One man and his brushes.: Normandy 44 - Sealing the pocket game

Picking up those brushes again.

Hi and welcome to the occasional mutterings of Dave Doc, a military modeller and some time gamer. Gaming and model making has given me a real education, History & Geography(obvious really), Artistry, Politics, Economics, Logistics, Project Management -you try building miniature armies without the last 3.

I will use the blog to record my creations & the odd occasion I actually do some gaming.

I have always been inspired by the aesthetic side of gaming. Playing on well constructed terrain using excellently painted units is always a joy.

Monday, 17 December 2018

Normandy 44 - Sealing the pocket game

Today saw the Old Guard weekend meet. A few of us decided to do another WW2 game (Martin and co were doing a large spear chucking game ) Given the season things have been a bit hectic so the game was not as planned as usual. The scenario we came up with consisted of my US armoured forces strung out along the table having cut off a German battlegroup trying to escape a wider encirclement - how many would escape and what would be the damage.

The play mat, some hedges and a couple of buildings and the deciduous trees are mine and the rest of the terrain is James's stuff.

the table was 12x5 with US forces strung out - the Germans would randomly arrive from the right

Battalion HQ

Advancing nicely

M7'S deployed at the rear..

Small units of German began arriving along the 12 foot length of table searching for a way through.

German infantry try their luck

eek!

Battalion HQ tries to work out what is going on!

M10 TD's dealt with a unit of Stugs that attempted to get through on the rail line

A couple of Panthers powered to the central crossroads - causing mayhem. Battalion HQ behind the barn had to bug out as things were getting a little hairy!. This let a painter and PzIV through and off the board..

lead US forces turned back to hit the advancing Germans in the flank - and also running into some flak and SP artillery which was also quickly death with

The breakthrough attempt was getting costly

US Anti Tank guns getting set up ready for any more german stragglers.

US armour advances to seal of the German entry points

At this point we called it. It had been a good game . James had got some German forces off the board. The US tank destroyers had a good game, and racked up lots of kills - made a change for the German's to be out in the open!

We will probably re run this one - with some more defined victory conditions as its got good potential

We then spent some time planning for the larger 16 x 6 table that we might be getting to Partizan in May with beach and para landings.

Overall a good day out - and we have a holiday games day booked for the 30th too.