David & I met up at Leighton Buzzard for a BKC game, using his points of 2085, we put our lists together, David dusted off his troops, as he used to play Stephen at BKCII, and off we went.
David's force:
Co & 2 x HQs and FAO
2 x 25lbers
2 x Mk3 Honeys
5 x A13s
3 x Crusaders
3 x Valentines
3 infantry platoons in trucks
2 x 2lber portees
It's a lot of armour and not much infantry!
My force:
CO & 2 HQs
3 x Panzer IIIJ
3 x Panzer IIIH
2 x Panzer IVD
1 x 222
2 x verteran infantry in Hannomags
1 x HMG & Mortar in truck
4 x infantry
2 x PAK36s
1 x Pak38s
1 x HMG
1 x Mortar
1 x motorcyclists
A lot of infantry, but not much armour!
For reference, in David's force; red counters donate killed, blue = surpressed and yellow show hits (we played the hits stay on varient)
And indeed, so the my armour really went for it turn 1, well over the half way line, and ready to pick on David's 8th Army on my right. On the left, my infantry advances towards the village, while the mechanised infantry is ready to debus into the left of the village.
DAK filling every cm2 of space in the village!
With the German managing the first blunder of their eight of the night (when you roll lots of activations your chance of a 12 goes up I suppose), my armour breaks cover and comes forwards to threaten the British tanks that were struggling through a palm grove. Pity two 25lber batteries and two Honeys were also in the area and those 25lbers put out a lot of shots!
"We interrupt this broadcast for a quick look at the other table..."
Mark and Dave R were playing 1000 points, by turn 5, Mark only had 250 points on table!! Yes, his command rolls were on fire!
Back to desert. Behind David's Matilda IIs, British motorised infantry was having a really bad time from HMG and mortar fire from my left hand sections in the village. I was also hammering his two attached 2lber Portees (think David regretted bringing them).
One Panzer IIIJ in exchange for a 25lber. Not really a fair swap. My 222, after taking 2 hits, retreated behind the palm grove to add support rather than sit in the open. On the right, a Honey takes damage and the two platoons of light tankshide in the palm groves.
So, that's one battery of Pak 36s vs 3 Valentine, 3 Crusaders and 5 A13s.
Might be a bit of an unfair fight for the A13s?
Very quickly it wasn't five A13s, or three Crusdaers!
(Okay, the massed German tanks and a battery of Pak38s may have been a little bit of a help)
With theinhumation
removal of the British infantry and Portees, my DAK try and reinforce
the left of the line with a battery of Pak36s to at least make the
Matildas think before charging into our rear.
The amount of tanks David could throw forwards was impressive (yes, another blunder had forced my tanks backwards, the 222 was glad of company in his thicket. Lybian scrap metal merchants would have been rubbing their hand with glee as we picked off all the A13s.
A blunder meant my lead veteran infantry stand took 11(!) shots from the British as it poked its head over the wall, but thankfully only two landed and the CO rallied them off. He also moved the Hannomags back out the way so they weren't a target or blocked the Paks. Unfortunately, that meant the Matildas could really focus on the Paks and they didn't last long!
By game end, what a mess! I had done in 50% of David's forces, while he had not yet done 25% of mine (an awful lot of infantry hiding in the village helps).
Major DAK victory!
I had lost four tank platoons and a Pak36, David had lost 5 A13s, 2 Honeys, 2 25lbers, 2 Portees, three infantry, two crusaders (and a partridge in a pear tree). His command rolls all night had been dire, hardly keeping and initiative, whereas my Germans usually got their second or third move, then blundered!
Another top game, what a great set of rules, and what huge laughs it produces, I play again next week against Phillip who wants to try them out too.
Co & 2 x HQs and FAO
2 x 25lbers
2 x Mk3 Honeys
5 x A13s
3 x Crusaders
3 x Valentines
3 infantry platoons in trucks
2 x 2lber portees
It's a lot of armour and not much infantry!
My force:
CO & 2 HQs
3 x Panzer IIIJ
3 x Panzer IIIH
2 x Panzer IVD
1 x 222
2 x verteran infantry in Hannomags
1 x HMG & Mortar in truck
4 x infantry
2 x PAK36s
1 x Pak38s
1 x HMG
1 x Mortar
1 x motorcyclists
A lot of infantry, but not much armour!
For reference, in David's force; red counters donate killed, blue = surpressed and yellow show hits (we played the hits stay on varient)
And indeed, so the my armour really went for it turn 1, well over the half way line, and ready to pick on David's 8th Army on my right. On the left, my infantry advances towards the village, while the mechanised infantry is ready to debus into the left of the village.
DAK filling every cm2 of space in the village!
With the German managing the first blunder of their eight of the night (when you roll lots of activations your chance of a 12 goes up I suppose), my armour breaks cover and comes forwards to threaten the British tanks that were struggling through a palm grove. Pity two 25lber batteries and two Honeys were also in the area and those 25lbers put out a lot of shots!
"We interrupt this broadcast for a quick look at the other table..."
Mark and Dave R were playing 1000 points, by turn 5, Mark only had 250 points on table!! Yes, his command rolls were on fire!
Back to desert. Behind David's Matilda IIs, British motorised infantry was having a really bad time from HMG and mortar fire from my left hand sections in the village. I was also hammering his two attached 2lber Portees (think David regretted bringing them).
One Panzer IIIJ in exchange for a 25lber. Not really a fair swap. My 222, after taking 2 hits, retreated behind the palm grove to add support rather than sit in the open. On the right, a Honey takes damage and the two platoons of light tankshide in the palm groves.
So, that's one battery of Pak 36s vs 3 Valentine, 3 Crusaders and 5 A13s.
Might be a bit of an unfair fight for the A13s?
Very quickly it wasn't five A13s, or three Crusdaers!
(Okay, the massed German tanks and a battery of Pak38s may have been a little bit of a help)
With the
The amount of tanks David could throw forwards was impressive (yes, another blunder had forced my tanks backwards, the 222 was glad of company in his thicket. Lybian scrap metal merchants would have been rubbing their hand with glee as we picked off all the A13s.
A blunder meant my lead veteran infantry stand took 11(!) shots from the British as it poked its head over the wall, but thankfully only two landed and the CO rallied them off. He also moved the Hannomags back out the way so they weren't a target or blocked the Paks. Unfortunately, that meant the Matildas could really focus on the Paks and they didn't last long!
By game end, what a mess! I had done in 50% of David's forces, while he had not yet done 25% of mine (an awful lot of infantry hiding in the village helps).
Major DAK victory!
I had lost four tank platoons and a Pak36, David had lost 5 A13s, 2 Honeys, 2 25lbers, 2 Portees, three infantry, two crusaders (and a partridge in a pear tree). His command rolls all night had been dire, hardly keeping and initiative, whereas my Germans usually got their second or third move, then blundered!
Another top game, what a great set of rules, and what huge laughs it produces, I play again next week against Phillip who wants to try them out too.
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