Anyway, my group and I ran our first game of Chain of Command. A simple meeting engagement scenario with the Americans vs. Germans.
We had two young guys playing this time and they hadn't really play historical games before. They caught on rather quickly.
My friend James and Sam playing the Americans.
Anthony and I played the Germans. Since I was teaching I let Anthony control the bulk of the German forces.
The patrol phase went smoothly for trying it the first time. Both sides locked down pretty quickly.
The Americans deployed first taking the farm house. A German squad took up a position to fire on the house. The building was tough and caused no damage.
More American troops appeared.
German squad took a beating and fell back into a line of trees. They would soon lose that jump off point.
More Americans came pouring over the hill.
German armor arrives!
Another squad tries to make it across the field but didn't make it and fell to the ground for more cover.
The German armor backs up the squad.
The Americans push forward.
The Germans tried to push around the other side of the board and took an American Jump off point.
The Americans didn't bite on the flank move and kept pushing forward.
The German squad took some shock from accurate American fire.
The German tank sits in the tree line and waits for the Sherman coming down the road.
Close Assault time!
No more german squad. Killed to the man.
The Sherman rolls down the road and survives a couple of shots from the German tank.
The game soon ended after this as the German morale dropped to zero and they retreated back off the board. We were very happy with the game played and at how fast we all picked up the sequence the flow of the game quickly. I did spend some time flipping through the rule book looking for things but that was expecting with a first run.
We will be playing this again in October when we get together.
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