Today we played the second scenario of the campaign, with the German deployment limited to the village in the bottom left of the table. The British objective was to push the Germans out of the village.
The British deployment points were mostly at the top of the table but had one on the road in the bottom right just in case an outflanking manoeuvre was required, whilst the Germans were restricted to deployment in the village.
The British quickly deployed two sections into the wheatfield and poured fire into the German section immediately to their front. Men went down and it wasn't looking good for the Germans as the British pre-game barrage was effective for a change and was keeping the heads down of any reinforcements. To make matters worse for the Germans the British were advancing down the road as well.
The forward observer got his finger out for a change and brought in an accurate mortar barrage onto the village whilst a section advanced out of the wheatfield towards the village. Things were looking very bad for the Germans.
The Germans ended the turn and thus the British barrage so that they could bring up reinforcements but the British took this opportunity to assault what was left of the German section. Each side rolled a bucket of dice with casualties about even on both sides but the Germans were wiped out.
The Germans deployed their final two sections desparately hoping to prevent the British from taking the village.
However, the British had been sneaky and had an extra infantry section which now meant that the Germans were severely outnumbered.
This extra firepower was telling as the section in the north of the village was outgunned and soon reduced to just the MG team...
and then just the NCO...
and then nobody. At this point the German force morale had failed so they retreated off the table leaving the village in the hands of the victorious British.
A hard fought game that looked to be over very quickly for the Germans, but they tenaciously hung on.
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