Bagration is boring. Nothing AGC had could have stopped it with the German reserves in the south.

The good news is that we don't have to pretend to be having fun--we love playing these battles. It's such a great hobby and we're just hoping it can find a wider audience to learn about it. Thanks for watching and spreading the word, Alzy.

really awesome history guys bravo bravo

No bastard ever won a war by shoveling s*** for his country. He won it by making the OTHER poor, dumb bastard shovel s*** for HIS country.

I love that movie

@@stuartbaxter-potter8363 Yes, I remember when Patton said that outside the latrine

I Understood That Reference 😎

Well, have fun putting a division (or even battalion) on table and playing the battle in a reasonable timeframe in 1:1

Kailux will do old bean

Great to hear! We'd love to see more wargamers uploading their best games to KZfaq. Looking forward to seeing your games!

Got to love the *Easter* front

@@lenixthepie_4041 Yeah.. :) Just noticed...EASTER! :)

@@asenaemre That was a joke, would love to actually see some Eastern front battles on your channel!

@@S_sleepin (I could tell) :)

If you like the Napoleonic Wars, I think you'll really enjoy our Season One finale--Marengo! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sMiYZ6pmt7vVko0.html

Everyone in the club picks one hero to hang on the wall and someone here picked Slim! A fine choice, indeed. It was interesting to hear "Lindybeige" name Slim as one of his favorite commanders of all time in that interview, too.

Sieze means of production, Komrade!

Glad you enjoyed the joke of a Russian player drinking Swedish vodka. The T-34s are more than a match for PzIIIs and IVs. The T-34 was a better tank all around and did brew up several panzers in the game. But Steve's tanks were far outnumbered on the far flank, by 3 to 1. Not a fair fight! We will be sure to let Steve and Chal know their Russian cavalry tactics were a bit too crazy.

@@LittleWarsTV ok, thanks for the answer.

I as a Swede prefer Russian vodka but I think he was secretly trying to go "neutral" and avoid the carnage?

T-34s being on par with Pz III does not seem like a flaw in the rules for me. Now I do not know how the rules work so I cant really say how it is represented there, but there is more to tanks than just guns and armor. Crew quality and good command probably has the most influence on the outcome of such battles (well, that is partially how the germans were able to defeat T-34s and KVs in 1941 without having long barrels after all) and I presume it is taken into effect in the rules. The big flaw of T-34 was a two men turret, while Pz III was kinda a revolutionry tank due to it's 3 men turret - that made target acquisition much easier and allowed for a significantly more efficient operating of the tank. Leaving the crews/command and designs aside, it should also be noted that, even despite having better armor the T-34 was a pretty bad tank survive-ability wise. Due to poor quality of steel and in turn the armor itself (russian factories were pumping out tanks and other equipment at such a rate that quality control was at a rather low level, if there even was any at some places) was so bad that the tank did not even have to be penetrated for the plate to shatter and create enormous spalling inside the tank. There was a study examining around 900 destroyed russian tanks(sadly I forgot where and when that happened), and it turned out that around half of them were not even penetrated, yet the interior was wrecked and crew killed. So, while T-34 historically was definitely more maneuverable, had better armor and better gun, Panzer III was a fair match for it, due to poor quality of armor and Panzer III's better crew positions.

Thanks for subscribing and joining us here! Much more to come in the new season!

Thank you, Bill! Glad you enjoyed this one.

Thank you for watching!

Cool. My rules are late war ww2.

Great point Russ.

@@myunpopularyoutubechannel and both sides committed horrific atrocities against both soldiers and civilians. There were German units that would engage American or British units just to turn around and surrender to them. This was because they didn't want captured by the Soviets.

Hah, we were hoping someone would notice that.

Hah, yes we are aware. This is an ongoing gag at the club. We've had an unopened bottle of Absolut sitting on our bar for....about 5 years! We like to use it as a prop in videos now just because we find it funny that it's the only bottle in the club we don't drink. This is more of a brown liquor group!

Stoli is now Latvian - a Luxembourg group makes it. 360 is great Missouri sippin' Vodka. If you can get your hands on Kutskova if it is still around - that one is great Moscow Vodka.

I hate games with saves, but don't mind it too much in Fist Full Of TOWs as that's how it models cover.

We'll have our Fistful of TOWs 3 rule review available next week, digging into the mechanics a bit more. But as Tony said earlier, in this game you can't think of it as an "armor save" (which would, I agree, be very cheesy). Here, a saving throw is how you claim cover. Rather than apply some kind of modifier to the attacker's roll, it helps keep the defender engaged and doing something during his opponent's half of the turn.

Hey Rick. FFT3 uses a d6 based combat system. And it originally had "to hit" modifiers for terrain (usually -1 or -2). The problem with that was that there just wasn't enough room in the d6 system for many modifiers. An average quality stand will hit on a 4+ at effective range. At long range, a 5+. A -2 modifier makes the to hit roll impossible. Or, if you use a "6 always hits" mechanic, then there's no difference between hard and soft cover at long range. Fair quality stands hit on a 5+ at effective range and 6+ at long range, so the problem is worse. The saving throw for hard cover (4+) is statistically sounder - it reduces *all* "to hit rolls by 50%. I would've stayed with a modifier but for these issues.

Not officially, but that's a common problem with scale creep where the infantry sculpts look nice but dwarf the vehicles; this can be further accentuated when the infantry are based and the vehicles are not.

I believe the models (if 10mm) are Pendraken, if they are 6mm, GHQ and Heroics and Ros

We generally refer to this as 6mm, but if we're getting specific...these are Heroics and Ros miniatures. H&R is closer to 1/300 scale, whereas GHQ is 1/285. You have to squint to see the difference!

We enjoy playing Crossfire in the club, so it's most definitely on the radar!

@@LittleWarsTV Awesome!

These are all Heroics & Ros miniatures. They have an excellent website for ordering, too.

@@LittleWarsTV What did you guys use for bases? Is that a cut material or something you can buy?

Heroics and Ros, 6mm scale.

These are all 6mm scale!

In this video, the minis are Heroics and Ros, 6mm scale.

@@tonymarano913 thx

These are from a UK company called Heroics & Ros. Very affordable 6mm scale minis!

We haven’t games this in the club…yet! Definitely a historical blind spot for us

@@LittleWarsTV Thirty years war even. Not the most popular period I admit.

Yes, these are!

Manta D3 Dance of the Knights.

@@DiviAugusti Is it? They sound similar but I do not believe it is.

Maybe I'm wrong. It's what I thought of when I heard it.

@@DiviAugusti actually my good sir you are correct. It's just a different rendition of it I can't seem to find for the life of me.

@@noahdefrancisco2911 I don’t think it is... I’ve been trying to work this out too!

lmao, they borderline went there, trying to compare austerlitz to ulm

I don't think anyone in the club has played it. I know we haven't played it as a club. I think maybe Greg or Steve played it once at a convention. I think we all just assume it is Warhammer 1940k or never bothered with it because we already had other systems that suited us.

Also it's supper expensive

@@littlenapoleon1321 our whole hobby is super expensive. Lol

@@levsharus5899 Lmao. True. Warhammer is a bitch for me XD

Glad you picked up on that joke!

Nemiroff from Ukraine would have been a way more accurate and more tasty option.

This is war, not the Queen's afternoon tea party

@@Sheyl3319 They brought it up like the atrocities were unique to the germans.

@@cyclone8974 i'm pretty sure none of them is Soviet biased. We all know the atrocities that all the beligerents cause. There's no need to criticize them

Have you actually watched the video or read the description?

or even use the word please and thank you in the same sentence.

Tony Marano love those rule and game them here in northern Virginia

History is messy, but one of the great pleasures of historical wargaming is that we get to engage with that history and talk about the context. And the context of the Eastern Front is ESPECIALLY messy. You have two of the most genocidal, ruthless regimes in human history fighting each other.