Beautiful

Not heard of these rules, but certainly a different take on WWI!

Thanks chaps

QuoteNot heard of these rules, but certainly a different take on WWI!

AWT is a very new set (end of Sept) from Osprey, has been quite heavily promoted by Northstar. 


We've had a couple of fun games so far. So far Tanks and Armoured Cars are seeming very good, the supernatural elements add a nice level of flavour without being over powering. 

We played Russians vs Germans on Friday night - I'll get some photos posted shortly

A War Transformed - Russians vs Germans

Second game of AWT - going for the newly painted Russians so moving away from the newly drained English Channel to somewhere in Eastern Europe. In the game timeline there has been no Russian Revolution and the Russian Imperial forces have pushed west. 

Overview of the battle - my Russians nearest the camera. 



The 3 white obelisks on top of the hills are the objectives



Armoured cars engage enemy troops on the right flank - the HMGs on these were very effective. The German A/C destroyed my foot HMG with one burst, and my A/C was shooting up the German cavalry. 



My A/C has moved more towards the right flank, but this allowed it to be charge by the German cavalry - whilst the cavalry would struggle to damage it, it does pin the A/C in melee. My conscript infantry have joined the scrap. Whilst our infantry keep the bulk of the hill between them on the left.



On the far side of the table the Germans manifested a unit of Prowlers (yellow foo dogs - still painting up some more credible models!) which went on the Rampage. This proved pretty useful for the Germans as it was behind the Russian lines. 

On the far side of the table, I have manifested some Brownies (blue fairies - see note above!) these are the weakest manifestation - and I didn't keep enough Command Tokens to be able to trigger their abilities - so they just charged, which was a bit ineffective!



The ongoing scrap between the A/C and German cavalry. 

A good fun game. A/C do seem very good value, at 3pts so just 1 more than a foot HMG team, when they have the same weapon, can move quickly, can shoot after moving, and their armour makes them pretty invulnerable to most units (other than in melee).

Toying with just how big a game we could go with. We are still having to check a lot of rules (well mainly keywords) each game.

Fab report, looks great!

QuoteFab report, looks great!

Thanks Will

AWT Manifestations

Got some painting done this week on some AWT Manifestations and scenic items.



All the bits together - due to my existing WWI figures having a mix of grassy basing for early war, and mud for late war, I've done two sets of Manifestations - which in 10mm is pretty quick and easy.

I have 4 of the 6 types painted here, I am missing the smallest (brownies) and the largest (Crushers, aka giants) I can cover these from existing fantasy figures whilst I find some specifically for AWT



Grassy based Manifestations - from left to right, Haunters, Beguilers (which like to manifest in mires), Prowlers (wolves and bears) and finally Devourers (trolls, etc). Figures are a mix of Pendraken, Magister Militum and Copplestone.



Muddy basing - with tufts of flowers to represent the new growth mentioned in AWT. Same set of creatures as with the grassy basing, with the addition of some archers in the back, who are a spectral special summoning for the British.


Bones - 3d printed models, scaled up significantly, these are to be used as scenery for ancient dinosaur bones revealed when the sea levels change. Really liking these models, and they have painted up quickly and simpler. I have a bunch more (mainly smaller ones) still to paint.

Adding another 32 figures, and 4 pieces of terrain.

Painted totals for 2023 to  594 figures : 114 cavalry : 14 vehicles : 10 guns : 4 terrain

AWT - Russian Attackers vs German Defenders

Played and systematic scenario last night, with 20pts of Germans defending against 30pts of Russians (who came on in 2 waves, 20pts at the start, and the reminder at the start of turn 3)

We played a house rule that HMGs are affected by the difficult shot rules, and when making a difficult shot roll half dice. This seemed to work well stopping Armoured cars waltzing around shooting stuff up, and making troops in cover pretty resistant to MG fire.

A/C still seem rather invulnerable - so we will have a think about how HMGs might affect them.

There were 3 objectives near the German base line (represented by the large bones)


Righ flank, my Russians aimed to hold on this flank


The left flank - my forces mass, masked by the hill

The initial couple of turns saw my right flank moving forward - even using Orders to add some movement it was pretty steady pace. My mortar was hugely effective at neutralising the German field gun - not least due to some terrible rolling for priority by the German player - getting a total of 4, on 2d6+1d3!


Reinforcements arrive at the start of turn 3 - mainly cavalry


I managed to Manifest some Prowlers (bears!) who immediately went on the Rampage, but this meant they charged the German Field Gun - I pretty sure this gun failed to get off a shot all game!

No photo - but the Germans managed to Manifest their own Prowlers (wolves) on my flank - but they were shot up by my Tachanka then destroyed by my cavalry.

My next Manifestion - went for Devourers - needed 16 on 6d6

Failure!

The Germans tried the same tactics - but with more success

Their Devour drops in on my flank - the Tachanka attempts to shoot it up, but is shrugs off the shooting (saving on a 1-5 on a d6 vs shooting). My Cossacks charge, and lose a couple of stands, manage to inflict 1 wound, which the Devour recovers by Feasting on the casualties! This is why I wanted a Devourer on the German base line!


Got an infantry section onto the left hand objective, my A/C is threading the central one, but is being cautious as there are a lot of German infantry around. The German A/C has been engaged by my infantry pinning it in melee.

I manifested some Beguilers near the central objective - giving me control of two objectives - which was the win condition!

But!

The Germans also Manifested their own Beguilers in a mire, and used their Entrance ability to pull my infantry off the objective! Leaving me only holding one.

This was a good fun game. Felt a tough ask for the attacker - there was a lot of distance to cover in the 6 turns.

Rituals feel a bit meh, it just feels you are better to pile a load of command tokens in to attempt to generate Manifestation dice.



 

What a load of fun! Great report! 

QuoteWhat a load of fun! Great report! 

Thanks Will - I think we've now got the core of the rules down (although there are still a few things that need checking) so the game flows better.