Bizory 1944 20mm

[Phil Portway]

Jan BGS saw Dave and I played a scenario from Rapid Fire's Battle of the Bulge book


A divisional sized game with each figure representing approx 45 men and each vehicle representing 5.

The German player had to take and hold the Railway halt, Mageret & Bizory, the Americans had to prevent this.

Spotting was reduced to 36" throughout the game due to the bad December weather in 1944, and there was no long range for small arms (max firing would be 24")

The Germans had 3 turns worth of pre-bombardment of the area with 2 batteries of 105mm and 2 turns from a Nebelwerfer (Rockets), they did not hit anything.

The Table 8' x 6' the Germans can advance from anywhere along the far table edge, Americans had hidden deployment and all the infantry were dug in (except the company of Engineers that I forgot about)



The American force


CCB (Combat Command B)

501st Airborne Regt - Elite

Task Force Davall

Task Force Wall

Task Force Kennedy

Artillery Support. One of the Batteries was only available for three turns

REINFORCEMENTS, due on turn 11
Task Force O'Hara

The German Force

SS Panzer Grenadier Regt - Elite

SS Panzer Tank Division - Elite

Volksgrenadier Divison- Poor

Turn 1
King Tiger appears, along with a general advance along the German lines. American spots it and successfully calls the off table Artillery




Turn 2. The American successfully call army HQ and get the use of a Regt of 155mm Long Toms for 3 turns (General Fire Support). but fail to call the 2 regt of artillery in DSF (Direct Fire Support)
The SS Armoured Grenadiers got hit by some US units in reserve fire (ambush). A lead halftrack and a towed AT gun are destroyed. But a Jagdpanzer takes out a US Sherman 76mm


The Lead US units on one of the ridges opens fire on a lorried Grenadier unit and destroys the lorry an 2 men in reserve fire and then the US 30cal is taken out. The 50Cal kills another 4 men from the unit.

The Volksgrenadiers advance



Turn 3
The American artillery Destroys a Jagdpanzer and a Panther (with some lucky dice rolls) Sherman causes heavy damages the German start to take casualties as the dug in US units start to lay fire down and the Shermans start to take damage, A Jackson moves out and misses its target



Turn 4
Taking heavy casualties the Germans try and break into Bizory but a 76mm Sherman is Waiting over the hill and takes out the Jagdpanther (lucky rolls again)

More successful US Arty

The US casualties are building



Meanwhile the Volkgrenadiers are having a hard time of it trying to dig the US paras out, making there advance almost impossible

Turn 5
This is a do or die for the Germans, having lost almost all their armour and bang road block!


The US pull back from the ridge.


The US armour now advance and attacks the Panzers in the centre.






Turn 6
Germans are losing more armour to artillery and the Sherman 76's and losing infantry to the Sherman 75's and MG's and small arms from along the front.
 



The Hetzer supporting the Volks takes a out a Sherman after about 3 turns of firing at each other and missing
 

Turn 7
3 more Shermans burst over a ridge in the centre and finish the battle for the Germans did not have enough armour to take their objectives










 

At this point, as in reality, the German commander decided to pull what forces he had left as they would be needed for the defence of the Fatherland!

[Tim]

Wow, Phil, I am loving the tank models, they are fantastic.  I believe I see an Airfix Attack Force M-40 155mm SP - the soft plastic one - do I not?    Infantry looks good too.

[Phil Portway]

Wow, Phil, I am loving the tank models, they are fantastic.  I believe I see an Airfix Attack Force M-40 155mm SP - the soft plastic one - do I not?    Infantry looks good too.

Correct Tim, there is a bit of everything on table, Airfix, Esci, Hasegawa, Revell, Raventhorpe, Britannia

[moiterei_1984]

That’s quite some hardware you‘ve assembled there! Most impressive.

[Phil Portway]

That’s quite some hardware you‘ve assembled there! Most impressive.

Thanks, this is a small part of my collection

[gamer Mac]

I have struggled to read all your post because I am on my phone but it looks a great collection.
What rules were you using, was it rapid fire,?
I like your artillery template, where did you get it?

[Phil Portway]

I have struggled to read all your post because I am on my phone but it looks a great collection.
What rules were you using, was it rapid fire,?
I like your artillery template, where did you get it?

I made it! 

It's made from fence wire. Easy to do. Cut a 12 square piece and then cut away until you have 9 squares with the four legs still intact then bend them down with pliers. Made 2 with legs in the middle squares of the outer ones, and made two with the legs in the four corners of the grid.