Bob's Black Bulls 11th Armoured Division.

Well we went to move 2, an d now both sides can roll 2 dice fir Reinforcements,  both got one, and both rolled centrally for deployment,  the Soviets deployed their 4 tank troop of T34’s, the Americans their Easy 8 Shermans, .

I drew 1 more tactical cards fir each side.

Again despite the dice disparity, the Americans drew 1st their Comand unit dice,  I had decided to use an Idea Gerry Mentioned, which was roll the dice  and the no of pips decides how many units within his command range he could activate.. in this case he only needed 1 ,so he activated the Super Pershings to open up again on the JS2’S,  8 dice and 5 hits

The American commanders used his Volley Fire Skill and rerolled his misses scoring on more hit.

Only one dice failed it’s firepower test so 5 knock outs, as only 3 tanks were in ine of sight they all died, (the Soviet had a card to make one Armour save, but with the number of U.S Success’s didn’t use it.)

[Please allow from our overhead photographer who was under fire himself]

Then it was the Soviets turn to draw a dice, so I decided to move the ISU130’s forward as they had the best range , unfortunately 3 out of the 5 failed their crossing test who moved to front of wood, where I suddenly remembered the 2nd objective card….

Bugger it revealed Fog , and all vehicles range dropped to 12″ so they could not See the Super Pershings ( I should have revealed it before I moved the unit and perhaps would have picked another unit!, as it happened it didn’t effect much!)

Next dice was another Soviet, It was a toss up whether I went for the T44’s or JS3’s , here is my 1st mistake for Soviets, I stayed stationary and fired at the Assault Pershings  , I should have closed as the rate of fire is the same halted as moving, particularly as the U.S are 1 harder to hit, we’re over 6″ and partially concealed in a wood  so 6’s were needed… forget it!

I matched a Gerry roll and if you put the dots on all 3 dice together would have just got 6!

Next Dice was American Again, so the Assault Pershings decided to return the favour, but opened up o  the T44’s I  an attempt to remove them from the objective, so on 4’s as they were still in open, Gerry struck again only managing 1 hit out of 6 shots , but it did manage a Kill.

I then on drawing the next Red dice decided to leave the T44’s stationary and go for extra shots on Assault Pershings, but despite 8 attempts couldn’t manage a hit,

( need to check but may have been achedemic as not sure they can penetrative the Pershings Frontal Armour.

The next dice was Soviet so the Surviving JS2’S moved I to range and missed completely the Super Pershings!

Then it was the Final dice for the Americans, which brought the Easy 8’s forward who moved into range of the T44’s but the one hit bounced off the armour!

The 2 final 2 Soviet Dice were drawn, the T34’s whi moved up but were unable to get into range of anything, and finally the Soviet Command tank who failed to hit anything.

So at end of move 2 the Soviets lost 4 tanks , but held 2 objectives so score at move 2 is Soviets 9 and U.S. 0