Based on Hollywood and comics, of course, the army consists of:
1 x Rider general (Cigar-smoking general in jeep)
1 x Paladin (Captain America)
1 x Hero (Sergeant Rock/Fury or similar)
1 x Knight (The Haunted Tank)
5 x Warband (Gung Ho American infantry)
1 x Beast (Lassie)
The Germans defended, their position being based on two hills.
Here's the Haunted Tank, making up the US right flank.
The general commands his troops from the rear.
Combat! Captain America engages the Demon Panzer.
Lassie and The Haunted Tank are also engaged. The Haunted Tank destroys an element of Nazi robots, but Lassie finds them less to her taste and is driven back. The robots would fight off Lassie and the tank for the rest of the game.
US infantry engages the German's Death's Head Battalion.
Captain America fell to the Demon Panzer (don't worry - he's not dead; just in suspended animation), so the US general was forced into action.
Lassie and Sergeant Rock rush to help, surrounding the Panzer. In fact Sergeant Rock had already fought his way through to the enemy stronghold, but failed to capture it, and his flee move put him close into the rear of the Demon Panzer.
Try as they might the US forces couldn't finish off the Panzer. As their elements were whittled down elsewhere, it fought off attack after attack. Eventually Adolf himself stepped in, and finished off Sergeant Rock to win the battle for the Germans.
The Americans are a fun army to play, with a hard-hitting Hero and Paladin combination. Of course the downside of this is that they are vulnerable to losing these troops, and the rest of the army - Warbands, Knight and a Beast - are potentially brittle if things don't go their way.
In a second game we pitted the Germans against the Russians. The Russians won after a bold German attack on their centre became over-extended and got outflanked.
Meanwhile - another time and another place; this HOTT game on another table used essentially historical medieval armies.
There was also an epic game of Bolt Action on the go, with Germans fighting French resistance, but I neglected to get any pictures of it.
Nice Army! Very inventive. Surely your stronghold has to be the white cliffs of dover with a 1/144 B-17 Flying Fortress (or preferably 2) flying in formation over the top of it.
ReplyDeleteThat's OK--the Americans will return in the third act to save the day!
ReplyDeleteFor a stronghold for this army, how about the entrance to a U.S. Army base?
An interesting idea. I thought perhaps a supply dump, made up of crates of Coca Cola, chocolate and nylons. Or the Hollywood sign.
DeleteGreat to see the Americans finally unleashed and in such an imaginative way. My favourite element is the ghost of JEB Stuart next to his mechanical namesake. So... what's the next nation to be depicted in your weird history?
ReplyDeleteNot sure - but at a production rate of about one army every five years I've got a while to think about it :)
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