Hi all

As you may be aware, War games Illustrated 297 (July 2012) has a really cool article in about Jochen Peiper's Kampfgruppe in the Ardennes forest. It come with a 3 nice maps and special rules for playing the scenario. It is designed for Flames of War , BUT us lot being BKCII fans, couldn't let the FOW people have all the fun!
SO us at Section 8 club, could not let this ready made excuse to knock the dice out of each other pass without trying it!

The Scenario itself plays over three tables, this is good because it lets you decide the pace of play. If for example you only get a few hours to play your games at friends house or if you go to a grate war games club (Like me at SECTION 8 ) you can use it as a three week campaign. The idea is that a tank heavy SS kampfgruppe has to plough through three tables of steadily stiffening American Resistance. Then by Table 3 its a full blown battle with American reinforcements pouring in.

I will be posting a Battle report with pictures as soon as I get it made!

Dave (im always the bad guys) Fairlamb

Look forward to the pics etc Dave .

Sounds great Dave - looking forward to seeing this one 

is there any way you could send me the details as we have a lot of the younger guys thinking of not going FoW but to rapid fire which is what we play. a smallish campaign would allow everyonr to participate and hopefully get a few converts

as i went to the news agents and they dont stock that mag.

even if you could scan the outline i could send you my email - sounds too good to miss

jon

Hi Jon

I dont have a scanner, But what I can do is send you the stuff Ive made for this (maps and etc).

Table 1 USA = road block in the town of Lanzerath, normal Infantry platoon. In the town of Bullingen another platoon. and as back up 3 Sherman 76mm and 2 M10s
Table 2 USA = road block at the first bridge, normal Infantry platoon. Near to the town of Stavelot, full strenght veteran platoon mounted in half tracks. 3 76mm AT guns (towed) and 2 engineer platoons near the two other bridges (for blowing them up)
Table 3 USA = 2 engineer platoons in the town of Habiemont. Scrapyard tanks in Taragon, 2 Sherman 75mm, 1 M10, 1 M36 and 1 chaffee. Veteran platoon in Stoumont
Reserve USA, 2 Paratrooper platoons, and 1 large tank formation or 6 Sherman 75mm and 4 Sherman 76mm. oh and (some, its up to you but I will use three) P47 fighter bombers with rockets.

Peiper's Kampfgrupp. Peiper (in a panther), 8 Panthers, 2 Tiger IIs, 8 Panzer IVs, 1 Platoon of SS grenadiers (in half tracks) 1 platoon of fallschirmjager, 6 Grille SPG and 4 Wirbelwind AA tanks.

Enjoy, If you send me your E-mail with the personal massager I'll post you the maps Ive made.

Though Not free, Battleground WWII has a sceanrio book called Keys to the West.  There are many lovely interlocking maps.  Several large maps with 3-4,  4x6 tables all connected together.  I always liked the maps felt they were worth the price but they used points to buid forces for each side. 

Duane