Red Recce Report

This game, run by Martin, was our first of the year.  The delay in posting this report must be laid at the door of the Third Reich's censor.  The game used John's Platoon Commander's War rules and Martin's 15mm toys.  As usual I was typecast as the Germans while John led the vast hordes of Russians.

My force - an understrength platoon - was to defend this sector of the front (seen above looking towards the Soviet lines) and to prevent the capture of a signals detachment with a radio.  I places one section at each end of the centre trench line, with the radio at the left of the rear line.

John pointing at stuff with his special sectional pointy stick.  He had bought this at Triples last year and was so delighted with it that Martin and I had a secret pact to not run any games for the remainder of 2012 which would allow it's use.  We are his friends.  Really.

Soon it was evident that vast hordes of Russians were skulking in the woods.  They even had mortars.  What a rotten trick.

The Soviets threw wave after wave of infantry forward in an effort to overcome the brave defenders.

Eventually numbers and firepower overwhelmed one of my sections.

In one of the game's high points, some Russians went blundering into a building which my chaps had booby trapped.  Most of the casualties were due to hamster bedding inhalation...

Having dealt with my front line troops the Sovs pressed on and discovered the signals team.  After disabling the radio the heroic operator perished, Luger in hand, in a hail of bullets.