The Drive on Minsk - Game Four - Evening Three

[7dot62mm]

Continuing this classic 1941 Blitzkrieg campaign...






Full report here:

http://thewargamersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4401

[CapnJim]

Game looks great.  So did "Evening One"!  Nice terrain, figs, vehicles, and photos. 

[Hang Tuah]

Fantastic set-up. And excellent pictures too. They've got a cinematic feel to them. Most people tend to take pictures from above where you can't see details clearly. So thanks for that.

[meyer]

A lot of beautiful Pics, a dramatic report!

[Marine0846]

Wonderful story telling and great photos also.
I have been meaning to start reading all the battle reports and finally started.
Love them.
Hopefully I will be able to finish them soon,(one maybe two a day.)
Also you interested me in the Skirmish Campaign books, they look to be a lot of fun.
I have been painting BEF, French and Germans for 1940.
Plan to order the two about the France 1940 campaign.
Thanks for sharing.

[7dot62mm]

Also you interested me in the Skirmish Campaign books, they look to be a lot of fun.
I have been painting BEF, French and Germans for 1940.
Plan to order the two about the France 1940 campaign.

I have the entire Skirmish Campaigns series and there are actually three about France 1940 (Withdrawal to Dunkirk, Ghost Division and Battles for the Meuse). Each book is further divided into three to five campaigns and requires a lot of kit to play fully. The requirements of individual campaigns vary from just a few squads to several platoons of tanks per side.

Some are quite involved, for example to play the Les Attaques campaign (3 scenarios) from the Withdrawal to Dunkirk Book you'd need the following kit:

1x German platoon
1x PAK 36
1x 8 cm mortar team
2x Panzer I ausf B
2x Panzer II
4x Panzer III ausf E *
4x Panzer IV ausf D *
1x Panzer IV ausf E *
1x Sd.Kfz 221 *
2x Sd.Kfz 251/1
1x Motorcycle squad
1x Engineer squad
2x German truck

1x British platoon
2x Boys AT rifle
5x Dingo scout cars
1x universal carrier
3x A-9 Cruiser
2x A-9 Cruiser *
2x IIA CS cruiser
1x IIA CS cruiser *
3x Mark VI B
3x Mark VI B *
1x Canon de 75 1897 *

* Items marked are random Attachments. If you don't have the model needed, you could reroll the attachment roll and see if you get something you do have a model of.

In the introduction to Game Two (Evening One report) I included some notes on modifying the Skirmish Campaign. When I'll play the next Skirmish Campaign I'll also upgrade the armor platoons to full strength, the authors seem to think that a German platoon has just four tanks.

[Marine0846]

Thanks for the up date.
Went and ordered the three skirmish books today.
Also there is a lot of figures and tanks.
I have all most all of the stuff on your lists for both German and British.
Just missing a couple of Pz IVs for the Germans.
I need to add some Dingo's, only have 2.
Maybe add some Morris C9s armoured cars in their place.
Also could use a couple of A-13s in place of A-9s.
My big down fall is in posting photos.
I am s**t about it.
I might as well learn a foreign language.

[7dot62mm]

I have all most all of the stuff on your lists for both German and British.

Wow! I've obtained enough stuff to play these, there's just the small task of building and painting them all...

My big down fall if posting photos.

That's pretty easy actually. Upload image to Postimages.org and obtain the "direct link" to it. Click on the "Insert Image" on this forum and cut & paste the direct link onto your message.

[Marine0846]

I have caught up with the campaign so far.
Really love look of your terrain.
Its not flat, a big plus for me.
I always try to put rolling terrain on my table.
I guess it goes back to using Geo-Hex terrain.
The story line is great, the photos, oh so many of them.
Love your whole set up.
Thanks for sharing your great campaign.

[Marine0846]

My three Skirmish Campaign  books I order about France 1940 came yesterday.
Very doable scenarios
Lots of good stuff in them.
Thanks a lot for the tip about them.

[7dot62mm]

Nice to hear. I too think the France 40 campaigns are pretty good-looking.

Speaking of Geo-Hex, there's Geo-Hex under the cloth in Game Three - I had to make those gullies.

[ulverston]

Having dug out my old 20mm stuff and ordered more I have found this thread very interesting. Loving the pics!