Dyle 'M' for Megablitz - part 4

7 Panzer Division trundles across Belgium - what a target for the RAF!

The final part of the Dyle saga now - and the German advance continues apace.

2 PD surges into Belgium.

The French 5 Corps takes up position.  The Northern end of the Maginot Line can be seen on the left.

No sooner are the French dug in than the Germans - 3 PD in this case - arrive, together with some chums from the Luftwaffe.

Part of 3 ID(mot) photographed from the Korps commander's Fiesler Storch.  The Horch Kfz70s are old resin kits. Protz, Sd11 and PAK38 (a cut down PAK40) by Matchbox.  StuG III bt Fujimi.

7 North African ID marches (and gallops) to the front.  The genuine French lorry on the road may look like an old Airfix Matador but that's just a trick of the light.  Really.

Troops of French 4 Corps advance.

The font line moves ever westwards!  The black item which a lazy umpire has left in the middle of the table is a Megablitz Dice Shaker.

Confused fighting ensues - and the Luftwaffe are back!

The Moroccan and Algerian troops of 7 NAID are treated to the full force of the Blitzkrieg.

3 PD heavily engaged with 5 DIM (French motorised infantry division)

2 DLM joins the party.  Resin D-2 and light tanks, Heller S-35 and Skytrex AMR.

2 PD sweeps round the flank of 4 Corps and into the rear echelon on the Cavalry Corps.

Troops of 30 ID defend Conde against 7 PD.

3 PD finally overruns the positions of 5 DIM

The commander of XVI Panzer Korps views the advance of his troops from the air.

That concludes the photo-report.  By this point the Germans had largely broken organised resistance and were pressing on, in a broadly historical manner 'to the green fields beyond.'  On the German side the game had seen four Panzer Divisions and a motorised division in action, while the Allies had committed several (sorry, I lost count!) French and one British infantry divisions and two armoured (the DLMs).