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John Treadaway - June 2020
Combat Cars clear the river Clarks AFVs dig in behind the shed buildings Slammers Blowers move onto the bridge The Slammers tank is targetted by missiles Combat cars make their way across the river independent of the bridge
The Bridge at Kronstadt
All photos by John Treadaway & Henry Hyde Click thumbnail to enlarge
Victory Conditions For the Commandos, just a single TU of infantry or a vehicle across the river is a win for the Clark’s forces. For the Slammers, they just have to stop the Commandos: destroy them, break their morale or – if necessary – blow the bridge, irrespective of their own losses. This will constitute a Slammers victory. Our Game Henry deployed his Slammers forces on the eastern edge of the roughly 6ft by 4ft6in table. He had two good leaders and therefore a decent supply of Leadership Points to get his troops to do lots of what he wanted. As the Clark’s Commandos were not on the table at the start of the first turn, Henry split his force largely in to two, though he mixed his detachments up somewhat. He swept five Combat Cars around the northern flank, as they could cross the river independent of the bridge. However, in his centre he lead his trio of blower tanks over the wide bridge itself as an armour wedge. This armoured spearhead protected the engineers and other vehicles behind from direct fire. They were led, however, by the skimmer mounted ‘dragoons’ to probe forward in a recce role. At the end of the first turn, one randomly diced Commando detachment arrived at point 3 and – sadly for me – that random selection meant it was the Mechanised Infantry. These doughty chaps armed largely with rifles in APCs could do little against the three blowers that faced them head on so they debussed and took cover amongst the sheds south of the road and awaited reinforcements.