A couple of weekends ago I played a few more games of DOTB. Partly to get more experience of the game in different theatres of war and partly as an excuse to get out some 6mm toys which haven't been seen for a while. I'm happy to report that the following dozen or so games all produced credible results. Total playing time including setting up and packing away was a little over two hours.
I hope you enjoy the reports and photos.
More Dominion of the Blitzkrieg. Khalkhin Gol, 1939. Played on the big board with (generally) three stands to a unit.
Some of the Sov infantry is dug in
Tank brigades with light and medium tanks and armoured cars.
A Japanese victory!
Japanese artillery - all GHQ models. These are quite 'new', having been painted c10 years ago!
Japanese tanks - Type a 95 and 97.
Game two. A very similar result.
Game 3. And another Jap victory! Makes you wonder why they didn’t build more tanks!
At last, a Soviet victory! And a much longer game. The jap artillery was silent, the infantry line crumbled and then the (elite) Sov tanks overran the remnants.
A change of climate now, and back to the small board for Soumussalmi. Late war Germans standing in for the Finnish infantry (try to ignore the Panzerfausts!). The debut flight of the Finns' borrowed bomber.
A hard fought Finnish victory. The Sov artillery never fired and their tanks all broke down. Mind you, the bombers were pretty useless.
That was closer! Again the tanks didn’t show but artillery shelled the Finnish airfield.
Bialystok—Minsk! A very busy battlefield.
An appallingly bloody battle, ending when panzers overran the Sov airfields.
A less good result for the Fuhrer’s lads. More were SB2 enjoying their combat debut. By contrast, most of the German kit has been in service since the mid-eighties. Some of it is even older.
In the third battle of Bialystock the Sov bombers don’t show up but the Heer is soon seen off by the workers, peasants and T-28s. The Luftwaffe is heard to complain of being ‘stabbed in the back’ by the army.
Jitra, Malaya 1941. Two Japanese victories but the Brits finally triumphed third time round.
I say British - actually these chaps are Indians, built for the wars of 1965 and 1971.
An interesting series of battles. Goes against Marshal Zhukov's dismissive remark: 'The Japanese aren't very good against tanks...'
ReplyDeleteI've been looking for a simple combat set of rules for my Tiny Wars (Jono's World) land forces. Have a number of ideas, but might have to slot in DOBK among the options...
Cheers,
Ion
Dominion of the Sherman and T34 was just released. Looks good.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff Tim, I particularly like the look of the Winter War battles. I haven't got around to playing any of the Blitzkreig games yet, but it is a great excuse to get some fun stuff out of the box.
ReplyDeleteTim,
ReplyDeleteI am very impressed with the way the 6mm figures etc. look on the boards you’ve used. It given my something to think about!
All the best,
Bob