My gaming club and possibly the best gaming club in Sydney, Company of Dice hosted Operation Armoured Fist which was run by our good friend Rob.
This article will discuss my decision to run a War Plane, it's construction and how it performed on the day.
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| The Me 262 A-1a 1/72 Scale from Revell Models |
Concept
Armoured fist allows you to run Armoured Platoons and War Planes with 1500 points to play with. As I have never run a War Plane in Bolt Action before and the rules are being phased out for Second Edition (so I have been told), I just happened to have an un-built Me 262 laying around that was not intended to be used for war gaming.
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Constructed and ready for priming
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Pre-shading done. This can be rough
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| Base Coated |
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| Post Shading Done |
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| Me 262 A-1a By Revell Models |
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| Them Jets |
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With its base
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| Armoured Fist |
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| The Prizes |
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| My Force |
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| My Force |
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| The Germans Roll Out |
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| Mind your ears! |
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| Game 1 vs Soviets |
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| Game 2 Strafing Run on Bryan's Hungarians |
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| Me 262 Wrecked 2 of Bryan's Hetzers |
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| Stug Down! |
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| Bail out! |
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Game 3 vs Zane - Me 262 Flying over the Battle Field
How did the 262 go?
For 253 Points it is Regular has 4 x Heavy Auto Cannons and a bomb. To say it was overpowered was an understatement!
Game 1 vs Soviets - Victory. Tabled the enemy turn 5. 262 knocked out a T34 and strafed two infantry units. 1497 points collectively damage done.
Game 2 vs Hungarians - Loss. Hard fought tank battle! 262 wrecked two Hetzers and strafed a Zyrinii II. 1000 points collectively damage done.
Game 3 vs Germans - Victory. Awesome grudge match in demolition. 262 knocked out an Armoured Car and a Panzer 3. Did a strafing run on a Panzer 4. 893 points collectively damage done.
Overall I came 4th and got the honorary Terminator Award (unofficially) from the organiser Rob. I clocked up 3390 points of damage over 3 games! No one came close to that!
Bryan took out the day with First Place and Best Painted (Hungarians) and in my opinion well deserved!
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I have just been all the way through your blog and I have to say it is absolutely fantastic. Your Vehicles, figures and aircraft are superb.
ReplyDeleteComing from you that is a massive compliment! Thanks! I am venturing into Terrain as we speak, I also have lots of projects on the go and will be posting more content soon.
DeleteWhere are the rules for the 262? Any other plane rules I've missed other than the ba article?
ReplyDeletethe only Rules I am aware of are on the Warlord Games Website. They certainly are interesting and fun to play.
DeleteAny chance of a link to the rules for the262 on the site? Huge thanks!
Deletethese are fan created by a guy at a club I play at and are anything but official https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/Warplanes%20with%20my%20creation%20table%20v1.1.docx?token=AWxP6RQ1PIPmDm2WHPjIb7UMqNmhlRfZKh8TRd3ORbVP1YV3bsgOvcCNBkkoJdIDqWdLbyxbZr8J-ZCeuPBnnXQqJXTbqlBRIO52r3tYXQSk-NddpL71fPBWxZ9Sbrl4JiBE03obOzgTMaJEobPtrn7k355cn0_E3ryVYDiIargznf7MOpT5sOSsEN2ytmwtTWo54aAUu5SJBwjxXXkMIG_e
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