We haven't played Rapid Fire for probably a couple of years so today's game was very much scaled down to be a learning game. The scenario pitted Ian's Americans (as 101st Airborne) against my Germans (as the 6th Fallschirmjager) and was based on the 'Defence of Carentan' scenario in the Rapid Fire Normandy Battlegames book. Ian and Nigel were in control of the Americans and I took on the role of the Germans in this all infantry encounter.
We used numbered tiddlywinks as markers to try out the concealed deployment rules. With my Germans scattered around the small town of St Come-du-Mont Ian and Nigel had to both take the town and get at least one unit past a point on the far side of the table in 15 turns-we managed just 5 turns even with our reduced forces.
The Americans enter the table, heading for St Come-du-Mont, trying to spot the German defenders. Each numbered tiddlywink was part of the German force, the blank tiddlywinks were dummy's. It took an observation roll to spot the actual forces.
Ian advanced quite rapidly whilst Nigel tried to work his way around the table edge to get a unit off the far table edge. Ian managed to knockout most of my forward command group apart from one figure. This figure opted to do an heroic action and with some excellent dice throwing he ran towards the Americans and threw a grenade over the hedge and killed 3 of them, a truly heroic action. The remaining Americans then shot the poor chap.
My Pak 40 AT gun was nicely tucked away behind a hedge and was doing some damage to Nigel's units. He retaliated by concentrating his fire on the Pak 40 and destroying it.
Both forces had done a similar amount of damage to each other but the larger American force was able to absorb the damage without needing to take a Morale test. Sadly the Germans were getting quite depleted by now and towards the end of our gaming time they failed a Morale test and withdrew leaving the Americans to advance into St Come-du-Mont.
This was a fun game, a bit slow at first as we kept referring to the rules but we gradually speeded up. Next week we aim to play again introducing a few vehicles this time.
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