Valour & Fortitude first games

    Recently we played a couple of games of Valour & Fortitude (V&F). The V&F is a set of rules of Perry miniatures. Though the rules are simple, I am sure that we made many mistakes during our first games. Next time we will be better!

   The opponents were la grande armee and the British Army.

La Grande Armee

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Hills

    Recently a friend of mine gave me half board of a blue styrofoam. I cut some pieces of it for my hills, which I painted and added battlefield green grass on them.

The hills

A brave Red Army soldier on top of the hill

I used two colours, grey and brown

Ready!

   When the hills were not yet ready, we used them for our battle. They looked fine on the battlefield!

Germans on the left - Soviets on the right

   This is the first post after five months! I didn't post all this period but I didn't stay idle. I managed to finish my Red Army infantry squads and teams. Soon, all my vehicles will be ready as well! And from now on I will try to publish more often.

   

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Soviet Light Machine Gun (LMG) Squads

   The DP-27/DP-28 was the primary light machine gun of the Red Army during WW2. It had a rate of fire of 550rpm, which was low as compared to its main wartime rivals, the German MG-34/MG-42. These German light machine guns had a rate of 800-1500rpm and because of this the German army special rule in Bolt Action allows them to fire one extra shot, five shots in total instead of four shots of the Soviet LMGs. 

   My army has two LMG squads. Each of them consists of twelve men, which are one NCO armed with submachine gun, two soldiers with LMGs, two loaders and seven riflemen. Some of the miniatures are metal of the Red Army box while the rest are plastic of the Soviet Infantry box. Both boxes are Warlord Games products.

LMG Squad "A"

The NCOs of the two squads

LMGs of Squad "A"

Squad "A"

LMG Squad "B"

LMGs of Squad "B"

Squad "B"

    My Red Army box had double miniatures of two riflemen. Also, it had another rifleman with a beard. So, in order to avoid having two couples of the same miniatures I gave to one rifleman of each couple a beard.

The original soldier with a beard

The first couple

The second

   That's all for today! Stay tuned for more!