WW2 20mm Skirmish game Normandy 28 June 01

Introduction
This is a game to test out my revised rules for 20mm WW2 skirmish.

I am using my streamlined and very modified version of my rules based loosely on NUTS!.  I am using 20mm figures on a 2'x2' table and with a ground scale of 1:300. The terrain generation is from Platoon Forward and  random events are based on Patrol:WW2. Comic is dome with Comic Life 3 software

Background
I am loosely basing the these skirmishes on the journey of the British 7th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment of the 43rd (Wessex) Division in 1944.
This is a section action that is part of a larger company action to clear a section of farmland.
Note that previous reports (three at the time of writing) were based on one section during 28-30 June 1944 saw many patrols and a few German stragglers captured.  This is not that section.

The British Section
The following is the attacking British nine-strong section:

Rank	Name	Level	Ability
Corporal	Archer	Veteran
L corp	Baker	Reg	-1 to be spotted
Soldier	Cobbler	Reg
Soldier	Dingsley	Reg
Soldier	Earl	Reg	can run and shoot
Soldier	Fallsy	Green
Soldier	Green	Reg
Soldier	Houghton	Reg	-1 to shoot
Soldier	Isles	Veteran	Count as regular for activation

Table and deployment

I randomised the terrain for the table.  British enter on one side.

Note, the trees will keep moving, not because they are really Ents but I am playing the the map drawer and the trees are higher than the drawer.  I close it between game sessions and so the trees get set up each time.
The pig, chickens and cow are the 3 unknown forces deployed on the table at the start (aka PEFs in NUTS!)

Objective
The British need to clear the enemy from the table.

Game

Verdict
Previous skirmish games were written up using Comic Life but I had no an intention to continue this  - due to lack of time - when I decided to play the game,  I then started the writeup and could not help it! I really like the Comic style for these skirmish games.

The rules gave a fast and surprising game, which is what you want in the solo game.  I was shocked that the British lost so many soldiers - in the last few games I had only lost a few, and this one game I lose more than the previous three games put together!  I think I must have just been lucky those last few games.  It also did not help losing the Bren so early on.  A tiny bit of tweaking to the rules was all that was required during the game. At the moment they are just a two pages - a one page QRS and one page of reminders on how some things work! I may just have to play again.