Following the success of last week's game, Mark was able to re-run a much larger version of the game on Friday 14th October. This saw 3 German A7Vs pitted against 6 British Mark IV tanks - 2 x Male and 4 x Female. He was again using the 'What a Tanker' ruleset, with some added complications.
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| A good view of much of the table-top battlefield, with German & British destination markers clearly on show |
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| Close-up of one of the German A7V vehicles. |
This wasn't as unfair as it sounds as the Female Mark IVs only had Machine Guns to fire, so it put 3 x 57mm German Guns against 4 x British 6lbrs. Additionally there was the complication that the British had 6 independently minded Tank Commanders in John, Rupert, Dave, Mike W, Phil & Nigel, whilst the Germans only had to co-ordinate the Prussian minds of Mat & Steve, along with the lone Saxon - Paul, visiting us from Somerset!
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| Rupert's Tank trundles onto eth Table-top being coaxed along by two crewmen |
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| Dave & Nigel's vehicles crossing the trench lines via a convenient gap, meanwhile Mike W's tank is broken down with the crew desperately trying to get it going before the German Artillery spots it! |
Both sides had a designated position to be captured and they went for it from the off. Although order of movement was random, all the British entered the table (except Rupert's land ship - as it was dawdling at the rear without a successful move roll).
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| At the top of the table can be seen Phil's 'Edge of the World' Mark IV being hunted by Saxon Paul's A7V. Meanwhile, Mat's Prussian A7V is closing in on Rupert's Mark IV. |
Then appeared the Germans!
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| Another shot of A7V number 507! |
Ultimately a number of British Tanks were able to cross the Trench lines, despite many mishaps and breakdowns. In the end numbers told as the Germans were not able to stop all the British vehicles and finally two of eth three Germans were disabled and the other trapped by surrounding British tanks on their victory marker.
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| Parting Shot! |
