Last week I had my second game using the Battlegroup rules. I have been wanting to play purely tank actions and I have found that the 2 rulesets I have previously tried out just not that interesting. I find What a Tanker a bit foolish and the Achtung Panzer way too granular. I discussed this with Jean-Philippe who has been playing Battlegroup for quite some time and he kindly agreed to demonstrate the game to me.
I have a pretty good selection of 20mm Soviet and German tanks and of course the great tank battles in WWII took place in the Ukraine. We decided to set our game there. I put together a table.
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| German Start in upper left, Soviet start in lower right |
I took the Soviets and Jean-Philippe took the Germans. We decided to play the Recce Screen scenario from the book. The OB was as follows:
Germans
PzIV Command
PzIV x 3
StuGIII G
Sd.Kfz 250/9
Soviets
T34 Command
T34 x 6
T70
It was a very close game, with me eking out a very marginal victory. The game was a lot of fun and I would definitely play again and I see BattleGroup as my primary WWII Tank game. Many thanks to Jean-Philippe.
Looked a fab game, John.
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