Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Another AK-47 battle in Tonkistan

These are some pictures that I grabbed early on in last weeks big club game of AK-47.  The legitimate government of Tonkistan, mainly represented by Aiden's hodge podge of infantry and scratch built vehicles, bolstered by US aid in the form of my US Marines, Ian's US army and Phil's Israeli infantry and armour took on the communist backed insurgents of Pete's dictator army, Mark's ?Jordanians and Ben's ?Syrians.

Here my US Marines M60s cautiously advance to gain good firing positions in the fields on the right of the picture.


Israeli infantry occupy the town, while their heavy armour take up good firing positions in the side streets.


A convoy of ?Syrian technicals advance somewhat incautiously.


Pete's superbly painted Peterpig dictatorship army - had to get some pictures of these as they were fantastic.  Here a unit of Buffels, loaded with militia, with an AML-90 on point advance on my marines.


A unit of Pete's T-55s supported by a bewildered group of militia (bewildered as they wondered where the tanks were heading off to in such a hurry).


A units of Mark's infantry starting to become entangled with Pete's milita as they both make for the wheat field in front.


The game went well for me.  My tanks used the cover of the cultivated fields to good effect, shrugging off various tank and A/C shots and eventually knocking out both T-55s and keeping other units at a healthy distance.  The USMC infantry flank marched, taking Pete's Buffels in flank and breaking them before digging in against a couple of units of militia advancing on foot.  In the centre, the Israelis lost a lot of their armour to artillery, air strikes and other unpleasantness, while on the far left, my US Army buddy managed to let his M60s stray too close to militia in cover and were RPG'd out of the fight.

Still a bit slow, but we are picking up speed as we get more familiar with the rules and Pete and I enjoyed our own little private struggle on our edge of the table.

Thanks for looking,
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6 comments:

  1. Tales from Shed HQ12 June 2015 at 17:42

    Great looking game Andy, wish I had a club like Deeside close to me.
    Cheers
    Richard P

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  2. Andy Canham12 June 2015 at 19:12

    Thanks Richard.
    Yes, a bit too far for an evening. You're always welcome to the weekend games - we usually get 5 or 6 weekend games a year.

    Cheers, Andy

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    1. Tales from Shed HQ14 June 2015 at 08:52

      Cheers Andy, yes I will have to get organised at work and try and make a few of the weekends.

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  3. Just Jack13 June 2015 at 03:22

    Wow, great stuff Andy! I love the mix of forces. The fight sounded like a lot of fun, and sounds like you did well personally, congrats!

    V/R,
    Jack

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    1. Andy Canham13 June 2015 at 20:38

      Thanks Jack
      Everyone collects whatever appeals to them, plus reusing some WW2 minis from Flames of War. It was good fun, Pete, who was my main opponent has a fairly fatalistic attitude to dice rolling and his rolls weren't with him on that day. Funnily enough, I've just played a game of Cold War Commander where my opponent faced off a recce squadron of Scorpions with 3 battalions of T-72s for the entire game. In his orders phase we lost count of the blunders he rolled, let alone the failed command rolls. I lost 1 Scorpion and one infantry stand, while my attack helicopters providing flank security knocked out over a battalions worth of T-72s. Very lucky indeed!
      Cheers, Andy

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  4. Just Jack14 June 2015 at 16:27

    Andy,

    'Everybody collect your favorite stuff' sounds like a fantastic mantra to keep momentum up on long-term projects, and it's working out great for your group, based on the pics!

    I've been having a great time with 5Core Company Command, but I must admit to missing CWC. Some would say the scenario you described is ridiculous (in terms of bashing the activation system), but it sound plausible to me, and is the stuff (wargaming) legends are made of! I like a bit of drama in my games ;)

    V/R,
    Jack

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