This is the first day I managed to see all the boards put together, April 1st at Trumpeter Salute in Burnaby B.C..
Each board is 2'x 2'.
Chris Leach, Author of "Battles for Empire" wrote a supplement for WW1 which were the rules we used for this battle. Chris kindly helped me with the game, as I was not all that familiar with them.
All figures are Old Glory.
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The boards looking from the German right flank. Hill 145 on the left with the MG bunker.
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German front line, was occupied by one company of the 261st Bavarian Reserve Regiment. This is one platoon.
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B company,in the centre, 87th Battalion Canadian Grenadier Guards in their front line 74th street.
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A Company on the left flank.
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The entire board, Canadians A, B and C company in the front line from left to right respectively.
German company in their front line one platoon per board.
The cat in the background is a tea cosy for one of our players pot of tea!
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View of the German trench names, Front line, Batter, Basso, Beggar, Beer and Bed bug out of the picture on the left.
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Canadians over the top!
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A Co. in line at right, B Co. at left moving through wire.
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B and C Co. Move forward.
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A Co. Platoon take 3 hits moving in, and melee's the Germans.
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German MG at strong point 7 fires at long range.
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A and C Co. Melee the Germans while B Co. negotiates the wire.
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Fire from supporting MG's and rifles in B Co. sector eliminate the platoon in their front.
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As you can see the middle German platoon is gone. Behind the rules display is a WW1 air game.
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C Co. moves to melee the Germans.
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Another German company moves on the board.
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A and C Co. have been decimated only B Co. in the centre has broken through. the front line.
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German reinforcements meet B Co. pushing forward at the end of a communication trench.
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The last platoon of A Co. melees the Germans.
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B Co. pushes down a communication trench.
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German at Batter trench.
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Overview of B Co. pushing down the communication trench, A and C Co. tied down while Germans in Batter wait.
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Germans at Batter.
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D Co. which had been released behind A Co. moves down a communication trench to be met by the Bavarians.
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B Co of the 74th Battalion has been released and moves towards Batter after C Co. 87th was decimated.
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Melee with D Co. and the Bavarians.
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The Germans reinforce Basso.
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The Canadians have cleared most of Batter except on the left flank.
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Once the left flank had been secured we called the game we ran out of time. The Canadians had done pretty much what had happened historically. In our game 8 out of 12 platoons of the battalion were eliminated, the Germans lost 4 platoons.
Historically the battalion commander had decided not to use the rolling barrage as in all the other sectors with subsequent fatal consequences for his battalion.
11 out of 12 officers were killed or wounded. The battalion suffered 50% casualties killed and wounded. Hill 145 was captured the next day by flanking moves.
