Week 2........

Week 2 of FoW gaming at Dreamers Vault and again we had 5 players show up.

Patrick had a small but tough veteran tank company from Desperate Measures go against Jason with a T-34 and Matilda horde in a 1420 point LW battle.  They played Hold the Line with the Germans attacking.

 

 

After an effective ambush from the Matilda's, wiping out the whole Panzer Grenadier platoon in their half tracks, they were too far away to contest the objective and the Germans won.

Since the first game finished so fast, they set up again to play Cauldron, this time with the Germans defending.

 

 

Rudel took his toll on the Russians on the way in and in the end the Panzerfaust armed German infantry proved too tough to shift off the objective, giving the Germans another victory.

 

 

 On the other table I played a MW 1710 point game against Eric.  He brought his American list with 10 Shermans, Half Track mounted engineers, 105's and air support.  I had my standard list of Veteran British Guards Rifle's, with 3 platoons of infantry, 6 pdrs, carriers, Shermans and 25 pdr's.  We rolled up Surrounded with the British as the defenders.

 

 

The British set up a tough defense in the town with 25 pdrs holding one flank and 6 pdrs the other, with the Shermans in the middle, ready to react to the American attack.

 

 

The Americans loaded up all the tanks and the Engineers on one side of the board and charged in as quickly as they could.

The 6 pdr's popped up from immediate ambush right where they were needed, and in one devastating volley, sent the platoon of Shermans running (with 2 kills and a bail, they did not do as much damage as I expected, but it was just enough to do the job.....).

On the other flank, the 25 pdrs fired over open sites to take out the other platoon of Shermans, while the British Shermans and the carriers held off the engineers in the center and managed to dispose of the company commander.

With that, the victory was secured and the field belonged to the British troops.  This game would have been much closer if Eric could have passed a 4+ dice roll though.  His artillery was pinned on the first turn and never unpinned, he failed every platoon check that he had to take and he couldn't hit with the bombs on his airplane.

Overall, another fun night of gaming in Minneapolis.  Make sure to stop in if you are in the neighborhood on a Wednesday night.

Also note that we have a Mid War tournament scheduled on June 18th.  More details can be found here -> Link