Bounce the Bogen (THC’s latest play-by-comment Combat Mission game begins today)
It’s early April 1945 and, a week or so after ‘bouncing the Rhine’, the Western Allies reach another watery obstacle, the Bogen river. At Mannsfeld a few gung ho US AFVs manage to barrel across the bridge before it is blown. Further south, in the British sector of the front, Monty’s vanguard reaches Nottingheim fully expecting to find its two crossings reduced to rubble and twisted metal. Instead the swashbuckling Captain Hood discovers a golden opportunity and a very helpful banner.