Some pictures from a recent game against Owen. He ran Kampgruppe Pieper from Devil's Charge and I ran the US Glider Engineers from Nuts. The scenario was Pincer. It was only after we started playing that we realised we had got the Eastern Front building out. Woops!
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| The start of turn 1 - Lots of Panzer IVs and halftracks spearhead their way towards the dug in Americans |
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| Owen uses his medium and heavy mortars to lay down some smoke ready for an assault |
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| US M4A3 (76mm) Shermans ambush the Panzer IVs... |
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| ... killing three and the 2iC |
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| Halftracks go in for the mounted assault, and gut the platoon of Engineers |
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| Multiple bombardments from Heavy Mortars and 105s should be devastating on the Shermans, but aren't |
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| Forced to dismount, but the Panzergrenadiers are still in the fight |
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| M18 Hellcats sweep in to deal with German reinforcements, killing the AA halftracks and turning their .50cals on the infantry |
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| The Sherman 76s finally deal with the German 1iC |
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| Mortars and machine guns are incredibly effective against the Hellcats. My dice are cursed, cursed I tells thee!!! (OK, might not be the dice) |
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| The evening is getting on, and we want our KFC, so instead of carefully pulling Owen's remaining platoons apart for the 6-1 win, I assault with the remnants of the Engineers and then the 2 remaining trained Shermans, losing both understrength platoons, and more importantly no longer contesting the objective. 4-3 to Owen. |
This was a fun game, and it was an opportunity to try some lists we are thinking of for Sturm Uber Deutschland in November. I am currently torn between a more defensive list like the Engineers, or something all out attack, with my own variation of Kampgruppe Pieper. I've got until Friday to decide.
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