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Rapid Fire WWII East Front

This weekend the local HMGS-South group played a WWII east front game using the Rapid Fire rules.

The Germans were tasked with clearing a route the length of the table for a truck convoy.

Forward Russian positions are destroyed.

More Russian positions fall, but Russian tanks arrive and counterattack.

Sturmoviks finally arrive, in time to destroy some of the truck convoy.

The field is littered with abandoned and destroyed tanks.

Decades ago I used Valiant Enterprises ‘Ramming Speed’ 1/900 scale pentakonters as 1/1200 scale aphract trieres. Since I could now use more cataphract trieres, the models are being converted by filling in the exposed benches with strips of paper. Only 40 to convert….