Soviets try to outflank the Yanks

Today we played another game of Seven Days to the River Rhine; this time actually near the Rhine rather than the Nile.

The brief for the Canadians was "Soviet forces are pushing around the flank of the main US army forces to the South. A Canadian battle group has been detailed to prevent the Soviet forces turning the flank. Your objective is to either drive off the approaching Soviet forces or to hold the crossroads at the centre of the table".

Both sides deployed their recce forces and raced to capture the cross-roads.

The Canadians won the race and deployed infantry into the buildings surounding the cross-roads.

Things were looking dicey for the Canadians as a lot of Soviet armour were headed their way.

The Canadian Leos started to arrive but the dice gods were not kind.

The Soviet T72s tried to outflank the village...

but the Leos in the south soon stopped this but paid a heavy price.

The Soviet infantry started to clear the Canadians out of the village with support from the BMPs.

With the Canadians in the village under severe pressure one of the Leos in the north raced to the village to help out...

and managed to knock out one of the BMPs...

whilst his mate brewed a T64 that was advancing towards the village, with a nice flank shot.

The Soviets managed to clear the Canadian infantry out of the buildings but the Canadians were hanging on, just, with just the armour contesting the cross-roads.