Today I played on one side with Łukasz playing Soviets, on the other side were Sławek with Germans. With Łukasz our platoons had 2,000 of points and Sławek as defender had 1,500 points – it was test, as usually in reality attackers overhelmed defenders with numbers. The main objectives was to have control over bridge and/or two fords – both fords in points were equal to bridge. In addition Germans could blow up bridge, but no one would earn points for it.
As Soviet military intelligence reported area was full of retreating Germans unit, so assault started in the morning without artillery barrage.
Red Army advances. On the top Łukasz force, on button my platoon.Germans on forward positions covering in the forests.German Panzer IV – one of the best tanks of IInd world war.Soviet sniper (original one is spending time at Marians place).Red Army advances.One of our T-34-85 tanks losed track and started burning. It crew well fought with fire, but after all Fubar was achieved.Everyone advance, Red Banner above them!Panzer IV firing at T-34-85.Soviet tankodesantniki advanced, German mmg fled in advance.Moment later Germans tried to retake position in hand to hand combat. Red Army cleared house from enemy sniper.Advancing toward bridge.Clearing area of bridge. Scouts appeard in turn five.After losing second track T-34-85 crew left they tank.Brave German defenders runned out from trees and throw some grenades into M3 White Scout Car.
Summary: – thank you Łukasz and Sławek for great game. Thanks to Bolter.pl for terrains and table to play. – I’m pretty sure that assaulting troops should have more points than defenders. – it looks like German victory as there were more German troops in area of bridge and fords.
Today (06.06.2022) we played 3rd game of Italian campaign – battle of Termoli – town which has port and road to the north and south Italy. It’s part of games played in Bolter and supported by Polish Institute of Remembrance (called shortly IPN – Instutut Pamięci Narodowej).
Thank you Michał for representing IPN and IPN for support..Thank you for prelection Mr Piotr.Uboat blown up in secret raid of British commandos done on Monday.Left flank covered by British troops.American infantry advance to take control over harbour.Germans have the same plans related to harbour.Right German flank.M10 heading toward railway.Sniper took position.Americans advance into the harbour facilities.Germans try to prevent them.More M10 arrived on the battlefield.British reserves arrived.Panther covering road to the town.Duel beetwen M10 and German tanks of different types.Commandos emerges from they hidenout.Sniper switched position.Panzer from the church.British commandos arrived in poontons.Ubboat started going down.
Summary: – spliting table for several zone areas for Order Dices was great idea, we played six turns. – thank you all for game and for borrowing models for me. – thank you for interesting prelection before game started!
About Audie Murphy – the most decorated American soldier. He took part in Italian campaign.
Today we played second part of campaign on Sicily. It was recreation of combined action of Allies forces in area of Salerno, Italy. American and British troops landed by air and sea in area of Salerno. This campaing we play in Bolter and is supported by Polish Institute of Remembrance,
Institute of Remembrance (IPN).My borrowed force (thank you Dudzio and General).
Summary: – thank you all for good game. – as German side we forgot briefing and losed initiative. – Allied side won this battle.
This windy Sunday we played with Karol average battle in case of points, as both forces had 1250 points. On one side were brave German Fallschirmjägers (paratroopers) supported by powerful feline – Königstiger – better known as Tiger II. On the other side were advancing Red Army accompanied by famous T-34-85 tank. After ordering some tosts and drink I was ready to start playing. It was great idea to have to include snacks and tosts in hobby shop. We played in Bolter, which has nextSaturday birthday event.
Crossroad with 8.8 cm guns – objective both sides wanted to control.Red Army advance.Most advanced tank of 2nd world war.Left flank with BA-6 – not many were in service till the end of war.Fallschirmjägers advancing to they position.Another Fallschirmjäger squad with support of sniper, flamethrower and panzerschreck.ZiS-3 try to engage Tiger II.Red Army right flank.Russians jumped off they T-34-85 and runned forward firing they pepeszasz submachine guns.Fallschirmjägers in the building pinned by Red Army tankodesantniki.Scouts arrived from the left flank.Huraaa! For Mother Russia!Both tanks shoot at each other and both missed.Red Army took one 8.8 cm gun.
Summary: – thank you Karol for great game! It was great to see Tiger II on the table. – main problem of big cats are points, I had 16 Order dices vs Karols 7. In such disproportion one side should be defender (half of units hidden) with some units in reserves. – I guess I was here for up to five hours, we played maybe 2,5h, then I had some interesting conversations after – thank you Adam, Arek, Karol, Rafał and the others, really great day after playing Witcher 2 until morning. – we had some points with Adam and Arek about updating few things in Black Powder. – some talk related to Wendesday landing in Salerno, Italy.
Today we played a part of Italian campaing which took place beetwen small forces of American Rangers and German patrols and crews of batteries covering a bay near the Salerno itself. Scenario was provided by Karol and I took Germans and Olek took forces of USA. We played it as part of bigger campaing we played last Wendesday in Bolter, Wrocław, PL. So it was a night…
Hilly terrain with acht coma acht (famous flak 8,8 cm) AA guns batteries.On the left Germans patrols, on right USA Rangers.No one see each other.Hans, hast du was gehört (Hans, have you heard something)?Germans do not know that enemies are everywhere.When first patrol dissapeard, another one came to look for them.Single Karl stayed wounded till was too late.Almost Fubar on coming out from bunker.Morale on two sixes, feels like Fubar.German officer started giving orders to his squads to save situation.German medium machine gun tries to take position.Germans advances.Clearing area from Rangers.Finally squad from bunker on left moved out, losing leader at the start.Germans retaken one acht coma acht.Americans took two of them……that will have influence on next game on Wendesday.A down has come.
Summary: – interesting game with objectives and many inexperienced units on German side with all veterans on the other side. – thank you Karol for interesting scenario and Olek for game. – today my strenght of will had been passed and my Confederates still don’t have cannon.
Today (25.05.2022) we played in Bolter first struggle of campaing on Sicyly – when Allies forces raced up to take Messina. This campaing is supported by Institute of Remembrance (IPN). One table were British against Germans and on the other USA against Germans and Italians. Who would be first in Messina general Bernard Montgomery or general George Patton?
Table of USA and Germans&Italians:
Germans and Italian hidden in the town.Italians with Sahariana.Semovente hidden under roof.Shermans on they way.Ready to start fire on incoming Sherman.Shermans crossed a hills and advance forward.One tank immobilised by German Pak 7,5 cm, other stressed and Fubar was rolled by me.
Table of British and Germans:
Summary: – thank you for great game to Karol (and for borrowed to me models), to everyone who participated, to sponsor Institute of Remembrance (IPN) and to place we played – Bolter! – Victory belonged to British, as they were faster than USA – historically general Patton was much better than his British counterpart.
🇵🇱 Dzisiaj razem z Karolem rozegraliśmy dwie gry w Bolterze — pierwsza była zasadzką, w której Armia Czerwona próbowała wydostać się z pułapki, a druga była typowym scenariuszem Tank War.
🇬🇧 Today, Karol and I played two games at Bolter – the first was an ambush, where the Red Army tried to escape from a trap, and the second was a typical Tank War scenario.
🇵🇱 Podsumowanie: – Dwie dobre gry – pierwsza zajęła nam więcej czasu, podczas gdy druga była znacznie krótsza. Wciąż zastanawiamy się, jak ulepszyć niektóre zasady i ustawienia.
🇬🇧 Summary: – Two good games – the first one took us longer, while the second was much shorter. We’re still thinking about how to improve some of the rules and setups.
Today we played in Bolter our first one on one game with Franek. Scenario was invented at place by me – there were two farm building with supplies – holding each of them at the end was counted as three victory points, plus every destroyed enemy unit was worth one dice each. Each of us has reinforced platoon of 1500 points.
It happend somewhere in Finland, during continuation war with Soviet Union.
I was a little bit late, so Franek started with setting up terrains.
Ruins and farm in the middle were objectives.Sisi run forward.Sturmi took position to keep crossroad safe.Another Sisi squad advance from Opel.Artillery ready to start fire.Soviet troops advance.IS-2 emerged from the forest.Last three of Soviet submachine gun squad.Advance toward the ruins of farm.Brave BA-6 in Finnish service.Finnish troops try to take better position.Assault Engineers advance in the center.BA-6 destroyed by heavy mortar.Artillery and mortar destroyed engineers.
Summary: – thank you Franek for a game! – artillery and mortars did many casultaties on both sides. – I charged with sniper team and then panzerschreck and was defeated in close combat, – at the end, when we counted points Franek was winner – his 7 against my 5.
Today with Marian from Maniexite we played alternative history, where Red Army took north of the city of Breslau by fast attack of mechanized troops, took districts Kleczków, Nadodrze, Ołbin – all important bridges in the centre like Bridges: Pomorski, Uniwersytecki, Mieszczańskie, Piaskowe, Pokoju were blown up by brave German defenders – jet for maintain contact with all Grunwaldzki area gorgeus Grunwaldzki Bridge (former Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge) was spared.
Originally Red Army crossed Oder River to the west of Breslau and assaulted from west and south – those areas were heavily destroyed and trace of it is still visible – as Germans were blowing up whole quarters to made they artillery clear field of fire, also Soviet artillery and air bombings did destruction – this was total war.
LMG gun squad took position in ruins.Soviet consripts hide in ruins as well.Zis-3 deployed behind cover.Sniper hidden in the bridge – they stayed in Marian kingdom, I forgot to take them.German Heer advance.Stug arrived to support infantry.Anti tank rifle and T-34.Planszóweczka.pl – we will miss you in Astra – last stationary shop.First shoot of Marian mortar and first kill – veteran ZiS-3 crew lying wounded.Germans advanced to the bridge.Fubar happend and friendly fire on tank desant took place…Run away, Germans shoot at us, we should regroup.Brave Red Army soldiers advance with they medician Marusia behind them.Finally T-34 disabled Stug – who’s crew abandon it.Soviet troops retreat under they T-34 tank.Bridge Grunwaldzki dominates over field of battle.German Fallschirmjägers.Marian got more dices, so Germans held position without blowing up bridge.We will miss you Planszoweczka.
Summary: – it was great game and scenery was part of Wrocław in area of Grunwaldzka (before Wrocław was Wrotizla, Wratislavia, Preslau, Breslau and Wrocław) – we should remember all of people who were living there. – it was alternative story – as Soviets troops took Festung Breslau from west and south – area of Grunwaldzki and few others never saw street fighting. – we cheated each other together – so it’s fair for us 🙂 . – few more games and it will be Marian fully returned to Bolt Action! – farewell to Planszóweczka.pl in Astra, many great games and many great people I meet there – still they will be avaible as internet shop. Thank you for everything and wish you return stationary as a Fenix!
🇵🇱 Dzisiaj rozegraliśmy większą bitwę, w której Niemcy podjęli ostatnią próbę powstrzymania połączonych sił alianckich przed zdobyciem Tunezji i uzyskaniem dobrej pozycji do dalszego ataku na Sycylię.
W tej grze wszystkie niemieckie pojazdy oraz jednostki transportowane ciężarówkami stanowiły pierwszą falę i rozpoczynały grę na stole, natomiast reszta tworzyła drugą falę. Następnie alianci zaczęli wchodzić na planszę spoza stołu – jednostki bez transportów również pojawiały się jako część drugiej fali.
🇬🇧 Today we played a larger battle in which the Germans made a final attempt to stop the combined Allied forces from capturing Tunisia and securing a strong position for a further assault on Sicily.
In this game, all German vehicles and units transported by trucks formed the first wave and started on the table, while the rest made up the second wave. The Allies then began entering from off the board – units without transports also arrived as part of the second wave.
🇵🇱 Podsumowanie: – Dziękuję wszystkim za świetny czas! – Tym razem siły alianckie wygrały!
🇬🇧Summary: – Thank you all for great time! – This time Allied troops won!
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