Seven Days to the River Rhine

Thursday evening at the club I gave Daz a game of Seven Days to the River Rhine as he had wanted to give the rules a try for some time.

I set up the table as shown in the image above, although the "under the cloth" hills are a bid obscured so I put a couple of the coniferous trees on each crest to make them stand out more in the photos.

As it was Daz's first game and I've been struggling to finish a game on a club night I reduced the points values to 500 points per side.

Soviets:

• Three T-64B
• Three Infantry in BMP-1
• Three Infantry in BTR-60
• One AGS-17 in BTR-60
• Two BRDM-2

FDR: 

• Three Leopard 1A1
• Three Infantry in M113G
• One Milan in M113G
• Three Infantry
• One Milan
• One M113 PanzerMoerser
• Two Luchs

Daz elected to take the Bundeswehr and soon found out that the Leopard 1A1 is not that good in a firefight with a T-64B

The Soviets did not have it all their way though and were soon down a T-64B of their own as well as one of the BMP-1 being toasted!

After last weeks game, at least I had remembered to put the objectives on this time and a BRDM-2 was rushed into the industrial area to secure one while the German Luchs held one of the others.

My commander sifted two times during the game as my command tank fell victim twice!

A close range firefight developed around the other objective, the Soviets lost two infantry teams in this engagement, but at the end of the game neither side was in the ascendancy here.

By the end of the game, neither side was close to breaking, the FDR having lost their three Leopard 1A1 and a Luchs while the Soviets lost two T-64B, a BMP-1 and two Infantry teams.

A solid draw, I think Daz enjoyed it and I think that 500pts is probably a better sized game for a club night.