To be fought using Blitzkrieg Commander, this scenario sees some SS troops dug into a farm a few miles behind the lines. They are supported by some STUGIIIs but have no air or arty support to call on. The start of the game [2am] sees them with half of their force stood-down and asleep in the farm buildings. A US Para battlegroup is about to drop in & disturb their slumber...their objective is to seize the farmhouse and capture the SS Sturmbannfuhrer...

Deployment pics:

Overview from the fields to the north of the farm:




Germans dug-in:






View from behind the farm:


Note: I'm hoping to get a chance to fight this one tonight / tomorrow...I'll be using my tried-and-tested airborne drop deployment for the Paras: each formation commander is noted on a small piece of paper which is put into the Dakota (plastic cup) which will then do a pass of the table assisted by me balanced above it on my chair as the Paras tumble out...each formation has to be placed within 10cm of the drop-point of its commander...

I'll post force lists later too.

Don't forget to use the nice Dakotas you have when you take the pics and I must say I like your deployment method for the Airborne .

Quote from: Steve J on 29 August 2010, 03:17:29 PM
Don't forget to use the nice Dakotas you have when you take the pics and I must say I like your deployment method for the Airborne .

Yep - will do (although one has disappeared into the four yr-old's room...so I'll have to reclaim that one!)

I'll also be using some of the 'flavour' rules that I used in this (British) airborne scrap from a while ago: http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/Down+on+the+Farm

I tried that method, each squad/ heavy weapon had a 1 inch square of paper with its name on I can trmembe how many I had, I think company, so quite a lot, somehow they all stuck together with static so when I dropped them they all landed in a wood and were destroyed , my kind oponent let me have another go which meant only some died in the woods, steams and marshes we had.

Ouch!

I should also point out that I'm purposely fighting this one on a small tabe: roughly half of my permanent set-up: so something like 4ft North-South & 3ft East-West...should be tight & constricted and throw up much trickiness...both for attackers & defenders!

Right - well, that's fecking annoying...I managed to find time to scrap this one out late last night, took loads of pics & my laptop has now decided that all the files are corrupted...no matter what I try to do with them

I'll have to re-do it at some point (having set up a SYW scrap on my table now) - suffice to say that it was a great battle - plenty carnage & with the SS narrowly winning as the US airborne failed their first break test...good stuff though 

I'm going to give my camera & laptop a stern talking-to now: and remind them that I'm not afraid to use percussive maintenance on technology 

   The joys of technology!

Quote from: Leon on 13 November 2010, 06:30:51 PM
  The joys of technology!

Nightmare, isn't it? It wouldn't be so bad if

- I'd tried to d'load the pics before resetting the table for the SYW scrap as I could then have restaged...
- I'd copied the pics from the card instead of cutting them...
- the laptop hadn't decided to not be a laptop in preference of being a large metal & plastic paperweight for a while...