Between Lindenstrasse and Wilhelmstrasse

 Everyone can hear the clanking of Tanks tracks approaching,

during a lull in the constant shelling, civilians are trying to reach the "zitadelle" lies..

Disabled, useless a powerfull 88 canon guards the corner..

 On the Friedrichstrasse, a makeshift barricade is spposed to halt Ivan's onslaugh

 the SS flying courts are merciless toward those who lost their soldbuch...

Battle for Villebaudon July the 22nd 1944

Met last saturday at David C's place -mind you the attic is the Wargamer's dream came true..

Played a Blitzkrieg battle on the Normandy front, basically a US column due to seize a village in which a WSS platoon, sided by two SdKfz 222 and a Puma decided to oppose a futile resistance. What the US forces did not know at the time was that.. on turn 3, two Mark-IV H wer scheduled to arrive...

Great fun, great battle, great players,

the two blue bellies on the top right corner of the picc are the US players..

German deployment. One AC on each flank, the Puma in the center, HMG covering the main road, the Infantry platoon held in reserve behind the road and a Pzschk team at the crossroad.. Bloody effective.

US forces.. one Sherman platoon covering the right flank, one stuart on the left, one Inf co. in the centre...

The two sherman in the center will have a hard time during the next turn, they'll meet the Panzerschreck team hidden in the destroyed -they all are destroyed, sorry) building on the down right corner of the crossroad.

Germans will manage to delay the US advance until tun

 and the arrival of two Mark IV, which will turn the tide and cut the US AFVs to pieces in three turns..

great game

warrior's rest

I had this pair sitting in my "mess" for ages..

Thought it was about time to use them. The "inner room" will be added into a "brawler" project i have for our Berlin Big table..

Meet the French ad the Danish...

It was about time...

The Defenders of Zitadelle.

Kampfgruppe der Waffen-Grenadier "Charlemagne"

-One command squad - 5 men

-Two grenadier squads -2 x 9 men

- One PzJäger team - 4 men

- One HMG Team - 3 men

Kampfgrupper der Waffen-Grenadier "Nordland"

- One Commande element - 5 men

- Two Grenadier squads - 2 x 9 men

- One Pzjäger team - 4 men

- 1 Sniper team - 2 men

Divisionnal support:

One Tiger II

One Pz V

One Stug IIIG

Spared the Volksturm elements, cause they are somewhere down below..

Urban Ambush

while hell broke loose in the city zentrum, a group of teenage HJ risks their life awaiting the best moment to shoot with their panzerfaust...at the approaching T-34...

Kaboum... the boys traded their pride and honour for a seat in Valhalla....

Some close ups... let's start with Ivan

sneaking inside the buildings, Soviet assault squads moves into position..
Traffic report advises traffic jam in the city centre....

on the soviet left, a T-34 Platoon, supported by assault infantry jumps forward..

in the centre, facing the "formidable" tram barricade, Soviet heavy tanks slowly progresses

While Colonel Glebov and staff are checking the general advance scheme...

Next time, the opposition...

It was... epic

Berlin - Les Murs de Braise

Played our scenario...

One full soviet Co supported by 13 various tanks

versus two depleted Platoons supported by a handfull of tanks, HJ and VS...

Great day..

Will post more piccies in the near future with a battle report..