The bear and the dragon scenario wargame

THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON SCENARIO WARGAME SERIES

The fields have the occasional crater, but not really enough to place on the map and not really an impediment to traversing the field by foot, wheel or track.All roads are one lane and a destroyed vehicle will block the road to other vehicles (no way around with bocage on both sides).All hedges lining the roads are bocage and impassable to the Honeys and Carriers.Tress represent orchards but the trees are not close and are not bushes but low trees.Germans may be in shell scrapes but there are no specific fortifications or engineering works.German deploy anywhere below the red line.Onboard infantry support must be allocated to either company Honey tanks on the road but may then go off road first turn. British B Company enters on top left of the Caumont-Cahagnes, C Company on the right.The Caumont-Cahagnes road runs down the centre of the table (the one with no bocage on either side), indicated by dark brown dotted line.The scenario is the taking of the Contour 180 ridge by the two companies. In this battle they were supported by Honey Tanks from the Sherwood Rangers. A Company was protecting the left flank and B and C Company were to advance down the road to take Contour 180 - the ridge line outside of Cahagnes - prior to the assault on Cahagnes itself. On the 31st D company was to take out the farm complex (scenario 1 **link) and later join the rest of the battalion for the attack on Cahagnes. D Company was subject to a small counter attack from a farm complex on the right side of the road. Cahagnes is midway between Caumont and Jurques. On 30th July, the 7th Battalion (also known as The Hampshire Regiment) advanced down the road and settled for the night midway between Caumont and Cahagnes.

This post contains a scenario and a battle report of two companies supported by Honey tanks attacking German defenders in the Normandy countryside.ДЄs part of Operation Bluecoat the 130 Brigade is to head from Caumont to Jurques. The first scenario and more background to the Hampshire Regiment is at this blog post. These will be based on their War HistoryВ with further research where necessary.В At the moment this is a side project, so not sure when I may get to the rest.

The scenarios will be a mix of a battalion and company level, with maybe some platoon/skirmish if the detail is available.

THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON SCENARIO WARGAME SERIES

This is the second of a planned series of WW2 historical scenarios based on the operations of the Hampshire Regiment (7th Battalion) of the 130th Brigade, 43rd (Wessex) Division in Europe July 1944 to April 1945.

The bear and the dragon scenario wargame