Trying out 0200 hours

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0200 hours is a small-scale WW2 skirmish game. It's perfect to represent those commando books and movies from my childhood. You could also play Colditz or Hogans Heroes style games, you could even play Captain America against Hydra.

A key feature of this game is that is designed to be an attacker - defender game with a squad of elite commanders fighting a larger group of sentries.

We played a training style game where the alarm has already been sounded, (probably by a large explosion) and the commandoes are trying to escape.

The SAS are trying to make a break for it through the forest. My Rupert has tripped over a branch and made noise while the Rank are nice and silent.
The gernams start moving over, the Dog barks and so makes noise. Halt who goes there?
The German officer charge into my officer and after a bout of fisty cuffs is driven back. My nearby trooper then charged in and shanked him with his Sykes-Fairburn commando knife
More Germans are approaching, Ver did the Hauptman go? Vas macken sie? One of my troopers has started to flank the Germans by sneaking around the block house.
The Next German moves to shoot the officer but gets shot in return by my trooper in the woods. My Officer has moved over and shot the dog handler.

My officer then slides up and shoots one of the German sentries while more troopers close in.
The last of the German sentries in this part of the field is gunned down. With 5 Germans down for no loss to the commandos the game was over.

This was very quick and quite a lot of fun. 

I'm inspired to make a squad of SOE operatives based on Where Eagles Dare. I also have the Fallschirmjagers and Home Guard to do a German Parachute episode of Dad's Army.


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