Alpha Company 2/7 Light Tanks for SJG OGRE

 The first armor units are ready for the table: A Co. 2/7 BCT

Bravo Company is next up.

7th Brigade Combat Team gets some Missile Tanks

 These models are from the Alternative Armies Bradley 6mm range. They look really nice painted up, but the 'spare' pieces of metal all over the models are not fun to extract. They are the Stalker Missile Tanks.

MilTek. A new force for SJG OGRE Minis!

Miltek Corporation (London, UK) today announced the addition of the 7th Brigade Combat Team consisting of 3 new combat battalions including an experimental Company (+) of MBGEVs. This comes directly on the heels of the announcement last month that the Miltek Corporation had successfully rolled out it's first OGRE. This MK V will be attached to the 1st Battalion / 7th Brigade as a Headquarters asset.

Currently the 7th "Crimson Tigers" Brigade consists of the following assets:

1st Battalion(HHB)/7th BCT:

1 x OGRE MK V

1 x HQ building

1 Infantry Battalion consisting of: 

1 x Marine Engineer Company (6 squads) 

2 x Marine Company 12 squads)

3 x Heavy Weapons Infantry Company (18 squads)

3 x Infantry Company (18 squads)

2 x Squadron GEV-PC (8 GEV-PC) 

1 Artillery Detachment consisting of:

 2 x Mobile Howitzers

 2 x Missile Tanks

 2 x Cruise Missile Launcher

 2 x Howitzers

 2nd Battalion(Armor)/7th BCT:

2 x Light Tank Companies (12 tanks)

2 x Heavy Tank Companies (14 tanks +XO, +Commander) 

1 Company SuperHeavy Tanks (4 tanks)

  3rd Battalion(GEV)/7th BCT :

1 x MBGEV Company (6 MBGEV, +1 Commander)

1 x Missile GEV Company (6 MGEV)

2 Companies GEV (12 GEV, + Commander)

2 x Light GEV Squadron (8 x LGEV) 

The 7th Brigade will be combat deployable within 1 month according to MTC spokespersons. 

 

Recent publicity photos:

SJG Warehouse23 LGEVs

3rd Battalion (GEV)/7th Brigade

Alternative Armies Self-Propelled Guns (Mobile Howitzers). As an Artilleryman myself, I have to use the proper terms for these guys! SPGs.

Alternative Armies Hover Tanks as MBGEVs.

Dropzone Commander models as Missile GEVs.

MilTek Corporation 3rd GEV Battalion 7th Brigade Combat Team

 

The Sons of Old Nassau have been kicked to the curb in favor of the MilTek Corporations' 7th Brigade Combat Team. MilTek! For all mission critical needs!

As it turns out, The Sons of Old Nassau are the Princeton Tigers... lame. I had already started the painting though, so they are now MilTek 7th "Crimson Tiger" Brigade. The GEV Battalion is almost ready and initial catalog pictures are available.

These are a combination of SJG OGRE Miniatures, Alternative-Armies.com miniatures and Dropzone Commander minis. They will be a Corporate mercenary force based out of London, UK.

The larger models in back are MilTek experimental MBGEVs.

1 flight of SJG LGEVs up front

2 x Companies GEVs with Battalion Commander GEV.

1 x Company Missile GEVs

1 x Company (+) MBGEVs

Right now, there are 4 PC-GEVs to paint and that will round out the 3rd GEV Battalion.

The Armor Battalion and HQ Battalions await paint!

Original SJG Warehouse23 LGEV models ready for deployment.

SJG OGRE minis update: 7th Brigade Missile GEV Company

On the table: The 7th Brigade Sons of Old Nassau Mercenary Corp Missile GEV Company. A little leery of the scheme, but it works! These are repurposed UCM Corvettes from the Dropzone Commander game. I cut off about half of the front pylons so they will play well with the 6mm minis.

I have about 70 more minis from the Bradley 6mm range to go before they are table ready.

1st Missile Company, 7th Combined Arms Brigade. Sons of Old Nassau Mercenary Corps.

Based and with the Company Commanders custom painted vehicle - it's like a '76 Firebird for OGRE!

A Ranger complete!

 Not great, but not bad. I'd put him on the table!

The finished model. I did add some grass and snow to the base.

A Ranger

 Pics through the process of putting paint to metal on this guy. This is another Reaper mini. Human Ranger. A few details left to go.

Updated pics of the Golem

I call it Biff. Hiram A. Biff.

On the Table: A Graveyard Golem

 Something creepy this way comes...

The beginning layers:

And progression:

OGRE Batrep #8: The Battle of Scrap Metal Hill

 

OGRE Battle Report [BatRep #8]

The Battle of Scrap Metal Hill, or What price victory?

The sun rose bruised over the outskirts of Dresden on this Saturday morning. The air was cold [about 44 degrees Fahrenheit] and mostly cloudy. The Feralco Deutshland Industrial Park and the Industriepark Schwarze, just to the east of Dresden and north of the Grossenhain Airfield were two more targets of opportunity for the Soviet Federated States forces, so they moved in force on this area after the Battle of Dresden just a few weeks earlier.

The SigInt squadron suggested that there was little left of the Pan-European forces anywhere near these facilities and that they might be used for the production of ammunition or even conventional vehicle production. 
Signal Intelligence was correct: There were no Pan-Euro forces in the area...

What they failed to see was the North American Combine Armor Division moving south to deny those facilities and retake the airfield from the Soviet Federated States.

The strategic map:

Scenario - Four objective zones on the map with one 5 point objective in each players' deployment zone - these generate no Victory Points for the player who owns that objective. The players' must take their opponents 5 point objective to score those points. There are two (2) point objectives in the middle of the map on each side [east and west]. Victory Points are awarded at the end of each players' turn if the objective is not contested.

Forces involved: 300 Points of Soviet Federated States vs. 300 points of North American Combine Armor

Objective - Occupation and Defend. Objectives on the map provide points every turn if a player has a unit wholly within that zone and is not contested. There are (2) 2-point areas, and (2) 5 point areas. The 5 point objectives are inside each players' deployment zone and the owning player scores no points for that objective.

Tactical maps:

The view from the NAC northern corridor tactical map

The view from the SFS southern tactical map

The view from the east with Scrap Metal Hill to the bottom left

Once contact was made, the SFS Commander was hard pressed to maneuver his armor into the eastern corridor where the bulk of the NAC armor began their assault.

A SFS Heavy OGRE Company escorted by a GEV squadron moves forward to the western objective. The NAC armor division was far to the east and these forces were out of position from the beginning.

The eastern SFS defenders would take the brunt of the NAC spearhead

SFS HQ detachment defends the southern objective. Most of these forces would move east to support the defense of the hill. 

From first contact, the SFS forces had to react to the assault rather than act against the aggressors, forming a static defense of what would come to be called 'Scrap Metal Hill' by the NAC commander.

The view from the SFS defense on the hill.

The NAC assault:

The main thrust of the NAC offensive moves through the eastern objective and begins the assault of the SFS home objective. 

The SFS mobilizes a static defense of their home objective on the top of an intervening hill

Soviet GEVs and heavy tanks form the defense

 NAC SuperHeavy, heavy and light tanks form the backbone of the attacking forces, supported by GEV Squadrons

Desperate to impede the advance of the NAC armor, the SFS Commander orders the launch of a cruise missile, but intervening fire from a flanking GEV squadron shot it down before it could reach the armored columns.

This leaves the SFS Southern Objective with but a few artillery pieces and a missile tank for defense. (Along with an empty missile crawler!)

Eager to support his defenders, the SFS Command GEV gets too close to the action and is wiped by the NAC escort squadrons early-on:

On the western front - all is quiet. The objective is secured and the SFS heavy armor company moves east to support the middle corridor defense. A NAC heavy tank company with GEV and infantry move up:

A NAC heavy tank company supported by a GEV squadron and heavy infantry move up the middle

The super heavy OGRE Company moves east to deal with the push in the middle and keep the defense on the hill from getting flanked

From the northwest and north, the SFS Commander decided to send a small squadron of LGEVs and a missile GEV to harass the NAC Objective and try to take out the missile crawler lurking within... the plan worked! 

The missile crawler and it's deadly payload was eventually taken out by the pair of LGEVs on the hill...

And that's when the OGRE made the decision to turn north towards the NAC objective. The fight for the hill rages on in the distance.

 The SFS heavy company moves to the middle corridor and gets a bloody nose!

 But in the end - the artillery fire directed by the southern objective defenders won that skirmish - and the battle for the hill commenced in earnest

The Battle of Scrap Metal Hill

With the eastern and western objectives decided, the focus quickly became the NAC assault on the SFS defenders on the western hill:

SFS contracts to form the static defense of the hill

Both sides move up to engage after a few initial skirmishes

After the armor opens up on both sides, the NAC SuperHeavies make a run for the southern objective

Up close and personal on the hill

Four NAC SuperHeavies and 3 LGEVs to the south are all that remain

The fight spills over towards the SFS southern objective as another two NAC Superheavies and a SFS SuperHeavy are destroyed

On the next to last turn of the game up north:

The Mark II would take this objective on the next turn - the last turn

 On the last turn of the game - 2 NAC SuperHeavies take the southern objective from the SFS artillery crews

This was a brutal engagement from the start for both sides. The NA Combine Commander overloaded the eastern corridor and the SFS Commander had to scramble to defend. In the end - the NAC had 2 SuperHeavies and 2 light tanks and the SFS had an OGRE MK II (minus a secondary battery) a heavy tank and a LGEV on the table. Both sides lost almost an entire Combat Brigade Team on this one hill! Thus, the NAC Commander has dubbed it Scrap Metal Hill... somewhere west of Dresden. Until next time - for there will always be another Scrap Metal Hill.

FINAL SCORE:

Soviet Federated States: 35

North American Combine: 33

DRAW!