Battlecry 2012 Moderns Game Report
Introduction
Over the last few years we have had a WRG Moderns competition at the local convention Battlecry here in New Zealand. For
the 2012 tournament we(I) decided to do something a bit different and we went for a cold war theme with a cutoff year
of 1983. This looked like a reasonably balanced cutoff but there was a lot of T80Bs fielded by the WARPAC players and
they are a tough tank to crack.
The tournament had 10 players and we were using the WRG 1950-2000 rules and our figures were in 6mm scale (1/300th)
scale. We managed to get an even number of players on each side even with the late withdrawal of a couple of people. The
only concession was with the Swedish army who sided with WARPAC rather than NATO (it was either them or the French).
There
were 4 rounds of competition spread over 2 days and each round was 4 hours. We
setup the tables at the beginning of the tournament and then rotated tables to save repositioning the terrain each time
(although a few pieces were shuffled around after some obvious flaws were noticed). The desert table was redone on the
second day to save some time packing it up later on for the player.
There was a good variety of armies :-
NATO
West German mechanised Infantry with lots of infantry in M113 and a few Leopard 2s and a lot of LARs rockets
2 British Armoured with Chieftains and FV432s
French armoured with AMX30B2s and AMX10Ps
US Armoured Cavalry with M1s, M113s and a few M2 Bradleys
WARPAC
3 Soviet Motor Rifle - T-80Bs, BTR80s and BMP1/2s
1 Soviet Motor Rifle - T-72As, BTR60PBs and BMP1s
Swedish Mechanised with S Tanks, Centurions and PBV302s
Overall the competition went well and everyone enjoyed themselves A few people dropped out of the last game of the second
day as some had to leave early, so most only played 3 games. Some of the armies played better than expected with the French
and Swedes holding their own. Unfortunately not everyone kept their results so I have no idea which side came out on top.
And finally a special thanks to Dan and Gavin for the Flames of War GT who let me steal a bunch of their photos from their
photobucket sites, which meant I had a surplus of good photos which makes a change from last year.
Click on the thumbnails to see the full sized image
Table two
Steves great terrain which has been admired for years by fellow gamers. You can see the very nice hedge lined roads and fields and the rows of popular trees. Also there is a scratchbuilt Motorway and bridge and the town is mostly Timecast buildings. The trees are all K&M I think and there is also some Z scale railway track in the last photo.
Table three
More tables
Although it was a NATO-WARPAC theme we did have one desert table in our tournament. This table had some great Gamecraft buildings with a Old Crow monorail and cork tile hills. The roads are resin I think and you can see a few Hovels buildings in there as well. More details on these are in my Terrain section on this site.
Tables - part five
Once again Als lovely ferry and container ship models by Old Crow make an appearance. You can also see the Old Crow port and the coastline from Miniatureworld maker in Australia. The last photo shows Steves table which we used on the first day as a desert table and it includes some nice power pylons and a homemade motorway.