Forwards the Guards and Battlegroup

Forward the Guards! Operation Goodwood 1944

I am currently working through an old campaign from Kampfgruppe Normandy covering 2 days of the British offensive operation to capture the city of Caan in July 1944. I am updating the army lists and tweeking the scenarios using the Battlegroup rules set and the Battlegroup Overlord campaign book.
I intend to put up ARR covering the previous battles so that other Battlegroup and World War 2 gamers can make use of the scenarios.
I love the Battlegroup rules and have been a play tester for them.

Results so far

Scenario 1 Screening Cagny German Victory (2 survivng 88's)

Scenario 2 Oemler Counter attack British Victory(3 survivng Tiger 2 tanks,1Motor Inf Platoon)

Scenario 3 Emielville Charge German Victory

Scenario 4 Evening Assault on Cagny British victory

Scenario 5 Assaulting Le Pourir British victory (3 Cromwell tanks)

Scenario 6 Assault of Frenouville German Victory

Scenario 7 Chateau St. Pierre D'Oursin

Comments

on the workbench Fields and Gardens

Time to improve terrain. Fields and gardens on an old piece of hardboard. Corrugated paper then textured and spray painted. Plants from scatter static grass on lines of PVA. Grass tuft in rows and green paint soaked sponge and pieces of clump foliage. Fences a mix of plant ties and bamboo skewers for the hurdles and garden thyme stripped of leaves to be the brush in the brushwood fences. a mixture of open field and fenced gardens house at the cetre of a fenced gardens and crop fileds Patchwork of fields - the irrigation ditch is scratch built from acrylic sheets Vines in a ploughed field - vines scratch built from pipe cleaners Patchwork of gardens the pigsty is bought from Hovels yonks ago Brush wood fence some scattered static grass used for young crops Ploughed field with orchard trees A series of the fields to make a patchwork close to a village ploughed field with shredded sponge cabbages A mix of lants made of clump folia...

on the workbench Sd Kfz164 Nashorn

Captured Nashorn Italy 1944 Model by Alkett Crew by AB miniatures Infantry support from Xan Miniatures Afrika Korp camo net scratch built from surgical gauze and stowage from Early War Miniatures Inspired by a Nashorn from schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 525 captured in the Liri Valley

Attack/ Counterattack near El Hamma 1943

Attack/Counterattack near El Hamma 27th March 1943 German Forces from 15th Panzer Division 1 Platoon Panzer III kurtz (short) 1 Platoon Px III lang (long) 1 Platoon Pz II 1 Panzer IV F2 1 Marder 1 supply truck 1 timed Stuka strike 1 FAC in Sdkfz 250 British Forces from 2nd Armoured Brigade Forward HQ in Grant Mk1 gun tank 2x Sherman tank squadron consisting of 3 Sherman III tanks 1 carrier section from 1 The Rifle Brigade consisting of 3 carriers with 1 Bren team 1 2" mortr team and 1 Vickers MG team FAO in Daimler Dingo FAC in Humber Scot car Radio link in M5 halftrack 1 battery of 25 pounders (off table) Battle We used the attack/ counter attack from the rulebook to represent this typical encounter as the 1st Armoured disision supported by 2nd New Zealand division fought towards Gabes on the Tunisian coast after breaking through the Tebaga Gap. The 15th Panzer Division fought despearately to allow Generel Messe to evacuate hs forces from the Maret...

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