"Falaise Gap Skirmish Game" Topic
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| tuscaloosa | 27 Jun 2009 2:17 p.m. PST |
This is a 20mm skirmish game we played at the NOVAG Game Day at the Game Parlor in Chantilly, VA a few weeks ago. It was a playtest for a soon-to-be-published Skirmish Campaign book on the Falaise Gap. link The terrain and troops are Tim Tilson's; he hosted the game and set it up. Americans had to push through a German blocking force to close the trap on retreating Germans. Game was decided by a StuG shot against the rear of a Sherman, the last shot of the last fire phase of the last turn. Fortunately, missed. Other games played that day were Hereroes vs. German Kolonialtruppen; Check Your Six of Khalkin Ghol dogfighting including an airfield attack mission (I recall SB-2 bombers and the Japanese fighters that have fixed landing gear, but there were lots more planes); and a Napoleonics game… |
| aercdr | 27 Jun 2009 11:47 p.m. PST |
Looks like fun. Makes me wish that I still lived in NOVA. |
| captain canada | 29 Jun 2009 4:16 p.m. PST |
Americans closing the gap? Was it fiction? KAM |
| zoneofcontrol | 30 Jun 2009 5:30 a.m. PST |
Quite fictional indeed. Everyone knows that without the intervention of the Polish Armor aided by her minor allies, the northern shoulder of the "Gap" could well remain open to this very day. |
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