O Group - St Manvieu scenario started (to be continued)

Game with Stephen and we tried O Group again having enjoyed last game.

I selected the St Manvieu scenario with my Brits in attack and Stephen therefore fielded the Hun defenders.

We managed to play 5 turns but spent a lot of time discussing (amidst usual waffle deluge) certain aspects of the rules in particular the concepts of Objectives and Phase Lines with Consolidation of Reserves and how one practically enacts this on table top especially with regard to re-drawing Company boundaries and not intermixing Companies.

Both unsure what can constitute an objective beyond the more obvious towns, hills, bridges such as can a crop fields be legitimate objectives ? can a phase line be a stream or a line of fields ? can a Company in reserve be deployed on any captured objective anywhere on table or must your battle plan include which sector of table this Company is to appear ? 

But again the core game is very enjoyable with so many key decisions as to how to use Combat Patrols and when to deploy from them or to reveal an Ambush. I still hate those Snipers !

We have left game in situ to complete next session.

Again with this being WW2 with hidden units/Combat Patrols, O Group maybe not the most photogenic especially in early stages but some pics included

The battlefield prior to deployments

Patrol 'phase' of game begins

Some British Platoons from A Company deploy in woods (at top left) 

First real encounter as Germans spring an ambush after British smoke screen failed.

Action on British left as A Company fully deployed and pushing forward through wooded areas.