A walk in the country, France 1944.

Game of WW2, France 1944. 

Using Chain of Command in 28mm.

Organized, using terrain and models and umpired by Jeremy Dowd.

AAR by David Smylie.

Players

British     : Chris Caves and Ian Anderson.
German  : Leslie Tipping and David Smylie.

The relatively peaceful village prior to the battle.

The British had 2 platoons + 2 Churchill tanks and a mortar barrage.

The Germans had 1 platoon + 30 support points including a Stug , panzerschreck , Pak40 , mine field, barded wire and a tripod MG42 ( which was placed in the church tower much to Ian’s annoyance ).

The game started with a Brit pre-game barrage which the Germans stopped in phase 2.

The Brits pushed slowly forward against the main German positions taking heavy casualties, 2 of Ian’s sections were eventually broken.

However a rolling mortar barrage pinned the Germans particularly in and around the farm buildings housing David Smyiies Germans.

Chris’s Brits got the benefit of that ! 

Eventually the Germans in the farm broke after taking heavy casualties and the British capturing 1 of their 2 objectives and a German jump off point ! 

The highlight of the game was Leslie’s Stug hitting one of the Germans own mines hidden in a ditch beside the road while attempting to stock Chris’s Churchill.

Leslie rolled a 6 and the Stug crew decided to bail out.

( Editor - I want to know who the brave, or foolhardy, German standing in the middle of the road directing traffic was. If Chris Caves had not been playing for the British I would have though it was one of his command ).

At the games end Jeremy declared a draw with one objective point captured by the Brits and the other still in German hands.

Thanks to JD and the 4 spotty cube chuckers - very enjoyable game.

__________________________________________________________________________

Photos curtesy of David Smyiie, Gary and the Editor.