Mech War: Germans v. Soviets

Same terrian & forces as last Sunday, but on opposte sides of the table & this time Jim + Chris as Soviets & Mark & JamesF as Germans. 

Pic from Sovier side.
The Soviets advanced all their armour to their left flank, but the Germans immediately reinforced their right so the 10 T34's (half only 76's) met 10 MkIVs.  Some of the Soviets were in cover, but the Germans mostly had the advantage of defence then the dice gods heavily favoured them.  

Meanwhile the Soviet infantry advanced supported by off table artillery. 

The Soviet gods of war were as supported by teh dice god as much as the Panzers & they decimated the German infantry allowing the Soviet infnatry to drive off the remainder. 
But the total loss of the Soviet armour at the cost of just 2 MkIVs left the Soviet infantry unable to do anything but cling on to their gains. The Soviets hold more objectives, so technically can claim a victory, but it's a pretty hollow claim.

In three recent battles with these forces, the Germans have won two & the Soviets one.  In each case the better plan was supported by better dice causing a decisive result in the tank fight. 

Mech War Soviets v. Germans

Chris' Soviets v. Jim's Germans
Same forces as last weekend.  House ruels for WWII Mech War.  

Pic from behind German right flank.
Deployment platoon by platoon as counters drawn from a bag BA style.

The Germans used theri half tracks to move quickly to occupy the 3 woods near the centre.
The Germasn advance their MkIVs on their right.  The Soviets engaged them with T34/85s in the wood but advanced armoutr on theri right & centre.

The Soviet tanks in the wood on their left were wiped out by superior numbers reinforced by good dice.   The Soviets then thought better of their advance right of centre where two Tigers lurked in the field & sent them back to meet the MkIVs.  But the MkIVs continued to shoot well & the Sovieta rmour on their left was destroyed.  
In the woods the Germans infantry held off Soviet infantry attacks.
The T34's sent around the German left were kept occupied  by the Tigers.

The Germans concentrated their forces better, then got good dice to multiply their advantage into a decisive victory, reversing the result of last weekend's battle with the same forces. 

American War of Indepenance

 Jim's: Brits: 9 vet innfatry, 4 small indians, 2 guns , 2 Brit cavalry
Chris' French & Colonials: 4 French vet inf, 8 comial inf, 4 small woodsmen, 2 gunbs, 2 French cavalry.
28mm figs. House Rules M2M.

Pic from behind British lines after map deployment.

The Brits are advancing on their right.  They are also sending some of the troops from their left through the fields to support that adavnce leaving 2 vet inf, 2 indiasn & 2 guns to defend their left.

The Brit inf have engaged the French infantry on the right while their cav sipports their right & Indians in the woods support their left.
On the far flank the Brits are withdrawing behind a screen on Indians.

The British infnatry advance on their right was halted by acurate French musketry & a valaint bunch of colonials in the wood on their left left.
A bit of support form their infantry gave the British cavalry an edge that the dice didn;t muck up & the French cavalry has been driven off.
The Brit inf brought from the left is attacking the colonials in the central wood after they have been softened up by Indians. 
On the far flank the Brits have falklen back to the fields & their artillery is really hurting the colonials.

On the right, the Brit infantry has been pulled back with heavy losses covered by their cavalry. 
In the centre the Brits have cleared the colonials out fo the central wood.
On the left the Colonials are falling back rather than be mangled by British muskets & grape shot.

At this point neither side's commander feels able to make another attack & is contrent to cease fire & write a dispatch to Washington ot London claiming a great victory. 

 

 

Mech War: Soviets v. Germans

Chris: Soviets
Jim: Geramns
Rules: Camp Cromwell house rules for WWII 15mm.
Scenario:  Key positions with 8 objectives with map deployment.

Pic from Soviet side.
The Soviets have T34/76's & infantry on both flanks, T34/85's in the centre with support from a/tank guns & infantry.
The Germans have all their armour in the centre. Their armoured infnantry is on both flanks & in the centre. 

The Panzers advance to engage the T34/85's & medium a/tank guns in the centre.  The Germans have superior numbers, but the Soviets engage from cover.  
The Germans concede their left flank & shift infnatry to their right.
The Soviets move their rigth flank T34/76s towards the centre & their left flank T34's towards the German's right flank.

The Germans turned 2 of their MKIVs to face the threat to their right flank, but they were picked off by hot shooting.  A second pair of MkIVs met the same fate.  That distraction plus more good shhoting allowed the Soviets to odetroy the panzers in the centre.
German infnatry took the two central objecyives (road juctions.
They alkso attacked teh ridge on their right, but the Soviet infnatry their were dug in & supported by T34/76s & the attack was destroyed. 

Chris had a good plan that wasn't stuffed up by the dice gods & the Soviets won a well deserved decisive victory.  

BA v3: Germans v. Soviets

 Chris' Soviets v. Jim's Germans.
1250 points, Key Positions scenario.

Pic from German side.
The objectives are: the 2 houses, the 2 road junctions & thecentral ends of the ridges on the table centreline. 
The Germans advanced quickly to sieze both the ridge objectives & the RH road junction as well as the house on their side.  They also set up a network of MMGs covering the centre to deter the Soviets from advancing into the open ground in the centre. 
When the Soviets counterattacked on the German right the Germans reinforced the flank from the centre & destroyed the attack.was destroyed.
On the other flank the German squad on the objective was destroyed by Soviet fire, but they held out long enough for 2 MMGs to be moved up to hold the objective at the end. 

In the centre the Germans took both road juctions after their MMGs cleared out the enemy MMGs defending the ground.  The Tank Hunters both sides had stayed out of sight of each other & mostly out fo the action so acheived nothing.

A decisive German victory holding 5 of 6 objectives & destroying 6 units for 1. 

English Civil War

Parliament: Jim & Mike
Royalists: Mark, Chris & SteveJ 
M2M house rules

Parliament are on the near side, Mike on the left, Jim on the right.
The Royalists are: Left flank: Mark. Centre: Chris.  Right flank: Steve. 

Both sides advanced though Parliament held back their cavalry on each flank.

On the near flank the Parliament cavalry was outnumbered, but they used the terrain & infantry support to repell the Royalist attack. 
In the centre the infantry are poing at it at close quarters.
On the far flank the cavalry is still pussy footing around.

Right of centre, the Parliament got the dice to turn a small tactical advantage to a big breakthrough.
Left of centre the foot are still slugging it out.

Right of cantre the Parliament's foot are expanding the hole in the royalist line.
In the centre, the Royalist are gaining the upper hand.
The cavalry on the far flanl are still dithering.

On the near flank the Parliament's cavalry have attacked & finished off the Royalist horse.
Right of centre the Kng's innfatry has been destroyed.
Left of centre, Parliament's foot have been beaten.
On the far flank, the Royalist horse have got the better of the long delayed fight.

Both sides have won on their right flank, but the Parliament's win is more decisive so they can claim victory.

 

BA v3cc:

 Jim's Germans, Chris' Soviets
1250 pts, Key Positions.
BA v3 with Camp Cromwell House Rules

Pic from behind Soviet lines.
There are 7 objectives: the 3 bridges, the 2 house by the road, & the centre ends of the two ridgeseither side of the long centreline.

Both sides advanced on the ridge objectives at each flank.  In both cases the Soviets got the jump on the Germans & took the objective. 

On the right, the Marder I engaged the T34 from cover in the woods.  The Marder first immobilised the T34, then destroyed it.  

With the T34 engaged by the Marder & the Soviet MG's suppressed then killed by German mortar & MG fire, German infantry secured the three bridge objectives.

The Germas won with 4 objective to 3.  They also had a lot less casualties.

More BA v3

Mark's Geremans (actuallyy Jim's list) v. Jim & Chris's Brits
Mike's US v. SteveJ's Germans
1250 pts, V3 with a few h0use rules
2 separate games with the raod marking a no-cross zone.
Both battles Seek & Destroy with fog of war deployment. 

SteveJ v. Mike, Germans on far side.  
They fought each other to a draw with low casulties (1 tank each).

Mark v. Jim & Chris, Germans on far side.
We also fought each each other to a draw.  The Germans lost more casualties, but the Brits couldn't finsih off enough damaged veteran units.