A week ago Saturday, I got together with William at the abyss. He had expressed interest in learning the Chain of Command ruleset, he had one previous game an this was to be his second. He had been putting together a 15mm force for WWII and wanted to put them on the table. I had not played CoC with 15mm troops for more than 10 years so I was looking forward to it.
William had a French and German force put together and decided to go with the Delaying Action scenario from the v2 rulebook. He also put together all of the terrain. the OB is as follows, we diced for supports before the game on Discord. The Germans were the Attackers.
French 1940 Infantry Platoon (FR+1)
2 SL
VB Team w/JL
3 Groupes de Combat w/JL
Supports
AA MG
Franc Tireurs
Escouade de Fusiliers Motocyclistes
Canon de 25mm ATG /JL
German Army Group A, 1st Wave Division Platoon (FR +4)
2 SL
5cm Mortar Team
4 Squads w/JL
Supports
Shabby Nazi Trick
Red Dice
Sniper
Stuka Bombardment
le.18 IG
Photos
As usual I forgot to take many as it was quite an exciting game.
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| The Objective was the red roofed building in the centre. William almost flanked me in the Patrol Phase as you can see he got a JOP in the forest on my right flank. |
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| The Stuka Bombardment was quite effective, catching the actual Objective on fore. It collapsed at the end of turn one. |
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| William was agressive in his defence advancing on both flanks. |
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| The Germans made short work of this GdC. |
Well this was quite an exciting game, The hedges blocked LOS up to 2". My attack was a little slow to get going but the Germans did advance up the table. I have never seen anyone like William for throwing triple sixes on his Command Dice, thus unlike most games of CoC there were actually many turns. I had brought the French FM but William started the Final Countdown while I was still some distance away. I was able to get close but alas time ran out for me before I could get to the Objective. This was quite a fun game and we used many of the new mechanisms that have appeared in v2 of CoC.
It was the first time in a while that someone else supplied the troops and the terrain for a CoC game and I really appreciated it. Many thanks William for doing that and for an exciting game!
