"20mm WW2 Normandy game using own rules on blog" Topic

This is game 5 in the Britton Publishing Operation Jupiter scenario book. I actually played it in January but has taken me a while to finish writing it up. I upscaled the ratio to use my own rules but kept the same number of figures on the table. It pits infantry and Churchills against some dug in Germans on a ridge. Full battle report on my blog:

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Here is the British closing in on the German foxholes:

Awesome Shaun, but you'd better get to work. There's no excuse for making us wait for 2016!

V/R,
Jack

Shaun, interesting to see that an advance over such open ground could come down to such a tight result. Are the Churchills quite tough frontally in your rules?

Interesting, had you changed the scale of the game? Having companies of 10 or so figures doesn't sound like a skirmish scale. I think of that as more lower scales where one figure = 1 man, or is the Final Combat series of books more like the game you described where what they describe as 'skirmish' means 'not too many troops on the table' (great if that's so) :)

Norm,

The scale may be misleading – at 1:900 the distance between the AT guns and the Churchills is about 700m or so. So the gun in the foxholes only had a 50% chance of being seen when they shot. they were both seen. and the Churchills do have quite heavy frontal armour in my rules, although the AT guns did not even hit them anyway!

alphus99 – I have upscaled the scenario from 1:1 to 1:10. The action has been scaled down by an order of magnitude for this scenario (and most others in the book!). I just scaled it back up again. So each figure in the battle report represents 10 men.

Note that while I really like the combination of fire, movement, spotting and suppression at this scale I am finding it harder to relate a figure to 10 men at 20mm. I am thinking about scaling down from 1:10 to 1:3 where 3 figures represents a section. This is what Charles Grant does in his Battle rules. As it is likely 6-12 months before I gt 20mm out on a large table again, I am only mulling over various rules ideas for a game as this scale. I think a blend of my battalion rules and my NUTS! variant is where I may be heading. But I do so like having 2-3 companies on the table, so maybe I will just stay with what I use.

Thanks Shaun