Memoir 45

This game, played at the Sheffield club last Wednesday was Martin's development of the well-known Memoir 44 game.  While, as regular readers will know, we are quite keen on the ancient and Napoleonic versions of Command & Colours, the WW2 game has never really caught on with some of us.  And me in particular.  I put this down to the fact that, unlike the other periods, I actually know a little bit about WW2 and this makes the heavily stylised aspects of the game rather more evident.  Anyway, after discussing it a few times, Martin went off and made a few tweaks to the basic Memoir system - differentiating between medium and heavy armour and guns for example.

The game setup as viewed from the German side.

I forget the details of the scenario - hopefully Martin will comment and address this - except that it involved the Germans counterattacking Canadian positions in early 1945.  John and Jerry looked after the Canadians while I 'Panzer Gow' commanded the Germans with my usual style and panache.  Despite this handicap the forces of the Reich actually did rather well.

The game used Martin's 15mm toys and his set of green Hexon terrain.  I took along some 1/144 scale aircraft - Fw190s and Typhoons - in case anyone got air support.

Panthers ('heavy' tanks don't you know...) and infantry prepare to surge forward.

German infantry clear a hill of hordes of dug-in Canadians....

...with a little help from the Panthers

The Landsers who took the town are attacked in turn by massed armour.  Well Shermans anyway.

The dramatic right flank attack led by Panthers.  This rescued the increasingly vulnerable survivors from FJR Rgt 6 and basically won the game.

Meanwhile in town the Shermans are close assaulted by some very angry infantry.

 While it was a pleasant game and we rattled through it in under an hour and a half, the general view was that it wasn't something we desperately wanted to play again and may in fact be a developmental blind alley.  Ah well, you don't know these things until they are tried.