Bolt Action Parachute drop.

 Great game set up by Nigel today using his 20mm WW2 figures and Bolt Action rules. The main idea was the British parachuting in just inland of the Normandy Beach landings to try and take out  some German artillery positions that were pounding the beaches. Using the great idea of dropping paper counters from above onto the table and placing the British Para's where the counters landed. I was playing the Germans and had drawn a map of where my troops were positioned but this was a dawn attack so only a few sentries were in position. With Ian and Nigel playing the Para's we played one pre-game turn to allow the paras to try and form squads and for the Germans to raise the alarm and get into position. Then it was a standard 6 turn game with the chance of a final seventh turn. 

In this photo you can still see a few paper counters representing some of the para's before being replaced by figures. The grey building is the main German bunker. Sadly for me the counter nearest the bunker is the para's flame thrower team. 

The para's slowly approach the bunker. There was also 4 artillery positions for them to try and capture and/or destroy the guns within and the German HQ in a farmhouse over on the far right flank. 

The para's quickly attack the bunker and flame all the occupant's.

The pin markers on top of the bunker are for the occupants, the German MG team up top helped keep some of the advancing Para's at bay for a few turns. 

But numbers started to tell and even my MG got wiped out. 

Over to the left the para's destroy two of the German big guns. 

It took six full turns for the para's to capture or destroy all the guns and the bunker but over on the left the Germans still held the farmhouse HQ, but only just. The dice decided that we did not play a final seventh turn which could have seen the Para's grab a total victory. 

A closely fought game resulted in the Germans stubbornly holding on to one final objective that the Para's had failed to gain. Once again, Bolt Action gave us a great day of gaming with thanks to Nigel for planning the game and hosting us.