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Tuesday, 18 February 2020

A daring rescue mission for Sergeant White's platoon

On the night of the 13th of August 1944 Sergeant White has been issued with the following communications -



The game was played with the "Chain of Command" rules using 28mm figures from Perry miniatures and Warlord Games. 

Ian took control of the Americans, while Norman commanded the German defense. The patrol phase had the Americans hugging the left hand side of the board, while the Germans were spread equally across the board. We had a few rules added for this scenario -

Special Rules

Line of sight is limited to 12 inches for the first turn, from turn 2 onward the sun has risen and Line of sight reverts to normal distances.

The Sherman can only be deployed from turn 2 onward.

No High Explosive fire from the Sherman is to be used against the house.

Assaults on the house are allowed, as is the use of grenades. The captives are being held in the cellar and should be safe from any assault.

Victory conditions for the United States are either retrieval of the captives and bringing them to safety OR forcing the German forces from the board. Any other results will be a German victory.

It shouldn’t need saying but the captives aren’t to be shot, anyone asking will receive a -1 to their force morale.







A few pictures of the action.

It was a hard slog for the Americans with them struggling to find a point of attack to press, this coupled with a handful of double turns for the Germans meant the left hand flank of the Americans was destroyed in three phases and the destruction of the U.S armour reduced the Americans to 2 force moral points at which point the Americans withdrew to regroup for a second attack.



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