My opponent and I chose to do an Airborne Assault scenario based on the battle for Varaville, involving 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and other elements of 6th Airborne Division.
On turn one, one parachute platoon, a mortar section and a platoon of Royal Engineers with a flamethrower turned up in the same corner of the board, advancing towards the town which contained two platoons of German grenadiers supported by a platoon of sIG33 assault guns.
On allied turn three, a textbook assault was carried out on one of the two platoons of Grenadiers, wiping out the whole platoon. The objective remained just out of reach, but two platoons were poised to capture it on the following turn. Victory seemed all but certain.
On Axis turn three, one of those platoons was wiped out by a Bunker Buster hit on a building, and the second platoon was pinned, not to unpin until turn six (despite the presence of the CiC!).
The Canadians quickly prepared themselves for another assault, and it went in on Turn Six, but it came at a price. Having captured the objective on Turn Seven of the game, they started their turn eight needing to pass Company morale to win the game (the Axis player, having lost their CiC, had made a platoon morale test the turn before to stay in the game). Unluckily for the Canadians they rolled a one, meaning that the town remained in the hands of the Germans for now.
Those Germans consisted of two Mortar teams, two tank teams (from different platoons) and an infantry platoon who had come in from Reserve late and on the far side of the board and had taken no part in the battle. I can say without fear of contradiction that this was the most bloody game of FoW I have ever played in, one of the closest and certainly one of the most fun.
A great start to the campaign.
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