GZG-ECC III Pics for Grey Day

To whom it may concern (Jerry?):

S3_GreyDay01.jpg  : The KV attack force in orbit
 
Kr'rt, Los, Nick Caldwell, and I think the blur is Jerry kibitzing. 

S3_GreyDay02.jpg

Valiant human defenders. Plus a player showing some leg... 

S3_GreyDay03.jpg

More of the human forces. Armed for bear, they got Kra'Vak instead. 

S3_GreyDay04.jpg

The KV Leader Tom Pope plots routes of advance with Kr'rt and Nick. 

S3_GreyDay05.jpg

Tom Pope, Don, Kr'rt and Nick survey the field across which they must
advance. They can smell the humans, but they can't see them.... (and Los
helps to blur the foreground...)

S3_GreyDay06.jpg

The human team plots its defence. Oberst Wittman (Rick Rutherford) lets
his
subordinates take the limelight while he seems to be scarfing a donut or
muffin. Ted Arlauskus in his dashing headgear surveys the approaches to
the
final redoubt. The blurry fellow is David Raynes. And I think I detect a
Kochte well and truly obscured by my goateed bulk. 

S3_GreyDay07.jpg

Final pre-game briefings given to the human team - Ted, David, Mark and
Rick
by Los and myself. 
That's a big board. I think we figured 112 square feet of gaming
surface.
And no, it wasn't landscape purchased from the Carter Island Real Estate
Company!

S3_GreyDay08.jpg

The KV advance and spot some humans in a bunker on a hill to the right.
Los
illustrates something to Ted while KR shows myself, David and Ted his
wonderful periscope for checking line of sight. 

S4_GreyDay01.jpg

KV Size 5 tanks with dual class 5 railguns smash their way (supported by
assault claws and some heavy weapons teams) into athe human positions on
the
human left flank. Note the fleeing humans on the ground near the bottom
of
the picture. Note the dead and wounded on top of the hill. Note
especially
all the black skulls at the right about half way up in the forest - that
was
the location of first contact between David's NSL Luftelandesturm and
the
KV. KV 7, LLS 0. I'm sure Kr'rt is the leaning figure, and I think Don
is
one of the others. But I won't try to guess - I didn't spend much time
studying anyone's crotch so my ability to identify from these partial
shots
is low.

S4_GreyDay02.jpg

The human counterattack on the left of the picture counters a KV thrust
up
the river (see the KV on the hill?). A human walker is history. Note the
downed Predator Caste KV amidst a pile of NSL bodies near the centre
bottom
of the picture. Ted held this flank determinedly, but the KV didn't
exert
most of their force on this flank...

S4_GreyDay03.jpg

Ted moves his forces back after having counterattacked successfully.
Note on
the right lower part of the picture, more KV from the mountain clan
(Grey
heads, purple and blue kit)  moving up towards the sight of the first
KV-Human rumble (where David lost a squad to an ambush). Note also that
strange beer-bottle shaped obelisks have appeared on the battlefield. 

S4_GreyDay04.jpg

The KV have a human two man Plasma Gun team in a bad spot. They stand
amidst
the wreckage of one of their three aersospace fighters (all three of
which
they managed to plant thanks to aggressive human air defence and alien
strategy in overflight planning...). Note the ortillery crater too. And
the
KV GMS teams covering their big-ass tank. 

S5_GreyDay01.jpg

The fighting is intense. We have far left, mid height, in the woods - KV
assault squad taking out David's NSL command platoon (the last squad
finally
rushes in and shoots the Officer so he can't be captured... or so the
inquiry would have found...). The platoon from the 5ieme Regiment
Etrange
Aerospaciale de La Legion Etrange Colonial de La Etats Federal Europa
(FSE
Legion orbital assault troops) move forward into the woods to engage the
KV.
A smoking NSL APC lies just in front of the hill, and two NSL heavy
infantry
support walkers lurk submerged (discovered by the KV pilot whose
aersopace
fighter you see in the lake - #3 - as #2 aerospace fighter is the grey
wreckage on the hill in the middle of the picture. The FSE APCs and the
German TD with its HKP/4 wait for the inevitable KV onslaught to arrive.
The
TD has already taken out one of the Big Ass KV Tanks. The other was
taken
out by the Human tanks DFFG/4, but it is now a smoking wreck in the
foreground.  Off on the human right flank, remnants of Ted's NSL platoon
clash with the KV up close and personal in the area where ortillery
rained
down recently. Note also near the right top corner of the pic, a lone
human.
Human task force 2ic, Major Andrea D'Aubagne, EFE 5ieme REA. She is the
target of Wi'Sel (KV Sniper) amazing last turn attack - from the river
about
6" away....

S5_GreyDay02.jpg

A view from the other end. You can clearly see the waves of Nac'Sol
(swamp
green) KV sweeping up through the forest and across the hill at the
lower
left of the pic. You can also see in the forest at the bottom a tipped
over/dead human walker. Mr. Kochte found that backing into KV assault
squads
with limpet mines in a forest is a BAD idea. (Out of the frying pan into
the
woodstove eh Mark?). The KV heavy tanks (and their light tank) were
smoked -
one by a shot from the GMS in the top right of the board on the hill -
GMS/H
fired from out of LoS, guided on target by a human on the cliffs at the
top
right of the board who had LoS - sneaky! The KV still have Sentinel
droids
in the woods which would be a tough match for the Human Gears. And lots
of
GMS up on the cliffs along the rightmost board edge. The bulging abdomen
in
the picture is mine (recognize the shirt). 

So that's the pics in a nutshell. I'll have to get Jerry some of the
other
picks of Grey Day since he's the official archivist. :) 

Here's an interesting idea: Sometime down the line, cut a CD with
scenarios,
pictures, and AARs from GZG ECCs past... <Just a thought... I have
plenty of
those...>

Thomas Barclay
Software Specialist 
Defence Systems
xwave solutions
www.xwavesolutions.com
v: (613) 831 2018 x 3008

Alea iacta et pessimo resulto factura est.
 
Ave, Caesar! Te morituiri salutimas!