Bolt action AAR somewhere in northern France 1944

 Excuse the  additional post but I've got a backlog of posts ! Des came over for a game and we decided on Bolt action as we haven't played it in ages and I've built a load of terrain for it . We went with Des's figures, his US troops assaulting a town defended by an SS force. I set up the table as a French town and then we added some more hedges  and a couple of fields. The objective was to take the big building ( town hall maybe?) and/ or inflict the most damage  by our usual cut off time.

The buildings are a mixture of mine and Des's although he's passed his onto me as he hasn't got room for 28mm terrain, there's a new building in there, a modular factory that I haven't quite finished yet but couldn't resist adding in it's mostly finished state together with the previously seen factory scatter terrain, I'm still finishing off his terrace/ row houses and have got to finish their garden/ yards yet. Des set up from the church square back except for his forward observer, his mortar team in the factory an infantry squad behind the church, pak 40, sniper , command in the objective and medium machine gun and another squad by the terrace. I  had four five man squads, a sniper, a medium machine gun and a M4 Sherman. I think it was just under 500 points each. We played on a 6' x 4' board up the long way. Des set up first and i took the road on my right and hugged the right side of the board as I advanced. Des had expected me to advance up the parallel road and had set up his pak 40 to cover that, his forward observer snuck into the church my chaps moved up and my Sherman on a road was able to advance to the entrance of the ruined factory and hit the mortar team with it's hull machine gun, giving them a casualty and a pin and decimating the squad caught in the open in the square with HE and coaxial machine gun.  Unfortunately for Des he hadn't brought any antitank weapons apart from his pak 40, his sniper took out one of my squad leaders, I assaulted the church and with odds of five to one failed to inflict a casualty and lost a man, the Sherman moved into the factory giving the mortar team another casualty and pin and opening up on the medium machine gun in the square, having previously withdrawn his other squad into the town hall Des now moved them out. I couldn't move my medium machine gun through the rough terrain so I took them down an alley and left them to cover the road from cover. I tried again at the church and lost another casualty and advanced across the road in front of the factory with most of my other units agter eliminating the medium machine gun , one of the  squads took casualties and pins from Des's pak 40, his mortar lost another casualty and gained a pin. Des sent his lieutenant and team out of the town  hall to lead his troops in a counter attack and got shot by the medium machine gun together with his team and the sniper and his assistant took out the remnants the first squad that was shot and we called the game as we'd hit time. I ran out the winner, I'd only lost a few casualties whereas Des had lost units , We've sorted out the next game of bolt action which will see Des's Germans against my Soviets, their first outing having been painted in 2017 early 2018, better late than never!

All the best 

Iain