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středa 25. září 2019

Battlegroup: Overlord Hard road english

Yesterday i published Battlegroup battlereport in Czech but it is time for english version.

Two days ago we played Battlegroup using Overlord book. We choosed Hard road and we played 400 pts at squad level.

Again my friend Dejv put his British 6th AAR. He got 3 cromwells, Command Tetrarch,regular Tetrarch,2 paratrooper Squads, Carrier section and towed 6pdr.




I opted for Panzer division list: Command Panther, 2 PZIV, 2 squads of Armored Panzergrenadiers, 2 Pumas and infamous 88.


Germans started deploying into the village on right while British deployed in hills and around the
railroad tracks. From beginning the British player was out of luck. He was able to deploy about half of his battlegroup while Germans deployed their whole might and to top it off they started with 6 orders but British with 3. In first turn Germans were able to secure the village capturing both objectives, 88 strategicaly put on the road was ambushing any one dumb enough to cross the road. Panther tried to brew up one of the Cromwells but without luck.


British then pushed to the railroad crossing capturing the objectives on their side. and started to maneovering toward village using fire and move/ move or fire tactics but without any effect.

Tanks started playing deadly game of cat and mouse but for more two turns any of the shells failed to find its mark. German Panzergrenadiers manages to capture the crossroad objective while they are succesfull they are pinned down on the crossroads by Paras from nearby tower.




Panther now exited village and his shot finally find its mark and one of the Cromwell started burning,
and rest of the Germans forces begining to push British back and next turn another Cromwell burst in flames and Railroad station one of the objectives held by British was captured by Germans.

British Paras Battlegroup has been broken and Germans claimed the victory.

to be honest victory was mainly thanks to the bad luck with BR chits and order rolls.








pondělí 19. srpna 2019

Battlegroup - Kampfgruppe Dombeck

Still gearing up for tomorrow first battle in Battlegroup (set in all well known 6-7 june 1944 in normandy between British Paras and mine Kampfgruppe) i decided to write little Order of Battle for my Kampfgruppe.






There is lots of stuff in my "army" that is not fieldable via Fallschirmjager Normandy list.  But there are things i want Panthers, King Tigers and Pumas for example. Heart of the Battlegroup are two Fallschirmjager platoons each with Panzershreck team, Pak40 with RSO Tow. The Kg has also have few Sd.kfz 251s to faciliate transport for one platoon

Reconnisance for battlegroup is in form of 3 Sd.kfz 234/2 Puma and two sdkfz. 222. Two sniper teams are also availible

Armoured fist of Battlegroup are 12 Panzer IVs with Bergepanzer IV recovery vehicle.They are supported by two StuG Batteries and one StuH42. Heavy hitters of Kampfgruppe Domeck are 3 Panthers and 4 Panzerkampfwagen VI ausf.B "Tiger II" with Bergepanter recovery vehicles.

Anti-aircover provide three wirbelwinds and three Sd.kfz 6 with flak 36.


Artillery support for battlegroup are battery of Nebelwerfers as well battery of LG40 10.5cm artillery pieces. Sdkfz 7 and RSO Tows are availible. Along with tows there is recovery Sd.Kfz 9 "Famo", number of Kubelwagens and schwimwagens. Siginals section have Radio Opel Blitz at their disposal





I got more stuff for my Kampfgruppe but currently their are at painting list , stuff like 88 AA gun, Marders, Tiger 1, HMG teams and medics for my platoons. 

This battlegroup is set with Normandy setting in mind but it is suitable for late war Western/Eastern front even for fighting in Italy.
See you soon hopefully with full BG:Overlord Battlereport