Good man!
So I’m not listing a blow by blow account but here is a sequence of events and pics.
I deployed my first squad into a field.
The Americans immediately brought their tank onto the table, a squad that spent a few phases hunkered up behind a house on their left flank and a flanking squad to the right which probed along the hedge row. These guys would prove a thorn for a number of phases.
The flanking squad took the first casualties.
The tank fired into the field, inflicting a little shock onto the forward squad.
In my next phase, I deployed my freshly camouflaged pak into the road and with a limited view of the M4, knocked it out with my first shot! See, it pays to paint......if the M4 had had paint....it may have shrugged off the armour piercing round!
Of course it always helps to have lucky dice!
The Americans deployed a mortar team, firing indirectly managing to help put sufficient shock and damage onto my leading squad, pinning them and injuring the nco in the process. The mortar was also supported with a 30cal deployed into the top floor of the house opposite the field.
In my next phase, I was able to deploy my final assets, a squad to my right flank that immediately went into overwatch and my sniper team. The sniper team went on to fire a few times at the American third squad, effectively holding them in place and making them doubt their advance.
With no armour to contend with, the German panzerschreck and American bazooka took to firing he at targets of opportunity. The bazooka hit the pak crew, killing one and injuring the nco. The Germans putting their fire into the top floor of the house where the 30cal was hiding.
Looking to outflank through the woods, the left most American squad had to dash across a little open ground, only to be riddled with spandau by the squad on overwatch.
Bringing up my third squad into the hedge line of the ploughed field, combined fire with the now pinned leading squad was finally enough to dislodge the right flanking Americans, first breaking them, them with the tactical use of a Command dice, sending them scuttling off the table edge. These two events both resulted in a reduction in morale.
Getting my leader into an advantageous position where he could control the pak gun , panzershreck and the effectively leaderless leading squad proved quite useful.
He orchestrated the final demise of the 30cal that hightailed it out the back window.
Turning the pak to the now pinned left flanking squad, the writing was on the wall and the Americans beat a tactical retreat.
Very enjoyable. This was however a learning game. There was a little ebb and flow and it’s easy to see how it could have easily swung the other way had the German leading squad been wiped out, hence why Jamie concentrated so much on them.
Can’t wait for the next one......lots of scenery to be made and painted, and a few remaining minis.
Jamie is painting both his and my AFV’s so there will be a few options in the future.
Rules are straight forward...but mastering the command dice will be an art form I imagine!
Thanks Jamie, great day.
25 September 2012, 11:02:28 PM