"Operation Jupiter Batrep #2, Horseshoe Woods" Topic

All,

On to the second fight of Operation Jupiter. In the last fight, A Company of The 5th Westchesterfords North Riding Rangers of the Highland Coldshire Guards (5th WNRRHCG), led by Major Dillon and his 2iC, Lt Cooman, successfully assaulted the Les Duanes Farm Complex, kicking out the German 1st Company of the The 457th PanzerGrenadier Abteilung Sauer und Krauthammer, led by Captain Sorensen and his 2iC, Lt Weidthaus. Following on from the farm complex, 5th WNRRHCG is getting closer to Hill 112 (the ultimate objective of the operation), and must clear the nearby Horseshoe Wood. This fight will see Major Travers, and his 2iC, Lt Rownan, lead their B Company to clear the wood of the German 2nd Company, led by Captain Keipers and Lt Teigner.

Real life, it's still 10 July 1944, and it was D Company, 5th Battalion, Dorset Regiment, 130th Brigade, 43rd Wessex Division, supported by tanks of B Squadron, 9th Royal Tank Regiment, vs 5th Company, 2nd Battalion, 22nd SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, 10th SS Panzer Division. Once again, I should be using Churchills but I don't have any, so Shermans will have to do. In real life the Brits were able to push the Germans out of the wood, but they took very heavy casualties in vicious, hand-to hand combat.

Total chaos, the fight devolves into a fierce melee at point blank range in the forest (note the Sherman at top left is burning). To see how the fight turned out, please check the blog at:
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Fights 3 and 4 happened this morning, next batrep coming up as soon as possible. And where's Kyote??? Someone tell him he's a hero ;)

V/R,
Jack

They were the boy's…

V/R,
Jack

You know, I am really digging the look of multiple individual figures kind of bunched together, to make a squad-stand.

I've done it once or twice out of an emergency but now I am kind of coming around to it.

Ivan,

I don't like it, just too lazy to re-base, plus somehow I ended up with two sets of 10mm Brits, and more Germans than I can count (though these are actually Fallschirmjaeger and I want to paint them up with yellow helmets and trousers for Sicily/Italy), so I kinda don't want to re-base them.

Having said that, obviously it gives you the flexibility to play skirmish and higher level games with the same troops.

V/R,
Jack

Oh, you're so full of it! See, you're used to fighting with T/O strength units. ;)

V/R,
Jack

Another great game. You mentioned wondering why the British attacked Horseshoe Wood from the south and not the north. They did attack from the north. Please let me know if your copy has that mistake in it. Ben

Great action! And the boy has become a man! (well a 6 year old man) Nice one son :)

Thank you gentlemen.

And Ben – my copy has got north to the bottom right corner of Horseshoe Woods, as pictured.

V/R,
Jack