GIA OAF 42.2 On The Bergues-Furnes Canal

OAF 42.2 "On The Berues-Furnes Canal"

updated 060920

This scenario was originally published in ON ALL FRONTS number 42(December 1985).. The original scenario author is T. L. Black. Further development, clarifications and modification have been made to the original published scenario by Bill Thomson.

Furnes, Belgium, June 1, 1940: Having established a defensive line along the Bergues-Furnes Canal, the 2nd Coldstream Guards and the 5th Borderers Regiment await the coming German onslaught. Armed to the teeth with supplies scrounged and scavenges from allied wrecks across the canal, they were far from the disorganized rabble that the Germans expected.

VICTORY CONDITIONS: The German player must occupy buildings 14H9 and 14S9, or have more unbroken squads on board 14 than the British by the end of turn 7. Half squad may be combined fin the final total. Any other result is a British win. To occupy, there must be no unbroken British MMC (squads, halfsquads or crews) in the building and there must be at be at one unbroken German MMC present therein.

NORTH

1 hex Canal per SSR 42.2.3

Overlay D on board 14

SCENARIO SEQUENCE:

British setup first	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	END
Germans move first

BRITISH FORCES:

AT START: Elements of the 2nd Coldstream Guards; set up on board 14, north of hexrow Q [ELR 2]:
1x9-1; 5x457; 1xMMG; 1xLMG; 1xATR

AT START: Elements of the 3rd Company, 2nd Coldstream Guards; set up on on any whole or half hex fully on board 14 [ELR 2]:
1x9-2; 3x458; 1x40L ATG

AT START: Elements of the 5th Border Regiment, set up on board 14 south of hexrow Q [ELR 2]:
1x9-1; 5x457; 1xMMG; 1xLMG; 1xATR

AT START: Wrecks; set up on road hexes anywhere between 11B5 and 11X5 inclusive per SSR 7
1x9-1; 5x457; 1xMMG; 1xLMG; 1xATR

GERMANS FORCES:

AT START: Elements of the 56th Infantry Regiment; set up anywhere on board 11:
1x8-1; 5x467; 1xMMG; 1xLMG

AT START: Reinforcing elements of the 56th Infantry Regiment; enter east edge hexes of board 11:
1x9-2; 1x9-1; 1x8-1; 1x8-0; 9x467; 3x548; 1xHMG; 3xLMG;1xPSW231 AC; 4xLight Truck; 3xKleine Flossack; 3xSmoke

SPECIAL SCENARIO RULES: (By designer's intention, this scenario may be played without the overlays at the COD rules level)

OAF 42.2.1: TERRIAN: Stone walls on board 11 are hedges for all purposes. All single woods hexes adjacent to the canal are Marsh. Multihex buildings are not affected. All live 1 hills on board 11 are ground level (0). There is no wind at start.

OAF 42.2.2: BRIDGES: Place infantry brides (133.8) between hexes 14I10/iiY10 and 14Q10/11Q10. A wooden one lane vehicular bridge exists between 14Y10/11I10. Bridges are ground level (level 0). Rules 133.81and 133.85 do NOT apply.

OAF 42.2.3: CANALS: Use rule 172 for GIA; otherwise the canal is one hex wide. COD rules 136.1-6 apply. Board 7 may be place beneath board 11 and 14 so that only hexrow 7 is showing to represent the canal. Half land hexes along the canal are treated as whole land hexes.

OAF 42.2.4: .A squad my fire the AT gun as an captured weapon only when stacked with an unbroken 9-2 leader.

OAF42.2.5: The british may only place 3 smoke counters in the course of the game.

AFTERMATH: Despite ingenuity in scrounging equipment and establishing their defensive position along the canal, the British were force to withdraw further into the Dunkirk perimeter. Their bitter defense bought the beleaguered British Expeditionary Force a bit more time to evacuate