Yesterday, 3rd January, I played through another engagement of our long-running Operation Sealion Play-By-Email campaign. The situation potentially called for a large amount of German units that I don’t currently have painted and prepared, as well as a lot of railway track terrain to build. I opted to fight this as a “TEWTT” – a Tactical Exercise Without Tiny Troops.
I dug out my Memoir ’44 board game and designed tactical counters for platoon sized units, which were printed on A4 sticky label sheets, cut out and attached to plastic counters which I had previously bought from Plastics For Games.
These labels follow the principles of the early war German map marking symbols as far as possible, but have additional elements for gaming purposes. They were designed usin MS Paint on a pixel by pixel basis. I have decided to create all the forces in the campaign on the same principle so that I can fight any forthcoming battles without delay. Tokens will be kept in separate bags or boxes according to their current location on the campaign map.
It was one of those engagements that happen in a campaign which could practically only be fought as a solo exercise, and gave me a lot of fun. The situation is that a small, scratch force is being attacked from both sides by brigade sized forces and wisely decides to clear off before the pincers close, but will they make it? And the battle ended with a “blue on blue” incident. Unusually in this game neither side had any losses.
The battle report is here in MS Word format
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and here as a PDF
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The next engagement is at Lewes, concurrent with the attacks on Eastbourne.
General Whiskers' semi-historical wanderings 
Good to see that the campaign is going strongly.
FIBNEWS – Fighting in Bits Nobody Else Wants.
Regards, Chris.
Since then I have fought the battle of Lewes. Another fighting retreat for the British. Report runs to 18 pages, so I haven’t blogged it yet.