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All,
Time to get KG Klink back into action! Following their blitzkriegs through Poland and France, they’ve been up to a whole lot of nothing. They’re lost combat action was May of 1940, stemming an Allied counterattack near Abbeville; after that they pulled back to refit, then sat on the perimeter of Dunkirk as the British pulled off one of the most successful (if not the most successful) retrograde actions in the history of warfare. They held fast on the coast for awhile, then moved south for the parade through Paris. After that they prepared for Operation Sealion, but it never came, so mostly they’ve been sitting on their butts, chasing dames, drinking too much, and getting soft.
But the Kampfgruppe is once again gearing up for war; in October 1940, their Italian Fascist allies invaded Greece and, being Italian, were quickly stymied, and a Greek counterattack in March 1941 was causing some real embarrassment for Il Duce, and thus, the German dictator. So Operation Marita was dreamt up, a German invasion of Greece to bail their Italian cousins out of trouble. KG Klink was tabbed to be a part of that, and so they’re on the move, leaving sunny France for frigid Bulgaria, where they will soon be pushing south into Greece, to face British, Australian, and New Zealand troops hoping to stem the tide.
So, I’m doing things a bit different this time: rather than play out my ‘normal’ string of somewhat linked games in a linear-timeline fashion, this time I’m going to play out a mini-campaign inspired by Peter over at his blog, here:
https://gridbasedwargaming.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-mini-campaign-begins.htmlSo, copying Peter’s style, I went and made myself up a handy-dandy mini-campaign map:
Here are my German (blue) and Commonwealth (red) ‘counters.’I’m playing solo using Too Fat Lardies’ Chain of Command, modified a bit. I’ve bumped it up a level (using multi-based stands, not individual troops), I simplified fire and melee combat, and morale (5Core concepts, as always), as well as movement (I like dicing for movement, but it significantly slows things down for me). I changed the CoC Dice so that it represents indirect supporting fires from Higher HQ, and I did away with the Patrol Phase. I love the Patrol Phase, but it doesn’t work for me playing solo, so what I do is designate an attacker and a defender; both sides start completely off table, using their Command Dice to deploy on table (as normal), but where it differs is that I basically give the defender a deployment area of half the table, and he can deploy anywhere in that area, even dug in, so long as it’s at least 6″ from any attacker.
If you’re now wondering, then, why do I still call these rules “Chain of Command,” it’s because the entire game revolves around the use of Chain of Command’s brilliant activation system (command roll/Command Dice), the use of leaders’ command initiative, and the ‘Force Morale’ concept of declining Command Dice and morale to breaking. To me, that’s the heart of the system, and it makes for a fun game.
There’s a bunch more data on the forces and the campaign rules I’m using here:
https://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2020/03/kg-klink-campaign-plan-for-greece-april.htmlAnd here are the first two campaign moves/turns, leading us up to the first fight of the campaign:
https://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2020/03/kg-klink-mini-campaign-in-greece-map_26.htmlSo stand by, fight number 1 of 10 will be posted Monday.
V/R,
Jack
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