Two weeks ago I hosted a fun WW3 battle between my Bundeswehr and Greg's Warsaw Pact army (aka the Chemical Commies). I'd just painted some new BW tank-killers with Milan ATGWs and the time was right for a wall-to-wall Pact tank assault to test them! We chose a "breakthrough" scenario that required the Pact to get into the BW deployment zone by the end of the game. The BW had a few infantry sections and a couple Milan teams. Pact had 3 T-80s and some BTRs packed with gribblies, plus some disposable scout cars...
Milan team placed in a ruined apartment building.
View from the town. Pact vehicles just over the horizon...
Here they come!
Chemical dismount...
Lone BW trooper with Panzerfaust 3. "Dude - BEHIND YOU!"
Blowed-up BTR in the town.
Last BTR is threatening but Milan rains death from above (note absence of company command section)
Last man standing for the BW. A newly painted model no less!
The game was great fun as our WW3 games tend to be. We played with a "persistent gas" rule that meant my BW guys who were sans NBC gear suffered a slight penalty to morale and firing, that was cool. The Milans and PzFst 3's were alternatingly deadly and useless as several Training checks were failed at key times, but they did enough to keep the Pact at bay. The game ended with the last Pact vehicle blown up in the town - a German win. But one can imagine the dismay of the BW survivors when 15 minutes later, another identical Pact task group rolls up the road...
Note the lack of gas masks on these British infantry. They tend to have a rough time in our chemical filled WWIII games.
Here are two Kitech Challenger 1's and a Challenger 2 from Imprint Models - Total opposite ends in terms of quality.
Frogmen from Eureka. I intended them to be used as SBS, but they seem to hunt zombies more often.
No issues with poison gas - well they have issues with it, but less immediate than with the British.
The French have played one game and I think they did ok - much to everyone's surprise.
