This was it: crunch time. Having battled their way down the Utrechtseweg route into Arnhem and brushed aside a German counterattack 3 Para were now in position to assault their final objective: the crossroads at the Hotel de Bildeberg. Forces Both sides would be carrying over some losses from the previous battle, but the Germans […]
Tag: arnhem-campaign
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Mar
29
2015
Arnhem Campaign: Game 4 battle report
This was it: crunch time. Having battled their way down the Utrechtseweg route into Arnhem and brushed aside a German counterattack 3 Para were now in position to assault their final objective: the crossroads at the Hotel de Bildeberg. Forces Both sides would be carrying over some losses from the previous battle, but the Germans […]
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Feb
21
2015
Arnhem Campaign: Game 3 Battle Report
Something had to be done, so far Kampfgruppe Krafft had been unable to stop the British of 3 Para advancing down the Utrechtseweg route into Arnhem. Now that the British had located the main line of resistance some of their units were trying to move laterally along the line and slip around the thinly-spread blocking […]
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Jan
31
2015
Arnhem Campaign: Game 2 Battle Report
The Arnhem campaign hotted up this week, our second game turned out to be a nail-biter that went right down to the wire! In this game Phil’s boys from 3 Para were pushing on down the road towards Arnhem, and having pushed back the German patrols in the last game were now probing the German blocking […]
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Jan
24
2015
Arnhem Campaign: Game 1 Battle Report
The first game in this campaign represents the lead elements of 3 Para bumping into patrols from Kampfgruppe Krafft along the Utrechtseweg road. The scenario was a standard patrol game straight out of the Chain of Command rulebook. I played as the Germans, with the Paras ably commanded by Phil Turner. Forces As this is the […]
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Jan
20
2015
Breaking Through to Frost at Arnhem: Campaign setup
Over the next few weeks I’ll be playing a mini-campaign featured in WSS magazine issue 74, based on the British Paras at Arnhem trying to break through from their landing zones and link up with the forces in Arnhem under Lt Col John Frost. The games will be played with Chain of Command, using the […]
