Kangaroo Bolognaise anyone? 20mm Bolt Action game.

This Game report dates back to 11th of September when Bill B and I came together for a 20mm game of Bolt Action. The game was a 1941 Western Desert between Australian and Italian patrols. The table was a road flanked by two Wadis with a small Oasis and Mastafa in the centre of the table.

From the left Italian HQ, Veteran Squad, Veteran Squad.

Third Italian Veteran Squad and an Inexperienced squad

Second Italian In-experienced squad, medic, sniper, light mortar. medium Machine gun and flame thrower.

L3/33 Flamm tank

Australian command, and medic.

Australian Light mortar, Vickers machine gun, and sniper.

Matilda Light tank.

Australian Veteran squad.

Australian Veteran squad.

Australian Veteran squad.

Australian Veteran squad with Universal Carrier transport.

We had decided to play Scenario 3 “Key Objectives” from the rule book which is about seizing at least two of the three objectives on the table to win the game.

Australian advance along the road towards the objective between the Mastafa and Oasis.

Another squad moves towards the objective in a rocky outcrop.

The Australian Universal Carrier moves on but rolls a box cars “FUBAR”. a subsequent roll on the FUBAR table saw the Universal Carrier crew shoot at the Australians to their left as they thought them to be Italians.

The poor Australians from Griffith (has a large Mediterranean population) suffered two casualties and one shock.

The Italians swarm all over the third objective near the Wadi and take control of the Mastafa complex.

The Australian squad are force out of the rocky outcrop by the L3/33 flamethrower tank with heavy casualties.

The Italians also have control of the Oasis which is defended only by the Australian medical team.

The Matilda is forced to move forward to contest the objective

At the end of the game the Italians control the objective west of the Mastafa.

With the Matilda easily dealing with the L3/33 the Australians were able to take control of the objective in the rocky outcrop.

The objective between the Oasis and Mastafa is contested when the game ends. If the roll for the additional turn was successful then the Italians would have been easily able to deal with the few Australian troops in the centre to win the game. The Australian final gamble had paid off as night fell.