Going "Nuts" on Good Friday!

 Nick and I were the only takers for a Friday evening game at Julians this week. Our host reprised the commando assault on a strategic bridge "somewhere in Normandy" post D Day, using the ruleset "Nuts" - and this time, all three players were the good guys, with the rules "AI" running the Germans (one of the players still had to roll the dice for them, of course)

A much more successful outing for Lord Lovat (or Brig Peter Young?!) - mainly because the defending Germans were seriously under resourced on this occasion - there is nothing particularly heroic or tactically brilliant about twenty heavily armed commandos being able to take a position defended by two German privates armed with a Panzerschreck, for example (that was what Julian and I achieved - yay!)

Nick had a little bit more to deal with on the other side of the river but even there, the defending force was seriously out gunned. 

The Germans did get two reinforcements, but too little in the case of the first batch, although they did use grenades to take out a couple of Nicks command, and too late with the batch that turned up on Julian and my side of the river.

I took some pics and will add a few comments, but it was a pretty pedestrian game really, the Brits had all the advantages and once Nick got used to the rules, he had all the defending Germans suppressed then wiped out with grenades on about the third turn, with me quickly following suit against the hopelessly outnumbered pair of Germans opposing Julian and me!

"Somewhere in Normandy, June 1944"

My command above and below

The formidable force defending the south side of the bridge

A slightly larger but still underwhelming defence force on the northern bank

Commandos moving stealthily along the Norman bocage

Nick has meanwhile "suppressed" all the enemy opposing his unit.

The first German reinforcements turned up adjacent to Nick (his force was on the other side of the bocage in front of the Germans above)

With all the defending Wehrmacht men cowering under cover, two plucky commandos raced forward, and hurled in a couple of grenades

With the following result! The officer ended up as a PoW shortly thereafter.

A couple of my commandos pulled the same trick and wiped out the Panzerschreck team!

More German reinforcements arriving to the left of my position. There were quite a few of them and they were well armed, with a couple of MP44 assault rifles and one man carrying a rifle grenade.

The Scharfuhrer in charge

By this time, all my commandos were in the southern defensive position, whilst most of Nicks survivors were in the northern one. Julian was deployed in the bocage adjacent to me.

The small German squad near Nicks original position were reduced by one, but they had managed to kill two or three of Nicks guys.

The larger reinforcement moving towards the sound of the guns .... but cautiously!

After taking fire from a couple of Julians riflemen, and losing one guy armed with an MP38, the Germans moved off the road into the cover of the bocage.

My commandos were ready for them....

A rifle grenade had half my guys "duck back" into cover.

But with twenty defenders against nine attackers, and both sides of the bridge securely held by the commandos, we decided to call time on this game.

Not the most exciting contest ever, due mainly to the fact there were too few German defenders to make taking control of the bridge much of a challenge, but on the positive side, Julian, Nick and I were all winners!

I had an anniversary day solo game earlier today, so will be reporting on that in a couple of days' time - till then, take care y'all! (And thanks for visiting)