Bunker Bowl season 6

A new team for the new season upcoming!

A brand new team, at least for me, will take the pitch this spring. I'll go with the standard setup of six Saurus and a Kroxigor to allow for some early SPPs gain on the teams less scoring members, the Saurus and the Krox. The Lizardmen team might stand high on the food chain, but hopefully their lack of starting skills can provide a bit of challenge in the current season of Bunker Bowl! 

Team Yankee - Oil wars

Syria
HQ T62
5xT62
6xT62
HQ T72m
3xT72m
3xT72m
3xT72m
2xShilka
HQ BTR60
4BTR60+stagger
4BTR60+stagger
2xSU-27

Israel
HQ Merkava 2
2xMerkava 2
2xMerkava 2
Mech Infantry
Tow jeep
2xShika
2xCobra

The mission is a counterattack with Syrians as attacking force. Israel holds tow jeeps, Shilkas and cobras in reserve and ambush one platoon Merkava. Syria start will all units on the table.

Turn 1

The Syrians push forward and move one mounted unit towards the left flank objective. One Merkava is destroyed at short range by the T72s. The Israeli Cobras arrive and one of their tow missiles destroys a T72. two more Merkavas appear from ambush and Israel fight's back with tanks and infantry, destroying a T72 and two T62s and a BTR. A shilka and a few BTRs are bailed.

Turn 2

Syrian forced push forward and position to make an assault with the T62s. Air support arrives but fail to hit the Merkava it was aiming for. The assault results in all three T62s getting bailed, stopping the assault. All T72 shells bounce off the Merkavas. The Shilkas fire combined with the stagger team destroy the Cobras.

Israeli TOW jeeps arrive, blowing up the Syrian Shilkas. Another handful of vehicles are destroyed by the combined fire from Merkavas and infantry

Turn 3

The Syrian infantry push forward to support the fight against the dug in Israeli infantry, while the T62s approach the Merkavas. The BTR infantry on the left flank moves out of their vehicles and take up position by the second objective. Their transports and destroy three Tow jeeps with their autocannons. One Merkava is Bailed, but remounts at the start of its next turn.

Now the Shilkas arrive and destroy one BTR. Realizing the threat at the second objective the Merkvas and the M113 transports move into better positions, while opening up on the tanks ahead. Another two T72s and one of the T62 companies are finished off.

Turn 4

Realizing the dug in Israeli infantry is to hard to assault all Syrian units try to re position to better protect the second objective. A side aimed shot from the stagger team destroys a Merkava.

The Merkavas destroys a T72 and reduce the T62 to just two tanks and the HQ. The M113 reduce the first infantry platoon to three teams, barley keeping them alive.

Turn 5

With few weapons to take on the Merkavas from the front, only side shots from the slow fire ring T62 can attempt to destroy the Merkavas. But all shot misses. The rest of the army re position towards the second objective.

To prevent the Syrans from taking the objective at the beginning of turn 6, one Merkava moves up towards the objective and assault one of the infatry teams. With no weapons to fight the Merkava at close range, the Infantry has to pull off. However, the Tanks flanks are now exposed.

  

Turn 6

The battle goes into closer quarter with exposed tanks, combined tank fire and stagger missiles destroy two Merkavas. The M113 are reduced by massed fire from the remaining BTRs.

With only two tanks, a M113 and the dug in infantry left, the odds are getting bad for the Israelis. One Merkava is hitting the T62 HQ twice, but getting a double bail result in the T62 formation still on the table. The Second Merkava bounce its shots against the T72s

  

Turn 7

The last two Merkava's are destroyed by the stagger team and the aircraft, thus the Israelis breaks off having only the infantry still on the table. Each Syrian formation was reduced to minimum,but all three formations remain at the end of the battle.

Result; minor Syrian victory

Flames of war - Kursk campaign (part 3)

The first part can be found here and the second here.

Battle 12 and 13.

Battle 12 

A soviet offensive that turns into a meeting engagement. The battle is constantly a close call and the German Tiger push deep into soviet lines. But the Soviet counter offensive proves lucky, where the marders all get bailed and flees the battle. The Stuarts then push into the Germans lines, taking the German objective just one turn before the Germans would have pulled off a victory.

  

Battle 13

In the next battle the soviets face a couple of the most feared Ferdinand's. The game starts out well off for the Germans, but the offensive is quickly halted and the Soviets manage to pull off a Victory again.

Current score

With Kursk lost to the Soviets and the adjacent territories being captured in battle 12 and 13, things looks a bit dark for the German side.

Soviets: 21

Germans 13

Two more battles to go.

Bunker Bowl Season 5

Some Sewer Sirkus highlights from Bunker Bowl season 5

Smashing the mouths
With insane bravery (and stupidity) the halflings team Smashed Mouths heroically scores two times! Gracefully, and twice, the not so very aerodynamic halflings where thrown towards the endzone and managed to score! The (in comparison) stronger goblins of Sewer Sirkus where a bit thoughter and faster on the field and scored three times. However, Deeproot Strongbranch manage to kill the warp stone troll, who fails its regeneration test and the apothecary fails to patch him up!

Disastrous defeat

A notable mention was the game against Ork team Darkland Riders, where the Sewer Sirkus had to end the game due to not being able to set up three players on the line of scrimmage at the mid second half. A disastrous defeat that probably resulted in a handful of extra deaths due to angry fans!

Brothers in arms

Playing against the goblin brothers in Lunds political superstars turned out to be a game of the ball, with a 3-2 score. Both teams played the running game with a pinch of dirty tricks.

Semi finals
With five wins and two losses Sewer Sirkus strangely place themselves number one in the group play, facing off the number four in the group - Darkland raider. Still fresh in the memory, the complete devastation in previous meeting, the goblins and skavens of Sewer Sirkus reluctantly set up on the pitch. The games goes to full time with a 1-1 score, resulting in overtime. This time the Sewer Sirkus has a numerical advantage, filling up with goblins to replace their causalities and previously managed to beat three orks out of the match.

The orcs wins the coin flip to receive the ball in the overtime and sets up with nine players, still with good morale. Sewer Sirkus gets a Blitz during kick off and instantly advance towards the ball, almost reaching it. But the Darkland Raiders manage to sneak a goblin just close enough to pick up the ball, and then runs towards the troll. The goblin is successfully thrown (and not eaten) towards the underworld end zone, and lands on his feet! In the following turn the Sewer Sirkus manage to hunt down the goblin, pick up the ball, and run down towards the ork end zone. A heroic attempt to blitz the ball carrier before he reach the end zone is attempted by the ork blitzer, who gracefully dodge into the cage, but rolls attacker down against the sneaky goblin. The game ends in overtime with a 2-1 victory to Sewer Sirkus.

Finals
After a tense semi finals the unruly skaven and goblin associates take to the pitch once again it the finals. It'a big day for the most unwanted and somber team in blood bowl. It's time to face off Dark elves! Sewer Sirkus gets to receive in first half, but are instantly tricked b a perfect defense. Basing goes on without any causalities, but the graceful elves dodge into the cage and steals the ball. 1-0.

It's time to receive again, but the dark elf crowd throws a rock on one of the skavens, slightly impeding the underworld offence. Once again the dodgy elves sneaks into the cage and steals the ball, 2-0. After repeated attempts suddenly a goblin boot finds it's way into the mouth of a dark elf, sending him to the infirmary, but also sending the sneaky goblin out of the pitch.

Time for second half, and the dark elves scores a fast goal, leaving the stunties wondering whats happening. Intense bashing and fouling result in another dark elf sent to the infirmary. With few round left the dark elves steals the ball a third time and scores, 4-0. A last offence is attempted by the Sewer Sirkus, but is stopped dead with failed hand off.

Overconfident reaching the finals, the dirty players of Sewer Sirkus takes their retreat into the sewers one again, but with the glittering prize of a 2nd place and some useful silver, tradable for some shiny warpstone!

And another season is finished, time to prepare for the next! 

Team Yankee - Oil wars - The Golan Heights

Order of battle

Israeli - 53 pts

1 Merkava 1

2 Merkava 1

2 Markava 1 (ambush)

4 M113 Mech infantry

3xTOW AT jeep (reserve)

2xCobra Helicopter (reserve)

Syria - 51 pts

1 T-62

5 T-62

6 T-62

9 BMP-1 mech infantry

2x Scout BMPR

1 T-62

4 T-62

4 T-62

2xShilka

3xHail rocket artillery + BTR-60 Observer

This was our first test of Oil wars with an iconic battle for the Golan heights where the Syrian army launches a surprise attack just before Dusk. The Israelis are supposed to be caught unprepared, but the IDF never rests. We used the scenario from the book, mustering much of the forces recommended, but we didn't have all the crazy amount of tanks required.

Turn 1

The Syrian tank battalions advance through the hilly landscape. A hail of rockets is landed on the Israeli infantry but no causalities are inflicted. In return the Israeli Merkava tanks puts a couple of T-72 tanks on fire. 

Turn 2

Further advancement puts the BMP infantry in a forward position. The Syrian T-72 strike back and destroy one Merkava, but the T-62:s are to obsolete to inflict any damage. In return the Israelis get reinforced by a pair of Cobra helicopters, blitzing into the battle and destroying one tank. The BMP infantry takes some hits but manage to survive losing a pair of transports. The Merkavas further makes short work of another two T-72:s

Turn 3

The Syrian infantry scramble to rush forward against the tanks on the hill, not knowing what they're up against. The remaining t-72:s fail to inflict any damage on the massively armored Merkavas. A company of T-62 attempts a flanking maneuver to assault the Israeli infantry, but dense terrain and fierce resistance proves the assault quite ineffective. At the start of the Israeli turn the night falls. Three TOW AT jeeps blitz into the battle picking of a tank, while the Merkavas and the M113 APC:s batter down the infantry.

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Turn 4 

The Syrians push all available forces closer to the objective on the hill. One Merkava is bailed but the T-72:s and the infantry feel morally contempt to try an assault on the remaining two. In a hail of MG fire the assault is brutally stopped with high causalities on the Syrian side. The few remaining flanking T-62:s change their targets to the AT-jeeps, failing to destroy them. The Israelis then re position the cobras to the hill, unleashing their Gatling guns at the infantry. Further blows are dealt against the Syrian tanks that are now reduceds to a handful of their starting number.

Turn 5

The Syrian Shilkas re position and manage to destroy one Cobra helicopter. The other Cobra retreats the battle realizing the danger. The last flanking T-62 manage to destroy a TOW-AT jeep. The Syrian infantry flank one Merkava and heroically destroys it with a well placed rocket under the turret. However, in the Israelis upcoming retaliation destroy all T-62:s and the reaming T-72 is forced to flee. The Syrian threat at the hill objective is now almost destroyed.

Turn 6

With no units left to deal with the massive steel beasts of Merkavas the Syrian army has no other option than to flee.