Thursday, 27 September 2018

A German recce attack on a British 5.5 artillery position

Ian has asked if we can play a Bolt Action game on his school holiday which just so happens to be on one of my days off. I've been toying with and idea I saw in the main rule book of heavy artillery not normally on the table top. So I thought it would be interesting for a Commonwealth heavy artillery battery being attacked by a German unit.
Since such an attack would have to be done by a highly mobile unit, I have decided to use only German armoured units which would be fast, namely their armoured cars. Thus all the units being used will be armoured cars, with  half track mounted panzergrenadiers.

The Royal Artillery battery will consist of three 5.5 inch guns with Matador tractors. Their defence force will consist of an infantry brigade with half tracks but no tanks. There will be a mortar and an MMG

The German objective will be to destroy the guns and their trucks with additional points scored for taking out the ammunition supply.

Obvisouly the British objective will be to stop the attack.
The SS recce and assault force, no tanks were used, only half tracks and armoured cars

Ian wore my Luftwaffen Feldjager cap while I sported my RA beret.

The RA position. I could only find 2 of the 5.5 inch guns but had 3 Matador trucks. I had two brigades of infantry who were in the woods, but had not dug in as they had arrived in position during dusk. The position was dangerously exposed, as the artillery were moved forward to begin a new offensive. 
The SS had sent a recce battalion forward and had found the Royal Artillery. They then began to take out the guns and their trucks. Eventually, all the British vehicles were destroyed. The supporting infantry to the battery also suffered casualties but they withdrew. The SS then also withdrew having accomplished their objective of destroying the guns of the RA battery.





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