Flames of War Batrep

DSo more or less all painted and we start the game.  Aron taking the Brits and Ceri the Germans.  Aron wins the dice roll and starts the assault... And the failing big checks lol.

The firefly bogs on the tracks. Then...

The M10 blogs on the a hedge (doh)

 And then a Stuart bogged entering woods.  A general advance of other guys takes place before some shooting.

The first shot a rather hopefully shot at long range concealed panthers, which unfortunately followed the same luck as bogging checks.

The rest of the shooting phase was about as spectacular.  Lots of attempts at to smoke no luck.  Aron made a collection of 1's dice to be shunned.

Onto the German first turn (and the last one we will probably take so many pics of lol.

German infantry moved to secure objectives while the tanks (cat and otherwise) moved to secure some shots.

Things look scary for those Sherman tanks

Well, the Germans were slightly luckier lol. The panther bailed and popped a Sherman, and the Tigers and panzer iv's hammered the centre Sherman's, killing the firefly and a Sherman, and the other legged it.

So the Brits continue their advance.  Remounting or i bogging all apart from the firefly that was essential to the plan. The Sherman's hoped for some payback on the iv's whilst avoiding the big cat, likewise the firefly hoped to hurt the other kitties on the flank.

On to shooting...

All that happened was on Panther getting smoked (literally not figuratively unfortunately for the Brits). So on to the German turn.

The only movement needed was a cat out of the smoke and the CiC and 2iC to safety, joining the Panzer iv zug.

Once again the Germans are lucky with 4 blown up tanks (including 2 fireflies) and another British platoon fleeing.  There is only so much stuff upper lip the Brits can muster.  Still the M10s haven't shot, perhaps Aron is being a little too cautious.

British turn, the solo firefly performed a swift Brexit and fled from Germany :-(.  This left the infantry trying their best to assault the Panzers, hopefully with smoke support.

The Stuart's decided to search hard and find their balls, though one bailed out (presumably his balls were outside his tank)

Onto the shooting.  Aron crossed all hit fingers, but as it made dice rolling difficult he had to stop. Unfortunately it didn't work as all he managed to do was bail a Panther and smoke one Panzer.  But assault time. But due to the finest German machine guns the assault was stopped with a loss of 2 stands.  Things were dire now for the Brits.

Another good firing phase from the Germans and the Brits fail a company morale and flee.  Not a good day for Britain.