Two in a row

 On Monday friends came round to play this Seelowe set scenario -

I umpired and we used Second Edition Bolt Action. A few game photos-

The Home Guard defend the road block. Red dice is number of pins btw.

German paratroopers move through the woods…

A Home Guard Smith gun is deployed beside the village post office.

Section number one takes heavy casualties but returns fire.

The road block has few left to defend it now.

The end of game when a German section assaulted the roadblock. All in all an enjoyable game.

Yesterday saw a return to the Continuation War when one of Monday’s gamers returned for a board game, the other chap doesn’t like them.

Game set up and a coffee break taken.

Whilst at coffee in the garden my opponent saw this chap on a neighbour’s roof. Five minutes later there was a commotion in the tree by the pond and the aforementioned bird flee by us with lunch in his talons in the form of a small bird. Quite a sight.

The game was complicated and needless to say we didn’t finish it. It is more challenging than the other game set in the same period. Activation is by drawing chits from a cup. Each chit is a command, The Russians have four whilst my Axis has fourteen! I seemed to be constantly activated with little time to think. All in all a good if challenging simulation.

During the game the postman arrived with a parcel for me…