Bolt Action Battle Report - Partisan vs Germans - Retreat through the Mons Pocket scenario

In the last days of the occupation, a group of Belgian try to stop a force of German to escape their fate.

Last Friday saw the Germans trying to sneak a truck full of loot (Belgian beer) through Resistance infested area.
What happened, happened, the Belgians could not let the beer reaching Munich for the Beer fest and had to intercept the truck. Beer is holy stuff in Belgium.

Short story long, or long story short (depending how much interested you are in the subject).
My company let people carrying over day off from one year to the next. Issue is, by July 1st, it's all gone, wiped out, made disappeared. So, by mid-June I realised I had a day available, and took it on a Friday.
Bad news was it was not the most convenient day for the family, good news was that I could play Bolt Action.

We met with Von Evan, a German player that has always bad experience facing the Resistance.
750 pts army.
Belgian partisans
Leaders:

• Second Lt x2

Infantry squads:

• 5 Regular partisans with SMG
• 11 Inexperienced partisans with pistols
• 9 Inexperienced partisans with 5x pistols, 4x rifles
• 9 Inexperienced partisans with pistols
• 9 Inexperienced partisans with 6x pistols, 3x rifles
• 5 Regular partisans, NCO with SMG, 4 rifles with one carrying a panzerfaust
• 7 Regular partisans, 6x rifles, 1x LMG

Special teams:

• 1 MMG
• 1 bazooka
• Snipers x2 

 Germans
 Leader:

• First Lt x1
• MP,  4x soldiers

Infantry squads:

• 3x 7 Strafbattalion (Inex), 5x SMG including 1 panzerfaust, 1x LMG team
• 7 pionners, 5x SMG, 1 Flamethrower team

Special teams:

• 1x Flamethrower 
• 1x Medium mortar
• 1x Nebelwerfer 41

The German mission: escape with the truck and as many squads as possible.
The Resistance mission: Capture the truck, kill some Germans and escape.
All partisan squad starts hidden and in ambush.

The loot truck

German deny their left flank, but 2 bombs from the resistance have been placed in front of them.

Partisan plan a strong push to hold the German for 2 turns as they have no real transport

few units of the Belgian resistance are held in reserve

The game starts with the partisan deciding 1 German unit to explode. Standard partisan bomb:
1-3, nothing happen
4-5, bomb does not explode but remain potentially active
6: explosion, 1d6 pin, HE 3d6, pen+4
The German tank was moving on top of the hill, unaware of the partisan ambush. The partisan trigger the bomb, fingers crossed..... Boom! the bomb exploded, disabling the crew, destroying the tank for good.

Start of the game, and a nice Boom! The Panzer Jager is blown into pieces by a nicely crafted bomb

Resistance is hiding in the woods (front the sniper Jean Paul and his hunting rifle). Behind, one of the resistance officer. A dog is here to help the German player to visualise partisan's officers)

The second partisan officer with his bulldog

The partisans raised their rifles and pistols and attacked with passion the stunned Germans. They took the nebelwerfer in close combat, while another team moved toward the strafbattalion but never reached the target. The German leader took control of his men and mauled down the inexperienced partisans.

People are ready to kill some nazis.... But the front team will never make it.

Shots were exchanged between units. partisans were hit hard, however they kept the German from moving forward. Even with better equipped units, the Germans took heavy casualties.

When you need a 3 to kill...

One Strafbattalion was destroyed while the other squads were hit.

Germans are dancing around the cross road, undecided which way to take

The partisans started redeploy frontline units to the back, fearing a strong move forward from the Germans.

Another group of resistance's sniper. Comtesse Leonore, who learned to shoot in Congo

the partisan MMG kept on firing and keeping the German in check, despite being targeted by the German mortar. That will prove fatal to the MMG as the mortar was getting more accurate shot after shot.

Deserters are assisting the partisans

Partisan MMG

2 partisan teams appeared at the rear, ready to intercept the truck.

Partisan reinforcement. A bazooka to stop that truck. If needed

the German start to ready the truck for a push

The Germans are pinned down and the truck try to escape

The truck pass in front of embushed SMGs. However, they won't activate on time to stop it

The truck passed through the resistance net and escaped toward the 3rd Reich

Turn 4: We called it.
by that time, The Germans had 3 VP (for the truck escaping), the resistance 3 (3 German units destroyed), 
However, the Resistance had 3 units ready to leave, out of German sight, giving them 3 more points by escaping, while the Germans could not breakthrough with any units. 

Resistance victory for holding the Germans.

Viridian inbound - Painting slowly yes, but painting.

No relationship with people from the 3rd Rai'ch

10 years ago.... I stumbled into an amazing sale from Ludikbazar. I was in Hong Kong at that time, but my mojo was coming back.
I was young and ambitious, I bought a gigantic quantity of miniature, some of them out of print since then.
Now, I have finally painted the models that brought me back from hobby abyss. The Metropolis/Urban War Viridians.
Hopefully that kickstart my gaming mojo again.

Viridian army supported by 2 mechs from Warpath Kickstarter. All good models

This is my inspiration for the army. A French comic call Aquablue. There was a planet assault by the Foreign Legion.

Greatcoat Viridians version 1

Greatcoat Viridians, version 2

Colonial marines, Viridian style. The leader in the middle, I can swear it's an old mutant chronicle model, from Prince August.

Viridian colonial marines and unknown guy

More colonial marines. I have few of them left, but they are not the best looking Viridians to be honest.

The more, the merrier. Don't worry, they are the last ones.

Special force viridian sergeant and Lt. Johnny G. Johnny has a thermos of coffee/brandy, so he can celebrate victory right away

Viridian spec force sergeant and Johnny G.

sorry girls, Johnny's bottom is protected by grenades.

Viridian Mortar.

Viridian mortar

Viridians have a nice box set of snipers. I thought they were too much. Even within the actual rules, they are deadly. I have one. He is more an urban sniper than a sniper who believes he is a tree.

Sniper

The best looking Viridian I have, the spec forces.

Spec force viridians

They mean business. The middle model is originally from the mortar. However he fits better within the spec forces.

Spec force Viridians

Tank buster team

tank buster team 2

Viridians are here to pacify. If there are bow-and-arrow giant blue smurf, even better.

"Now, bring me some navi for shooting training"

On the other side of the table, I painted some miniatures used for our "apero" game.
Here are some fighters we used a while ago for space fighter race.

11 fighters. It was supposed to be 12, but I can't find the 12th one.

I have always been a secret lover of battletech, and here is my way to feed my secret passion (2 boxes of late 80, early 90's plastic miniatures, for US$10 total)

And with the 2 tanks I bought previously to bet some armor for diversity.