With our Team's (Armageddon Inc) recent visit up to GW Lenton for 'Council of War' weekend, which turned out to be a good weekend for my Chaos Daemon army of Tzeentch (1 loss and 2 wins) and the absolute victory (17-5) in Apocalypse on the second day - got to use my Armourcast Phantom Titan in an 8000pts per side.

He did very well, kill list included Marneus Calgar and 10 Terminator Bodyguard, Tigius, Lysander, 3 Centurions, 2 Vendetta's and a Warhound twice (brought back after scheduled break), only possible due to the sacrifice of James Iyanden Eldar protecting me from tons of assault Terminators.

Anyway, between these games I picked up the latest Horus Heresy Book 2 - Massacre, along with some Mechanicum and the first models for my first Forgeworld only army - 5 MkIII Space Marines to be painted up as Sons of Horus (I've already got a sizeable Worldeater force using Mk6 RTO1 Space Marine 'Beakies' with Angron leading them to many a victory.

Looking in the allies chart in HH Book 1...

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A little more progress on the train, this time with a test of the Kommandowagen. The Sketchup model was flattened and printed out, and then glued together to check that it would work on the model railway. I also built a test chassis rig from from plastic I-beam, with brass point bearings and Hornby 14mm metal wheels, spaced at 70mm and 80mm centres so that it could be used to test both the armoured railcars axle spacing (70mm) and the longer spacing on the Pz38t tank carrier wagon (80mm, bearings can be seen at right hand side of pic that the axle can be moved onto) around the 1st and 2nd radius track on the railway. Even on the longest spacing it makes it around the 1st radius curves without derailing, although at speed it might well come off.



The railcar with the card mockups of the loco and tender, and...

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Later that day, Ian came round for a game of FoW with the 8' x 6' table setup, we played a Total War game - this time Ian's Polish Armour vs my Fallschirmjager

Polish Force
HQ - 4 Shermans + Challenger AA
Combat - 3 Shermans + Firefly
Combat - 3 Shermans + Firefly
Combat - 3 Shermans + Firefly
Weapon - 3 Stuarts
Weapon - 3 Universals Recce
Support - Rifle Platoon
Support - Rifle Platoon
Support - 4 x M10 Tank Hunters
Support - 8 Gun Battery 25pdrs
Support - 4 Sexton SP Artillery
Support - Typhoon Priority

Fallschirmjager Force
HQ - 2 Command + 2 x Panzershrek Teams
Warrior - Van der Hydte + 4 x Panzerfaust Trap Teams
Combat - Fallschirmjager Platoon (upgraded with Panzerfausts)
Combat - Fallschirmjager Platoon (upgraded with Panzerfausts)
Combat - Fallschirmjager Platoon (upgraded with Panzerfausts)
Weapon - HMG Platoon
Support - Fallschirmjager Pioneer Platoon (upgraded with Panzerfausts)
Support - Mortar Platoon (2 tubes)
Support - Anti Tank Platoon 4 x Pak40
Support - Heavy Mortar...

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Having a long summer break between Contracts - so have time to play big games.

Had 2 games of FoW and persuaded Stu & Ian to take me on at "Total War" mission, this is played with larger than normal forces, we went for 3000pts from one Company.
There are 6 objectives on the table which give you 1vp each turn held, 2 in each players deployment and 2 6" from center line. We played over a 6' x 7' table.

Ruined Town including New Railway Station

Russian Village - latest purchase is the Church

First game was my British Armoured Tanks from Hells Highway vs Stu's German Panzerkompanie.

British - CV
HQ - 4 Shermans
Combat - 3 Shermans + 1 Firefly
Combat - 3 Shermans + 1 Firefly
Combat - 3 Shermans + 1 Firefly
Combat - 3 Shermans + 1 Firefly
Support...

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I've managed to get a Hornby 8F locomotive + tender to base the Panzerzug on (it should be a German BR 57 0-10-0 locomotive but they're pretty expensive!), but now it's arrived I've found a couple of problems. The first is that I didn't realise it was a tender drive set I was getting, so I can't use the chassis I already had for the tender. The second is that the loco and tender are both a bit longer than the Panzerzug - while I could get out my dremel and trim them down to close to the right size, my son has decided that he likes the 8F too so the train will now be interchangeable; the 8F tender shell will be removed to put on the Panzerzug tender shell as the 8F shell is too high to cover over, and the loco shell will be built to fit over the existing 8F shell with about 15mm longer armour and clearance for the front bogey, allowing it to run as a German train or as a British steam train both in the 1942-1945 period.

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