Title: Sea Lion Begins
Rules: Combat Patrol™: WWII
Period: WWII
Description: France has fallen. Though invasion is expected, the people of Little Basely by the Sea are nonetheless surprised when a barge full of Germans appears on the beach. The Home Guard and other auxiliaries take up arms and rush to repel them. Will they be able to throw the Germans back into the sea, or will the Germans secure their first foothold in England?
In a continuation of our Thursday night scenario, Greg and I ran a Combat Patrol(TM): WWII game Friday morning in which the Germans landed on the coast. We used the ending situation (with minor adjustments) as the starting point for this scenario. The Home Guard had been badly mauled in the Thursday nigh game as had the Land Girls and the church ladies. We reset some things a little and then had the Germans hit the beach.
The German bomber crew and few remaining Fallschirmjaegers occupied the town. A platoon of British regulars arrived to throw them back into the sea. The remaining Home Guard and ladies of town with improvised weapons pitched in. The Land Girls had been wiped out Thursday night and so didn’t participate in Friday morning’s action.
The game was a lot of fun and came down to the last couple of card flips. Unfortunately when Greg and I were resetting the scenario we forgot to remove a machine-gun from the German side, and we were part way through the scenario before we realized we had done so. The German player took full advantage of the extra gun and really tore up the advancing British. This skewed our play balance a bit, but the game still went well.
This game won an award from the Historicon convention staff.