The first act of our new campaign saw Lt. Gruber lead his small band of picked men on the offensive behind enemy lines. Their objective was to knock out the anti-tank gun emplacement which over looked the minefield. They then needed to withdraw, hopefully with minimal losses to achieve a complete victory.
The 8th Army had set several patrols up around the target and an officer was making sure they stuck to their tasks.
For this mission Lt. Gruber had picked Sergeant Klinkerhoffen and Privates Geerhart, Grosse, Schafer, & Weiss to accompany him. Gruber and Klinkerhoffen had demolition charges whilst Geerhart was equipped with an MG34 and Schafer a sniper rifle.
The early stages of the mission saw Gruber and Klinkerhoffen advance on the enemy patrol route whilst the rest of the men took up position to give supporting fire. Schafer took up a good position on a hill and awaited his chance to start picking off the guards.
This didn't take long as the British officer had been generally wondering around to the north of the objective and the guard with a dog had become separated from the rest of the guards patrolling around the perimeter. Schafer took aim and did not miss his target. The guard fell and the dog ran off into the night.
This allowed Klinkerhoffen to advance and hide the body of the fallen guard on his way to the gun emplacement. Disaster almost struck as he discovered the emplacement was in fact a booby-trapped dummy! However Klinkerhoffen was not so easily dealt with and after disarming the trap he pushed on towards the objective.
Schafer had also been busy during this time and as the British officer came into view he too was felled with a single shot. This however had alerted the rest of the defenders and reinforcements had started to come into the area.
They could not stop Klinkerhoffen from placing his charge, but disaster struck again! This time the clock on the charge was faulty and it went off before he had a chance to retire to a safe distance. The angels must have been on his side though as he avoided injury by ducking behind some crates and then scampered further away.
Whilst the Tommies blundered around and tried to find the raiders they could not pin them down successfully and as a last act Schafer shot his third bullet which felled the British Sergeant and ended all hope of a coordinated search.
Lt. Gruber and his men slipped away into the night to report back a complete success to headquarters.
This means that the 8th Army A/T gun has been knocked out and will not be available for the VfV game when the DAK attack.
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