With a few things going wrong in my house and how busy work has been I have not really made much progress with this board.
That being said, today I managed to get the buildings out and play a game. Please excuse the lack of painted buildings and the left over plastic that looks like spider web, this will be removed as I paint the buildings.
This is just a tester to see if the rooms etc work.
Villers-Bocage(ish) AAR.
As the sun was rising that morning, the clouds where low in the sky, the morning dew from the surrounding fields creating a low lying mist. The mist was the annoying, cold and wet type of mist all to common in this area, this annoyed the German troops hat had been left behind from the evacuation of medical staff and injured soldiers from the Chateu on the 11 June.
There orders where simple, hold the village until transport arrived. So the troops dug in, by digging in, they occupied the houses with the best bedding, food stocks etc. which in turn upsets them more when they need to leave on patrol.
As they conducted this patrol, part of the route was through the village, via the abandoned bakery and butcher to see what they could take. While on this patrol, one of the soldiers noticed movement down the main street of the town. Thinking it must be an animal, he shrugged it off and carried on his slow walk to the bakery.
As they approached Rue Currie another soldier quickly hushed the group and told them to listen. It was faint but they heard a faint echo of English bouncing around the town. They quickly split up into two fire teams and took either side of the main street.
The low level mist had still not burnt off, the echoing of people speaking English got louder and louder. The Germans mumbling between themselves about what they should do decided they should investigate.
Sneaking through old passage ways, slowly opening doors and checking rooms. What was already a dull morning for the Germans just got a whole lot worse.
The British advancing through the town was informed by RECCE callsigns it was empty. They where not expecting to see or hear anything during this advance. That being said, they split up to ensure there was still no Germans in the town.
What felt like hours, but more like 30mins had pasted, both sides had made some ground. At this point both were aware of each other but unsure of locations.
At one stage they both occupied houses right next door to each other was were none the wiser.
This quickly turned though, what was a quiet little town erupted. The sounds of bullets hitting buildings and wooden frames. The screams of orders both in German and English as both sides franticly try and locate each other as they bob and weave through narrow passages and small rooms.
At one point the British Bren gunner was on overwatch as a member of this squad breached a door. The poor private in charge of kicking in the door and throwing a grenade in stumbled as they went to kick the door and fell through out, to his horror there was a German inside. The very startled German quickly let out a burst hitting the poor private in the chest. Seeing this all happen, the bren gunner opened fire hitting the German several times.
As the fighting intensified in the town, these little one on one fights happened more and more, seeing both sides taking causalities.
The Germans where made to fall back, and leave there injured and dead where they lay. The British troops that encaged the Germans were ordered to hold position and wait reinforcements before sweeping through the remaining streets.
It was several hours after the first round was fired the town once again went quiet. The mist had burnt off, the sun was high in the sky and the clouds where no where to be seen.
06 March 2012, 01:04:39 PM