Finished off our Spearhead game today with Stephen with my British being totally crushed with two of my three Battalions routed from field !!
On restart things looked reasonable for Brits despite one Battalion having suffered 7 casualties as they occupied 3 of the 4 central objectives.
But in one turn Huns inflicted 4 further casualties on this Bttn forcing a Morale Check which I duly failed
One German stonk by 3 x 105mm artillery took out an entire British Company in one fell swoop (3 x 6 rolled) and so it continued with so many sixes or double suppressions annihilating the Brits in short order as Dice Demon was in full flow today
In reply I could only manage a few suppressions which the Huns managed to Rally every damn time.
And so soon another Bttn reached its first Morale Check and of course failed forcing me to yield.
Rather one-sided in the end but was great to get Spearhead and my 6mm kit into action again.
Some rather poor pics for some reason ?
This was first British Bttn to succumb on my right
It is great to see Spearhead being played. It is one of my favourite grand tactical WW2 rule sets, but my regular opponents aren't keen. Infantry in halftracks can be a pain, but iirc if you use smoke to screen off higher priority targets, they are easy meat for AT weapons. The only real solution for German infantry superiority is to assault them.
ReplyDeleteYes had forgotten how nasty APCs could be with armour nearby. I got stuck on defend orders after taking objectives and again had forgotten only Huns can change orders when engaged allowing their better ranged AT to stand off and thwarting much advancing on my part. Mind you losing a company just about every turn was never going to help :-)
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