Taking the Gembloux Gap, Part Two

[@panzerschreckpete]

Thanks guys for underlining the joy of wargaming in both your rules and the way you showcase games. I almost lost interest in miniatures gaming recently but watching videos on Sharp Practice and Chain of Commend rekindled my enthusiasm to the point where after 30 years, I'm moving back into low level tactical gaming and 28mm.

[@grendelgrendelsson5493]

Me too mate!!

[@rayking5430]

Excellent game/video chaps, I look forward to the next one.

[@damuses1452]

"What a Twat."... I haven't laughed so hard in years. Splendid playthrough and commentary.

[@ioannispavlidis1146]

Excellent! More, please. And Sharp Practice.

[@ostrowulf]

Part of me wants Sharp Practice, but I think a larger part wants to see games I do not see else where, like Bag the Hun or Kiss Me Hardy.

[@trailape1]

Support option selection was excellent.

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

Excellent, as always. Now- you did ask for helpful comments: I think you'd benefit from one of those 'director's hub' things (for want of a better name), such as that used by the Irish lads in your CoC demo games. It gives us instant close ups of teams/squads and the dice, which helps the viewer to follow proceedings more easily- and adds to the visual enjoyment. No idea how much they cost, so if you've decided they're too expensive (you'd obviously need extra cameras as well), ignore this post... Regards, Steve.

[@toofatlardies]

We are expanding the kit we have, but learning as we go. In this one we are up to two static cameras and one roving one, we just didn't use them brilliantly, as with most new kit. So things should get better. We also have a better sound system that we are attempting to work out.

[@benwaddi]

The French tend to put up some stiff resistance when CoC is involved. Can't wait for the next instalment.

[@joc7956]

Great game fellas. CoC is something Im hoping to get involved with, just need other players! The board quality you guys play with is brilliant, you have such a variety of terrain. Would love to get my british paras involved in a CoC game. Keep up the vids fellas, very informative and great quality!

[@Nigel296]

Great fun to watch as always. Particularly enjoyed Nick’s “whoops a daisy” at 42:27. One for your overseas viewers to enjoy.

[@Mike-ek9hy]

Honestly this is a great selling pitch for the rules, the rules are elegant and flow well and great fun has been had by all (except for those German officers!), I never was very interested in WWII wargaming but now I'm tempted to give Chain of Command a try!

[@ostrowulf]

It is a great system. They also have it for a few other conflicts, to include the Spanish Civil War. The bassics of it are reasonably maliable to adjust for other modern conflicts on the platoon level, though is more aimed at conventional infantry warfare, it likely could be adjusted to uncoventional conflicts too.

[@unpaintedleadsyndrome]

Sacre Bleu! If my memory serves me right, this is the sixth game of CoC I've seen you play on the interwebs... still waiting for your first victory. Ah well, one day, Rich, one day....

[@toofatlardies]

Funnily enough, Nick and I played each other at OML7 this last weekend and I stuffed him roundly. It just never happens when the cameras are rolling. I am very confident that next game I will break through.

[@unpaintedleadsyndrome]

@@toofatlardies Can't wait for the next video... bought the Gembloux Gap campaign earlier today.

[@chrisrobinson196]

Interesting how that same corner of the garden held up the advance again on a different axis. Maybe all support for the third try in pre-game bombardment on that one spot? :-)

[@tabletopgeneralsde310]

A amazing battle, with heavy casualties for both sides and the better end for the French

[@buryitdeep]

Good stuff, felt like I was in the room.

[@paulheron1686]

Great enjoyable second installment . Keep it up

[@mickauty6711]

I’d like to see you at the end just go through the rolling for casualties etc as part of the campaign mode. Also I was a little confused, Rich you fired two separate units at Nicks troops at one point and then he rolled for casualties and if any dead was his leader. I thought it was one unit at a time and then see the result of that before shooting another unit at the same target, and then seeing what happened with that shooting. Of course I could have miss interpreted the rules. Also when you brough a leader on the table it didnt cost them and activation, is that right/ if so we’ve been doing that wrong too. Great video series guys

[@PMMagro]

Another lovely video! Why did Richard lose one point of force moral in the set up of the game?

[@TheEccentricMan]

Most enjoyable gentlemen.

[@norseman_5334]

What a game guys😃👍🏻 very interesting and inspiring! Well that’s what you get for cheating so much Rich... the displeasure of Nuffle!😂

[@tonyholton2869]

Hope Nick's green cup contained wine not tea as he was the French again.

[@vonSchwartzwolfe]

So when is part 3 going to happen??

[@toofatlardies]

It will be up next week.

[@simonnorburn3518]

I was under the impression that VB launchers only got 3 shots; would have made quite a difference... Simon

[@toofatlardies]

You are, of course, correct. Nick is a terrible cheat!

[@michaelpavkovic2784]

The V-B launcher has four grenades as standard (1940 HB, p. 72)... but the basic point still stands.

[@trailape1]

I think Nic had too much ammo for his VB launchers,... isn’t their ammo limited?

[@donavis724]

Yes - I think Rich was a bit generous with Nicolas! His VB launchers fired 7 times although they should have been limited to only 4 shots (and he hadn't bought additional Ammo with his support points!)!

[@toofatlardies]

@@donavis724 BOLLOCKS! That cheating bastard. No wonder he bloody won.

[@trailape1]

toofatlardies Bad luck and self loading grenade launchers = Rich gets pineapple 🍍

[@toofatlardies]

@@trailape1 Fortunately I'm off on my hols on Friday, so I have a week in the sun to plan my revenge. Mind you, I also have about eleven books to read for the Far East Handbook not to mention a bath tub worth of beer to plough through...

[@trailape1]

toofatlardies Sounds like hell but if anyone can hack it I’m sure you can!

[@stevethompson3849]

Very suspenseful! Could Nick have not had his senior leader remove shock and then order the decimated squad to move rather than moving the leader first and making them break? Also if neither of you knew the actual force morale of the other it could have been different. Nick may well have lost his bottle and pulled back. But you’d have to trust each other! Knowing precisely the state of the enemy force morale seems not quite right. Would be good to introduce some doubt about that maybe. there is no reason Nick would know he’d done such a good job killing the opposition leaders and the effect.

[@donavis724]

Whilst the Senior Leader could have removed 3 points of shock, he couldn't order them to move as they pinned! However, he could have removed 2 points of shock from the team before legging it with his last activation so they wouldn't have broken immediately as they would have been 3 men and 5 shock!

[@toofatlardies]

The fact that they were pinned meant that they couldn't move. If he'd rolled badly for hits the Senior Leader and the Junior Leader could have been killed as well as losing the Team; there's a real potential in that situation for a MASSIVE Force Morale drop, say four to six points. Better to suffer a Team breaks and lose one point of Force Morale and re-task the Platoon commander.

[@SlotraceDK]

Love your videos but these two videos is shot from the wrong end of the table. The buildings are blocking our view. But nice to see that you can use your Bolt Action figures and table for other game rules.

[@richardclarke8306]

SlotraceDK These aren't Bolt Action figures. They are the Crusader Miniatures. It's also not a "Bolt Action table"; it's built for Chain of Command.

[@rcspaintserviceandgaming]

@@richardclarke8306 Oh, but guess both figures and table could be used for Bolt Action as well and vice versa.

[@richardclarke8306]

Rene Christensen Yes. In theory one could play any WWII game with the figures. But I'm not sure why we'd want to play Bolt Action when we have Chain of Command.

[@trailape1]

Very exciting game guys and Rich needs to slaughter an ox 🐂 to the dice Gods because as it stands atm his luck is absolutely ghastly

[@toofatlardies]

With dice like mine, the only thing I can win is sympathy...

[@trailape1]

toofatlardies Seriously,.. it’s been a long time since I witness such an atrocious sting of crap dice rolling.font take up gambling

[@smoessmee]

Jesus, at this rate there wouldn't be any NCOs left to send to Russia :D

[@gwggamingwgaravaglia]

. . . is it just me or does anyone else believe the obnoxious rule corrector should, maybe ,be present at one of theses games . As to again , maybe ,get one played correctly ? Just sayin : /

[@toofatlardies]

Honestly, he is so obnoxious we just don't game with him. BUT he is an invaluable part of the team as his pedantry ensures that any errors which, frankly, are unavoidable, get covered. Now, I'm not sure what you mean by "just sayin : /" . If you let us know we can try to address that too.