CoC Training: Canadians attack the Bersaglieri

Last Sunday we got together at the Abyss for another training game of CoC. Two club members, Gabriel and Dan, came for the game. We played in 20mm as my WWII terrain is at that scale. Gabriel has a 28mm Canadian platoon and is working on a 20mm French Platoon. Dan has, I believe, some 28mm platoons but also has a beautifully painted 20mm Bersaglieri platoon. He has put this together for Eastern Europe, but we decided to play a Western European game with a Canadian platoon attacking an Italian farm defended by a platoon of Italian marksmen. Quite ahistoric but it got the job done. We had to do a bit of fiddling with the Italian list but used the one from the Serafimovich campaign.

The Canadians were attacking from the left

We played the Attack and Defend scenario

Patrol Markers

JOP's

Good use of Smoke

A Vickers team supported by an Infantry section move up on their right in an attempt to out-flank the Italians on their left

Unfortunately the Italians got caught in the open and were pulverised by 2 Canadian sections, giving the game to the Canadians.

I believe both players enjoyed the game, it was their second game and it went quite well. I felt no need do the Patrol Phase twice as they both had well placed JOP's. I made a fairly significant error with the armour rules, which gave quite an advantage to the Canadians. The Canadians did win on morale and I think we could have selected better supports for the Italians. They really had no AT weaponry (as was the case in Eastern Europe) but the next time they see the table in Western Europe they will have a Pak38.