Meet the Aces

Welcome back tank fans for another slice of the armoured-sex-pie that is Phatcats do Tank Aces!  In this post I'll be introducing you to the aces who will be duking it out in the campaign; the tactical masterminds (?!) behind the remorseless steel.  For no other reason than I'm biased, lets start with the Allies!

Gaz Higgins

Club president and a Flames of War newbie Gaz is fielding a Soviet Guards Heavy Tank Company and is riding atop the soviet armoured behemoth that is the IS2.  It's a brutally simple tank; massively armoured with an enormous gun the IS2 takes a knocking but keeps on rocking.  The IS2 is a lot like a really angry house; a really angry house that has an unreasoning hatred of you.  Yes; you specifically Ross.

Phil Lewis

Normally a proponent of 20mm WWII gaming Phil has dropped 5mm to join in with Tank Aces.  Incredibly Phil has opted to field the Airborne Armoured Recon driving the minuscule Tetrarch tanks.  Some of the bigger tanks have exhausts larger than the main gun on the Tetrarch so I can't see this ending well for Phil.  On the plus side there are a lot them and they are bloody annoying.

Chris Boulton

With a tally-ho and a yah-boo to you Fritz, Chris is leading the cheeky chappies from a British Armoured Company.  The mix of Shermans and the large gunned Fireflys may prove a deadly combination when it comes to mixing it up with the Bosche.  To quote Corporal Jones, "they don't like it up 'em".

Dan Porter-Brown

Amateurish, clueless, tactically inept, hopelessly out-gunned, over-sexed, over here; yes it's true:  Dan and the US Armoured Company he is fielding have a lot in common.  The Shermans that make up the bulk of the company can't stand toe to toe with the larger German tanks but with mobility and numbers he might just pull off a victory or two.

And so on to the Axis players 

Nick Ayres

Nick too is a 20mm refugee bringing from that scale all of his love for sausage-sucking, atrocity-committing blockheads.  Nick, not content with sullying himself by playing Germans has lowered himself further by opting for a SS Schwere Panzerabteilung of Tiger tanks.  Fair play; the Tiger tank is a fearsome beast and a very tough nut to crack but with only two of the to begin with Nick might find himself in trouble when squaring off against a numerically superior force.

Spencer Moulds

Spencer is a proper treadhead and once told me he wanted "nothing in his army if it didn't have tracks".  A very fair viewpoint many players could agree with.  Spence has gone for a a Panzer Lehr Company fielding the sturdy and reliable Panzer IV.  It's not as tough as a Tiger, but there are more of them and those German's are quite handy in a tank.

Adam Cooper

A man after my own heart, Coops is fielding a true man's tank; the StuG.  The StuG is so manly it don't need no stinking turret.  You just point it at what you want to kill.  The StuG battery Coops is using has power and numbers.  As such its going to be one to watch.

Lee Oswin

It would appear tank Aces has drawn out all the closet fascists in Phatcats as we have ANOTHER SS Schwere Panzerabteilung.  For the sake of public decency I shall be monitoring any suspect "high-fiving" and clicking of heels going on.  Also if anyone turns up in a monocle or a dodgy tache its an automatic loss.  Give the lack of flexibility in this company Lee is fielding the same two Tigers as Nick with the same limitations he may encounter on the field.