Game - What a Tanker!

 The same weekend Steffen and I played Chain of Command, we also tried playing What a Tanker!, another Too Fat Lardies ruleset.

What A Tanker! is a WW2 game of tanks, where each player controls one or more tanks. I had gotten the rules just some weeks before, and I really liked them. As with Chain of Command the core mechanic is about using dice to control your army or in this case each tank. It's a nice way to simulate the various crews in a tank.

We played 3 games and unfortunately as with the CoC games I got too caught up to take enough good photos. But here are those I did take.

I played the Russians and Steffen the Germans. In the first game I had a T-34/85 in the lower left corner and a SU-100 in the lower right corner, and Steffen had a Tiger I in the upper left corner and a StuH 42 in the upper right corner.

First turn, my T-34 moved forward and took a shot against the Tiger. Unfortunately I did no damage, and instead the Tiger fired back and destroyed the T-34. Fun game!!

Rest of game the SU-100 tried to kill the StuH 42 before the Tiger outflanked but failed miserably and was eventually destroyed.

In game 2 we tried some earlier tanks, so I fielded a T-34/76 and a KV-1S, while Steffen took a StuG IIIG and a Pz IVH.

This photo is not from the first game, but my T-34 suffered the same fate as the /85 in that game. The T-34/76 was destroyed by the StuG so I was under pressure from the beginning again.

My KV-1S was, however, more resilient and managed to take up the fight against the Germans. After a small duel with the Pz IVH the german tank exploded in a ball of flames.

The 2 remaining tanks now started to circle each other and tried to get a killing shot in. Unfortunately it was the KV-1S who lost that duel, as it had already received some damage in the fight with the Pz IVH.

In the last game we went back to late war again and had 3 tanks each this time. I went back to the T-34/85 and SU-100 and added a ISU-152. Steffen took the Tiger I and StuG IIIG  and added a Panther. Unfortunately I only took a picture of the deployment. Especially unfortunate, as I actually won this game. My SU-100 took out the Panther very fast. The T-34/85 used its better mobility and outflanked and killed the Tiger I and then the StuG IIIG.

What a Tanker! is a very fun game with some great mechanics. It can end up in some unrealistic situations where two tanks are a few metres from each other and can't hit anything. But that does not take the fun away from the game. It is a fast game that can be played in between the somewhat heavier games, like a little fun break. And of course, when do you not want to play with tanks 😀