Monday, July 14, 2025

Defence of the Ypres-Comine Canals 1940

 

Played a 20mm Rapid Fire game at the club last week.

I used the excellent Blitzkrieg scenario and forces books and ran the defence of the Ypres-Comine canal scenario.  It has 3 battalions of germans with supports attacking 2.5 battalions of British who are heavily outnumbered.  Its a nice scenario to use as an intro as it has only infantry + support weapons and off table artillery, no tanks involved.











The British were eventually over-run, with the Seaforth highlanders falling back before routing, the Fusiliers also routed leaving a weak 2nd Northumberland to try and defend the canal.  Some good german artillery made short work of them and the game was over - pretty much an historical result.

The British artillery was quite poor (my die rolling as usual) and I didn't manage to make as much use of my MG teams as I hoped.

Great game and the other two players who hadn't used Rapid Fire reloaded were impressed by the ease of the rules.

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