Time- 1944ish.
Place-Somewhere in Italy.
Tonight’s skirmish found us in sunny Italy with a get together between 4 nations-3 of them being saccir world cup winners and Canada.Italy were the hosts backed up by their German allies and they were confronted by some Canadian armour with Brazilian infantry in support-only in El Presidentie’s world.
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| Rural Italy complete with arm! |
Tonight’s attendance was graced by my partner in crime Herr O’Brien with whom I divvied up the allies and batting for the other side were Comrade Gilchristi and Oor Andrew who was a late arrival. The axis of evil players had the benefit of putting their forces into hidden positions in order to hide their shortcomings.Their ‘shortcomings‘included a Tiger tank.
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| Before. |
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| After! |
Our tactics were basically to flush out the incumbent defenders of the town hoping not to incur too many casualties.My first move was to send up my armoured car to draw fire which it did uncovering a couple of emplaced guns which proceeded to open fire and although the first one missed the second shot struck the vehicle setting it on fire but this was quickly put out by the gallant Brazilian crew.The reason we had Brazilians were due to El Presidente’s love of being different and yes they did partake in WW2 albeit under American command.
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| Half tracks and tanks laden with dice. |
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| Moving forward(with care). |
This flushed out some of the defences so the next phase was to flush out the Tiger so we sent in our Shermans as cannon fodder hoping to pinpoint its lair.This led to the usual traffic jam that occurs at the start of a Bolt Action game with unit arrival but it did bring the Tiger out of its lair as it was soon spotted lumbering down the strada princepale hunting for its prey.Also making its presence known was an Autoblinda armoured car which proceeded to take potshots at my stranded armoured car hindering my crew from restarting it.
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| Start of a traffic jam. |
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| Watching and waiting (in Italian). |
Pizza and beer break arrived so we all trudge out towards the local taverna looking for sustenance to see us through the second half.
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| Aircraft fodder. |
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| Trying to get passed some petulant Italians. |
The second half kicked off the same as the first half ended with a tit for tat shooting match between the Tiger and two Shermans.I was hoping to move up the flank of the Axis defenders but the threat of the Italian guns up ahead slowed my actions. Time for a bit leverage which came in the form of an air strike.After some deliberation I decided on pinpointing the Italian field gun as it was not only adjacent to the armoured car but also an Italian mortar that had been waylaying my poor advancing Brazilian infantry which had already had drew the attention of some hidden Italian infantry ensconced in some fallow field.
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| “We’re on our way “ |
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| Sneaky! |
The air support duly arrived and done away with the gun crew as well as pinning the mortar and the armoured car therefore time to move forward and waylay the enemy successfully doing away with the German anti tank gun in the process.The problem with that was being that it was just about time for the final whistle which duly arrived resulting in another score draw and a humongous traffic jam at the allied rear.
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| Moving up on mass. |
Another great game played out in the usual cantankerous way.All toys,scenery and scenario provided by El Presidente.
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| The Brazilians move up. |
See You All When I See You.
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