0200 Hours: Airfield Raid

02 Hundred Hours is a skirmish wargame focusing on night-time raids in World War II. If you see yourself as the SAS setting demo charges to blow up a lorry or as the Landesschützen investigating suspicious  sounds emanating from behind the oil drums, then this game might be for you.

A pair of SAS troopers survey their handiwork

The SAS team  comprised Officer, Sergeant, Demolitions expert, 2 Troopers and a Pair of troopers at 26 points

The Luftwaffe had Sergeant and 5 Pairs of Sentries on table plus Officer, 2 Dog Handlers and 6 Single Sentries. These come on as reinforcements when the alarm gets raised. All at 30 points

The SAS mission was to destroy the fuel dump, the ammo stores and the 3 planes.

The Luftwaffe mission was to stop the SAS or kill half of them.

View of the airfield from the road

View of the airfield from the ammo stores

The SAS enter near the fuel dump, immediately kill a pair of sentries and lay charges by the fuel dump

Alerted sentries make their way to the fuel dump.

Maybe not so alert. The German Sergeant and two sentries looking elsewhere

The SAS Demo expert must have gotten excited as the charge explodes prematurely.

The Alarm goes off and the Germans start to get reinforced

The German officer comes face to face with the SAS Demo expert and a trooper

The eye tokens indicate who is visible and who is covert. Only visible targets can be shot at.

The SAS officer hides round  the corner but made a noise earlier hence the eye token.

The German officer is added to the long list of defender casualties

One of the German reinforcements, a dog handler, also becomes a casualty.

The SAS Sergeant has sneaked up the righthand edge of the table and laid a demo charge in the ammo store. Although he is out in the open, he has not made a noise to alert the guards to his presence. 

We left the game there. Only 2 of the 5 objectives were destroyed, just under half the German force were casualties and none of the SAS team were injured so a slightly partial victory to the SAS. 

Shaun painted the figures, vehicles and planes. He also put together the very nice scenery.

I can see this game lending itself to other periods such as French Indian Wars and Star Wars. 

A full description of the game can be found at Boardgame Geek and the game is available from Grey For Now Games