Operation Sea Lion - Brandenburger Coastal Raid

[Chris Abbey]

Last night Doug and I had a great game of Combat Patrol. The scenario was Brandenburger  Coastal Raid, the first scenario in the Bolt Action Campaign Sea Lion book. This scenario sees a small raiding party of Brandenburg commandos landing by Sturmboat on a section of the South East coast with the aim of destroying a British HQ in preparation for the main Operation Sea Lion landings.



The target of the German raid was 'The George and Dragon', once a prosperous seaside pub, now the headquarters of the local Home Guard platoon.



It was a hard fought battle, narrowly won by the plucky Brits.

Full report and loads more photos on my Hobby Blog @http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/Hobby-Pages/Hobby-Blog/First-Operation-Sea-Lion-game-with-Combat-Patrol

[Ballardian]

 Nice AAR, fun looking game.

[Poiter50]

Hah, I recognise those Sturmboots! 

[Chris Abbey]

The Sturmboats are an excellent free design from Thingiverse. They are designed as a 12' boat, I just increased the dimension to 18' / 6 metres and printed away. They are great little models, at that size you can even get 6 passengers to stand up (with over lapping bases).

[SABOT]

Great inspirational stuff .

[Chris Abbey]

We are having a re-run tonight but with a 'proper' German rifle platoon attacking, so hopefully will have another set of photos for latter in the week.

[SABOT]

That's great news . Look forward to the next report mate.

[Captain Darling]

Hey Chris,

Thanks for posting your game pics and link, a very enjoyable read and some nice eye candy!

Cheers...

[Chris Abbey]

We replayed the coastal raid scenario, this time landing a regular infantry platoon rather than Brandenburg commandos.


It was another great Op Sea Lion game. We had great fun on Monday, although their always seems to be a lot of sea and beach to cross before reaching that first bit of cover!



Full photo-battle report @ http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/Hobby-Pages/Hobby-Blog/Operation-Sea-Lion-Coastal-Raid-Two

[surdu]

That is an excellent battle report, Chris.  Thanks for sharing.

<shameless plug>For those of you who have the Band of Brothers Bolt Action 2 starter set, there is a free set of unit cards you can download to use with Combat Patrol.  With those cards and the July sale on Combat Patrol, this is a good time to give the rules a try.</shameless plug>

Buck Surdu