Soviet VS German Berlin 1945 (Flames of War) Battle Report 

These green Panzergrenadiers got a hell of a baptism of fire.

your table looks incredible. fun game

Great battlereport and nice to see how the Berlin forces match up in a game. The shooting gap from memory is 3/4 of an inch the width of most tape measures to make it easy to remember :)

10 points for using Adam West Batman sound affects!

I love the channel! There was nothing that one of the players could have done from turn 1 unfortunately. That was an absolute shooting gallery. Commies need about 4 times that much terrain at minimum to even have a chance.

It's interesting to see people playing as I suspect that the authors probably do rather than by the letter of the rules. Things like infantry shooting done they way you do are significantly faster than playing the way it is actually written in the book. Essentially roll all the shooting dice from one platoon firing at another platoon. Allocate the hits to teams. Defender can choose mistaken target. Then defender saves on a team by team basis and finally any failed saves mean a firepower test. As for the 'balance' Soviet heavy tanks are utterly dire in Flames of War and German ones are not at all bad. I have yet to come up with any even semi reliable way to deal with King Tigers or Jagd Tigers with Soviets. Aircraft have an outside chance of doing something but no Soviet tanks actually worry Germans :(

Mrs Kaiser will soon discover the loss of a bag of icing sugar.

I’d love to see you loverly gentleman do a tale of 4 gamers and run a tournament 🏟️ in the system of your choice. I personally would prefer early war bolt action. But you could put it to a viewer vote 🗳️ and I meant to say my last post absolutely beautiful gaming board

Not enough comments give you guys credit for your superb boards and FIXED CAMERA. So many channels choose to hold their cameras, which I find incredibly distracting and makes for poor content.

I love your channel i love your 4 by 4 table setting 🔥🔥🔥

I feel your pain James. Am rebuilding my US force for rematch.

Very fun scenario. It was interesting to watch how devastating the German Panzers were. They were definitely the heroes of the game. Hats off to the Landsers, who took it on the chin and came up fighting , and to the Soviet Tankers who died bravely in the flames. I know that Flames of War tends to be about balanced, evenly matched forces, but that wasn’t always the case in WW2, and especially here in the Berlin ‘45 campaign. If I was designing a scenario, I would have the balance sheet stacked in favor of the Soviets, with 1 German armored platoon/company and 4-6 Soviet tank/SP gun platoons/companies. They would be supported by 1:2 or 1:3 infantry (German:Soviet ** German would be 50% Volkssturm/Hitlerjugend with the remainder split between Wehrmacht and SS; 1 of the Soviet units should be Polish Peoples Army), 1:4-7 airplanes + 1 German AA battery, and 1:4-5 artillery batteries (** Soviet should have 1 Katyusha, 1 mortar, and 2-3 gun batteries). The Germans should be disorganized with some units fighting tenaciously to the last man, while others should easily break. The Soviets should be taking reckless head-on charges with both infantry and armor and take heavy casualties as a result (as happened in your scenario), but because of their sheer numbers they should have an overwhelming pressure that threatens to break German lines at every turn. It never really felt like the Germans were being overwhelmed and overrun in your scenario, but to be fair you were highlighting the Clash of Steel box set and playing Flames of War mostly R.A.W. with balanced forces. All in all, you played a very fun game that was quite enjoyable to watch. I really appreciated that the editor added in those rule tidbits as the game progressed. Well done sirs!

Russian artillery eeeeeeeew and well eeeeeeew with just a little bit more eeeeeeeew

Russians players vibes were WELL off.

That was a quiet boring one sided game. The Soviet list was rubbish and would only stand a minimal chance with maybe some more terrain to move from cover to cover but the table was awfully open. And it seemed anyway the soviet player didn´t had any plan also. So It was easy to forsee the german victory.

A terrible game for the Soviets.

Please use some air power or just give up on FoW. The game is clearly not well balanced.