Armoured Encounter

This week's theme at the Wollongong Wargamers was 'WW2 Skirmish'. So Achtung Panzer! 

We hadn't played for a long while, and Amos hadn't played at all, so we set up a very simple encounter battle. Judging by the AFVs chosen, we'll call it (very) Late War...

Amos and I took the Allies: I had 2 Fireflys and 2 Sherman Vs, Amos had 2 Comets and 2 M18 Hellcats.

Darren for the Germans had 3 Panthers and a JagdPanther. So roughly equal points.

We set out fairly cautiously...

Trying to set up decent fields of fire from cover:

But easier said than done with lots of ambush terrain around. But the Sherman Vs were quite useful in 'Brassing Up' these areas and so 'clearing' them.

Other than that, they tried to keep well out of sight...

Darren also advanced carefully, whilst playing his Event Cards and Asset Cards masterfully to continually conjure up off table '88s!

Eventually they found their mark!

Thus emboldened, the Germans went over to the offensive!

I waited for a clear shot...

and waited...

Still waiting...

Darren blinked first and broke from cover!

Amos got a hit in...

But it bounced! Still, good fun and great to clear out the cobwebs. We resolved to play this enjoyable game more often...