Saturday 2nd June saw me make my annual trip to
Musslebrough Rugby club for a day’s Lardy rules wargaming organised as usual by
Derek. He had a number of last minute
cancellations and reorganising to do but it all worked out fine.
We normally have a few Falkirk club members playing but this
year it was just myself and John and I played in his Coastal Patrol game in the
morning. Some German S Boats had managed
to ambush a British convoy and were soon attacking with some verve. I ran some
MTBs who appeared a little late in the day but whose heavy armament offered the
biggest threat to the Germans.
There was a successful torpedo hit on a merchant ship and
other damage to the merchant men and close escort. The Germans did not go unscathed however and
my boats also caused some damage without sinking anything. When the game was called it was probably a
German victory as they had stuck to their task of going after the merchantmen
well.
In the afternoon I was happy to get into a 10mm What a
Tanker game. I have made the decision to
jump into this scale and was keen to see how it played. It was set in 1940 with 3 of us taking the
French against the invading Germans.
My tank tootled around a bit and got into some quite good positions
before eventually being blown up. On
this evidence I don’t think early war works as well as mid or late war as the
relatively low number of strike dice make it difficult (although certainly not
impossible) to do significant damage The
game was declared a draw with both sides down to one tank sheltering in
opposing woods.
A really fun days gaming
- thanks to Derek for organising.
Games 59
Rules played 23 New 9
Places played 10 New 0
Places played 10 New 0