Exercise Cyber Sapper
A Table Top Exercise with 56 Field Engineer Squadron
25, 26 January 2002, St. John's
The purpose of this wargame was to serve as a training exercise to practice battle procedure and react to tactical problems at the combined arms combat team level.  Although I do not have modern miniatures, a WWII scenario is sufficient to explore a lot of possibilities in these areas.  Day one was a hasty attack off the line of advance by US troops on a German defensive screen, Day 2 was a deliberate attack on a prepared German defense, the planning for which included: planning and conducting recce patrols; allocation of reserves; engineering resources; indirect fire plans; and the conduct of the actual attack.
This was a split game (same battle, different areas) played on two separate 6' x 10' tables.  The map below is a topographical rendering of the two tables and the "notional" space of dense woods between them.  It was used by participants during the exercise.
The forces used were roughly historical (although Chaffees were not around until the end of 1944) and the games were based on Patton's 3rd Army's drive east to Troyes in August, 1944, with a hypothetical German threat developing north of the axis of advance near the town of Sens.  The players are part of a battlegroup, with recce screening its flanks, dispatched to deal with the German concentration.
The red numbered squares can be clicked to view pictures and/or you may click the links below the map.
Table 1, US Left Flank
right edge of this cell marks right edge of table		 Centre (Notional)
NORTH		 Table 2, US Right Flank
left edge of this cell marks left edge of table
W 1. Day 1 - Lee of the hill, tank stranded on mines2. Day 1 - Stug IV3. Day 1 - Infantry battle in woods4. Day 1 - US armour in the town5. Day 1 - CC, A Coy, north of town6. Day 1 - Stalking the Stug7. Day 1 - Another platoon of Stug IVs8. Day 2 - Mined ford!9. Day 2 - Engineers clearing wire10. Day 2 - town, with a view of Table 21. Day 1 - Mortar in action2. Day 1 - B Coy combat team advances3. Day 1 - Engineers find a path4. Day 2 - Forward of the US start line5. Day 2 - German tanks on the objective6. Day 2 - Engineers in reserve7. Day 2 - German infantry8. Day 2 - Panzer IV9. Day 2 - US flank with view of Table 110. Day 2 - Panzer IV E
Table 1, US Left Flank - Pictures
Day 1 - Hasty Attack
1. US infantry and a Chaffee in the lee of a hill.  On the road below, to the west, another Chaffee, disabled by mines strung across the road, burns after being hit by by a German Stug IV, to the north.
2. The above mentioned culprit!
3. Lead platoons of US C company, advancing in the east, held up by Germans in the woods.
4. US Armour elements in the town.
5. US company A commander and a tank at the northern edge of the town near the objective.
6. US troops from company A approach to pounce on the Stug IV.
7. German Stug IV platoon.
Day 2 - Deliberate Attack
8. US Infantry held up in a woods feature, just south west of the large round hill - the reconnaissance had determined that the ford to their front was mined.
9. Engineers, supported by tanks and a smoke screen, clear barbed wire across the ford to the west.
10. German troops in the town.  In the distance can be seen table 2, the US right flank.
SOUTH

Centre (Notional)

 Table 2, US Right Flank - Pictures
Day 1 - Hasty Attack
1. US mortar keeping German heads down.
2. Chaffee and troops from B company advance.
3. Mounted engineers, accompanied by a Sherman appear after finding an unmaped path from the US left flank through the valley.
Day 2 - Deliberate Attack
4. US forces along the southern ridge not far from their start line.
5. Their opponents, Panzer IVHs, crest the northern hill across the battlefield.  A Bison SiG 33 can be seen in the low ground.
6. US Engineers, waiting in reserve.
7. German panzer grenadiers in the low ground to the north of the US positions on the ridge.
8. German Panzer IV near the factory.
9. US view from the eastern side of the ridge (4, above).  In the distance can be seen table 1, the US left flank.
10.  German Panzer IV on the northern hill.