We had a game of Blitzkrieg Commander on Wednesday using my figures.

 American Objective
Clear the village of any Germans and defend against any counterattack.

 German Objective
Hold the village at all costs.

 I took the Gerry's while Tom took the Yanks

 The Battlefield German units were hidden in various places.

 The American infantry approach the village supported by a unit of Sherman tanks. 

 The tanks move ahead of the infantry.

 A mortar round lands in the trees and the Americans prepare for the fight.

 A pair of MG42's reveal themselves and open fire on the oncoming American infantry.

 They kill a unit of Americans.

 A mortar round lands on the lead Sherman suppressing it. A second Sherman moves up and suppresses one of the MG's.

The unsuppressed MG fires on an American MG suppressing it. 

 Seeing the Sherman's about to open fire on the MG's the German mortars fire smoke to stop them.

 The mortars fire more smoke as the MG teams make their escape.

 The Americans occupy a building.

 The German mortars suppress two units of infantry.

 American MG teams fire on their German counterparts killing one team.

 The mortars once again lay down smoke.

 They then suppress a tank and a unit of infantry.

 One Sherman leaves the others and goes looking for the mortars.

 Another tank does the same.

But it is fired upon by German infantry in a building using Panzerfaust. 

 The Germans successfully destroy the Sherman.

 Another tank is suppressed allowing the remaining German MG to escape.

 German infantry move out of a ruined building towards the action.

 Unfortunately we ran out of time at this point. We assumed that the Germans would've won if we'd had more time as the mortars were creating havoc and Mick having just realised that the mortars only had to hit a tank on a 4+ up to this point we had been hitting on a 6+. If we had done that from the beginning there would have been alot more burning metal on the field.

Mick will be doing a report of a Napoleonic game we played last week in the next few days.

Thanks for Reading 

Carl Wilson

Empires at War Ltd



STUG HUNTING

STUG HUNTING

We had a game of WW2 on Wednesday using Darren's Americans and Toms newly painted Germans.

The Battlefield.

A group of paras have landed and need to hold back the Germans till reinforcements arrive.The para forces consisted of 4 6pounder anti tank guns 3 mortars and 11 bases of infantry.

The Americans also had 4 105mm artillery pieces.

The reinforcements consisted of 4 M10 tank destroyers 4 armoured jeeps 5 Sherman's and 4 half tracks each carrying 4 units of infantry.

The German forces consisted of 7 Sturmgeschütz 3 Tiger tanks 4 trucks carrying 120mm mortars 4 81mm mortars and a company of infantry including a unit of panzershrek tank busters.

3 Sturmgeschütz move onto the field.

The anti tank guns open fire on the Sturmgeschütz.

Destroying one.

The rest of the Sturmgeschütz move up as do the trucks.

The German infantry moves up.

As do the tank busters.

The Germans.

The American 81mm mortars open fire.

They manage to destroy a Sturmgeschütz.

They fire again and destroy another Sturmgeschütz.

The tank busters and some infantry take cover.

The German 120mm mortars offload and set up.

The 81mm mortars set up and open fire.

They manage to destroy a Sherman.

2 anti tank guns are suppressed by German infantry fire.

The Tiger tanks arrive on the battlefield.

And one is immediately destroyed by the two unsuppressed anti tank guns.

The American artillery open fire.

They destroy a Sturmgeschütz 3 units of infantry and 4 panzershrek.

While all this was happening the armoured jeeps reached the paras position.

The half tracks slowly make their way there to.

Two tank destroyers are destroyed by German mortars.

The remaining two tank destroyers return fire and destroy another Sturmgeschütz.

German MG Teams open fire.

Killing the crew of two of the anti tank guns.

Another Sturmgeschütz is destroyed by Sherman's.

The remaining Germans then decided to retreat.

Darren and myself were the Americans while Tom and Mick were the Germans latecomer John took the Tiger tanks.

We decided that the reason for the German loss was that there was not enough cover for them and they were siting ducks out in the open while the paras were entrenched. We also failed to apply the rule giving a -1 in their own command phase to units using opportunity fire in the enemy turn. As the Americans had far more success than the Germans this could have made a difference.

The Germans lost 6 of the 7 Sturmgeschütz one tiger tank most of the tank buster squad and 3 units of infantry.

The Americans only lost two anti tank gun crews 1 unit of infantry and two tank destroyers.

A resounding victory for the Americans.

Next week 28mm Napoleonic.

Thanks For Reading

Carl