Max and me continue to play through the scenarios of CoC v2 bit by bit. On Saturday, scenario 5 was on the agenda: ‘Flank Attack’.
As usual, we played it twice, so each of us acted as attacker and defender once.
To cut a long story short: the defender won both games, but both were very exciting and hard-fought, and the decision was very close – my platoon from the HG Division even managed to capture the farm (one of the two possible objectives), but was then unable to hold it due to increasing losses.
The games grabbed our attention to such an extent that we only took a few photos – so today there are only a few snippets to see 😎
The battlefield – a small farm in Sicily, surrounded by fields and orchards. The attacker's goal is to secure the strategically important crossroads or the farm for the main force to advance.
2 sections of my HG panzer grenadiers were able to mount such a concentrated fire from their LMGs ...
... that the LMG section of Max US Armoured broke.
US Armoured advance in cover of an orchard using Marching Fire ...
... while at the same time an M20 Scout Car try tied to soften up the HG defenders with the HMG. But suddenly the Germans brought a 5 cm PaK into position ...
... which forced them to retreat.
In the end, I managed to bring his Force Morale down to the point where I could start the Final Countdown without Max being able to secure either of the two Objectives at that point – and with only 4 phases remaining and dwindling Command Dice, there was nothing he could do to change that.
Pictures from our second game, in which I attacked with my armoured infantry from the HG Division:
Both the US Armoured and my Panzergrenadiers attempt to secure the farm, and both sides suffer heavy losses in the process.
With all hands on deck and firing from all barrels, the Germans advance, but ultimately fail due to fierce resistance from the US Armoured and are forced to abandon their attack.
The much bigger problem was that Max had managed to draw me into this fight, into which I had gradually thrown all my resources.
This enabled me to storm the farm, but I was then unable to hold it in the long run due to his concentrated fire, especially as my force morale gradually collapsed.
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