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Pendraken Rules! => Blitzkrieg Commander IV => BKC-IV Battles => Topic started by: viiiilegion on 03 February 2022, 08:19:23 AM

Title: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: viiiilegion on 03 February 2022, 08:19:23 AM
Today we bring you a 15mm AAR between the Soviets and the Blue Division.

Amidst Fall Blau a vicious armoured battle develops near the Volga. Both OKH and STAVKA keep sending units to the area in order to stabilize the front. During the night elements of the Spanish Blue Division together with some armoured support in form of StuG III assault guns enter the area and entrench themselves in order to face the incoming Soviet forces: an infantry section supported by T34/76s and KV-1s. At dawn both forces face each other.

https://viiii-legion.blogspot.com/2021/12/blitzkrieg-commander-battle-of-attrition.html

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Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 03 February 2022, 08:40:23 AM
Looks good, what scale are those figures?
Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: mmcv on 03 February 2022, 08:49:03 AM
QuoteLooks good, what scale are those figures?
QuoteToday we bring you a 15mm AAR between the Soviets and the Blue Division.
:-\

Looks really good!

Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: paulr on 03 February 2022, 08:51:44 AM
A good looking game, I particularly like the mounted troops

QuoteToday we bring you a 15mm AAR between the Soviets and the Blue Division.
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Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: Ithoriel on 03 February 2022, 11:56:09 AM
Excellent stuff! Nice to see cavalry used for Eastern Front, both sides had it but wargamers rarely do.

Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: Orcs on 03 February 2022, 12:02:01 PM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 03 February 2022, 11:56:09 AMExcellent stuff! Nice to see cavalry used for Eastern Front, both sides had it but wargamers rarely do.


Yes it is nice to see ww2 cavalry. Most wargamers don't seem to bother with any horse drawn artillery either.

I think its partly the additional cost and time of painting cavalry , and the fact that as soon as the shooting starts the men dismount. 
Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: Ithoriel on 03 February 2022, 12:26:11 PM

QuoteI think its partly the additional cost and time of painting cavalry , and the fact that as soon as the shooting starts the men dismount. 
Wot? No Italian cavalry attacking mounted, with sabre and hand grenades, complete with trumpeter accidentally shooting his own horse? :)


Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Izbushensky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Savoia_Cavalleria_at_Izbushensky)
Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: Big Insect on 03 February 2022, 12:31:19 PM
Excellent game - most inspiring.
What version of BKC are you using?
Cheers
Mark
Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 03 February 2022, 12:41:57 PM
Great pictures.

It's a brave man who rides a Panzer 1 against T34s
Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: viiiilegion on 03 February 2022, 12:51:48 PM
Thank you very much to all!!!

Answering some of the questions.

- We usually play with 15mm miniatures
- The truth is that yes, it is difficult to see cavalry in WWII miniatures Wargames. But we like it a lot, just like the draft mules or the explorers on bicycles, hehehehe, you'll see it soon :P
- We play V4, the last one released, the truth is that it is very good and we like it a lot.
- Yes, the drivers of Pnzr I from Zypheria are brave, :D :D :D

Greetings!!
Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: Big Insect on 03 February 2022, 01:11:10 PM
Quote from: viiiilegion on 03 February 2022, 12:51:48 PM- We play V4, the last one released, the truth is that it is very good and we like it a lot.

Great to hear that viiilegion  :-[ ... & also nice to see the cavalry in action as well - I'm also all in favor of horse drawn wagons and gun limbers in WW2 games as well.
Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: Itinerant Hobbyist on 14 February 2022, 11:11:41 PM
Nice work. I like the looking the game.
Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: Zypheria on 17 February 2022, 06:21:50 AM
Look mom I'm on the internet!!  ;D  :d

Here (https://www.instagram.com/p/COBXo2Vn_-U/?utm_medium=copy_link) you can take a look at my 3 cavalry stands and here (https://www.instagram.com/p/B9VtnQmoGRl/?utm_medium=copy_link) my horse limbers.
Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: paulr on 17 February 2022, 07:22:55 AM
:-bd  =D>  :-bd  =D>
Title: Re: AAR - Spanish Blue Division vs Soviets - Battle of Attrition
Post by: Itinerant Hobbyist on 10 April 2022, 09:40:13 PM
Fantastic pics and AAR