Fireball Forward Guadalcanal

 

15mm Ww2 from Fireball Forward Guadalcanal scenario book.  4th battle of Matinakau river, "The meatgrinder".  US forces attempt to destroy what's left of the previous battles Japanese assault force.  Photos loaded in opposite order  so start at the bottom. 

6.  The FF system seems pretty generous to infantry attacking tanks.  That said, I was very lucky with the dice and didn't lose any to close assault. Japanese flame thrower team also had me worried but the dices 🎲 gods were against them and they were not able to kill the tank.

Final score USMC 10- Japanese 5.

5.  Key objectives for Marines are to destroy forces in village, while Japanese earn major points for destroyed tanks.  Dan sends one of his Japanese platoon after the tanks, trying to destroy them with close assault. 

4. The rules have a random system for navigation in jungle.  Sometimes you go straight ahead  Sometimes you drift left or right.  This actually helped me as 1st platoon accidentally drifted right, away from 2 dug in machine gun nests and into a less dangerous duh in Japanese infantry platoon. With some lucky dice and MG support, they destroyed it.

3. Time is short for this game (4 turns) so I Sent the tanks across the beach at full speed to attack the huts.  It  didn't seem like the infantry would get there in time.

2.  Japanese foxhole protect the southern approach through the jungle.

1. Japanese force is dug in on top right of table.  USmc infantry force starts at bottom right, working their way through thick jungle.  4 Sturat tanks (proxy by Shermans) start on upper left travelling down the beach/sandbar.

If you want info on the historical event :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actions_along_the_Matanikau

15mm ww2

 

Some first games of Firball Forward 15mm ww2 rules.

From their Guadalcanal campaign book.

AGW AWI

 

45 minute Skirmish Wargames

 Using One Hour Skirmish Wargame rules, but we got 3 games in 2 hours.   So, false advertising...

Swedes capture the Canon (game 3)

Russian defend the gun 

Swedes advance 

Russian infantry 

Russian officer

This was the Capture the Canon scenario from the Napoleonics section of the book.

We used GNW Swedes as British,  Russian as the French using Dan's 28mm collection. 

First game ended early as my officer got sniper and flipped a red/dead card and force lost morale.

Second game I played more defensive and Dan was an 1" out of range to win the scenario on turn end.

Third game we switched sides and as the outnumbered Swedes I was able to time it right that I rushed the Canon just before the turn limit ended.

Twighlight of A Gentleman's War

 More inter-war follies with Mark's Little Soldiers.