Advance to Contact: Maximum Attrition August 1944

 This action is to represent what the Canadians and Germans were up to after the closing of the Falaise Gap.

 The North Nova Scotia Highlanders with a Cameron Highlanders mortar wait in a wood to potentially ambush an SS column. 

 Highlanders wait in ambush.

 A recce force of 12th SS with a Patton tank standing in for a Panther.

This was the first game with some significant armor on both sides. The local Toys R Us had some die cast toy cars done up as military models which my son and I got. Each blister pack had 5 viechles so we bought 2 and split them up as to what we wanted. I got a truck, a half-track, a Churchill and an M4 Sherman.

Ian decided that he wanted the bulldozer to use for his engineering feats, plus a captured T-34/85, the above mentioned Patton, as well as a captured American A/A half-track.

Ian's SS troops moved forward, unable to see the Canadian armor in the trees. When the Canadian's opened fire, the Germans reacted with a vengence. The Patton attempted to take out the armored car and Sherman, and was marginally successful with its machine-guns. The Sherman fired and took out the Panther, Radley Walters must have been the gunner!

The SS were pinned down by the Canadian infantry fire, but by turn 3 unleashed an assualt on the Canadians in the woods. The Highlanders on the Canadian right fell and were driven back. The Canadians on the left held their ground. The Germans were unable to clear the Canadians completely from the woods. The game ended when BATH TIME was called, so both sides pulled back.