German Envelopment on Canadians Kapelsche Veer, Rhineland, January, 1945

I finally got Ian to play a game of Bolt Action with me, by limiting the force we both have to about 1200 points.

Canadian troops
8th Canadian Infantry Brigade:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, 11 figures with a Universal Carrier armed with 3 bren guns
North Shore New Brunswick Regiment, 7 figures

A German division with armor and artillery support move to push back the Canadian 8th Brigade from their position on the Rhine.

 Canadians entrenched with a Sherman and 6pdr gun in support.

Queens Own Rifles and a Scout car await the German attack

The German's get a preliminary bombardment, immobilising the Sherman, raining hot iron on the French-Canadiens taking cover behind the tank, while the other units suffer minor casualties.

The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa take hits

The Queens Own Rifles prepare to advance.

The Germans make a mounted charge towards the Canadian position

Whereby the Queen's Own advance to contact

The PIATs take out tank, the 6pdr was hit by the German's Nebelwefer, the Panzer III with Panzergrenadiers were all taken out.

German Engineers walk up to a woods and sets fire to them to create a smoke screen on the Canadian position.

 The Queen's Own Rifles tries to hold onto the wood while being pressed by the Hanamog and Panzergrenadiers.

 Two German regiments move up using the burning forest as warmth.

The Panzergrenadiers let loose with all they have

resulting in Ian removing the Canadians to his front. The Universal Carrier died under a rain of grenades. 

German artillery moves up to pour fire onto the remaining Canadians, but are taken out by a German regiment. 

Germany saved for another day.

Top Secret: Canadians vs Germans January 1945

 The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders begin thier advance to capture the German rations. This was a 1200 point vs 1200 point game. 

The Germans take up positions in the village on the German border.

The German artillery spotter and MG42 team take up position in the roof of the watchtower.

While the rest of the garrison holds some trenches, supported by a 75mm infantry gun, a Hanamog 251 and a Kubelwagen with an MG42 and Panzercretch

The Highlanders begin to race up

While the Germans tuck in to turn them into porridge.

The Anti-Tank tow gets knocked out, imobilizing the 6pdr for the rest of the game.

While the gun grew gets ripped apart by heavy machine-gun fire.

The Hanamog moves up adding twin machine-gun fire

pinning down the mortar.

as a German eagle flies over the town, we see a Fort Garry Horse Sherman dueling with a Panzer III, which has been able to imobilize the tank.

A sneaky Canadian major runs up a back alley to try and hit the objective

while the German spotter notes him and sends a Kettlekrad to head him off.

the Kubelwagen moves up opening fire on the mortar taking it out. The Germans were able to hit their objective first. The armor was taken out, and the Candians getting removed. 

Another German victory.