CoC at the Abyss

Myself and Gabriel met up today to have a game of Chain of Command at the Abyss. Gabriel is a member of our Historical Wargaming Club in Montreal and was curious about Chain of Command, which he had not played before. He is starting to paint a 28mm Canadian platoon but since he did not have an opposing force we played with my 20mm troops. Gabriel wanted to play the Canadians so I played the Germans. 

We played the Patrol Phase twice as I really have a hard time explaining without actually demonstrating it. We played The Probe Scenario with the following line up.

Canadians FM 11

Standard Rifle platoon with 3 sections

1 barbed wire

1 minefield

Germans FM 11

Standard Grenadier platoon with 3 squads

1 MMG Team

1 Adjutant

The JOP's the Germans were the attackers, we played across the short axis and I cam from the right of the photo. We both had decent positions for deployment. 

This is the Canadian right flank, as you can see Gabriel has a section in the house while I am trying to sneak by blu squad around the house. I actually got no further.

This is my right flank, I tried to get my green squad around the side this did not end well.

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.....as you can see they broke back after close combat.

By now my FM was plummeting while the Canadians were still in good shape.

Gabriel deserves that satisfied look as he really played quite well and won the game when my FM dropped to 2, while I believe he was still at 10.

I have to say for a learning game this went very well, and we went through pretty well all the rules except for those related to vehicles as we did not have any in the Order of Battle. Gabriel picked up the rules very quickly and we had a good game. I am hoping we have another CoC player in Montreal.