A disabled Matilda tank was the objective in this bolt Action game between Guru and Son of Guru (the battle of the two Dave’s). SofG had just finished his American Airborne and wanted to give them a try-out on the tabletop.

US troops advance on their left flank to attack the Australians holding the objective. The Australian unit was already down to half strength half way through the first turn.

Jungle Division troop and PNG rifles try to hold the objective.

A second Australian platoon advances in support.

Another rifle platoon tries to slow down the US advance but just receives four casualties for its trouble. The twenty-five pounder did nothing all game, even when firing over open sights.

The Australian far left is also getting beat up. Again four hits and two pins.

The Australian left fails to hold up the US advance on the objective in the centre.

The PIAT picks off one US Airborne a turn!

The US now have command of the objective and the Australians must go all out in the last turn to pull this one out.

The Australian command group attacks and routs one Airborne unit and is promptly charged by another and routs that!

At the end of the day five Australians from three teams contest the objective against overwhelming numbers of paras. The game was a draw but this says more about the objective design rather than the situation on the table.

In reality the Australians would have pulled back and not thrown away over half of their remaining troops on a crazy charge that would leave them in the open against overwhelming odds!

A great fun gamer was had by GP and SofGP.