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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: bill5549 on 22 March 2014, 08:27:39 PM
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On Thursday I went to Hugh Wilson’s for our latest 28mm Bolt Action game. This game is set along the Don River in early 1943 with the Germans and Italians defending against the Soviet Operation Little Saturn. Campbell Hardie and Colin Jack provided most of the figures. Campbell provided the scenario and Hugh Wilson built the excellent terrain.
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Soviet airpower over the river
The Soviet army supported by naval troops are attacking across the river. Bart Zynda, Dave O’Brien and I commanded the Soviet troops and Hugh Wilson, Colin Jack and Tim Watson the Axis. Amazingly the game on this first evening was comparatively bloodless. My tank attack on the southern end of the table was seriously delayed by an artillery strike which disrupted most of my troops but at the end of the evening I had suffered no casualties. Dave O’Brien’s armour attack on the northern bank was delayed by abandoned German transport blocking the river road only got into action late in the evening. Bart commanding the Soviet naval troops launched them across the river and they suffered some casualties from the defenders.
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River tank in action
Campbell has scratch built a wonderful looking Soviet river tank (armoured gunboat) and this provided the centre point of the game. It was quickly immobilised by an Italian manned 88 on the far bank. However the crew may well repair it as we are using the rules I developed for Vietnam river monitors for the river tank. The Soviet highlight was an air attack which knocked out a PZIII. That was the only AFV knocked out so far in the game.
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Soviet infantry and armour regroup
At the end of the evening the game was still very far from decided and we have decided to continue it in 2 weeks time. Once again thanks to Suzanne Wilson for the catering on the evening. All my photos with descriptions at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bill26048/sets/72157642738745305/
Link to my blog at
http://blenheimtoberlin.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/28mm-bolt-action-don-river-1943-game.html
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Looks like a fun game
URL to the post for future reference
http://blenheimtoberlin.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/28mm-bolt-action-don-river-1943-game.html
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Very nice - thanks for sharing. Good to see that Soviet gun boat out for a game.
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Really great!
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And mine relation to the same game:
http://asienieboje.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/river-don-1943.html (http://asienieboje.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/river-don-1943.html)
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Love your setup.
Cool to see the gunboat.
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This week we played our River Don game to a conclusion. It proved to be a Soviet victory despite the heroic efforts of the Red Airforce who inflicted more damage on their side than the Axis!
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Large view of the action. For the River tank we used the damage result chart I developed for Vietnam River monitors. The crew repaired the damage from the first evenings play and got her back into action.
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Urragh - an exploding Panzer III at the other end of the table
Fuller report on my blog at
http://blenheimtoberlin.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/28mm-bolt-action-don-river-1943-part-2.html
Hugh Wilson will be adapting the terrain for a Vietnam action next. So lots of river craft and helicopters next time.
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Very nice!
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What are those shell splashes made of? Wire wool? (The river ones, not the explosions on land)
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Hugh doing them by himself and I think that they are made of wire wool.
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Yes the white shell bursts are made from wire wool by Hugh Wilson. They were originally intended for Arctic warfare but they are more normally used as water shell splashes.
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And finally I produced the relation from the same game on my blog too:
http://asienieboje.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/river-don-pt2-40k-viewes-don-cz-2-40.html (http://asienieboje.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/river-don-pt2-40k-viewes-don-cz-2-40.html)
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full view on the soviet River tank.
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KV-1 in action.
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Sometimes the fancy table features could be very annoing ;)
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Very nice game!
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Superb stuff 8) 8) 8)
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WOW, very nice!! :o How did you build the gunboat?
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Check this thread: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=59210.msg711385#msg711385 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=59210.msg711385#msg711385)
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Fantastic scratch build!! Thanks for the link!
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You are welcome!
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I designed the whole scenario around the boat. I need to think of another. I'm told they were used in Budapest so perhaps that's next. Immediate plans are to have replacement "things" for the turrets so its useable for Poland 1920.
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Campbell, I'm afraid that your River Tank is to modern for Poland 1920 ;)