Crossfire, the Great War

Being a big fan of the Crossfire ruleset and The Great Wat I was easily convinced by Joe to give combining them a try. We made it easier for infantry to recover from pins and suppression and decided that tanks would be considered to be moving weapon systems that would have to take bogging checks.  That done I broke out my 20mm Great War terrain and figures and we gave it a go.

 

the notoriously daunting landscape of the trenches

 

the rules played well, the tanks moved forward and the infantry,

a following in their wake, trudged toward the enemy

 

we soon found that, like history, the tanks were able to continue to advance 

while the infantry kept getting pinned down by fire

 

and, while a tank is a match for an unsupported machine gun.....

 

......a tank is a poor match for some well-equipped and highly motivate stosstruppen

 

the terrain and opposing fire began to take its toll on the advancing tanks

 

while the infantry kept falling further and further behind

 

with almost half the tanks either pinned or destroyed 

and most of the infantry lagging far behind 

we stopped the experiment to consider further rules amendments