First blood to the bouncers! Captain Dale’s hurty half-dozen surprise a German sniper team halfway through the turn then find themselves hurling lead and stick grenades up one of Schloss Nottingheim’s ornately carved staircases.
Corporal Whitehand ends turn 2 surrounded by armour. Fortunately for him the close-range stuff is bipedal, medieval, and empty, and the more distant specimens are currently unaware rogue American POWs are at large in the castle.
Splendid – we now have enough volunteers to begin Bouncing the Bogen! In Turn 1, thanks to orders issued by half a dozen game Cornerites, kit jangles and leaf springs flex on the heavily wooded western side of the river,…
Several of the units in Bounce the Bogen, THC’s latest play-by-comment Combat Mission game, still need chaperones. If you’re an airlifter and fancy directing Captain Hood’s HQ team or Sergeant Scarlet’s Daimler armoured car for a few turns (you don’t…
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…