World War 20mm – A Battlegroup Endless Project

Cracking game last night – Delaying Action with 350 points aside using Battlegroup Tobruk.

Italians took heavy losses but managed to breach the British defence line and manage to break the British BR… though not within 9 turns. We play on however, and in turn 10 it all went wrong for the British.

Highlight was the 2 Pounder, down to one crewman, despatching two tankettes with one Open Fire order – VC for him. For the Italians their single sniper did sterling work, while their infantry failed to assault! Runner-up prize goes to the Vickers MMG team who cut down the section of Italian Engineers as they reached the barbed wire…

The Italians however managed in the final turn to drop a mortar shell on the Wire Team, causing a 5 chit to be pulled, then a dead 2″ mortar after that resulted in another 5 being pulled! Up to that point, the British were in good form, hardly any casualties (except the FHQ!), the trenches doing the job and the Italians on the edge of their BR…

Clearly with the communication to Battalion HQ gone, my plucky British had to withdraw… so all over on turn 10, but they had held past turn 9. So an Italian victory, but at high cost, and the British withdrawing successfully to their second line.

Italians by my chum to face my own British troops.

As I finish up the infantry for my 1945 ETO Yanks, some test shots of how I’m hoping Italy may look when eventually started…

Little battle using early war list for some Far East action…

The Germans for use in the summer months… all AB Figures except the dog! He is from Elhiem Miniatures.

A little AB Figures MG42 team to add to my slow-grow Waffen-SS unit…

First test for some LRDG/SBS troops, themed to be operating around the Aegean Sea in 1943, especially the actions on Leros.

Not sure I’m settled on colours, I want a mixed up look, and the second pic shows him next to my normal Khaki Drill wearing Brit for North Africa…