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| "Achtung - Jabo!" |
Hullo, All.
Last week I managed to secure a night's gaming, and as Guy wanted to introduce me to something new, we went for 'Battlegroup' in 15mm...which if nothing else would be vindication for me not selling off my Flames of War army!
Battlegroup is very specifically divided into separate sub-games for the different theatres, so we went for 'Battlegroup: Overlord' for some 1944 Brits Vs Germans action at 'platoon' level: we both had a platoon of troops, a squadron of tanks and assorted support units, which was a perfect level for an intro game...
...what we didn't have was the rules.
- We had three different theatre supplements (including - thankfully - Overlord) but not the core rules, so we had to blag those from a mix of 90% stuff Guy mostly remembered and 10% stuff I'd briefly read about beforehand.
To this end, I won't go mad on what exactly happened, but suffice it to say that we had a good clash. When we called time, I'd clearly won 2/3 objectives, but I'd also accumulated one more 'point' than Guy (this is a Bad Thing in Battlegroup) so it was a happy draw overall.
Time for some more pics, then my reflections...
At the end of the game, Guy realised that we'd missed out some fairly fundamental stuff, which might've helped some things to make a bit more sense, but overall it didn't matter at all.
As I suspected, I much preferred the game to Flames (which tends to slow right down to a grind mid-game), and I look forward to playing it again. "Once more with feeling!" ...or at least, with the rules!
Cheers,
- D.
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| 11AD in 15mm. For those of you newer to the blog, this is the older of my 'historical' forces, but it's a company-sized facsimile of my platoon-scale 28mm Bolt Action force! Hearty thanks to Justin for permitting me to use his pics. |
...what we didn't have was the rules.
- We had three different theatre supplements (including - thankfully - Overlord) but not the core rules, so we had to blag those from a mix of 90% stuff Guy mostly remembered and 10% stuff I'd briefly read about beforehand.
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| 25pdrs are reassuringly versatile in BG... |
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| ...and the rate of fire from these buggers against ground targets is vicious! |
To this end, I won't go mad on what exactly happened, but suffice it to say that we had a good clash. When we called time, I'd clearly won 2/3 objectives, but I'd also accumulated one more 'point' than Guy (this is a Bad Thing in Battlegroup) so it was a happy draw overall.
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| My FOO team took their grass with them! |
Time for some more pics, then my reflections...
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| The central objective: burnt-out tank by the building |
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| The Germans advance on the objective |
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| My miniature gun-line |
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| 3RTR loses a Sherman to the Panzers |
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| Highlight of the game: RAF to the rescue! |
As I suspected, I much preferred the game to Flames (which tends to slow right down to a grind mid-game), and I look forward to playing it again. "Once more with feeling!" ...or at least, with the rules!
Cheers,
- D.
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