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Wider Wargaming => Batreps => Topic started by: Stuart on 12 August 2010, 06:20:48 AM

Title: BKC Desert game
Post by: Stuart on 12 August 2010, 06:20:48 AM
Not 10mm I'm afraid, but 6mm. It was only our second game of BKC, but having played CWC we know the basics. We set up a simple scenario of a German attack on a British gun line, with a British armoured counter-attack. In hindsight we should have made the table bigger, but it was still fun!
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/stuartjwargames/desert01/100_2711.jpg)
The British gun line.
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/stuartjwargames/desert01/100_2712.jpg)
And the counter-attacking force.
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/stuartjwargames/desert01/100_2713.jpg)
The Germans move on in force.
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/stuartjwargames/desert01/100_2714.jpg)
The battery of 150mm guns set up, and don't do anything else for the rest of the game!
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/stuartjwargames/desert01/100_2715.jpg)
The Brits move forward.
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/stuartjwargames/desert01/100_2717.jpg)
First contact, in the top right you can see my hanomags racing towards the gun line being ignored by the British tanks!
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/stuartjwargames/desert01/100_2718.jpg)
The British hold firm, but take casualties.
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/stuartjwargames/desert01/100_2719.jpg)
I deploy my infantry far too far away from the SPGs, and they are slaughtered. Ho hum, point remembered for next time...
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/stuartjwargames/desert01/100_2721.jpg)
Both tank forces take hits, but the Brit battlegroup is broken.
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/stuartjwargames/desert01/100_2722a.jpg)
I infuriatingly didn't get air superiority (and the British player didn't have any aircraft!), but I couldn't resist putting in a shot of my stukas...

So although I broke the British battlegroup I didn't get close to destroying the gunline, which was my main objective.
Points learned for next time:
Title: Re: BKC Desert game
Post by: nikharwood on 12 August 2010, 08:39:17 PM
QuoteIn hindsight we should have made the table bigger

I think you should have made the figures bigger - by about 4mm  :P ;) ;D

Nice batrep though Stuart - always good to see Stukas too  8)
Title: Re: BKC Desert game
Post by: Leon on 13 August 2010, 01:36:39 AM
Good stuff!  Is the Stuka pic photoshopped?  There's no stands under them, and no wires!   ???
Title: Re: BKC Desert game
Post by: Stuart on 13 August 2010, 05:16:47 AM
Quote from: nikharwood on 12 August 2010, 08:39:17 PM
I think you should have made the figures bigger - by about 4mm  :P ;) ;D

Nice batrep though Stuart - always good to see Stukas too  8)
We did originally get some 10mm stuff from a certain company... but decided to go to 6mm. I also decided to get Germans rather than Italians...

Quote from: Leon on 13 August 2010, 01:36:39 AM
Good stuff!  Is the Stuka pic photoshopped?  There's no stands under them, and no wires!   ???
No, I have very well trained flea pilots ;D
Title: Re: BKC Desert game
Post by: jchaos79 on 16 August 2010, 12:14:40 AM
Sooo goood those planes are really flying indeed  :o