New Germans, Finnish Fortified Companies and Nipple Piercings.

Within the last week a lot of shit has gone down. I will attempt to tackle explaining this shit in three phases:

Phase 1: Talk about new German Infantry models I purchased.
Phase 2: Pontificate my new-found affection for early war Finnish in Flames of War.
Phase 3: Try to justify piercing my friend's nipple with a safety pin when we were fucked up.

I have a lot of work ahead of me.



First, those new Germans. I bought the platoon from a guy for $30 painted and assembled.


Pretty good deal if you ask me. They're painted better than I'd ever paint 15mm infantry. The only big issue is that they are from mid war as opposed to late and are therefore lacking some panzershrecks/fausts. Molgrimmar has some extra fausts/shrecks which I should be able to add in some crazy way.





Second, this last weekend me and Woost went to Ottawa to visit the Darkster. We determined that we should all start early war this summer in an effort to bring Woost into FoW. Looking for an army I thought I'd go with something a little different. No one else in our little gaming commune plays a fortified company and the only early war fortified company I can find is Finnish. As such I'm thinkin a list like this:

Confident    Veteran	Mannerheim Line Strongpoint Fortified Line	Finnish Early-War
Fortified Company

Platoon	Qty	Unit	Points
Headquarters
Mannerheim Line Strongpoint HQ  p.99	2 1	Cmd Rifle team Trench Line	35
Combat Platoons
Jalkaväki Strongpoint  p.99	1 4 2 2	Cmd Rifle team Rifle team HMG Pillbox Trench Line	250
Jalkaväki Strongpoint  p.99	1 4 2 2	Cmd Rifle team Rifle team HMG Pillbox Trench Line	250
Fortifications
Gun Position  p.100	4 1	Gun Pit Trench Line	25
Gun Position  p.100	2 1	Gun Pit Trench Line	15
Anti-tank Obstacles  p.100	4	Anti-tank Obstacle	400
Minefields  p.101	2	Minefield	100
Barbed Wire Entanglements  p.101	12	Barbed Wire Entanglement	120
Communication Trenches  p.101	3	Trench Line	15
Divisional Support
Panssari Platoon  Confident  Trained   p.109	5	T-26	240
Jalkaväki Anti-tank Platoon  p.97	1 2	Cmd Rifle team 45 PstK/37 (45mm obr 1937) gun	100
Pioneer Platoon  p.111	1 6 1	Cmd Pioneer Rifle team Pioneer Rifle team Pioneer Supply Horse-drawn wagon	175
Artillery Battery  p.110	1 1 1 4	Cmd Rifle team Staff team Observer Rifle team 76 K/02 gun	275
Company Points:			2000

The important part is all those defenses. I better get started on those shits if I don't want to be behind when the time comes to lay it on the table. The coolest thing about this list is the minefields/AT obstacle combo. With both I can block off 56" of table, forcing tanks to move through the minefields. Combine this with barbed wire and gun emplacements and it's WWI all over again.


Finally, me and some buddies from school went out on Monday night. It was a typical Monday night at the clubs; no one was out because it was Monday. Fuckin Mondays. Anyways, after almost getting in a fight with the four other people in the club (I don't even know how this happened), we left and decided to go to a pub to get some beer. We felt slightly better about ourselves so we issued my good friend Pauly G a challenge. If he were to escort a lady to her chamber, we would bestow upon him $40. If he were to fail in his quest, we were to pin him to the ground and stick a safety pin through his nipple. I'll let my audience guess what transpired.

So I lied, that's not the last thing I wanted to say. I want to demand of my associates that we each post at least once a week. A 5 post a week blog sounds great and 1 post a week isn't that hard to muster. We can do it!

Man that sounded lame.