Bolt Action practice for Sudlicht 2022

With the Sudlicht BA tournament coming up in Devonport later this month I invited Truscott Trotter over to give me & my Panzergrenadiers a training match.  He came with a veteran British force armed with a Churchill armed with a heavy howitzer & an armoured car dripping with machine guns. The mission was Demolition where each side has one objective they place themselves near their own baseline to defend.  You lose if the enemy has a unit (other than transport) in contact with the objective on your side at the end of any turn. (Being adjacent to the objective yourself doesn't save you).

The Brits are on the far side.  They have placed their objective to defend in the wood on the right side of their table edge.  The Germans have placed their objective to defend in the wood on their table edge nearest the camera. 

Both sides placed forces in the wood to defend their enemy's objective & sent infantry down their left flank to attack thero own objective.  The British tank & armoured car  supported the British attack.  The German MkIII supported the German defence.

The Churchill was simply parked on the ridge & then used it's big gun to devastating effect.  It took out half the German army by itself - Pak 36, MMG, MkIII, a lmg squad & the German CO team.  The Brit a/car artfully exploited the Reece evade rule to escape the MkIII & gunned down the German mortar team in the near corner (just out of the pic shots), but was unable to attack the objective in the woods (being wheeled).

It was the British plan to take the objective with infantry advancing down the near table side plus another using the flank march rule coming on near the near corner of the table (after the Churchill & a/ car had pulverised the defence).  A poor command roll on the British flanking force, bought the Germans enough time to hang on to the objective until the end of turn 6. 

On the far flank two large Panzergrenadier squads advanced over the wooded plateau to attack their objective.  They outnumbered the British defenders, but at the end of turn 6 were still short of the objective.

The dice decreed that there was no turn 7, & at the end of turn 6 the battle was a draw with no one taking their  objective.  So we played out a turn 7 to see what might have happened.   On the near side, the Churchill blew the German command team on the objective away, then one of the Brit infantry squads, having won their charge on a defending lmg squad threw a 5 for over-run move so moved 5" & reached the objective.   Meanwhile, on the far side, the two German infantry squads overwhelmed the British defenders & also took their objective.  So it was still a draw after 7 turns too.