Bolt Action, Tank War After Action Report: Feb 18th 2015, "I'm not telling the Fuhrer"

I took command of the German Forces. As the game grew more intense, I began to forget to take pictures of the action....

Germany:
Panther 112 "Walküre"

The Battlefield

Panther 102
Panther 221
Panzer IV 634
Panzer IV 635
Panzer IV 321
Sd. Kfz. 124 Wespe "Heidi"

US/UK:
Churchhill Heavy Tank.
Sherman "Bullet"
Sherman "Bunker Buster"
Sherman "Battling Bitch"
Sherman "Block Buster"
Sherman "Potshot"
Sherman "Thunderbolt"
Sherman "Thunderbolt VII"

Turn 1

• The Panther platoon manuvered to gain the first shots of the day. Walkure and Pnthr 102 both fired warning shots towards the advancing Allied columns (Fig. 1)

  

  Fig. 1

Turn 2

• Bullet gets placed on ambush, and the Churchhilll knocks out Pnthr 221 with a fierce blow to the side armor (Fig. 2)
• Walkure then fires upon the Churchhills front armor with no effect.

Turn 3

• Walkure draws the first dice and blasts a hole through the

  

  Fig. 2

  Churchhill's front armor. (Fig 3)
• Pnthr 102 is placed on ambush to lay waste to any of those matchboxes that dared to cross it's path.
• Bullet pulls up to a gap in the hedgerows and penetrates Pnzr 321's front armor, rendering the former piece of glorious German engineering a flaming wreck (Fig 4)
• Pnzr 634 fires at bullet but put a round through the dense hedgerow instead!
• Battling Bitch drives through a grove of trees, and falls into Pnthr 102's trap! But again the Panther's shells fail to penetrate... Curse that cute french girl in the factory! Tampering with the ammunition! I shall speak with her

  

  Fig. 3

  supervisor! (Fig. 5)
• Battling Bitch returns fire, but the puny American shells bounce off the superior armor of the Third Reich!
• Heidi wheels up into a ruined house and goes on ambush.
• Potshot takes a potshot at Walkure from max range!

Turn 4

• Bullet drives through it's firing gap and lands a crippling blow to the open carriage of Heidi. (Fig. 6)
• Pnzr 634 needed to align his sights as he fires widely

  

  Fig. 4

  missing Bullet
• Pnthr 102 takes another shot at Battling Bitch! but again misses. It was at this point where the German tankers started to ask themselves, "Are we the baddies? Is God against us?"
• Battling Bitch moves out of Pnthr 102's arc of fire and takes a shot at Walkure
• The crew of Walkure returns fire and scores a hit, shaking the already minuscule will of the crew of Battling Bitch
• Pnzr 635 drives through the forest, and quickly brings his turret to bare, shattering the chassis of Bullet

Fig. 5

Turn 5

• Pnthr 102 manuvers and gains a side shot on Battling Bitch and blows a hole through the paper thin armor!
• Pnzr 635 fires a horrendous blow to Bunker Buster, knocking it out.
• Walkure displays the superior marksmanship of German tankers!

Turn 6

• Thunderbolt VII fires at Pnthr 102 and scores a luck hit knocking out Pnthr 102

  

  Fig. 6

Turn 7

• Thunderbolt is placed on ambush
• Pnzr 634 spots Potshot and fires. But due to the dust and smoke thrown up by the fierce fighting misses.
• Potshot fires a salvo catching Pnzr 634. The crew of Pnzr 634 abandoned the vehicle was consumed in a blazing inferno.
• Thunderbolt VII scores a hit on Walkure, destroying it.

The game ends with major heavy losses for the Germans, and heavy losses for the Allies.
The final words of the German Commander, "I'm not telling the Fuhrer"