Bounce the Bogen: Turn 32

When the clock froze at the end of Turn 31, Captain Hood was in deep trouble. Alone, short of ammo, and battling – at close range – a remarkably feisty/deadly two-man platoon HQ, his chances of surviving Turn 32 seemed…

When the clock froze at the end of Turn 31, Captain Hood was in deep trouble. Alone, short of ammo, and battling – at close range – a remarkably feisty/deadly two-man platoon HQ, his chances of surviving Turn 32 seemed…

If the Bogen bouncers finish this 35-turn scenario in possession of the castle, the village, and the bridges, then they will have ample reason to celebrate. However, if the situation in the woods south-east of the castle doesn’t improve PDQ,…

In WEGO Combat Mission sometimes you need to watch a turn replay several times in order to catch every incident and nuance. Turn 30 was one of those turns. Unexpected encounters, narrow escapes, KOed vehicles, ricochets, near misses, routs, casualties……

Blimey, that was a bloody turn. By my count, thirteen CMBO turnip-heads either perished or suffered debilitating injuries during the twenty-ninth minute of Bounce the Bogen.

While it’s done a pretty good job of marshaling its infantry assets thus far, CMBO’s TacAI hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory on the angry house front. I don’t wish to take anything away from the Comment Commanders, who’ve choreographed…

A couple of turns ago, the Allied bid to take the castle gates looked to be in real trouble. The unexpected appearance of enemy reinforcements had left Hood’s vanguard bloodied and backpedaling. In Turn 27, bolstered by halftrack-delivered replacements, and…

The closest Allied Armoured Recovery Vehicle to Nottingheim is over twenty miles away. If the churning caterpillars of the Churchill VIII don’t grip something solid in the next turn or two, Sergeant Johns and his crew have a long, frustrating…

Ouch! Comment Commander Colonel_K might want to pour himself a stiff Bovril and take a seat before reading the following turn report. In the 25th minute of this nailbiting play-by-comment CMBO contest, the AI-controlled Germans positively savage the small human-orchestrated…

Turn 23 ended on a cliff edge. The Comment Commanders’ most valuable (?) armoured asset – a late-war Sherman – seemed seconds away from an unpleasant encounter with an unidentified German heavyweight. In this sixty-second instalment of intricate WEGO wargaming,…

While the swarm of Balkenkreuze in the above image is just the little joke of a mischievous GM, the blocky tank with the question mark on its turret is not. Five seconds after Turn 23 gets underway, Allied units (presumably…

I couldn’t decide which ‘B word’ screenshot to lead with today so have provided three. The first is a nod to the Comment Commanders’ tardy taxi. The ponderous Churchill VIII finally delivered its passengers – Sergeant Forester’s squad – this…

During the course of Turn 21, the German arsonist in the woods north of the castle, is fired on by five different Allied units. Miraculously, not one of the incoming rounds hits flesh or Flammöl 19.