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Kiwis in Italy – Two Crossfire Battle Reports from Bruce Stewart

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Bruce Stewart has a collection of Kiwis for the Italian Campaign. He posted a couple of Crossfire after action reports on Facebook and gave me permission to repost them here. One of them is for my own 2 Companies a Side – A Generic Crossfire Scenario. The second is a scenario from the Italian 1944. Bruce games with 1/56 figures and 1/48 – 1/50 vehicles. Being from Facebook these are predominantly photographic reports.

2 Companies a Side in Italy – A Crossfire Battle Report

Battle report of a refight of Balagan scenario 2 Companies a Side – A Generic Crossfire Scenario. Excellent german defense by Robert (Rob) Sadler, alas I ran out of time.

BS 01 Germans 1:56
BS 01 Germans 1:56
BS 02 Kiwis 1:56
BS 02 Kiwis 1:56
BS 03 the board from behind the german positions
BS 03 the board from behind the german positions
BS 04 the board
BS 04 the board
BS 05 initial kiwi deployments
BS 05 initial kiwi deployments
BS 06 Kiwi's sans reinforcements pushing the right flank
BS 06 Kiwi’s sans reinforcements pushing the right flank
BS 07 at last the second company arrives and starts tacling the left flank
BS 07 at last the second company arrives and starts tacling the left flank
BS 08 finaly emboldened last hurrah , of the kiwis in their final bound , alas time ran out
BS 08 finaly emboldened last hurrah , of the kiwis in their final bound , alas time ran out

Bill Slavins Scenario, Italy 1944

Somewhere in Italy – Spring 1944. A Crossfire-ed scenario adapted from Bill Slavin’s Tiny Wars indoor blog.

Toys Germans and Kiwis 1/56 troops, 1/48 – 1/50 vehicles.

BS 10 rare color aerial photo
BS 10 rare color aerial photo
BS 11 german toys
BS 11 german toys
BS 12 german view
BS 12 german view
BS 13 kiwi toys
BS 13 kiwi toys
BS 14 kiwi kick off view
BS 14 kiwi kick off view
BS 15 6 inital kiwi moves
BS 15 6 inital kiwi moves
BS 16 marder reveals itself
BS 16 marder reveals itself
BS 17 8 marder killing field
BS 17 8 marder killing field
BS 18 9 first attempt to flank church
BS 18 9 first attempt to flank church
BS 19 10 first attempt to flank the marder
BS 19 10 first attempt to flank the marder
BS 20 attack pinned
BS 20 attack pinned
BS 21 12 vickers platoon arrives and deploys
BS 21 12 vickers platoon arrives and deploys
BS 22 13 second attempt to flank the church
BS 22 13 second attempt to flank the church
BS 23 14 frontal assult and the kiwis are in
BS 23 14 frontal assult and the kiwis are in
BS 24 15 german engineers finally arrive to set charges on the bridge
BS 24 15 german engineers finally arrive to set charges on the bridge
BS 25 16 getting across the bridge before it blows
BS 25 16 getting across the bridge before it blows

Final Comments

We had a crack at the Cassino railway station a while back, based on Bill Slavin’s Bridgehead over the Rapido. It went pretty well.

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