Monday 22 August 2022

Seven Days To The River Rhine: Så drog de frem til fjenders mén!

Following on from the crushing defeat at the hands of the Soviets horde earlier this year, my 15mm Danes dusted themselves off for another round of Seven Days To The River Rhine (7DTTRR) action - again with some American reinforcements (hopefully arriving in a more timely fashion this game)...

This time my M41 DK1's adopted a very cautious approach deploying in a dip behind a ridge line. My idea this time around was to have them pop up, shoot and scoot, hopefully not receiving a 125mm cannon shell in the process.


The first of the Red Horde appeared - a BMP-2 in the woods...


Followed by a second.


As the Soviet APC's start to advance across the board, two Centurion Mk. V DK 2's took up position on the Danish left flank...


Seeing three Soviet T-64's appear, advancing swiftly towards the Danish position.


The Centurions opened fire...


Forcing two of the Soviet MBT's to fall back having taken Morale hits!


Emboldened by the success of their comrades, two more Centurions moved up to engage the remaining T-64.


For søren! Three more Soviet tanks appeared to reinforce the first platoon!


Hurra! Amerikanerne!! Two USMC M60 arrived to support their brave Danish allies.


The Danish Centurions opened fire again...


This time managing to destroy one of the Soviet T-64's!


The second Soviet tank platoon pushed forward...


Its concentrated fire forcing the crew of one of the M60's to bale out.


The gods of war(gaming) were however smiling down on the elderly Centurions as the CO destroyed a second T-64...


Whilst another took aim...


Fired... and brewed up a third Soviet tank! The Centurion tank crews had certainly had the Danish equivalent of Weetabix tonight!


With the Soviet armour unexpectedly floundering under the fire from the Centurions, more woe appeared for Andy in the form of a platoon of M1's!


Confident in the thickness of their frontal armour, one of the M1's advanced swiftly down the road...


Slamming a 105mm round into an unfortunate T-64.


Adopting a more conservative approach a second M1 spotted a target...


And brewed up another T-64!


Whilst the third pushed up on the Soviet left destroying a BMP-2...


Before taking out another T-64!


Andy was able to gain a small measure of revenge as one of his BMP-2's...


Took out an overly confident M910 ITV which had been lining up its TOW on the sole remaining T-64.


But the end was nigh for the Soviet invaders as one of the M1's breasted a hill, spotting the last T-64...


And slamming a 105mm round into it!

A decisive victory for NATO in southern Denmark, it was interesting how different this game was to the previous, with very similar force compositions. It was good to see the Centurions get some kills in after last time, and all the M41's survived - by doing absolutely nothing! (I had been hoping to let them loose at the BMP-2's but the opportunity did not arise. Hopefully I can get my Danish infantry painted up before our next game - and maybe some Landrover TOW's.

2 comments:

  1. Great little AAR. I'm been thinking of getting into Cold War gaming myself, so quite enjoy seeing what others are doing. I have the 7DTTRR rules and have played a couple solo games on Tabletop Simulator, but have yet to get any tanks/figures of my own. Have you played other Cold War rules? I'm enjoying 7DTTRR, but wonder how they compare to others in the genre.

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    1. There's a Cold War Commander AAR posted earlier this month and if you go through the Arab-Israeli topic posts a Charlie Don't Surf one (as well as quite a few AIW Seven Days ones). Some Team Yankee/Fate of a Nation incoming, again Arab-Israeli but system is the same for Cold War.

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