75th Anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino and Northern Italy (Gaming The Battles)

Turn 5

Despite MG1, all of the British platoons unpin this turn. BPP heads out further right to try to outflank and stay out of the way of the German MG’s. BOP advances up to the barbed wire to its right, fearing a frontal assault might be too much. BBP heads straight ahead and BRP successfully clears the minefield it’s in. BGP bravely continue to inch closer to FBP in their trenches.

BOP fails to cause any wounds as does BBP although BBP does at least lay down some smoke on FRP. BGP is able to kill one stand from FBP but doesn’t cause enough hits to pin them ready for another assault.

1iC again changes the location of the bombardment to target a point that takes in FGP and FBP. Ranging in on the second attempt, both German platoons are hit and pinned but no further damage is caused.

Once again BGP tries to assault FBP. The defensive fire from FBP and nest 1 is just as brutal and BGP loses another 4 stands and gets pinned in place.

The Germans again unpin all of their units. FBP wastes no time in removing the the remaining stands from BGP. British Green Platoon is removed from the game.

FRP is able to kill 2 stands from BBP while MG2 kills another stand from BOP.

Turn 6

The British fail a lot of pinning checks and only BPP, BBP and MG1 are able to unpin. MG1 stays put as this allows it to bring its full rate of fire. BPP continues to advance to the right while BBP moves up the middle between the two sets of barbed wire.

The British shooting fails to cause any damage despite quite a few hits. The Germans have dug themselves in very well and are proving very difficult to damage. The only real success of the British shooting was the mortar attack that hits FRP and pins them.

FRP unpins at the first ask, effectively making the British last shooting round redundant. The Germans begin to return fire, and the German MG1 and FBP destroys the British MG1 platoon completely, significantly reducing the British firepower. The 1iC is able to spot the BRP and the mortars rain down but despite a lot of hits, fail to cause any wounds at all.