22 September 2025

Many Rivers Turn 4a-Farm and Road


Getting a bit behind in my blog postings. This is a game from about 10 days ago at my place featuring a Blitzkrieg from Table 3 to Table 4 in our Many Rivers campaign. I had won our last game and decided to Blitzkrieg the next table with the surviving forces from the previous battle.

Forces

Guards Platoon #2 (missing 4 men)

FR 0, 5CD, Regulars


Supports (12)

AAMG 1

2 Minefields

2 Barbed Wire

2" Mortar

Extra Section

Demo Team

Demo Team (free)


Schützen Platoon #3 (missing 3 men)

FR +1, 5CD, Regulars


Supports (19)

Shabby Nazi Trick 1

Red Dice 2

Smoke Barrage 2

le.18 IG 4

Stuka Attack 4

Pioneer Squad 6 (10 men)



Game

The table, the 3 area of bushes represents clumps of trees, not forests. They block LOS and provide Light Cover. They do not slow movement.
Patrol Markers and JOPs from the German attack area.
View from the Britisg=h defensive line with the Stuka attack, not a whole lot of success destroying buildings, just one which was inconsequential.
Side view of the table, this was the Going with a Bang scenario from the 1940 handbook. Graham had to take out 2 culverts to win the game. I added in the railroad track for the fun of it but we treated it as a road for game purposes as laid out in the scenario.
Lots of smoke in this game

Summing Up

Well this was a fairly quick game with the British withdrawing before they could destroy either culvert so the road is now open to the German advance and in Turn 5 they are now able to bring in AFVs. Graham was a bit unlucky with the placement of his JOPs as neither was close to a culvert so he had great difficulty deploying his demolition teams. He decided to withdraw to preserve his platoon.

German Platoon #3
Platoon Leader Outlook: Secure
Men’s opinion: 2
CO’s opinion: 0
German Platoon #3: 3 dead next game

German 1st Platoon has lost 5 dead , 5 missing for next game
German 2nd Platoon has lost 8 dead, 4 missing for the next game

British Platoon #2 
Platoon Leader Outlook: Happy 
Men’s opinion: 0
CO’s opinion:  -2
British Platoon #2: 2 dead, 1 missing next game

British Platoon #1: 5 dead, 2 missing next game


It was a busy week and I have 2 more CoC reports to post!

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