Operation Sea Lion - 1500ish points!

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This was a game for the Operation Sea Lion Campaign being put on by the WWPD guys. We kinda missed the early weeks of it and didn't get a chance to do the initial beach assaults, so we did one now anyway (and plan to do another in a few days!) Mission was a haphazardly tossed together 1500ish to 800ish game of "Hit the Beach". Chris built his list based loosely on a MW Eastern Front list, using the added assault platoons from the campaign book, whereas I made my Paras from Turning Tide. I ended up dropping a piat from each squad to make it more "mid-war"ish, but I still had 17 pdrs so....

Chris's Beachlanding Germans HQ Boots Full boots platoon Full boots platoon Half boots platoon 3x DD Panzer 4s

Scott's British Paras HQ boots Full boots w/ 1 piat Half boots w/ 1 piat Half boots w/ 1 piat 4x Airlanding 75mm pack howitzers 2x barbed wires

SETUP AND DEPLOYMENT

Pack Howitzers in the woods

Bunker on the beach with some paras hiding nearby

These may just look like ordinary houses, but they house death and destruction inside! (Or maybe just some paras)

Preliminary bombardment kills one para...

and THREE pack howitzers!

The Germans awaiting in the surf

UNITS IN RESERVE
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 2x squads of boots in boats	Scott's British Paras 2x short squads of boots

DEPLOYMENT SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: DD Tanks and one boat in the water. Preliminary bombardment kills 3 pack howitzers and one pair of boots Scott's British Paras: Full boots and the pack arty on the board. Two short boots platoons in reserve.

TURN 1

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers 1x boots

TURN 1 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: A single PZ4 comes ashore...everything else drifts away. For a lack of better targets, the PZ4 shoots at the bunker, but misses. Scott's British Paras: 17 pdr misses the only PZ4 on the board!

TURN 2

More boots and 2 more PZ4s arrive!

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 1x PZ4	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers 1x boots

TURN 2 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: A platoon of boots and more more PZ4s come ashore. Scott's British Paras: 17 pdr bunker kills a PZ4

TURN 3

Flamer melts some boots and sets the tone for the assault

This is what assaults look like when they are done

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 1x PZ4 5x boots	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers 6x boots

TURN 3 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: Infantry move up and kill a para with a flamethrower. They assault and kill three more pairs of boots in total before falling back. Scott's British Paras: Paras fail to hit anything in counterattack the first round of combat, and get two Germans in the second. On my turn, the para scharge out and kill another 3 Germans before dying in assault.

TURN 4

More boots land, but the boat gets stuck!

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 2x PZ4 1x platoon of boots, that went back into floating reserves	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers 6x boots

TURN 4 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: More boots come ashore. Scott's British Paras: Bunker kills a 2nd Pz4.

TURN 5

Two stands of boots were hiding in a building (leaderless) after the rest died in the forest assault. More Germans boots come and flame one para, leaving a sole survivor. Who runs away.

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 2x PZ4 1x platoon of boots, that went back into floating reserves	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers Full para platoon

TURN 5 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: Moves up and finishes off the rest of the large para platoon. Scott's British Paras: The single pack howitzer kills a pair of boots! A squad of paras arrives and double times up behind the trees.

TURN 6

Some paras got splashed by German naval gunfire support

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 2x PZ4 5x boots	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers Full para platoon 2x boots from another para platoon

TURN 6 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: Naval gunfire support flattens two paras. Scott's British Paras: Last platoon of paras arrives and double times up, while the paras that arrived the previous turn moved into the woods to protect the objective.

TURN 7

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 2x PZ4 5x boots	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers Full para platoon 2x boots from another para platoon

TURN 7 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: Stuff moves up, but nothing really happens. Scott's British Paras: Nothing to see here.

TURN 8

The PZ4 bogs on the assault attempt, but thanks to new V3 rules instant unbogs and sittings right in front of some hungry paras in cover. I'll get to assault it without taking defense fire on my turn!

...unless I fail tank terror.

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 2x PZ4 5x boots	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers Full para platoon 2x boots from another para platoon

TURN 8 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: PZ4 attempts to assault the last pack howitzer, but bogs on the way in. Scott's British Paras: Paras fail tank terror on the "free tank kill here" assault.

TURN 9

Another horribly bloody assault kills off one of my para squads, but the assaulting platoon is also wiped out on morale

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 2x PZ4 More boots that go back into floating reserves.	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers Full para platoon 2x boots from another para platoon

TURN 9 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: The germans assault and kill off a para squad, but the pack howizer lives. The assaulting Germans are wiped out and go back into floating reserves. Scott's British Paras: Paras do not unpin, so they dig in.

TURN 10

PZ4 runs over the staff team, and bogs on the consolidation

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 2x PZ4 More boots that go back into floating reserves.	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers Full para platoon 2x boots from another para platoon

TURN 10 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: PZ4 kills the staff team in assault, but bogs on the consoliation. Scott's British Paras: Paras kill the bogged PZ4.

TURN 11

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 2x PZ4	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers Full para platoon 2x boots from another para platoon

TURN 11 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: Germans assault into and wipe out the remaining paras, however they are also reduced below half and run as well! Scott's British Paras: I have zero models left on the board.

TURN 12

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Chris's Beachlanding Germans 2x PZ4	Scott's British Paras 3x pack howitzers Full para platoon 2x boots from another para platoon

TURN 12 SUMMARY

Chris's Beachlanding Germans: Turn 12 starts, and nobody controls the British objective, while the Germans have the German-placed objective. Scott's British Paras:

A 4-3 victory for the British, despite having no models left on the table! We held the last objective to the last possible turn, slowing down the German advance until reinforcements can arrive!

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