With the release of Steve Jacksons game plastic OGRE miniatures I was thinking do you really have to use the "approved" figures to have a game? I had done a 3d file in CAD a bit back for a German P1000 Ratte and decided to play OGRE as a Weird War II action. I am sorry about the pictures I had no idea the room was that dark and normally my digital camera would flash to compensate but I guess it had an off day. All the miniatures are 1/285 scale and 3d printed on my FDM printer.
During the final days of the campaign in Europe the American forces are roused by another German attack on the front. Der Fuerher has ordered the release of the "Wonder Weapon" upon the Americans to give them what for. Alber Speer unknowingly orders to not build the Ratte have been overridden and the beast is now unleashed!
The Ratte rumbles past some farm houses on its way to demolish the American HQ, its objective.
The American commander shocked by this marvel of German engineering and audacity rallies his meager force of Shermans, Pershings and infanty.
Moving ever forward the monster vehicles moves menacingly toward the HQ.
Quick boys! The General is having pot roast with dignitaries and rumor is there are going to be lots of left overs for the troops! Defend the HQ!
The Ratte rumbles ever closer main guns preparing to unleash their fury.
The Americans dare to stand in our way, open fire with all guns!
The attack commences!
The initial attack is devastating and several Shermans going up in flames with some being all but obliterated.
The shocked Sherman tanks fire back ineffectively, uh oh.
The Germans heartened by this charge into the American forces, we shall squash them like the insignificant bugs they are is what the Deutsch are thinking.
The American commander shouts at his troops if you don't start fighting we are going skid marks on that things treads! Give em heck boys!
Several American tanks are crushed by the mighty behemoth but the defensive fire is punishing. The Ratte shudders and starts to slow as well as losing many weapon systems.
The mad battle approaches its climax as the monster moves ever closer to the HQ. The American infantry forces come up to assist.
The battle is fierce and the American infantry close assaults the Ratte and is entirely destroyed, but not before fatally wounding the beast. Many more American tanks are crushed beneath the great treads of the Ratte but the damage is done and the Ratte rolls to a stop, all mobility killed along with its suicidally reckless crew.
Calms reigns on the battlefield, "Heck of a way to get some pot roast eh boys?"
looks at some new terrain products, which use space age technology!
