Outer Cherbourg - the Battle for the Factory Rail Siding

On 7 June the Demo Gamers will be hosting the King's Border Clash 2025 Bolt Action tournament. At the same time we will be running our latest demo game board, Outer Cherbourg - the Battle for the Factory Rail Siding. After all, if you are visiting your friends and family playing in the tournament, you may as well join in an amazing game too!

The board is a city board with multiple levels including a lower level railway with bridges and a railway siding, a factory and warehouse with cranes, hotel, police station and town centre and more. We provide everything needed to play including the armies, dice, tape measures and so on. And most importantly, two Demo Gamer Sergeants to help each pair of players fight the good fight.

Just singing a lullaby waiting for the action to start

Each 650 point army has a vehicle, officer, 3 squads and a sniper, with additional tweaks to make the force different.

USA - 6 dice:

Sherman

Officer with 2 men

3 x 10 man squads (8 rifles, 2 x BAR)

Sniper team

The final rush to capture the coal!

British - 8 dice:

M5A1 Stuart

Officer with 2 men

3 x 10 man squads (9 rifles, LMG)

Sniper Team

PIAT Team

Jeep

Not at all nervous about the Panzer IV over there

German 1 - 6 dice:

Panzer IV G

Officer on his own

3 x 10 man squads (9 rifles, LMG)

Sniper Team

Time to kill a Stuart!

German 2 - 7 dice:

Panzer III G

Officer on his own

2 x 8 man squads (7 rifles, LMG, PzFaust)

1 x 8 man squad (5 rifles, Assault rifle, 2 LMG, PzFaust)

Sniper team

Hanomag

The Turn 6 rush to control the objective.

To check that the board worked, that is, it allowed for a fair game with lots of options and looked good, we invited some Bolt Action newbies to play.

Two had never played a war-game before and one had never played Bolt Action. So it was an excellent test. The results were a great proof that having a lovely board helps everyone's imagination. Plenty of Bolt Action happened leaving all players talking afterwards: 

"If only...", 

"You were lucky there...", 

"Next time I will ..."

and the best of all 

"When can we play again?"

We are looking forward to more action on Saturday.