Scenario and AAR Tiger Hunt

History

This is an Attach Counterattack scenario written as an introduction to Battlegroup WW2 rules

Terrain

Terrain is imagined. The British Force has farm at top of board and Germans the hamlet at the bottom . The rest is field hedgerows and light woodland scattered with craters, orchards and hayricks for cover

The Game

Size: Platoon

Objectives: Each side places 2 objectives assigned alternately at the start of the game starting with the British player. They may be placed anywhere the board but not in there own deployment zone and not withing 12 inches of the board edge.

Deployment:

German player deploys 1 d6 units in the German deployment zone within 12 " of the southern table edge. The British player then deploys 1d6 units in the British deployment zone with 12" of the northern table edge. The remaining units are then deployed alternately beginning with the German player.

The British player has the first turn.

End: First player to exceed the BR total loses the game

German Force

315pts Officers 1 BR 21

Main force1 Panzer Grenedier Platoon

Command squad

3 Rifle squad

3 MG-42 teams

1 82mm mortar team

1 PaK 40 antitank gun with Sdkfz6 tow

1 Pz IV G tank

1 Tiger 1 tank

British Force

358pts Officers 2 BR 25

Main force

1 Infantry platoon

1 Command section

3 infantry sections

1 Vickers HMG team

1 3" mortar team

1 Sherman V tank troop

1 Sherman V cammand tank

1 Sherman V tanks

1 Sherman Vc Firefly

1 M10 Achilles Tank Destroyer

After Action Report

Comments

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