Pocket Panzers

  Last Saturday was Virtual Lard 5 - the Too Fat Lardies community's answer to pandemic gaming restrictions. I played in VL4 back in January and was lucky enough to join a game of CoC hosted by Marc Renouf, who wrote a Pint-Sized Campaign set during Operation Crusader. The game was played through Zoom, so my ability to get photos was somewhat limited, and I have used some taken by Marc to supplement. We had multiple cameras set up and it was surprisingly natural to see the table, so major kudos to Marc for his stellar hosting. This scenario takes us to Libya on Sunday, 23 November, 1941, during Operation Crusader. The Germans of 15. Panzer-Division are fresh off the victory of sacking the British 4th Armored Brigade's headquarters the day before and are wheeling south to join up with Italian armored forces, smash the remaining British forces in the Sidi Rezegh area, and bring Operation Crusader to a grinding halt. On the morning of 23 November - a German protestant holiday call

Got in a game this Friday, and this time we returned to the Eastern Front for a game of Chain of Command . This battle saw German pioneers trying to push through a Soviet defense line and capture a Soviet company command post during Operation Winter Storm - the push to relieve Stalingrad in December 1942. We used the German Infantry Pioneer platoon and the Soviet Motorized Brigade rifle platoon from the TFL 2016 Christmas Special . The scenario was Attack on An Objective from the core rulebook. I had the Soviets, my opponent the Germans. Table overview - this table is probably too thickly forested for the area south of Stalingrad, but we have nice new winter trees and wanted to use them View from the Soviet table edge. The objective is the thatched house near the crossroads. The Germans rolled a Force Morale of nine, and the Soviets got 10. The Germans rolled three free patrol moves, which let them make a little progress, but didn't let them leap forward like they might have hoped.