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Last nights game was a 500 point 'Hold the Line', with Skip and his germans defending an attack by Gary and my British forces. Was nice to see each player with their own kit on the table! In there first ever game, Gary's forces did not take a single casualty!
Our 500 point British force...
We attacked with a platoon on each flank supported by a troop of Churchills. It started well with accurate, but somewhat ineffectual mortar fire hitting the Germans. But a particuarly fierce 4.2" mortar stock ejected the German grenadiers from the Church and sent them running! That was followed by my Churchills losing two of their number to dug-in A/T guns and a lone marauding Panther!
Luckily I followed this up with a healthy dose of Flame from my Crocodile and BBQ'ed the annoying Pak40 gunners...
Privates Bert & Ernie out hunting the lone Panther... Sadly it ran away from them... Next time...
My troops then took the church under heavy enemy shellfire, all the while Gary's men crept down the other flank unopposed! A German counter-attack led by StuGs and with Grenadiers in support failed to re-take the church and my platoon HQ 2" mortar dropped a lovely round on their supporting MG42 team killing the entire crew. The StuGs fell foul to a couple of 75mm rounds from the Croc as it slowly marched on the village. A particuarly violent mortar barrage on the village knocked-out the German 88 and Gary took one of the objectives, once again with no losses. In one turn Skip was forced to draw a total of 8 morale chits...
In the final attack on the village German morale crumbled, and the remenants of the German force withdrew. My platoon had suffered quite heavy losses with nearly 55% of the men out of action and two of the supporting Churchills destroyed along with my supporting MMG team who took a direct hit from a 150mm shell. Gary on the other hand took no casualties.
Really enjoyed this game, and at the start it was very tense. On my side of the table it felt like a right slog through the Norman countryside, while a few hedgerows away, Gary and his men were having a spot of Tiffin...
I want to say- BEAUTIFUL. All your AAR both here and Warseer has encouraged me to pick up these rules during the 50% off sale at WHH.
Question, how well would these rules work with 15mm figures. The scale is not that far off and Plastic Soldier Company is making some wonderful, highly detailed, items that have caught my eye.
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Kevin Smith
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Big P, you've got to stop doing this. The brother is out of the country for a couply of months, and I don't drive, so I can't get down to Kildare for a game.
Any chance you could stop posting these beautiful battle reports so I won't feel jealous every damned week?
When is ye Bruv back? We are planning something big for Xmas...
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BattleBrotherBob wrote:When is it due out, soonish or further out. Is it going to be another book. I thought it was mentioned that it was going to be a WI article.
KG Kursk will be a stand alone book... If its ever published.
KG1940 and the British Airborne lists will be in WI.
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