{"id":7384,"date":"2018-01-29T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2018-01-29T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:21:06","slug":"the-black-jackals-with-combat-patrol-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=7384","title":{"rendered":"The Black Jackals with Combat Patrol (pt. 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second installment of Brian Ivers’ Black Jackals battle report using Combat Patrol(TM): WWII. \u00a0The Jackals prepare to retreat toward Battalion.<\/p>\n

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The Boys ATR and another section offsite them hold the line while the rest of the platoon “hops it.” The 2-inch mortar prepares a fire mission to screen the withdrawal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Jerry” is not sympathetic and moves Panzer Grenadiers into the houses. They push forward a Panzer III.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Boys ATR will only scratch the paint on the Pz. III, and the mortar won’t do much better. Things are looking grim!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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(Pardon the anachronistic skirts on the Pz. III.) The two-inch mortar gets to incredibly lucky hits on the halftracks. Even using the grenade template the mortar has a huge effect.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Unteroffizer Schreck Lodges a formal complaint about the mortar into the building occupied by Lance Corporal Jones and the Boys ATR team. This is the second hit on the building, which is tracked using a green die. Since the gun on the Pz. III is small and the first round was AP, Brian decided that the building could take three hits before it was destroyed. \u00a0All the occupants are stunned (as denoted by the red rubber bands).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I use red rubber bands for wounds, black for stunts, and white for out of ammunition, but any mechanism that works for you is fine. \u00a0Sally 4th also makes some nice markers from MDF.<\/p>\n

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To add injury to insult [sic], a rather motivated squad of Panzer Grenadiers course small arms and machine-gun fire into the house occupied by no. 3 section. All inside are stunned, and one is incapacitated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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German mortars fall like leaves in Autumn. No. 3 section suffers two wounded. All are stunned. Lt. Lamb has needs to get it sorted “before we have a bloody disaster on our hands.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Meanwhile the rest of the lads have almost reached relative comfort of the forest when the sound of a Stuka’s siren interrupts their quiet walk in the sun. It misses again. God favors the Jackals. But the sound of armored treads can be heard from the forest…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It’s Lt. Tiffan-Smyte from the Lancastershire Yeomanry. “I heard you were in trouble, old boy, and thought you’d like a lift.” Lamb reaches out a hand in greeting. “Bloody Hell! Where did you come from?”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The platoon retreats into the forest to link up with another battalion. \u00a0Theirs has retreated and is miles away. \u00a0Lamb has lost four men, with three wounded. \u00a02nd section disappeared completely, as they continued moving into another part of the forest and were scooped up by another retreating company. \u00a0Lamb has his mortar, but no ammunition. \u00a0The ATR is damaged and is now even less useful. \u00a0His little command is not just one officer and 21 men. \u00a0Jerry outflanked the canal, and the Belgians and French are retreating. \u00a0The British are now trying to avoid being “put in the bag.”<\/p>\n

To be continued…<\/p>\n

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