BattleGroup

 

Last Thursday a bunch of us got together our Club Games Night to play an alternate WWII game. Luis and his friend Jean-Philipe put on the game which featured a combined arms game between the Germans and the Soviets. Myself and David played the Germans while Korrigan and Pat played the Soviets. I do not know much about this ruleset having just played it once before. What I remember from that game is I liked how the tank rules played. Here are some photos which will be followed by a few comments about the game.

The table, the Germans started in the foreground

Jean-Philippe on the right with the Korrigan and Pat next to him. We had spectators for this game with cub member Rob on the far left.

David who played the Germans with me on the right and on the far left Michele, another spectating club member. 

The T-34 which were deadly going after a Panther

A lot of tanks were destroyed

We all had a lot of fun, Luis and Jean-Philipe put on a great game. They are an interesting set of rules as they are I think basically for company sized actions rather than platoon sized actions unlike Chain of Command. One can easily play platoon sized games with them but when you look at the scenarios in the book they seem more focused on larger games. They really handle combined arms games well. They are basically IGOUGO, and do not have the turns of fate that can happen in CoC because of double phases and CoC dice. Certainly CoC is more granular and thus realistic but both rulesets are simulations rather than games. I do have the rulebook as well as some source books and I will be keeping them. Certainly CoC will remain my first choice for platoon level WWII games but I would have no problem having another game of BattleGroup.