0200: Butcher and Bolt

We've been working our way through the first few scenario's for 0200 Hours and this week was my first go at being the attacker. As we don't have cards for German attackers and British defenders we just used the cards as they came and swapped them over to representing the opposite nation.

We'd played this scenario the week before with the British on the attack and it's a fairly straight forwards one. The attacker needs to kill half of the defenders and escape without losing over half their men. Half of the defenders start off the table with the remaining troops walking around a patrol route. As the game goes on and the attackers are spotted and shots fired the alert tracker goes up until the alarm is raised and the rest of the defenders come on.

For my playthrough I had a mixture of SMG's and rifles with one sniper, the British had deployed a Bren the previous weeks to good effect so I want to try something a little different. 

The attackers have more agency than the defenders so in general can pick when and where the engagement starts and then the defenders need to hope that troops move in the right direction to get involved. So it was good to finally be in the attackers corner after several games as the defender. You certainly wouldn't want to be the defender every week.

In the game my officer and sniper opened the encounter taking out a pair of sentries which immediately raised the alarm and then the SMG armed troops pushed forwards to try and get the crossroads under a crossfire.  

The sniper gave some covering fire for this with his long range of 25" proving very useful with all the 10" SMG armed troops around.

Fortunately for my attackers the defenders managed to move into the kill zone I'd setup and they managed to kill enough to secure the first part of the objective, my Heer officer personally took out three (iirc) Brits to bring home the win.

This scenario didn't really need the attacker to over extend themselves as they could just pick off the defenders without any real need to advance to far. Next time the attackers will need to be a bit bolder in order to blow up and objective.