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Nov21

OA25 Side By Side

by Rindis on November 21, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: ASL

One of the scenarios in Out of the Attic 2 gave me an immediate ‘I’ve got to see this‘ reaction. OA25 features a defense with a combined French-British-American force in 1942 Tunisia. Patch and I initially slotted it for a FtF day, since it looked somewhat short, but then realized we didn’t have all the boards for it.

So, it became our next PBeM game, with Patch taking the defenders with seven French squads and support weapons including a 37mm infantry gun, three and a half British squads, and two American crews manning a .50-cal and a British 25-pounder. They need to protect a bridge for six and a half turns against fifteen elite German squads with the usual toys, a couple 81mm MTR and two flights of Stukas (one of which shows up on turn two, and the other variably, and the both go away after a single turn).

Patch mostly set up in the central board-12 village, with lighter forces holding both flanks. I set up the bulk of my troops to hit the north side, with some cover towards the center, and then a platoon on the south side to make sure he couldn’t afford to pull out of that flank. The terrain is a bit open, but the MTRs are good smoke generators (especially good ones, the Germans are defined as Elite, which gives s9). Sadly, while I didn’t deplete, I didn’t get any ROF, and only one smoke counter went down between the pair.

Movement went fairly well for me, with minimal fire, and while his French 60mm MTR never exhausted ROF, I passed all the morale checks it caused. Patch’s MMG malfunctioned, but his Brits got a 1KIA result which Yahtzeed to kill a squad and 8-0 and destroy a DC.

OA25 1G
Full map, German Turn 1. North is to the left.
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May09

OA24 Buying Time

by Rindis on May 9, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: ASL

Patch and I have been wanting to do more with the French lately, and still want to see more of the good ol’ American 666, so we decided upon trying OA24 “Buying Time” from Out of the Attic 2, which we’d both gotten relatively recently. Patch took the defending Americans and had a hard time working out a setup.

It’s Morocco in late ’42, and the Americans are trying to keep the French from getting at the beaches where troops are still off-loading with six squads (mix of 666 and 546), two BAZ, a MTR and a MMG. The French enter in the middle of board 19 with ten squads, all in trucks or on motorcycles and three AMD 50 AM armored cars, and have to get 12 EVP off the middle of board 19 (just under one full board length total) in 6.5 turns (and the three ACs could win it themselves). There’s two overlays to get rid of a couple buildings on the already fairly open board 19.

The Americans can set up on three quarters of the available area, but Patch’s line was fairly far back, with only one stack actually on board 17 at all. After fixing a goof where I forgot about the ACs being radioless during setup, they, and a chunk of motorcycle infantry entered on the east edge, where the main continuous road is, and the rest entered near the center, with the plan of possibly deploying in the grain, and/or continuing towards the east, hopping over to the other road.

My second move blundered right into the MMG’s boresighted hex (19I1), which killed a motorcycle squad on a 1MC break and ’12’ Bail Out roll, while setting up a FL. The AC platoon went down the edge-road, towards the outpost in E3, while Patch panicked (You’re usually not this aggressive!), and I hoped the BAZ was not part of the stack. But, I figured it could only kill one of the three before the other two, and approaching infantry support got him where he couldn’t rout. If he was real…. Sadly, there’s no off-board road on the edge by the rules, and with Platoon Movement, it was all I could do to stop in his hex with the lead AC.

The east motorcycle force detoured around the FL by taking a route through a gap in the tree-line and offloaded, in the hopes of getting the MMG up and in action. I also unloaded one squad in the grain, where it would remain concealed and could advance to the hedgeline and try to keep an eye out for American movements. (Note, all the French trucks are Recalled as soon as they’re no longer carrying infantry).

As it turned out, 19I1 was Dummies, which was a relief… and a disappointment. The line ahead of me was just as solid as it looked, and there was a HIP squad out there somewhere.

OA24 1F
Situation, French Turn 1. North is to the left, the American setup area started at 19H, and the eventual goal is to exit off of 17R; Orchards are Olive Groves.
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