Warfighter WW2 - British Landing Tactics Exercise

A squad from the London Fog Regiment was tasked with clearing a channel off the beach for the follow on forces. In reality this was an exercise testing the Brits Shore Invasion tactics.

The run in aboard one of the Yank’s Higgins boat was a bit dodgy (all soldiers suffer a suppression)

The Captain’s Leadership drove the squad off the boat and into a Boiling Surf and the team machine gunner forced the enemy spotter to ground while the rest detected a sniper and peppered him with suppressing fire. An MG42 opened up and wounded our MG trooper.

The Boiling Surf battered the team as the advanced (after rolling all suffered an opening suppression).

The Captain rushed forward and dropped two PIAT rounds on the MG42.

The rest advanced onto the Deadly Beach zone blasting away at the spotter and sniper, again suppressing those enemies.

Now the final push began. Rushing the Recon objective, members found a cache of enemy grenades (Objective text) and began lobbing them at the enemy. Corporal fired a rifle grenade into the MG42 (with Blast) position wiping it out. 

At close range the mopping began in earnest.

As the last enemy position was cleared, the squad consolidated at the top of the dunes and awaited the follow on force.

The beach was cleared, and it was generally a cake walk. The expensive PS was well worth the cost. The combo of PIATs, Rifle Grenade and the objective providing each entrant 2 grenades made this a very achievable mission.

The Starting Forces

Warfighter: Into the Frying Pan

Castle Frankenstein Mission 2

Sgt Charlie McD listened as the mission brief droned on. The documents he’d retrieved with the Maquis’ help had been decoded and translated. Jerry had been working on some strange crap in the Fortress. Something called the Thule Society were the main honchos behind Jerry’s activity.

Some tightly wound OSS Major was ordering us out on another raid. At least this time he’d have some Joes with him for support. Of course the resistance dame Rika wanted back in too. Her country I guess...

Charlie’s attention drifted to the new tin man suit he was getting for the mission. Supposedly even better than his last one. He hoped it burned less fuel! He feared being busted back to Private if he lost this one.

Charlie’s attention snapped back when he heard the Major yell “Move your ass! NOW!”

The Brass was not happy that we failed to clear out the Fortress, and ordered us back in to complete the job.

We made our way to the jump off point. No surprise to us, Jerry had funneled in reinforcements. Elite bastards too. Getting off the dime was a tough row.

Charlie tested out his new rocket launcher. A nice touch, but a tad underwhelming too. He’d hoped for a bigger blast zone than it packed.

Charlie and Rika used their prior experiences to hold of the enemy while the newbies began pushing deeper into the complex.

A stray round punched a hole in a drum above Pvt Scott. Whatever the hell was in there poured on Scott. Terror gripped the newcomers as the skin melted from his face. Fortunately death quickly claimed him (failed Chemical roll)(hmmm 1 health troopers may have been a poor choice).

Charlie used his braced MG to wear down the enemy. Progress is slow.

Charlie’s firepower was making him the target of choice. It was all that permitted the squad to make any progress. It’s cost was that Jerry had effectively cornered the main threat to the jump off point. 

He used his rockets to prevent harassing forces and an enemy machine guns from pressuring the clock.

Rika used her lone grenade on a rifle team. The forward element lacked sufficient firepower to make consistent progress towards the objective. This accelerated the clock countdown. 

A wrong turn saw Rika lead the team into a laboratory. Loaded with bad men. Very bad men. A savage burst hit Pvt G Orwell. 2 wounds and he went down. (Even a 3 wound Squad soldier couldn’t make it in Frankenstein’s Fortress)

With time against them, Rika began to fallback towards Firebase Charlie. Sapphire took a burst on her way out. She was able to lash out with 3 EKIAs before succumbing to her wounds. ( her Sacrifice  skill was the biggest contribution made during the mission).

With only one turn remaining, Charlie and Rika exited the mission. Major Fail.

AAR
Charlie and the Mech gobble up a ton of the available RPs. Trying to mix in some Maquis for flavor and shifting to all Elite Hostiles was too much. This team really had no chance at succeeding.

Next, the three of us will move onto a different Objective. Probably keep Rika on the team, but with a weapon having range 1 capabilities. We ran lite on cards to as most needed discards to support movement. On this mission, every turn a location wasn’t played advanced the turn marker. Add that to a lack of firepower and a stream of harassing forces occasionally costing a turn marker advance, and the hole we dug got deeper and deeper.

Since we enjoy connecting missions, we decide to save what we could. Being Rika and Charlie.

Next time we’ll look for maybe having 3 player Soldiers with some better gear. And helmets. And candy bars. And canteens. Did we mention grenades. Lots of grenades.

Enjoy your games fellow WarFighters!

Cruel Seas: Vosper Ambush

Vosper Ambush

As dusk approaches, three British Vosper MTBs 

idle hoping to pounce on any enemy merchant ship

daring to move before full darkness sets in. 

The Germans having pushed back the last Allied fighters trying to straffe

the port decide it is safe to move. The Allies rarely try both air and sea

when visibility is limited. Two E-Boats are set to escort the coastal fuel 

ship on its resupply run. 

The British see the enemy breaking from port and fire up there engines. 

The commander of the lead boat say “Tally ho boys!” and speeds toward 

the Germans while putting two fish in the water. 

The closest E-Boat moves to screen and puts fire on the Vospers 

One torpedo hits and the other misses. Being under heavy fire the guns miss

but the fuel ship definitely felt the torpedo hit. 

A Vosper disintegrates under E-Boat fire but the crew makes it out. 

“Call in survivors in the water”  

The E-Boats high speed has carried them wide of the fight. The two remaining

British boats swarm the fuel ship pouring in fire. 

Boom! The fuel ship goes up in flame and begins to rapidly sink. 

Conclusion 

This was our first game of Cruel Seas. We definitely enjoyed the game. It

Is an easy game to pick up and provides the type of fun only a good dice

chucker can. We all agreed that a larger playing area would better but the

starter set definitely includes everything needed to play. 

We greatly appreciate your visits to our blog. If you see fit comments and 

blog follows are awesome. Until next time Old School Gamers out. 

Codename Valhalla - Warfighter WW2

Warfighter WW2 Europe : Codename Valhalla

Finally, unsere Leader has approved release of Wunderwaffe Z. 

The Laboratories of Valhalla have returned Sgt Mayer, Corporal Fischer,

and Privates Neumann and Koch to service.

The first action for Das Untote Korps will be to recover one of the 

Projekt Valhalla scientists from Canadian Commandos who parachuted

into our territory. The Scientist must be recovered or eliminated before

the Commandos reach their Nordsee extraction point near Cuxhaven.

 

As the mission begins, an equally lucky/unlucky draw indicates the

Canadians have established a mortar base at the objective.

Mayer and Fischer push the squad forward, encountering no initial enemies.

An enemy picket snipes at Sgt Mayer, but all the Untote are Fearless, and

press on. The Canadian is confused, as he swore several of his rounds hit or

only nearly missed the German leader. And their rigid gait seemed odd.

Well it’s on now. The Commandos are alerted to the Germans. A massive

firefight ensues. Sgt Mayer Halts the advance so the squad can clear out the

Commandos. The commandos struggle with trying to pin down these German

troops. They’ve never encountered such fearless troops. They did score direct

hits on Private Koch, but Sgt Mayer had some trick in his hand of cards to

protect his charges from such actualities. 

Mayer used grenades to force many of the Canadians to ground. This allowed

him and Koch, who was proving quite the marksman at close range, to press on.

Yet more Commandos kept arriving, desperately trying to stall our advance.

And it was working. Out of grenades, Mayer began to doubt that his first

assignment would end in success.

The squad became bogged down in a running firefight. These Commandos were

well trained. Fischer was pinned well behind the rest, and the Privates were not

able to generate enough fire support to clear out Canadians faster than they

reinforced. Why was the squad not issued one of Hitler’s buzzsaws? Being unafraid

of dying again was not enough to defeat a determined enemy. The Commandos

were confused by our resilience, but did not fear us.

Sgt Mayer leapt forward, determined to reach his objective. Two bounds later, he

was engaging the Canadians as rafts from a sub were heading towards shore.

Private Koch did his best to move forward and support his Sgt. Meanwhile,

Cpl Fischer finally was able to advance, but half the squad was too separated to

help complete the mission. Too many Commandos, too too many.....

Cpl Fischer had eliminated the Commandos who had been driving the timetable

forward at double speed. This gave some hope to their UpFront comrades.

Hope rose as Sgt Mayer recognized that being strung out was working to his

advantage. Commando reinforcements were appearing and moving towards

Cpl Fischer and Pvt Neumann. Missing that Koch and Mayer were in amongst

their own forces. Their fire not being distinguished from their own.

This allowed them to momentarily clear out the LZ, and smuggle the scientist

into the darkness and escape. Fischer and Neumann, totally looking the part,

laid down dead, until the Canadians evacuated the beach. Without their prize.

Aftermath 

The first engagement with Das Untote was a qualified success. While being

Fearless was helpful, the team lacked enough firepower to maintain a good pace.

Time almost failed this mission. 

Great fun playing a mission with Zombie Soldiers. I need more practice with

them to understand Equipment and skill requirements to become a more effective

force. I may needed to merge in some Japanese undead in order to build a strong

team. Only having 8 Soldiers truly left me wishing for more. Maybe we’ll gen up

some of our own using the great support from the group posting resources on BGG.

Jungle Patrol - Warfighter PTO

Warfighter PTO

Our copy of Warfighter PTO arrived and we decided to play

a learn your enemy game before we build our campaign 

Jungle Patrol

We selected the Jungle Patrol mission which gave us 62 RP

to build our Marine force. We selected 2 Player Soldier (PS)

and two squad soldiers. Our patrol had 6 grenades, 3 rifles,

and a BAR. 

Our team deploys for jump off

We advance into the Native Gardens and are struck hard by two

stout units. After hard fighting and tossing a few grenades we clear

the garden. We lack good terrain cards so spend a few turns hoping

for something good but in the end to have any hope of succeeding 

in our mission we advance onto the beach. 

The beach is a brutal fight and even expending all of our remaining 

grenades we are barely holding on. One of our Player Soldiers is

on the jump off point trying to deal with Ambushers. After several

turns of back and forth we have eliminated most of the beach forces

as well as the Ambushers. We did lose one of our Squad Soldiers

Time is running out so we decided to risk pressing onto the Native Village

From the frying pan into the fire. We are now strung out and in

trouble. We failed to take out the Kamikaze and in fact didn’t fear 

him enough. He ran in a took a Player Soldier out with him in the 

Native Garden. The others survived the turn a retires from the mission

We rolled and amazing both Player Soldiers we good to return to duty,

one Squad Soldier was KIA, and the last was a medical discharge 

Conclusion 

The Japanese were a brutal foe and the terrain was unforgiving. 

We definitely accomplished learning more about what we want

in a force. Definitely load up on grenades and canteens. We should 

have game one of our campaign up soon. 

Warfighter is one of our favorite games and can be enjoyed solo

or cooperative. We greatly appreciate you reading our post and if 

so inclined we love comments and follows. 

Hell’s Beach June 6, 1944

June 6, 1944 - Day of Destiny 

Elements of the Big Red One have hit the beach. 

The Germans have remanned their defenses and opened up on the Americans. Machine gun 

fire from the Bunker and farm exacted a heavy toll.



The Americans make a push off the beaches. German machine guns and mortar rounds explode 

all around the attackers. The villages and farms are strongly garrisoned. The heavy volume of 

American fire is largely ineffective.

The American Platoon Leaders finally remember what they read in the field manual about Assaults.

With renewed vigor, the American troops quickly destroy the Tiger tank that was holding the village 

of Harlet, even as two other platoons swarm through Basile sur Mer, clobbering the German 

defenders. The Breakout is on now. 

Two P47 thunderbolts began plastering the Germans waiting inland. Unfortunately, as was the 

case with the 5 incher Support from off shore Destroyers, their bombing runs miss the mark.

Failure to make use of Close Assaults early in the battle has cost the Americans too much time 

and material. The order goes out to hold in place and await reinforcements.

The Germans have gained an expensive tactical victory. Their respite will not last long. 

Uncle Sam has a long arm and packs a mean punch.....

This was a replay of Hell’s Beach from Columbia Games Combat Infantry.

Thanks for stopping by and if you are inclined please follow to see more exciting

replays and reviews. 

German FJ Company versus Soviet Light Tank Company

Situation

Soviet Union Winter 1941

The German drive into Russia had slowed with the onset of a harsh winter.

Soviet forces had also begun localized counterattacks as the Germans 

supply lines stretch to the breaking point. 

Mission

The German FJs were surprised to see the Soviet infantry and tanks 

appearing in force to their front. Only half of their force was in place. 

The envelopment was developing rapidly but the entire field is muddy

forcing the Soviet tanks to stay on the roads. 

 

 

Only the 10.5 mortars and one FJ platoon with attached HMGs were

in place. 

 

The Luftwaffe swoops to to help stop the T26's

 

The mighty KV bogs trying to hurry down the road towards the exposed

flank. 

PaK 36s ambush the T26s on the right flank

 

The Soviet infantry quits the field after sustain fire from infantry and

HMGs but the Soviet tanks are still baring down on all roads.

 

The Pak 36s on the right are destroyed and the ones on the left are about 

to eat lots lead and are about to be destroyed. The KV is back on the

move. 

 

The Luftwaffe braves heavy AA and destroys the KV

 

Soviet tanks including flame tanks engage the last reinforcement platoon. 

The FJs assault the tanks and drive them back but only bag one tank. The

FJs fall on the next turn and the Soviets own the day. 

Result

The game was a really fun 4-3 victory for the Soviets. It was fun as both

sides were dishing out destruction. In the end, my Crete list FJs didn't 

have enough AT assets to carry the day. I had several air attacks chased 

off by AA so had the struck home it might have gone 4-3 the other way. 

Many thanks to Kevin for a game played in the right spirit and we both

had fun. Early War tends to always be fun in my book. 

We were playing v3 but since I really enjoy Team Yankee I'm looking

forward to v4 escalation event coming soon. Thanks for visiting and please 

consider following LZBravo.