This weekend saw the usual monthly meet up. 7Days seems to have really caught some of the guys interest with new forces being raised - one of the good things is that you dont need loads for a game . We used a 12x6 table with a capture the bridge scenario - this would see Bren and Dave using the newly raised Soviet paratroopers and their air assault helicopters , with a force of Soviet armour racing to the bridge .
My French would be deployed as the advance screening force and Stigs new West Germans defending the other side around the industrial complex .
The Soviets didn’t manage to take the bridge , we had enough time to run it again and they tried a more aggressive approach which also failed . They want to play it again !
Soviet tank commander looking through binoculars at the bridge to his front, 'It's still up'.
ReplyDeleteA10 Thunderbolts fly overhead and proceed to blow the $@#% out of said bridge.
Soviet tank commander is then heard to mutter, 'No it ain't'.
- Soviet mission: capture the bridge.
- NATO mission: don't let them.
Conclusion: destroy the bridge!
Brens air assault nearly worked - the SAMs didn’t react - and he got to drop the infantry … and chased off most of the French units - though he got a surprise when he found I had parked my APCwith an autocannon in the garage building , popped out and shot the crap out of him with crossfire from the Germans and another one of mine placed to catch him!
DeleteHaha, yes, you can just make out the base of the vehicle hidden in the building. Brilliant. I suppose it benefits from correct use of recce troops to find these dangers, but if Bren and David were using VDV don't know what recce elements they would have, except for recce infantry? Another reason why I'm only collecting a French recce force!
DeleteThis looks like a phenomenal game Dave, obviously finally balanced too by the look of it.
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