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These are their individual stories as played out using my various campaign rules . Hopefully these stories will entertain and inspire you to use your own troops, airmen and sailors to accomplish your own great heroics.

Sunday, June 15, 2014

A small town in southern France

This should be my last post from the British Isles.  Mover's come Tuesday then it is off for a month's holiday in Europe before we head back to the good ole' USA.  Blog should be up and running by end of August-- mid September.   Have been playing some Bag the Hun and my P-38 "Headhunters" are getting a workout.

WW II donnybrook is about done.  Just need to work on the vehicle rules.  It is still a little too deadly but most people prefer that anyway.  To see if it would work with just a squad a piece I set this small scenario up in France.  I didn't use any of my Platoon Forward platoon's because I wasn't sure it would work.  Using PF I rolled up an american squad and sent them into the town using the "Patrol" scenario.  I did not roll up the Germans but gave them a squad for this test.  To allow better tactics at this small of scale I gave each side a Grade 0 ASL.

Inspired by War Panda's blog I decided even if I can't paint like him maybe I can make my story a little more comic book.  I don't have Comic Life 3 but decided to use photoshop.  I think it worked pretty well but was time consuming.  Let me know if you like this style and maybe I will repeat it.

MISSION:    Take a patrol into the town up the road and see if the Krauts occupy it. 

Sgt Travers      SL  Gr I leader
Cpl Paul   ASL     Gr 0
1 Bar team 3 men
7 riflemen

Germans
Sgt SL   Gr II  leader
Pvt  ASL Gr 0
3 man LMG
5 riflemen



































After the germans make it into the church a firefight breaks out.   The 5 man rifle team takes casualties as the the US BAR team.   Then Sgt Travers sees a back door to the sacristy. 







Great game that took an hour.    The german NCO was wounded and taken prisoner.  2 US casualties

Total casualties

US  0 KIA   4 WIA
German  2 KIA   4 POW( WIA )   2 WIA that escaped. 

See you on the other side of the pond

Cheers

Joe
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4 comments:

  1. Shaun TraversJune 17, 2014 at 5:22 AM

    Sgt Travers is a great guy, could even be a relative :-) They all got out, albeit wounded.

    The Comic was OK;, but if it was too much effort, the old way was just as fine.

    Hope the holiday is great and the move goes fine.

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  2. FlightDocJune 17, 2014 at 2:39 PM

    I had not come up with a first name for the good Sergeant until now--Shaun it is! He did very well. With my leadership mechanic the german NCO should have been reacting to the battle faster but the cards fell Shaun's way.
    He did a great job.
    The comic was a fair amount of effort. Might get Comic Life 3 when I get back to the states.
    Thank you for your well wishes!!

    Joe

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  3. chrisJune 18, 2014 at 1:03 AM

    Nice bit of work here and I look forward to more. Safe journey and see you in August.

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  4. FlightDocJune 18, 2014 at 2:38 PM

    Chris,

    Thanks. I actually spent 8 weeks with the RAAF as an exchange officer many many years ago. You have an great country!

    Joe

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