Everything went quite well with me advancing the section on the right flank up to the road followed by the centre section. Then some fool in the left hand section managed to get spotted coming out of the woods and the game was up! So instead of finding the Manor with only light defences the entire defending force was stood to waiting for me.My first attempt to get an MG34 out of the woods to cover the perimeter was a bit of a fiasco. So I decided on a more co-ordinated approach which did draw plenty of fire but left me with some troops in a position to return fire. My MG34s managed to keep the Brit's heads down and I sent a small party forward to cut the barbed wire fence on the right. After that it was a desperate holding action for the defenders, hoping to give the communications room enough time to destroy the code books, equipment and the like.
Reinforcements from the local Home Guard turned up, better late than never. But had been spotted by one of my men and so came under some heavy fire when they tried to advance and decided that discretion was the better part of valour and withdrew.
So the Manor and what remained of its equipment and documents fell into the hands of the Reich despite the valiant efforts of the defenders.
The Manor itself is my Grand Manner building with the figures mostly from Foundry. We used our favourite WW2 rules, Nuts! from Two Hour Wargames.
Impressive looking game, Al.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of 'Nuts' before, but they look interesting; 1:1 scale always appeals to me - nice one.
I was sold on Nuts! (when we'd got our heads around the concept of the system) following a game with an MG42 - the way it worked under the system just matched my understanding. I think they give the right feel to games but they're not to everyone's liking and Two Hour Wargames keep fiddling with them and some of the changes aren't for the better IMHO (we use a slightly tweaked version)
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