Battle for New World City

New World, another mercenary battle zone.  Government Loyalists hired Commonwealth forces (Early Lighting Div) to impose their will, while the Rebles hired The Free Foreign Legion (Div Legere).  New World City, the colony capitol is the last major battle ground, both mercenary corps are skirmishing to probe for weaknesses in defensive lines. This is one such skirmish.

Mercenary forces start at opposite corner of the city, they fight until one force breaks ( greater than 50% casualties from the whole force), the winner gets to exploit the breakthrough.

Commonwealth detachments (Early Lighting Div) - A mechanized recon group

 Commonwealth deploy to the North West

 Free Foreign Legion (Legere) - mixed recon group

 FFL deploy to the south east

 FFL enter the contested zone

 Street level view - all large vehicles do block LOS, armour can push them out of the way

 Commonwealth move in, turrets swivel to cover streets

 Command group led by heavy tanks

 Recce group speed forwards

 And score a nice hit on a tank destroyer, a main gun KO

 Ouch!

 Victory is short lived, using secondary systems the tank destroyer effectively KOs the recce tankette

 Light tanks move to intercept the Commonwealth advance

 MBTs prowl forwards

 And bump a light tank, but despite rolling terrible dice they do KO its main gun

 Infantry-laden APCs surge forwards to debus their troops

 Infantry pour into hard cover

 While hastily prepping buzzbombs

 FFL gain the upper hand, light tanks flank the Commonwealth MBTs

 And Kapow!  one main gun kill and three missile locks, its not looking good from here

Or here

 Recce tankettes rush to flank the FFL APCs

They fail spectacularly, no hits at all.  The same cannot be said for the FFL buzzbomb teams, 6 teams, 5 hits, 3 vehicle kills

 While the commonwealth medium tanks grind forwards

 With appalling activation rolls

A FFL tank-destroyer moves up to earn their combat pay

 And BOOM! KOs the commonwealth MBT

 Game over Man!  Commonwealth are down to less than 50% strength, so must retire

 The FFL move to exploit the breakthrough

A fast and fun slammers game.  The Commonwealth didn't do anything wrong, their dice were just terrible.  However, I only I rolled average dice for the FFL so tonight it just didn't go the Commonwealth's way.

Inspired my Mark Kinsey's GZG game layout I bought some of the dropzone commander cityscapes, now I can game cities which are larger than two-square feet.  The templates are pretty good and are double sided giving decent variety.  They are intended for 10mm, but I can live with the scale discrepancy.

What's next? Well I caved, I've finally given in and bought some super-tanks.   I'm tempted to play a super-tank vs. OGRE, I may have to play that one out in the garden though as I don't think the basement is big enough!