Alex's trip to Corrivalry - game two

Game two was Dust Up against Jerome Draussin (of Team France) and his Finnish Jaakari Komppania. His list had 3 Platoons of infantry, 4 T28s, 3 Pak 40 platoons (one with a warrior), 122mm and 152mm artillery. I took my more defensive list again.

 

Early in the game my infantry is aggressive and moves into the woods near the closer objective and starts the first of many rounds of assaults

My deployment area after my infantry start to move out

One T28 was taken out by 155mm artillery, but the remnants of my infantry hide in the wood.

His infantry and T28s move up to remove the infantry.

And do so, but lose a T28 in the process

Stuarts arrive from reserve, and start harassing Jerome's artillery.

The next turn the cannon platoon arrives, and gets to work on the T28s

After a Stuart is destroyed in a bombardment, the rest of the platoon moves up to engage the 152mm artillery.

The second infantry platoon moves up to take over from the first.

The Stuarts take out the 152mm guns in an assault (there were only 2), but have now attracted the attention of the 122mm guns and a Pak 40.

Jerome has a strong hold on the objective

The Cannon platoon takes out the remaining T28s

The Stuarts take out more artillery, but are eventually brought down by far superior firepower.

105mm artillery arrives in support of the US attack

The US infantry and cannon platoons move up to try and shift the Finns off the objective. 2+ to hit in assaults proved vital here.

Finnish reserves finally arrive in turn 5, and are heading straight for my poorly defended objectives.

The Finnish infantry are destroyed, but the artillery commander is moved up to contest the objective.

He is dispatched, but the Finnish 2iC moves up to replace him and keep the game going. The cannons try to finish the artillery (Jerome was at half platoons and his 1iC had been killed), but were unable to kill the Staff Team in an assault.

Allowing him to assault my 90mm guns and take an objective himself.

4-3 to Jerome, in a fantastic game that would have ended 4-3 either way. I thought I had him on the ropes, but he showed a Finnish tenacity, and forced me back and claimed a well deserved win.