Ok ladies and gents strap in for this as it is a bit long.
Those with a delicate nature please be warned that liberties with historical accuracy have been taken.
Janco toys in Barnsley put on Janco's Hero's day, basically several tanks and crews racing to get into the bank. The doors of the bank were armored 9 so would need a tank to open em, apparently roomers abounded that one of the tank crew was tired of the war and may be open to a deal. A leadership test against the tank crew and if you won you got to control the tank for an action. Each tank had three crew that could potentially bail out if hit and three strong command team that gave boost to accuracy and pen of their tank if within 6" of it.
The three tigers that were defending the bank plus their infantry consisting of bunny girls with big shooters, mix of panzershreck, assault rifles and sniper rifles.
This was Colin's tank co owner of Janco Toys and all round tiger nut.
Next up was Scotts Cromwell, most of us painted em up so we could also use them in our regular armies. Most of us
Dale and Donnas firefly with his good old boys
Jimmys Cromwell crewed by a bunch of ner do wells
It came with a sunbathing deck and won him best painted on a roll off, well deserved in my umble opinion
Marks Sherman with big Joe
Cain and his crew for mother Russia a Lee, this was mine and as the crew were armed as seen I in effect had two flags with pointy bits, a rapier, two pistols and some sharp teeth whilst everyone else seemed armed with all kinds of wonder weapons
Pauls Tetrach, the only tank with Recce
Saskias firefly with a crew made up of cleverly picked and named crew, so cleverly that I can't remember the specifics cos I am less clever
Boycies panther and his weasley crew last seen in a VBCW game thankfully without the Panther which today was the last tank to survive
Tanks in the square
the table
We all started on random sides and had to race to the bank, blow the doors off and get our commander into the bank past the three tigers that were unable to act until shot at or we got too close and the bunny girls who were defending from the roof tops. Clearly the sensible thing to do was act together to take out the tigers and then all walk up to the bank. The winner was not the first one to get a commander in but everyone who got one in. Remember I said sensible thing to do and then remember we are team Janco with a proud tradition for duplicity and back stabbing that would put most dictatorships to shame.
James the GM with his rattle of power
It begins, Cain moves off towards the town with Petrov, his dog Hitler and Mother Russia
Scott takes the first pot shot at a tiger that wakes em up then and gets a couple of crew stunned results in return which was actually quite lucky for him all things considered as two tigers shot him in turn 1.
With an incredible shot using Cains ability to give +1 accuracy and +1 pen the light anti tank gun ranges in but does nothing and the hull gun takes out Wittmans tiger on turn 1. We all though this was likely to be a quick game, how wrong we were.
Marks Sherman becomes the first of the "allies" tanks to go up in flames, Colin really enjoyed the role as evil Nazi
Unfortunately mother Russia is then brewed up by a sneaky shot from a firefly, at this point all hope of a combined attach went out the window and shameful displays of bribery, pleading, berating and bullying took over as everyone tried to convince everyone else to take out their team mates. It has to be said that Scott was particulary targeted but it was him that woke up the tigers so there.
Boycies panther fired back into what was to become a tank version of handbags at dawn with the firefly and panther firing for several rounds for little effect
Scotts Cromwell makes it into town, he had pretty much started in the town anyway, and immobilises a tiger
I couldn't resist it and Hitler acting as a bomb dog hit the panther but then failed to do anything to it. I was to regret not having his teeth with me when the close assaults started.
Cromwell takes a tiger to the rear, as unpleasant as it sounds
Cain and Petrov make it to the front of the bank and take out Scotts tank crew who had bailed out, Anastasia the rapier wielding she devil was on top of the banks kebabing bunny for the after match BBQ. think she managed to run through three or four before taking a machete to the head
Cain eyeing up his escape route checked the car for keys, he has survived every VBCW game so far by being as far from the action as possible, whilst Petrov looked on at the locked doors of the bank.
Piat guy trys to knock out the tank whilst Jimmys HQ take pot shots at Cain who decides to hide behind the car
Saskia takes out a Tiger with a great shot but rolls on a special chart and finds out the shell was over charged and did take out the Tiger but the resultant back blast adds six pins to her tank. Two Tigers down so we can now try to bargain with the last one
At this point several commanders try to negotiate with the Tiger, some get control of it and decide to shoot their fellow players rather than get it to blast open the door.
Cain who had managed to take win several assaults finally gets taken out by Jimmys girls who leaped the car and took him out, everyone who knows him was surprised he had made it to the middle of the action rather than observe from the rear. Cain actually managed to crawl to safety ignored as the Chaos went on around him and was comforted a little by the fact that his blood seeping under the door was the first part of a commander to get into the bank, his spirited game play also won him wooden spoon and most sporting player for how he died with good grace. Personally I thought they all just took pity on me.
As people now realised that if they no longer had a commander who could actually get into the bank they may as well either take out everyone elses commanders or the vehicles able to open the door so no one could get in, if we could kill all the bunny girls as well it would actually be possible for everyone to lose this would be Janco gold.
Marks commander the last one on the table were shot down under a hail of fire from the Tetrach, the bunny girls and a Panther that had just rolled around the corner. Butch and Sundance would have been proud of his glorious end.
Pretty much everyones commander had now made it to the doors and died to the assault of the next commander who made it there. This despite the fact that all of our figures counted as heroic so needed a six to kill em.
Colin was declared the winner as no one had made it in with Mark and sir Boyce a close second and third.
Fantastic game and the tanks actually played out really well with most taking a couple of shots before being blown sky high, really great way to spend a day and we all got a special Warlord female sniper for taking part.
Thanks if you have made it this far I highly recommend something similar if you can stomach the attack on the historical component or our beloved game and Tank Wars on a big built up table really went well with so many players meaning any dice could come out and you best laid plan was bound to fail.
by Baldie » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:55 pm 
