"East Front 1941 6mm battle report on blog" Topic

The fifth 6mm east front game has been written up on my blog. It is the last scenario in an ongoing Vzyama or Bust campaign. I am playing them on a 2'x2' table; terrain is very urban and I don't really have that much terrain stuff so it may look a bit sparse.

For this game, I deviated a little from the normal rules I use, Take Cover!! This time, I wrote a 2 page ruleset derived from both Take Cover!! and Irregular Miniature's Mechanised Warfare Rules. While Take Cover is a fine set, I was looking for something a little simpler and faster, so I used some mechanisms similar to that in MWR for combat, and simplified spotting. It fits on 2 pages without lots of squeezing.

I enjoyed the game and the rules. I think I am destined to tinker with rules until I die! There is a link to a blog page with the current draft in the blog post.

Battle report is here:

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Here is a shot of some of the German attackers after a 122mm indirect HE attack:

Thanks Shaun, always enjoy your 2 x 2 style game reports – how long did this one take to play?

This one took about 40minutes to setup (setup board, figure out troops. get them out etc) and just over an hour to play, maybe 1 hour, 15 minutes. Note that even though this is the first outing of the rules, I have been fiddling with the combat rules for about 6 years but this is the first time I've actually used them. I guess I am trying to say I new the rules quite well so that is why it played so fast. The other previous games, using Take Cover, took nearly 2 hours, and that was knowing the rules really well too.