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Bolt action
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The battlefield looked as if it had been fought over many,many times. Now the Allies were looking to break out from their Normandy beachhead, and this desolated town was in the way. The Allied command tasked the Black Watch ,from the British 51st Highland division, and the 3rd Battalion from the Irish Guards division. Facing them, Hitlers best, Fallshirmjaegars and Waffen SS. The orders were very clear advance and wipe out any enemy.

The British advanced first,Scots on the left, Irish on the right, a lone Sherman in the centre. More Brits arrived, and still no sign of any enemy presence.
Suddenly a loud crack and the tracks on the Sherman disintegrated. The Infantry hurried to find cover as the Sherman returned fire. then 2 massive explosions, as first the Sherman and then the Scots flame thrower became scrap metal.
The Scots were now taking heavy fire and casualties,and not finding too many targets to exact revenge on.
Then when things couldn't get worse , they did. ( To offset both Justin and I having a free artillery barrage, Paul and Mick agreed that I had to throw the dice!!)
The Scots called down their artillery, but owing to confusion, or incompetence ( I threw a 1!) it landed in the midst of their own positions. Not too many casualties, but most hit the dirt and were pinned.
To add more to their misery, the German artillery also landed on them, paralysing most of them for the rest of the battle.
On the British right it was a little more cagy, with troops hugging the available cover.
The Irish called their own artillery down, and this, much like the Scots, stopped the German airborne, as they dug deeper into the French soil.
The Panzer IV that had took out the Sherman early on, just sat there machine gunning any targets.
So to take out the threat, the Guards Officer detailed his Piat team to close, and take it out. they dashed from knocked out tank, to house, until they charged into a garden and unleashed the anti tank grenade.
It traveled straight and true hitting the target, and then bouncing off before exploding.
The brave squaddies were then machine gunned down for their troubles.
With the brits either pinned or unable to advance, a tactical withdrawal was ordered, leaving the field, and the game to the Germans.
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Bolt action - by Noisysteve - 10-10-2014, 08:08 PM
RE: Bolt action - by Noisysteve - 10-09-2016, 12:47 PM
RE: Bolt action - by Brightblade - 16-09-2016, 12:07 PM

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