CoC Winter War campaign

[Aksu]

Hullo,
Our club started a Chain of Command campaign of the Winter War. The first battle report is at http://www.the-ancients.com/gemigabok/winter-war-begins/
Unortunately we are playing with 20mm figures, sorry about that.
Our umpire has modified the standard CoC campaign rules a bit, added lots of details and so forth, but as I am one of the players (on the Soviet side) I don't yet know what tricks he has up his sleeves.
Cheers,
Aksu

[Ithoriel]

Lovely looking game, great AAR.

Looks like the war is once again not going the way the Russians expected!

[Nosher]

Nice one and good to see a period not often played getting some coverage

[paulr]

Sounds like a good time was had by all but Ivan Ivanov

[Aksu]

Sounds like a good time was had by all but Ivan Ivanov

Yup, it was a very tense game. The GM even thought the game is over and the Finns should declare the game lost, but the Finnish player decided to stay on the field even against overwhelming Russian superiority. And then proceeded to shoot dead the Russian commander. All the russian morale losses were due to officer casualties. Sort of historical I suppose.
As an aside, I was morally obliged to play on the glorious Red Army team as my namesake was the defence secretary of Stalin's puppet governement of old Finnish reds during the war. No relation, though.
Cheers,
Aksu

[Aksu]

Forgot to mention, this was actually a historical scenario, the GM even had the names of all the individual Finnish soldiers involved. In the historical battle the Soviet engineers were still looking for the 300 kg demolition charge when the Finns detonated it under them. So I suppose we did better this time, at least all the engineers survived.
Cheers,
Aksu

[Steve J]

Great looking game of a very neglected part of WWII.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Lovely report and great scenery!

[paulr]

Forgot to mention, this was actually a historical scenario, the GM even had the names of all the individual Finnish soldiers involved. In the historical battle the Soviet engineers were still looking for the 300 kg demolition charge when the Finns detonated it under them. So I suppose we did better this time, at least all the engineers survived.
Cheers,
Aksu

Well done that GM

[Aksu]

Played another game, this time we the Russians managed to win with light casualties even though our troops were blind drunk and entered the board holding hands and singing the National anthem (combining two historical traits to raise our morale as high as possible). More at our blog http://www.the-ancients.com/gemigabok/winter-war-battle-2/
Cheers,
Aksu

[paulr]

Another interesting game

It looks like the Finns were very focused on the armour