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Wings of War AAR

This weekend the local HMGS-South group played a Wings of War (aka Wings of Glory WWI) game. Two Bristol F.2B on a bombing mission are escorted by two Camels. The Germans intercept with two DVII and two DVa.

DVa. The dice are used to record altitude.

One Bristol heads straight for the target.

The target is bombed successfully.

Good formation flying by three German players.

A DVII pilot is killed by being wounded twice.

A Camel pilot sacrifices himself to cover the escape of the other British planes.

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The score at the end was one fighter lost on each side and the target bombed by one Bristol. The second Bristol was unable to overfly the target due to rudder damage.

Bolt Action – Eastern Front 1941

This weekend the local HMGS-South group played a Bolt Action game. The scenario was a meeting engagement between infantry forces.

Infantry squads advance on to the table. Each side hid a mortar team in the corner behind woods.

Machine gun and advancing infantry fire hits and pins a German squad in the upper left. German infantry occupies a two-story objective house.

Russian infantry occupies the other objective house (top). The Russian mortar causes heavy casualties to the infantry in the two-story objective house.

Assault combats eliminate one Russian and two German squads.

With most of the German infantry gone, we called this a Russian victory.

Bolt Action – Normandy June 7 1944

This weekend the local HMGS-South group played a Bolt Action game. The scenario was an advance by US troops near the Normandy coast on June 7th 1944.

Any vehicle moving off the roads risked getting bogged down.

German infantry dug in on one of the objectives.

A veteran German squad is pinned down by fire from several US units.

US troops have cleared one objective and will shortly wipe out the infantry in the second objective.

Empire – d’Erlon’s Attack

Saturday the local HMGS-South group played a Napoleonic game at the Dogs of War shop using a modified version of the Empire V rules. The scenario was based on the attack of d’Erlon’s corps at Waterloo.

Although on the table in this shot, the French on the left will enter on the first turn, after a bombardment by off-table artillery.

The crossroads, with British cavalry in reserve.

The French grand battery (off-table) has destroyed more than half of the deployed British artillery and damaged Bijlandt’s infantry.

French infantry break through the British line behind the crest. La Haie Sainte and the sandpit are under fire.

Bijlandt is gone, and French cavalry has arrived.

British cavalry ride down several French battalions that had crossed the ridge.

When we quit due to the late hour, there was a significant hole in the British line. Lots of uncommitted cavalry on both sides were poised to clash there.

Rapid Fire WWII East Front

This weekend the local HMGS-South group played a WWII east front game using the Rapid Fire rules.

The Germans were tasked with clearing a route the length of the table for a truck convoy.