 

The British infantry on the left secured the building in front of the objective

Lt Jenkins moved through the church yard and fired at the MMG team 

The Mudskipper moved over and finished the German MMG team off

The German snipers crawled to the top of the hill. While a German squad worked its way round the hill 

A strong German moved into the village centre

Schreckwulfen advance

The Nachtjager leap onto the building surveying the Mudskipper and other forces below 

The Mudskipper fearing an assault activated its jump engines and leaped over the building 

Unfortunatly the Mudskipper didn't spot  Panzershreck and paid the price. The Mudskippers leg was destroyed and the walker was disabled 

The German sniper team take up position 

The British infantry in the house on the left flank pour fire onto the advancing Germans 

The British sniper tries to kill the Nachtjager on the opposite building 

The Galahads on the British right flank slowly advance pouring fire from their LMGs

The Nachtjager swoop down onto Lt Jenkins and his bodyguard. 

Unfortunately my opponent rolled this in the ensuring close combat. Lt Jenkins killed both Nachtjager. 

A German squad pushes forward firing Panzerfausts at the Guardian Walker. They streak past the walker who retaliates with its flamethrower. Bathing the Germans in flame, killing some and making the rest flee. 

On the British Right flank the regular infantry desperately shoot at the hiding Schreckwulfen. 

The Guardian walker turns its attention to the Puma. Its HMG blasting away. 

My Mudskipper was immobilised in the enemy's rear and only really had one target, the German sniper team on the hill. It eventually killed the Germans and amazingly survived several more Panzershreck shots. 

The German Puma and flame thrower secured the centre objective. 

Despite suffering a casualty my PIAT team stepped up again and took out the Puma with a side shot. 

My Galahads on the right flank covered the slightly open area keeping the Shreckwulfen at bay. 

On the British left flank I secured the objective. 

The British on the left flank poured fire into the advancing German squad. Helped by the Galahads they wiped them out. 

Most fire now turned on the German flame thrower holding the middle objective but he would not budge. 

The Panzershreck helped secure the middle objective and in a bold move the flame thrower rushed forward and flamed Lt Jenkins knocking him out of action. 

Seeing his leader took out the Guardian walker charged forward and stomped on the flame thrower. 

The final turn ended with the British in control of 2 objectives and the Germans 1. So a British win, Professor Lange's forces were defeated for now.

A great game, really enjoyable to play and had me thinking lots. I absolutely love my Galahads I have to say!

Terrain

I got painting the river sections I had bought from the model shop in Wales  (post is here ) and the crater I won from Amera Plastics in there 12 days of Christmas competition. 
The river sections were painted a basic green and flock added. Blue was used for the water, I avoided the epoxy stuff as I just wanted a nice basic look. I remembered the trouble I had last time with paint peeling (tale of woe is here ) so I have them all a good scrub in hot soapy water and  added PVA glue to the base paint and so far it's not peeling.

River Curve

RIver Fork

Next up was the crater I won. After being scrubbed in warm soapy water and dried. I started layering different shades of brown on to it for the earth broken up by a crater

I then added lighter times of brown and very light highlights to the edges of the crater. I also picked out some rocks in the piece and painted them grey to make them stand out. Then I added flock and called it done

The rocks help it pop out I think

Finished piece

I think it looks really good and shows how good Amera Plastic stuff is. 

Amera Plastic Waterfall

Last week I finished up the Amera plastic waterfall and river sections I had bought (pick yours up here ) during the Easter break.

Ready for priming

All sprayed ready for painting

After a wash in warm soapy water they were ready and primed as you can see above. 

Next up was to do the rocks surrounding the waterfall. This I applied a technique I learned a long time ago from Likes APS ( click  here for video). It's basically doing dark grey and then  dry brushing on progressively light greys and finishing with a touch of white to finish.

Got a basic paint on now

The sites of the river sections had sand glued to it before painting green. Also painted the river but blue. I didn't plan on using a water effect as I'm not so confident at using it.
Once the paint dried the blue  appeared to start to flake and break up.

Ahhh!!!!!

After seeking advice on Lukes APS terrain group it seemed I would have to scrape off the blue and start again and instead of using kids craft paint I should try acrylic paint. Luckily I had some blue acrylic paint left over from painting my sons room (animals on the wall). Now I'm an impatient painter so I thought instead of scraping off the blue I would try first to paint the acrylic over the flakeing paint. I did peel the worst bits off before hand. 

This seemed to work and the bumps caused by the flakeing added to the water feel. Now I needed to add an effect to the waterfall to give the impression of flowing water.
I checked the Amera plastic website as next to the products they put examples of those same products painted. The waterfall example had white dry brushed it looked like onto the blue to give the impression of flowing water. So I tried to replicate it, I hope you think so to

I think it looks ok

Last of all was to add a gloss to the water to give it a bit of a shine.

I think it looks good. Can't wait to try them on the battle field.

Have a great day folks