A sunny spring day and what better way to spend it than in a village hall, shoving lead and rolling dice!
28mm WW2 North Africa 1940 – Warlord Games Bolt Action
A chance for a newly painted Italian army to have its first run out against the British in North Africa. The game was set in 1940, on the boarder between British and Italian controlled Somaliland. The main road to the coast went through a small village in a valley and was deemed to be important to both forces.
The British had control of the high ground to the North with a small tank platoon cautiously advancing down a side road. With the help of a small Italian Somalian platoon the Italians attacked from the South.
The Italians got the drop on the British taking out the boys anti-tank rifle and a light anti-tank gun during the first engagement. They also managed to range in with their mortars reducing the effectiveness of the British 25 pdr. With the early success the hot blooded Italians and their local troops advanced toward the village while the British command had a brew delaying over half the infantry from entering the fray.
The British command called in an artillery bombardment pinning the Italian support section and a veteran Italian Bersgileri platoon on the flank. In the British centre the Matilda moved to its right to take on the Italian armour. As she moved slowly across the field she presented her flank and the Italian gunners took advantage with a penetrating hit. As always it was left to the poor bloody infantry to take the village with close quarter fire fights and hand to hand combat.
Despite getting the better of the hand to hand engagements the British did not have enough troops to hold the village eventually gave ground to the Italians. In summary the Italian army not only destroyed the British army on the day but also the myth that newly painted troops die early.
28mm Sci-Fi – Home Brew Rules
The very fabric of reality was rent asunder by the massed energy weapons unleashed by unspeakable aliens on a strange planet. Or something like that!
