by Craig Baxter
Happy Tanksgiving from the WWPD Northern Research Center. We recently had our annual Tanksgiving grudge match. Ten players faced off against each other in an all armor cage match. Everyone brought a 1500 point tank company and faced off for control of a massive 6ft by 8ft table. We played eight turns and by the end the table was full of wrecks.
Players set up their forces.
German positions anchored by Ferdie
Allied forces line up
Allied air power is shot down
Ferdie take shots at the Soviets
German air takes out some tanks
Allied M10s open up
More tanks storm forward
Sherman tanks smoke a Tiger
An 88 overlooks the battlefield
The German armored front
The Allied armored front
Marders, Tigers and Stugs hold down the flank
Tiger on the prowl
German support units
Allied air picks on Ferdie
The battle rages on
All their bombs miss
Armor lines up for battle
Soviet armor gets shredded
Allies advance
More tanks get wrecked
Stuarts up the middle
Close quarters fighting in the center
German air support takes out more tanks
Panzers in the grass
Sherman tanks in the grass
German AA takes aim
Stugs get flanked by Stuarts
Stuarts vs Tigers
A Panzer gets knocked out
Air support misses Ferdie again
Boom Boom Pow
Panzer reserves arrive to support the Marders
AA rages on
Clustered panzers get attacked
A Stug gets popped
The center is full of smoke
Allied air is shot down
Allied air miss Ferdie again
The Germans ended up winning the game. Allied players brought three air assets and they were fairly ineffective throughout the game. I don't think they knocked out a single tank. Meanwhile, the German air was very effective. Ultimately the allies were not able to deal with heavy german armor, which won the day.
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