Iron Cross - first game battle report (Western Desert)

[Remgain]

Splendid collection of shiny toys!!! 

And great battle report!!!

Merry Christmas!!
Marco

[Corporal Chaos]

Thanks for this first look. Very good AAR and wonderful collection.

[Schogun]

Very nice figs and table!

I'd be very interested in your stats for North Africa as I have recently started this theater.

Chuck

[James Morris]

Armour stats for this game:

British

Matilda (medium vehicle) armour 13/11; weapon 6; morale 5; note: heavy
A10 Crusader (medium vehicle) armour 11/10; weapon 6; morale 5
Vickers mkVIb (light vehicle) armour 10/9; weapon MGs only; morale 4
2 pounder AT gun (support) weapon 6; morale 3; gun shield

Italians
M11/39 (medium vehicle) armour 11/10; weapon 5; morale 5
M13/40 (medium vehicle) armour 11/10; weapon 6; morale 5
L3 (light vehicle) armour 9/8; weapon MGs or flamethrower or AT rifle (4)
65/17 gun (support) weapon 4; morale 3; gun shield
47mm AT gun (support) weapon 7; morale 3
20mm AT rifle (support) weapon 4; morale 3

All other statistics as per the book. I think we are possibly slightly low on the armour values, but they gave a good enough game while we are waiting for official lists.

[David]

I have the rules and will try a game soon, using my Greeks and Italians.
Just need to work out the Statistics for a Pak 35 and a 75mm gun, plus a 65mm mountain gun.
I can use all the Italian above, except M13/39 since they were never in Greece.
They were all sent to Africa.

[Schogun]

Thanks, James!

[matiec]

Great looking battle at hanks for sharing....

[Beast of Bukhara]

James

I like the look of this a lot  

The game looks fantastic  

Thanks for sharing

[darrylmorton]

Love the write up, James. 

Official stats for the Italians and other armies in North Africa are currently being worked on!

cheers

Darryl

[dhtandco]

We played our first game last night and thoroughly enjoyed it.even Malc (never more) who doesn't play WW2 was enthused to the point where we will play a large tank battle next week and post a report up

These are a very interesting,well tested and intuitive set of rules
We like 'em a lot!!!

[craig2]

Great table and figures, congrats.
Is there a PDF version of the rules ?

[Cecil Gaybody]

Dear Boy,
Bravo , a wonderful set up .
Clarence and I play tested an early version of the rules a couple of years ago
at our Kamp town club , Brighton . We found that the game bogged down
in one main area and other parts did nothing .
I am sure these have been ironed out know .

Keep it up
Cecil

[Volleyfire!]

Very nice looking figures and table. You've given me a quandary of sorts, albeit a pleasant one  . I was thinking of gaming this sort of thing using either CoC or Bolt Action, but now you've given me another set of rules to study before I can finally decide which to go with for small battles/large skirmishes..

[Mr. Peabody]

Great table and figures, congrats.
Is there a PDF version of the rules ?

Gosh, a .pdf would be a welcome thing. With the current state of exchange plus postage, the net cost for the book is a deterrent.

[craig2]

Gosh, a .pdf would be a welcome thing. With the current state of exchange plus postage, the net cost for the book is a deterrent.

Indeed, since two years I try to get all my rules in PDF and have all of them on my tablet. Very useful and light.