Saturday saw the first game of 2026 as Andy and I went down Bristol Independent Gaming to play another game of Battlegroup NORTHAG using my 6mm miniatures. With elements of the Soviet forces pushing in to Bad Hersfeld, the Soviets looked to secure the right flank of their advance by advancing into the town of Sorga, a little to the east.
Using the same forces as the previous game (though this time we had some infantry to deploy if needed), the Soviet Forward Screen reconnoitred forward...
The US deployed a platoon of M60A3's hull down on the hill overlooking the suburbs of Sorga...
With M901s covering the left...
...and right flanks.
First blood went to the Americans as they targeted the T-64B's in the Soviet Forward Screen.
Only to see the Soviet Vanguard move up behind.
The US Vanguard also arrived, the M1s taking hull down positions next to some infantry equipped with M47 Dragon ATGMs.
Their fire devastated the Soviet Vanguard's advance!
As the smoke from burning T-64's covered the left of the battlefield, the Soviet Main Column of two T-64B companies and a BMP-2 company deployed on their right, concentrating their efforts there.
Aerial reconnaissance photos showed the daunting prospect facing the American defenders.
Their Main Column of two M60A3 platoons, a troop of two more M901s and a platoon of infantry in M113s then arrived...
The tanks moving forward to try and block the Soviet juggernaut...
Whilst the infantry APCs moved into the village outskirts to occupy the buildings.
The remnants of the Soviet Vanguard attempted to continue its advance to little effect, though they were tying down the M1s and an M901 for the time being.
The Soviets then unleashed their pre-aimed timed artillery barrage...
Which managed to pin the US FOO...
...and destroy two M113s in the infantry platoon, killing two infantry teams, and pinning the third.
For the Motherland! The two Soviet tank companies and infantry company moved forward towards the US defence line...
...which had suffered several casualties.
However the tables rapidly turned as a US artillery mission struck one of the T-64 companies, destroying two and pinning one tank.
The remaining M60 platoon move through the trees and opened fire on the shocked Soviets...
...taking out another three Soviet tanks!
With only the central tank company left in any state of effectiveness and the US moving their M1's and M60's in from the flanks to target it, I decided the Soviet advance should take a temporary break whilst some more artillery missions were called up from Division to break the resistance of the Yankee imperialists!
Another enjoyable game of Battlegroup NORTHAG, despite the losses incurred by the Vanguard I thought the Soviet Main Column would steamroller the Americans but the devastating artillery strike followed by the unerringly accurate fire from the M60s in the woods put paid to my dreams of liberating the village of Sorga from the fascist imperial oppressors!
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