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Title: 20mm Winter War
Post by: Aksu on 23 December 2016, 05:25:33 AM
Hullo,
Our GM Eero posted a long report of our CoC campaign battle two, with many pictures of his 20 mm Collection
http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=43186 (http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=43186)
Cheers,
Aksu
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: Techno on 23 December 2016, 07:57:47 AM
Excellent !!  :-bd

Wottalottapiccies......I thought the two b&w shots were rather evocative !  8)

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 23 December 2016, 08:44:25 AM
Beautiful figures and terrain.
Great report too
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: sunjester on 23 December 2016, 09:03:36 AM
A great looking game.  ;)
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: Steve J on 23 December 2016, 09:12:22 AM
Nice to see this campaign being wargamed.
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: fred. on 23 December 2016, 09:19:41 AM
I enjoyed that report. Really looks like hordes of Russians.

Kind of surprised that the Finns didn't do better. What rating are they and the Russians in CoC?
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: fsn on 23 December 2016, 09:49:06 AM
How much different would it have been if that first satchel charge had done it's job?
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: petercooman on 23 December 2016, 03:12:08 PM
Nice game!!!
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: Aksu on 23 December 2016, 03:27:07 PM
Thanks for the comments. Both sides are green still, I suspect the Finns will become regular soon. The Finns do suffer from lack of good weapons at this stage. Their squads have only the crappy domestic automatic rifle in comparison to the Decent LMG the russians have. We do give bunker-like bonuses to troops in trenches, and we have made bunkers even tougher than normal CoC, but in general Winter War does prove challenging to most game systems. If the overwhelming numbers of Soviets start shooting, Finns will take casualties. Which they can't really afford. At least in CoC the shock caused on the Soviets will slow and stop them, which is a good simulation IMHO.
We will probably use the WW1 sustained fire MG rules to make it even tougher for the brave liberators from the East to breach the fortified lines of the plucky Finns.
Anyway, I need to post the results of the latest game we had. Tired and Emotional Russians were counter attacked during the night by a small force of surviving Finns and some reinforcements.
Cheers,
Aksu
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: fred. on 23 December 2016, 03:47:33 PM
If both sides are green then it will be hard going. I guess I was thinking of later war Finns who would probably rate Elite. We tried one game of CoC with Elite US Airborne vs Green German defenders - it was over rather quickly. The Germans could barely hit the US even in the open!

If you improve the quality of the Finns then they should take fewer casualties, as they will be harder to hit. But if the Russians are putting out lots of dice, they will get lucky.
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: paulr on 23 December 2016, 06:34:17 PM
 :-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: toxicpixie on 24 December 2016, 01:04:43 AM
Not often you can say "powerful 45mm gun" with a straight face!

There's something wrong with our bloody satchel charges today.
Title: Re: 20mm Winter War
Post by: Roy on 24 December 2016, 09:49:58 AM
that all looks really cool!  :D