Weekend Fun - FOW Battle Report

Last Weekend Jake and I wanted to try out the new Desert Table we've been slowly building. We had recently played in an Early War tournament but did not face each other so we decided to have a grudge match between us!

This is just a quick report... told mainly by pretty pictures, enjoy!

I would be playing my French Armored Company lead by Charles DeGaulle and Jake took a Brit Tobruk Fortified Company. We rolled for the mission and it would be Fighting Withdraw! As always click the images for a larger picture!

Jake Deploying his fortifications... Don't ask about the shirt... teenagers!

French deployment.. Using Degaulle's special rule both the Chars
 and R-35s advance  closer to the objective

On Jake's left flank the Objective is secured by 18/25 lb guns
 and the infantry platoon.

The sparce defenses oposite my Company... but he
did have two Matilda IIs in Ambush.

The Starting Line... Panhards rev their engines

Infantry ready to go...

Chars go wide left....

Panhards  run across the open desert to target the observer

French swarm descends on the objective... Matlidas appear in ambush

Smoke Allows the French to close in on the objective with
little return fire...

Laffly AT guns manage to bail one Matilda one turn and
 another the next Infantry assault 

The Brit CO attaches to try and fight off the assault

Meanwhile Panhards play tag with infantry in trenches

End Game! French Infantry take the Tanks and kill the Brit CO.

6-1 for the French

A relatively lucky game for the French. A combo of the French special rule (Which allowed me to move an objective 4" closer... and successfully making my Degaulle Special moves meant my Chars were 12 inches closer to the objective from the get go.

Unlike the German fortified Company and it's nested 88 there is nothing in the list that can really threaten a Char B from the front.

The Lafflys spit out enough AT 9 that even Matildas aren't safe... he's got to roll a 1 or 2 sometime! In defense of the Brit Fighting Withdraw means he had to protect 3 objectives... so he had to be spread pretty thin...

Least you think I brutalized Jakewe played another round right after this one. French Fort versus Rommel and his 38(t) forces in No Retreat...  I was Steamrolled from the beginning to a noble 2-5 loss...