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Dec20

J124 Cobra Kings

by Rindis on December 20, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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After the wrap-up of the last scenario (which coincided with a bad week for me), I asked Patch to put forward a scenario suggestion. He came up with the interesting J123 “Charging Chaumont”, which we had to cancel be the deluxe overlays don’t seem to have been redone for the new VASL deluxe boards yet. Instead, we ended up with J124 “Cobra Kings”, with me as the attacking Americans.

It’s Christmas Day 1944, and the Americans are attacking into Assenois in the drive to relieve Bastogne. I enter into a pair of deluxe half-boards with a mixed force of Shermans, halftracks, and infantry, and have five turns to clear one of two full boards that the Germans set up in of any GO Infantry. This is at dawn, so there is a +2 LV for the first turn, and a +1 for the second turn. In addition, I pick hexrows, and the Germans roll to see if any buildings are rubbled in them; finally, all Germans without a leader are TI for the first player turn, those with a leader are merely Pinned.

I enter in two turns, with the first turn’s forces being a 76 M4A3E2, two 75 M4A3E2, four halftracks, an armor leader, a hero, 8 squads of infantry, and various toys. Since all Infantry must enter as Riders, some of them have to be on the Shermans. Patch gets 12 squads, two 88s, and two Hetzers enter on turn one.

Patch initially forgot to HIP his roadblocks, which forced a re-setup, and a move away from his first plan. Sadly, we also forgot the +2 LV for most of my turn, which did hurt some. I am continuing my habit of failing PTCs and MCs with Riders, but passing all the Bail Out MCs.

Taking a look at things, I decided I liked the western (bottom) route better, mostly because I knew a fair amount of my force would end up using the sunken roads, and the east one forces turns. One squad of Riders was pinned and Bailed out successfully, only to be broken by Patch’s Sniper, while another Broke and Bailed Out in the middle of the entry board. I managed to unload five squads + hero successfully (one of these was due to a mis-count on a Sherman’s movement—the error was probably more than made up for by forgetting the +2 LV on the shots that pinned/broke me).

In the APh, I advanced squads into both ground-floor stairwells of building bC4, Encircling two groups of units on Level 2. I also advanced a MMG squad into D2, while the Hero that had been with them stayed outside with his BAZ. The one flame set by the pre-game rubble checks went out in the wet conditions.


Situation, American Turn 1, showing full setup.

The leader that had been broken in fD3 immediately came back in my rally. The squad didn’t, but getting them on my turn would be fine.

For Prep, Patch fired a PF at my Sherman parked in the middle of the main road, and thankfully missed. bD2 took a 36FP +2 shot at C3 and killed the halftrack parked there. However, the crew survived, and the Hero passed the 4MC. The bad news was that his Sniper went off again, and re-DMed the broken squad in A4.

His defenders on the east end started moving up from dM2. Some of the middle defense in dJ4h2 went downstairs, and the rowhouse defenders in bE4 skulked and split up. Both Hetzers entered on the east road and took up covering positions out of sight.

My defensive fire was notable for a hit on D2 from my Sherman in B3, after revealing the 9-2 AL (…this, also, was a mistake; we forgot the +1 for my overstacking). All three squads and the leader failed the resulting 2MC, seriously unhinging his defense. Worse, there was no good routing from it.


Situation, German Turn 1 in the west.


Situation, German Turn 1 in the east.
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Dec13

VotG21 Defending the Voentorg

by Rindis on December 13, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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Valor of the Guards came with an impressive number of scenarios. However, still more were under development, and have since appeared in the ASL Journal. Patch and I have tried a couple out, starting in July 2010…:

With the appearance of new VotG scenarios in the latest Journal, a return to Stalingrad was contemplated. This particular scenario is an interesting one. The Germans have three turns to take a single ground-level Location of building Q10 (at the south end of 9th January Square). If they fail, they can try again, needing two Locations in three turns. If they fail that, they get three turns to try to take the entire ground-level of Q10. Each try is preceded by a mini-RePh to clean things up.

For some insane reason, I took the offense in this crazy scenario.

Setup is restricted by the fact that all German MMC must be at least 2 hexes apart. I set up the MTR in the backfield, looking across the square. The HMG and 7-0 was on the second level of M8 to see most of the perimeter of the square without Hindrance from debris. A couple squads were tasked to advance up the west side to the Russian lines. My reinforcements enter from the north end, with the leaders clutching DCs, wondering if they’d ever get close enough to use them (note: by SSR, all the infantry enters as riders—about four months earlier than the rules normally allow).

Patch set up no one actually in the Voentorg (to avoid a pregame PTC, to be sure), and a nice group on both wings of it.

The opening fire isn’t bad, the HMG nails his ATR crew in the S8 trench, breaking him, but can’t force a CR. The bulk of the action of course centers around his efforts to stop the oncoming StuGs and their riders. Amazingly, while three squads pin, and the 9-1 leader breaks, causing them all to Bail Out in open terrain, they all make their Bail Out MCs and SW checks. I was expecting someone to die crossing the square, but it doesn’t happen. Of course, the only planned unloading I get to do is the 9-2 in Q5.

With most of Patch’s fire occupied, I try moving up on the extreme flank of his position in N11. A SFF shot misses the first AMing squad. A second-liner comes untroubled by the residual, but breaks to a HS on a k/2 FPF shot. If the roll had stuck with the rest of Patch’s defensive fire, he should have broken…. Finally, I stroll a squad and leader up from O3 to R6, because there is literally no one left to fire at him.

In AFPh, I put a couple Area Acquisition counters on the Voentorg. I decide to advance into CC in N11 anyway. It should keep him suitably distracted while the FT in O6 moves up. Despite a Russian edge on Ambush, the Final drs are 4-5 (he rolled a 6, and I still couldn’t get it…). And both sides did no damage to the other (H-t-H CC would have CRed me for no return, good thing I didn’t want it).


Situation, German Turn 1, take 1.
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Dec06

DA11 Sicilian Midnight

by Rindis on December 6, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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Patch and I had planned to play our previous game on Vassal, but after our FtF session, we had a backup plan—the other scenario we had been considering. We got started in May 2010…:

After our little FtF Italian DASL foray, we went with the only other DASL scenario with Italians for our next Vassal game. DA11 has everything. DASL. Rare nationality (Italians). Mines. Demo charges. Roadblocks and foxholes. Alternate terrain (olive groves). Night.

Well, no tanks and no ordnance.

ROAR has a pretty even record, and since Patch got the Italians last time, I took them this time. ELR 1. sigh My main group sets up on/near the hill on board e. I also get four auto-HIP squads on board h, but one squad and the only available leader must setup with the roadblock, which must be in hH2 or hK2. The former is closer to the rest of the defense, but the latter is also a bit further from the American entry at the bottom of board f. Patch needs to take all four level 2 hexes of the hill and the roadblock in seven turns.

Hmm. The VC mentions that the Americans win at the end of any Game Turn where he controls them, so I’ll always get a final counterattack. Assuming there’s anyone to counterattack with, of course.

I opt to put the roadblock in hK2. I hope it splits up the offensive for a little bit.

Even with DASL boards the first turn is quiet as the first wave of Patch’s troops can’t get to my positions in one turn. (He gets a nearly identical set of troops on turn 2.)


Situation, turn 1, showing my visible setup.

Patch quickly moves into hH2, and finds the roadblock isn’t there. He tries moving around it into J3, but finds a HIP squad who breaks his… HS. He then moves another Cloak directly into H2, revealing the garrison and roadblock… facing the wrong way. SFF breaks that HS. I was worried I’d just malfunction the LMG instead.

One problem with Night is there’s enough things going on that you’re bound to forget something. Patch should have had to roll for straying with one unit. Of course, he forgot road bonus on the first turn.

I’m a little surprised when one of his Cloaks splits off a couple ‘?’ in advance. Obviously, he’s needing to reshuffle a bit to get leaders to the HSs.


Situation, American turn 2.
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Nov22

137 Italian Brothers

by Rindis on November 22, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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After our previous early-war scenario, Patch and I moved on to something even earlier, the Spanish Civil War, in March 2010…:

As the previous scenario between me and Patch wound down, we had a chance to talk about what we wanted to do next. Patch mentioned that it had been a while since we’d seen the Italians (in fact, since our Primosole Bridge CG, where they didn’t do so well thanks an ELR of 0). Having recently gotten Doomed Battalions, and busy obsessing over that, I immediately mentioned the old A72 “Italian Brothers” which featured two Italian units fighting on opposite sides of the Spanish Civil War using Italian and Allied Minor counters, and which was updated in the new edition of DB. And so here we are.

I can say that the scenario would be a lot easier to set up if it mentioned which side was the Nationalists, and which side was the Republicans somewhere other than the background text. (Okay, the side symbols also are a guide, but both of us missed that.)

As it is, I’m the Nationalist/Black Flame/Italian forces. Technically, I set up first, but all I have on board are three pitiful non-turreted L3/35 AFVs, with fixed positions and CA, and in Motion. The only real choice I see is whether I want to be BU/CE. (BU, thanks.) Patch is the Republican/Garibaldi/Allied Minors, who set up in two groups, one on board 17 near my L3s, and the other on board 6, set to advance on the manor house. If he can take it, he wins immediately. Otherwise one of us has to have 3 out of 4 other stone buildings, mostly concentrated in front of the manor house, at the end of 6 turns. Otherwise, may he with the most CVP win! (Nationalists win ties.)

Patch set up as expected, took a couple MG shots at the L3s, and started moving for victory buildings. (Two hits, but couldn’t manage the 4 TK….) I fired as he moved out, but only managed to malfunction a BMG/MA for my trouble.

Originally, my plan as I entered with the bulk of my forces was to take 6N4 (of course), 17P2 (also of course), and dash across and advance in to 6K4. With only a single squad in position to take it, I should have a decent chance at it, especially as I had the troops holding N4 to back up my move. As I moved, however, I realized I could get into 6K8 without him being able to do anything about it, and I could make his move in much more difficult, so I went for that instead.


Situation, Turn 1, showing both side’s movement.

Patch had to spend quite a while pondering what to do next after that, but he eventually shuffled a big stack into 6J9, obviously preparing to advance into the blind side of the building, J8. All I could do was pin a single squad. Without much going on in the west (top), I just had a single ineffective shot while assembling my MMGs.

He advanced into CC in 6M1, which pointed out just how vulnerable I am, since I am Lax and have lower FP. However, after successfully Ambushing me, he rolled a ’12’, and I thankfully withdrew back to N0.


Fight for 6N4, Republican turn 2.


Fight for 6K8, Republican turn 2.
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Nov15

J67 The Lawless Roads

by Rindis on November 15, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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Journal 4 had an article on the British Universal Carrier, and some scenarios featuring them. I managed to talk Patch into one of them, but I’d still like to try the other scenarios. We got going in January 2010…:

After finishing the Market-Garden set, Patch and I are playing one of the early-war scenarios in Journal 4 featuring Carriers. The British are trying to clear a road through a village (no GO Germans on or adjacent to it), but the Germans are already strongly defending the town. In addition to needing to chase the Germans away from the road, the British will lose if more than four of their AFVs are killed (or if four tanks/tankettes are killed).

Given a choice, and remembering Patch’s problems with a similar set of victory conditions in Khopra’s Crossing, I take the defending Germans. They don’t get any vehicles of their own, and the anti-tank capability isn’t great, but the Brits don’t have anything heavier than an A10. Patch will have to be cautious, especially with two 37mm ‘doorknockers’ hidden somewhere.

Board 12 is an unusual mix of terrain for an early board, and there’s a few of the hedgerow overlays in play (though bocage is not in play—a hedge is a hedge here) and I have to spend some time deciding how to defend. The real target is the road itself, but if I concentrate on that, he could easily bypass part of the defense and strike towards the middle or back end, hoping to leave me without fallback positions. So I opt to defend the entire front with an eye towards hustling towards the road if he attacks down it as expected. The four OB-given ‘?’ are used to conceal where the good leaders, MMGs and ATRs are. The MTR doesn’t have any place with a good LOS and end up on the hill in T1 when I forget that Orchards block non-same level LOS.

Patch setup near the road and got to work clearing it immediately. With some concentrated firepower, and a ROF-tear on his MTR, he broke a leader and LMG squad, and pinned another LMG squad. I was able to do far less to his initial advance than I would have liked. The worst part was that he put three squads past the hedgerow between V and W, and got into the first of the stone buildings. I had figured I’d keep him out of there a while longer.


Situation, British Turn 1 DFPh. The blue ribbon is the victory road, note that an SSR turns a graveyard into an orchard and you can still see pieces of it poking through the overlays.

Even with my broken squad having made it back to my 9-1 leader, I got nothing back on my rally. I wasn’t sure how to reorganize my defense. In general, the plan was to shift for more defense in depth along the road, but he had the two Mk VIs crawling along the south edge of the board, and I didn’t want them getting into my rear unopposed. My opening MTR shot on the lead one hit and got a ‘2’ result on the IFT to kill it with no survivors, that simplified things greatly. A shot from U8 broke W7, taking some more pressure off me, and I decided to gamble with a stone building and a -1 leader and stand up to the rest of his breakthrough in W6. A shot from U6 broke one of the two squads there. Things were looking up.

I pulled out of V2, taking a roundabout route to make sure he couldn’t strip concealment. As I moved other forces around, I came up with a sneaky little plan. First, V4 smoked W5. If that hadn’t worked, I’m not sure I would have gone through with it, but with the smoke (only on a ‘1’!), I put the squad in V4 into X4, where he could cause problems for the broken squad in W6, and was adjacent to the British 7-0 in X5. Sadly, I couldn’t get him in Advancing Fire, and he self-broke to rout away before I could go for CC with him.


Situation, German Turn 1, end of MPh.

Gunner Scott commented:

“Hi-“

“Thats one hell of a scenario. Been a long time since I played it, but I do remember those little carriers giving the Germans grief as they would race to cut rout paths.”

“Scott”
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Nov08

A38 North Bank

by Rindis on November 8, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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Patch and I finally finished up our tour of the A’91 Market Garden scenarios in December 2009…:

Last week me and Patch started the last of the Market-Garden scenarios from Annual ’91. Thankfully, we have the errata from FKaC, since it’s not very balanced in the original.

I’m playing the Germans, who are trying to drive the British away from their remaining foothold near the Arnhem bridge, and the river. I have 7 SS squads, good leadership, two Tiger IIs, and seven turns. The Brits have 4 squads, better leadership, a Hero, a 57mm ATG, and Ammunition shortage. Oh, and thanks to the errata, 8 OB-given ‘?’ (and I enter on turn one, so everyone else gets freebies), and I don’t know who has his 3 PIATs until he uses them. Four AT weapons, none of which can penetrate the front armor, but since I don’t know where they are, a back, or at least flank, shot is probably going to come up sooner or later. At least I know the PIATs can’t be where he isn’t.

Patch set up a loose perimeter at the north edge, with a couple of high observation posts. Not liking the open west terrain for entry, I went for the east half with the hopes of driving a wedge into the 21U6 building area. The Brit 10-3 turned out to be in one of the high posts (of course) and managed to break my 9-2 and a squad shortly after entry, also pinning a second squad. Naturally, the Brit 9-2 was in the other high location (which my eyes seem to have skipped over), who then pinned the 7-0 and a squad.

Thankfully, that was all the mischief he was able to accomplish, while I got a lucky PTC on 21Z8, and revealed it to be dummies.


Situation, German Turn 1 DFPh.
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Nov01

A37 Dreil Team

by Rindis on November 1, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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Continuing our tour of the Market-Garden scenarios, Patch and I started this one in October 2009…:

Just started the sixth scenario of the Market Garden series with Patch tonight, with me as the Brits.

It’s fairly interesting. The Brits have to exit 8 VP off the GG end of board 22 in 9 turns. The distance isn’t that great, and the British have a good amount of firepower, and are well equiped with multiple MMGs, LMGs, PIATs, and a mortar. But the stream on the board is flooded, except for the two edge hexes (which are merely deep), which limits the crossing options to four hexes, two of which are adjacent to each other.

The Germans only have six squads, two leaders and two LMGs. However, three of those squads are elite, and both leaders are 9-1s.

Oh, yeah, and they have a Panther.

Patch set up with the Pather guarding the NE (right) bridge and ford by himself, one leader, two squads and LMG on Level 2 of the one Multi-Story building in his setup area, and the rest near the other (closer) bridge.

I took a while to do my setup. I just wasn’t at all sure as to how I wanted to handle this.

The eventual plan was fairly conservative. Even with only two areas to cover, he doesn’t have enough for a great defense in depth. I figured to move out into the center area and engage the troops guarding the nearer bridge. I’d also send a unit across the W10 ford. It’s slow, but it makes sure I will get someone across. I planned on pushing a PIAT as far as I could towards the other bridge to keep him honest. That didn’t work out so well. DFF broke a LMG squad with the 8-1, and and Final Fire broke the PIAT squad in R1 (he retained rate).

Sadly, I only thought of it after I was moving, but it would have been interesting to run a squad from Y6 to the R7 bridge, and advance to Q8. Thanks to all the buildings and the range, it’s easier to do than it looks. They’d be in some trouble, but it would force some hard decisions from Patch.


Situation, British Turn 1, end of MPh.

I rallied the LMG squad with the leader during rally. Since Patch couldn’t get at the other squad, that left me in a very good position for the next turn.

Patch preped the squads in N7 at my squad in the Orchard near the bridge and rolled poorly. The LMG fired twice at S5, but couldn’t get an effect. H4h2 fired at S5, with a -1 (no cover…) and got a 2MC. Thankfully, both squads passed.

For movement, he pulled in the O10 flank, and shifted the Panther one hex so it could cover the R7 bridge.

My MTR managed three shots (ROF 2…) but couldn’t get anything at 2FP, even with the -1 Air Burst TEM. However, R6 got a 1MC on them, breaking the leader and pinning both squads.

This left Patch with quite a problem, and had to think about it quite a while. He ended up routing the leader next door and leaving the squads in place. He’d been tempted to self-break them to get them away from the MTR, but the furthest available rout target was M6. If he was going to rout, he wanted to go further.

This leaves me with a decision. I had been planning on using the MTR to put Smoke on the bridge, since I assumed the ACQ would be useless anyway. Now I need to decide if I want to try to kill the two squads, not great odds, but the best that MTR is ever likely to see….


Situation, German Turn 1, end of MPh.
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Oct25

A36 Oy Veghel

by Rindis on October 25, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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The fifth game of Patch and I’s tour of the Market-Garden scenarios got going in September 2009…:

In our continuing series of Annual ’91 Market-Garden games, we discussed for a bit, and I decided to take the defending Americans.

Then I look at ROAR and find the Americans are the underdogs! >.< I demanded the American Balance. Not that I expect depriving him of Schuerzen to actually do much.

It’s an odd setup. The Americans start out piled in two hexes and move first. Then the Germans enter on their half of the turn.

I sent half the force east (up) through town to guard that road in, since I figured there was a good chance that Patch would send some infantry around that way behind the grain. The other half proceeded through town, behind the jeep, which dashed off to set up the 57mm ATG in 16B5.

Patch did not disappoint. Six of nine squads swung south to go around the edge of the pond on board 13. My MMG was in 10Z10, and I used it to put residual in 13Y6 (the first hex of the elevated road) the first time he moved through. Sadly, the original shot, and two Resid rolls did nothing. He parked the first PzIV in 13Y10, giving him a nice LOS down towards my position.

He did surprise me by having the StuH stay back.


Situation, both halves of turn 1.

For my second turn, I started shuffling the east force around, to cover the NE area, especially since there was now a good chance that he’d end up in that area. I should have pulled the jeep out of LOS in 16B5, but decided I’d rather keep my quick move options open. He nearly got it with a DFPh shot that did cause a PTC to strip Concealment on the crew.

The StuH also fired at 19G10, obviously preparing to fire smoke there on his Prep.


Situation, American turn 2, DFPh.
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Oct18

A35 Guards Attack

by Rindis on October 18, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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We continued our tour of the Market-Garden set of scenarios in A ’91 with “Guards Attack” in August 2009…:

Started the fourth scenario in the Annual ’91 Market Garden set last week. I think I’d be doing pretty well as the defending Germans if I could just remember what I need to do….

For some reason, during most of my set up, I just completely forgot that he was going to be entering board 13, instead of setting up on board 13. I don’t know where that misconception came from, but I was kicking myself the entire first session over it.

Obviously, it’s expected that the ATG will set up to ambush Shermans as they cross the stream over the elevated road. None of that here. So, Patch got to enter in safety on the first turn.


Situation, British turn 1, beginning of DFPh.

Obviously, my turn was generally occupied by reshuffling my forces a bit to set up the real defense, and slow him down. Thankfully, despite a good volume of British fire, nothing happened.


Situation, German turn 1, beginning of DFPh.

Patch began his second turn with a pair of WP shots. One hit 17B3, but depleted the ammo, while the second (at B4) turned into no shot at all. The same tank then tried for regular smoke, but didn’t have any of that either. (One wonders if they remembered to pack lunch?) He then tried a regular shot, got a hit, but no effect. Bad dice. Glad I wasn’t rolling them.

During movement, Patch sent the bulk of his infantry west (bottom of the board) around the tree line. Thanks to the WP, I could only get a PTC on the first group and nothing on the second. (Well, with the cower, the second was bad no matter what.) So I pinned a squad and leader, while the rest got way too close to what had been intended as the second defensive line before I even abandoned the first.

The Shermans (that didn’t fire) moved up cautiously, keeping the front armor front at all times, and staying scrupulously out of PF range. My first DFPh shot did nothing but malfunctioned a LMG. Then I revealed the 838 and 10-3 at three hexes from the CE Firefly, and got a K/2 to STUN/Recall the tank.

Not a bad start, really.


Situation, British turn 2, during DFPh.

If I can just get a handle on the west edge….
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Oct11

A34 Lash Out

by Rindis on October 11, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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Patch and I actually flipped sides a fair amount during our play the M-G scenarios in Annual ’91, to keep from constantly being on the attack or defense. I ended up defending as the Americans in “Lash Out” at the end of July 2009…:

Okay, this one really is going quick.

I completely blew my defensive setup. “Lash Out” is a bit like A33 “Tettau’s Attack”, with the Germans trying to exit units off the narrow (east) edge of the board. This time their quality is a bit better, and while the scenario is 3 turns shorter, and they need to exit twice as much (6VP), they also start about 5 hexes closer to the goal. Also, this time Patch is playing the attacking Germans.

Board 16 is mostly grain, with a couple long hedgerows, and three wooden buildings, one of which (L6) the Germans set up at. This building is nearly surrounded by a stone wall, and the only multi-hex building on the board is close by at the edge of the American set-up zone in O3/O4. I decided to mostly set up in a line a couple hexes back in a grainfield to threaten high-FP (and high-Hindrance) multi-location attacks, while anchoring the north side on O4 with the 9-2 and MMG. On this board it fairly well dominates the terrain, and I didn’t want him to just walk into it.

Patch set up a lot of firepower facing O4 and rolled poorly on a 36 +1 attack breaking the 747 manning the MMG. (I wish I’d listened to the tiny voice saying to set up behind the building….) Further fire broke the squad and a half on the north end of my main line. Admittedly, part of my idea had been to slow him down by virtue of him prep firing instead of moving, but I hadn’t fully thought it out. My Sniper thankfully pinned a couple units, and defensive fire broke a HS, but the building was looking awfully lonely and exposed….


Situation, German Turn 1, end of MPh.

On a good roll, the squad in S8 recovered. I would have gladly swapped that roll with the one for the squad in O4h1. Meanwhile, Patch discovered a small flaw in his setup when I realized the unit in L6 was not a leader, giving him an MMC that had done nothing, and no way to rally the unit that had routed there.

Needing to save O4, O3 Prepped, but a lousy roll got no result. My turn was mostly spent running away, as I tried to figure out what I was going to do for the next defensive line with what was left. Patch’s Defensive fire didn’t go entirely his way; HoB created a Hero in O3. But then he broke the squad there, and also pinned the 9-2 and CRed the squad in O4h1. My advancing fire managed to Pin the HS in O4.

Naturally, the squad in O4h1 surrendered (which was accepted), having nowhere to go. The real bad news is that I had planned to take out the HS in CC, but but was down to the Hero. Even with just the 9-2 helping, I could probably take him out, and then tie Patch up for another turn since he’d have to get rid of two ML 9 units that could generate 1FP -3 shots before any other mods.

As it was, the Hero went in alone, barely managed an Ambush, and with a -3 for (enemy) CX, Hero, and Ambush, barely managed to take out the HS, rearming the prisoners as a Green HS with the German’s guns.

I really wished the 9-2 was there to help. As it was, he recovered the MMG during RPh.


Situation, American Turn 1, end of MPh.

O4 drew the same 36 +1 shot as before, and the 3KIA made me quite happy that the 9-2 hadn’t gone downstairs….

He then cut off the fleeing survivors in Q2, forcing them to surrender (invoking NQ this time), and started to occupy the grainfield I was abandoning. He also sent a HS after the 9-2, which was pinned in O3h1. I did manage to nail a squad moving into O2 with a K/1.


Situation, German Turn 2, end of MPh.

The 8-1 and 747 Preped to no effect, and the 9-2, seeing the trap closing on him, spiked the MMG before it could fall into German hands. I maneuvered to start setting up near the Y/Z hedgerow.

Then fate decided my job wasn’t tough enough and Patch got a 2KIA result against the 747 and 8-1 in T5. It took him several shots, but he managed to break the 9-2 as well.


Situation, American Turn 2, end of MPh.

Patch in his turn rushed forward with everything. Considering that I didn’t have much to resist with, there certainly was no real reason not to. I did manage to break a HS creeping along the north edge though. Also, the Sherman started making itself felt by breaking a HS in U2.


Situation, German Turn 3, end of MPh.
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