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Training Day’s - Slammers versus the West Riding Yeomanry

Game 2: Slammers kick the WRY Fiona took two Slammer’s troops - a Tank Troop (three regular blowers and a command blower) and a Combat Car Troop (three cars and a Command car) as these would be just the sort of individual forces people can play for a couple of turns for a sort game at a show. Troops are commanded by a Sergeant and she had a Sarge with Elite skills (Jack ‘Ripper’ Scratchard) in the command tank and a regular sergeant in the Command Car. As these were both obvious vehicles, again, using the Leading from the Front rule, this gave an extra bonus to their leadership skills. In addition, Jack had the Elite skills of Dead Eye (plus 1 QR when shooting) and Snap shot (the ability to fire on the move). I ran a single detachment of the West Riding Yeomanry (effectively 4 medium tanks, 3 infantry and some APCs) and they were always going to have a tough time of it as they were out-pointed and a little out-gunned. Again, they had infantry secreted in a building: three TUs including their commander, Lieutenant Cain, with Elite skills of Inspirational Leader (more leadership points); Tank Hunter (the ability to spot the weak points on an AFV and exploit them, always losing one from the target’s defensive value with Buzzbombs), Dauntless (better at rousing the men and removing suppression) and Double tap (the ability to rapid fire weapons - in his case buzzbombs - for only one leadership point). Cain and his men hid on different floors of a big tower block with a commanding view of the Slammers from whatever direction they cam in from and I distributed the rest of the WRY around the town.

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