June 2001

We played a 20mm WW2 wargame at 2089 Key Boulevard, El Cerrito, using Command Decision 3rd Edition rules (wherein a stand equals a platoon or battery). Jon Caudill and I hosted.

Mr. Gee cooked up a 1942 scenario that had an Italian infantry battalion crossing a river with the support of a German panzer company (2 Panzer III F/G, 1 Panzer II F). The Soviets defended a village and patches of cover. They counter-attacked with an understrength armoured battalion of light tanks (4 T-70 light tanks, 1 BA-10 armoured car). 

The numbered squares are used as markers to identify the units. We played with hidden units and phantom units, so spotting rolls were required.

I don't recall it was a Soviet victory by any stretch! They would have been Green troops, so it was an uphill slope.

Italian figures are 20mm Historical Products Company (HPC) sold by Pat Condray. The Soviets are plastic 1/72 scale figures, a mixture of ESCI and Revell. German Panzers are 1/87 scale Roco Minitanks, except the Panzer II F which is 1/76 scale Fujimi. Soviet armour featured 1/87 scale T-34's converted to T-70's. The BA-10 was a miscellaneous homemade casting I got from Don Melius.