Once in a Lifetime Opportunities and Flames of War

Good day to you all!

It's been a right good minute I reckon. I've been thinking about what I would post this year, trying to make this a regular thing, and getting some substantial content going on. I think I got it now!

So first of all, I was blessed in August with an opportunity of a lifetime. At Zero Dark Thirty on August 8th, 2014, a date which I will never forget, I found myself standing on some yellow footprints with twenty other guys and a big, scary Sergeant screaming at us. Paris Island, South Carolina. I was assigned to Platoon 3084, Kilo Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion. Sadly, I sustained an injury to my leg and wound up in the Medical Recovery Platoon. I healed up and was dropped into Platoon 2102, Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, where I stayed until December 12th, 2014, when I graduated as a member of the United States Marine Corps.

I spent a month after my leave and holiday leave at Camp Geiger in infantry school, where I did lots of cool things. Like shoot machine guns. Fire M203s. And ate more MREs than I care to ever eat.

So now I'm posted up at Artillery School. I have to complete cannon school before I can go to rocket artillery school. And my class doesn't start for a month. So what to do in the mean time?

Flames of War!

I finally ordered some stuff to fill out my American Late War list. I've got that stuff coming to me from home, but here in the meantime, I've got a copy of Open Fire!

I got one of my bros interested while watching Fury (sidenote: glaring inaccuracies aside,  that movie has really helped me in gathering interest in this game). I also figured while we wait for class, this would be a good way to learn strategy and tactics. So here we go with Flames of War. Or is it Flames of Corps now?

I also ordered a copy of Gruntz and Alpha Strike with the Companion book. I figure Gruntz will work well for squad to company level games - excuse me - tactics teaching, Flames for company level, and Alpha Strike for Battalion and higher. Trust me, I've got a lot of plastic and resin descending on my Fort.

So what can you a expect in the next month?

-Unboxing and review of the new plastic Panther G platoon
-Assembling the Open Fire Shermans without going mad
-Learning the basics of Flames and Gruntz
-How a gamer on a budget can get the most use out of his pieces.

For the latter,  you will see Flames of War pieces alongside the beautiful N-Scale mechs from Orko_One, Elfbait, and Haplo. This will get interesting I hope!

Also, I'm doing this off my phone,  so patience as I try to figure out how to ad pictures on here.

That's enough rambling for now. Let's slay something! 

 Here's the plan for the night. All of this. Put together and based by the morning. Challenge accepted.