I had a couple of 25pdr's and two 2pdr's along with some infantry, not a lot of the latter the Italians turned up first in several waves, light tanks to the front and heavier machines to the rear, further back were trucks loaded with infantry. The Jerries when they turned up arrived with three PzIII's. As the Italians raced to hit my left flank I dropped artillery on them along with some AT rounds from the 2pdr's, none of this had much effect, just as I got going some Eytie bombers turned up and thankfully did not make the best of their run. I continued to drop HE and was then forced to load AP, the small tanks started to brew up, although it was the 25pdr's doing the damage, the useless crew on the left hand 2pdr were just that, useless.
The Germans now turned up and struggled over the large hill rather than go round, this delayed them a bit but not by much, a wall of enemy tanks were now in front of my position, also on the left the remaining little tank had tried to drive over my AT gun which it missed but it did manage to take one of the supply dumps to my rear. The dice gods now turned in my favour as tank after tank blew up or it's crew abandoned ship, I had a great round and stopped the enemy advance in its tracks. It was also fortunate that my reserves had turned up and several Matildas took back the captured supply dump and turned the luckless enemy tank to charred rust. It did not go all our way and another annoying Italian bomber turned up, several elements lost members and one of the Matildas brewed. Mortar fire was also hitting our right flank and again inflicting small but mounting losses. Wait, more British tanks turned up, A10's I think, the Germans and their Allies looked crestfallen, it was time to count the losses. It turned out to be a win for the British, it had looked good at one point for the Axis but a couple of good turns stopped them dead and with the arrival of the British tanks the writing was on the wall. Apart from that one foray by the little Italian tank the enemy effort simply didn't get off the ground. A good little game, Battlegroup is a quick play set of rules and is perfect for a club night, my only reservation is that every time you shoot you have to take a sighting test, if you make the test and throw a shell at someone why would you then forget where they were seconds later for your second shot?
Full night at the club, two SAGA games, two Age of Sigmar and our Battlegroup game.
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I am also halfway through the squad of Soviet assault engineers, again from Warlord and again a really lovely set of figures, these guys are going to double up as tank killers, engineer teams an SMG squad or even assault engineers.
Congratulations on your victory! Looking forward to seeing your work on your Soviet project. I must check out Rubicon.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonathan, I better savour it while I can.
DeleteYou appear to be on a victory roll George. Your eastern front project is going at a fair lick, really like the last levy set myself, but I may be a little biased.
ReplyDeleteAll good things must come to an end Phil, it is only a matter of time, but the playing is the thing. Yes, really enjoying my look East, still a way to go but definitely enough for a game.
DeleteSo what did you think of the the BG rules, I have a lot of their books but have never played.
ReplyDeleteThe rules are fine John, for quick play I think and larger than CoC etc., therefore a bit abstract, pinning is very important and frustrating as can be the command mechanisms, but I play it only now and again at the club and it is fine there.
DeleteGood batrep and I also have little success with smaller AT guns.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Ross
That crew were more interested in a brew than shooting tanks Ross.
DeleteGreat stuff George! Really like those Last Levy models. Congrats on the victory too 🙂
ReplyDeleteThanks Ivor, it is a nice box of figures, can't really complain about Warlord metals for WWII.
Delete"These are probably more than enough from my Russian forces but I aim to add at least five more vehicles...."
ReplyDeleteSeems to sum you up to a tee?
Guilty as charged :)
DeleteBG not my cuppa, much prefer RF2. The new Krauts are nice, though I'm hardly impartial regarding the sculpts.
ReplyDeleteI think the guys use that as well but haven't seen it for a while. If your lad did the sculpts well done.
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