tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42865948290412138712024-03-18T20:40:36.784-07:00major mike tyson's gaming blogmy miniature armies hit like mike tyson. might even bite your ear off too!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16812441537609481495noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4286594829041213871.post-5889549699731478952017-08-01T03:05:00.002-07:002017-08-01T03:59:48.879-07:00The Defense of Rastiland!<span style="background-color: #666666;"><i><span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;">'</span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;">What?'</span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;"><i>'We're going to defend Rastiland?!?! The dinosaur-themed adventure park?!?!?'</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;"><i>'You've GOT to be kidding!!!'</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">Soviet intercept of conversation among British troops serving in the British Army of the Rhine.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">And so it was, after getting bludgeoned at the battle of Schloss Marienburg, and then utterly failing to stem the Soviet advance across the river Leine at Teufelsberg (see earlier posts), NATO finally managed to stop the red army. At Rastiland, of all places.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">In game terms, I was just looking for somewhere west of Teufelsberg where we could hold the next round of the Soviet invasion of Germany. Given the poor record of defense from the Germans in the prior two games (with relatively reduced assets, as they were fighting the commie hordes), I was looking at a more balanced game. That would require British assistance, as I simply hadn't got enough German troops to muster more than 5000 points or so.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">The grande vision of 8000-9000 points per side was whittled down upon realization that would be tough to fit into one day, especially since we were both a bit rusty with the rules. I was going to go for 6000, and tried, but then to get all the fun toys on the table really couldn't get it less than 7000, even a little higher. And that left one of the Phantoms out of the game.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">I was worried that Howard would arrive with 6000 points, and the game wouldn't be quite so balanced, and was relieved to hear afterward that he also had a little over 7000...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">Home rules we decided to play were, since the Germans were on the run, they would have supply problems. On a roll of 1-2 on a d10 they would be out of supply (marked with a token), and unable to move or shoot until resupplied (a supply truck, only 1!, makes base-base contact for 1 turn). This would have little impact on the game.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">To simulate command/control problems among allies, if any British or German unit strayed into the others zone of control (just drawing line to line among units), then both commands would suffer a -1 penalty on command throws. Doubling the chances of a command blunder (not statistically, given 2 d6), and eliminating the chance of a command bonus. This would be irrelevant for the game as keeping British and German units separate was not an issue at all.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">The game began with a tie over control of the skies, which would be important as it cancelled out an airstrike from howard and negate</span><span style="background-color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;">any p</span></span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;">ossible NATO airstrikes. Howard advanced onto the table, well actually he laid everything nicely out on the table to organize it first, and then advanced on with his mobile infantry quickly occupying the town of Mehle (far right corner from NATO) and his armor coming on along the edge of the hilled woods. That deployment would be very interesting later in the game!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;">The NATO defense was set with the German Leopards in a hedge between Rastiland and Sehlde, and the infantry occuppying Sehlde. Actually, it was their Marder carriers occuppying Sehlde, with the infantry behind the town awaiting an airlift to be dropped somewhere up the table. Like next to the wooded hills, by the dirt road. Right in front of where the Soviet armor had deployed...!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">My assumption was the Soviets would have moved from the back edge of the table, at least by turn 3 when the German air assault went in. Little did I know -</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">The German defense obviously left most of their left side of the table open, but that was for the British to handle, rushing in to fill the gaps as they were intended. Their armor would occupy Rastiland (it wasn't intended to be an actually defensible position, rather just a silly spot on the table, but it worked!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">That left the far left of the NATO lines open, but the British still had their infantry (no carriers, arriving by helicopter). I decided with the better command values for the British that they could choose to air assault into a location as needed, the far left, or hopefully somewhere more useful.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">The Soviets started with a couple of Hind attacks on the Leopards, firing through the hedges, before the Leopards have been softened up by anything</span><span style="background-color: #999999;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">The Leopards were unfazed, but started to feel the heat once the Soviet armor opened up from the woods on the left (coloured smoke representing suppression, not so bad in itself, the Soviet armor on the edge of the wooded hills in the back).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">The British get to move, and the air assault goes in on the left, very well masked from the Soviet armor. And also not too far, and conveniently right next to the Soviet forward air controller! (The little jeep on the right of the mess in the woods, ignore the helicopters in the back, they weren't part of the game. Or would they be???)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">NATO didn't have much else to do, well anything else to do in the first turn. So over to the commies. Who come in with another Hind attack, this time looking for something easier than Leopards in cover. The problem being, the Germans didn't want to expose anything else before assistance arrived from the British. There were troops occupying Sehlde, but they were to the rear, the infantry actually behind the town, their carriers in the town but off the front edge. Leaving only the forward air controller and forward artillery observer...</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;">Focus on the German defense in Sehlde. The FAO and FAC in the corner of the town closest to the Hinds and also a Frogfoot...</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;">There was also supposed to be an airstrike from a Frogfoot, but things got weird, as we found in the rules that even scheduled airstrikes (everything being scheduled so far) were supposed to roll for deviation from the FAC. The FAC was quite far away (next to where the British air assault had just gone in...!), so that meant quite a bit of deviation, putting the Frogfoot off target to the west, the bombs falling on an empty field and the Frogfoot exposed to quite a bit of antiaircraft fire from surrounding hq units and also the German Roland SAM... which all missed of course.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">A following scheduled artillery strike on Sehlde didn't miss, however, with quite telling results on the Marders in town! Note the Frogfoot in the background, after (before?) missing his airstrike target.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;">The Hinds return for another attack on the Leopards. This time, from the flank, rather than front on through the hedges. Combined with the Soviet armor shooting, it was getting pretty hot for the only bit left of the German defense! That said, I forgot the prior turn the British did manage to call an artillery strike on the Soviet infantry and transports occupying Mehle, and add direct fire from the Challengers which had shown up and taken position in Rastiland. Soviet casualties in Mehle in the back...</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;">Things were really hotting up now. The Germans were almost completely wiped out, with little to show for it again, while the British were only just showing up. But show up they did! Artillery was called in against the infantry in Mehle the previous turn (forgot to add that...), while their infantry quickly moved into the woods, overran the commie FAC, and moved on to start close assaulting the Soviet armour.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">The next turn put the onus on the Soviet armour. They were facing infantry in woods. Worse, much worse, the Soviet tanks had formed a line along the edge of the woods, which the British had taken in flank. So all the British infantry (as many as could get into the battle), taking on one commie tank at a time. It got ugly quickly...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">At the same time, the airlifted German infantry went in for their planned assault, right in front of the Soviet tanks! They had the benefit of a smokescreen, but still, there were 3-4 tanks taking easy potshots at the Stallions landing right in front of them. 1 Stallion immediately knocked out, the other suppressed, although it managed to disembark its troops, also suppressed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">Back along the heart of the British defense in Rastiland...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;">That was pretty much the game. 5 hours or so later, not really stopping for dinner (I boiled a couple of the frozen fresh pasta things. Frozen fresh? but excellent for a situation like this. Drop them into boiling water, and 5 minutes later you have food!)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">It wasn't quite decided. The Soviets still had a decent number of tanks left, and some infantry. Unwisely, as the British infantry started to work its way through the Soviet armor, the Soviets decided to mount up their infantry which had been holing up in Mehle, and drive down to try and take Sehlde. Or just advance, or do something.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;">That was a bad move, as the Lynx were called in, the mortars were called in, the Challengers were opened up, and artillery was called in. I don't remember if quite all those assets were utilized, but what was left of the Mehle brigade, after the artillery bombardment it suffered earlier in the game, quickly dissolved.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="background-color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">That left quite a bit of Soviet armour, against a bit of British infantry, British armour, and possibly half the German infantry (if they would have been able to do anything once the smokescreen disappeared). At the least, NATO, on its third try, finally managed to stall the Soviet advance</span><span style="background-color: #444444;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: orange;">Actually, Howard had planned an air assault using the Hips, to come in somewhere around Esbeck I assume. Had the game carried on further... I don't believe that infantry would have been heavily armed (so I think I recall Howard mentioning), and they would have faced relatively fresh and untouched British forces, despite the healthy bit of action they saw...</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16812441537609481495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4286594829041213871.post-51567597918767104882017-07-24T23:41:00.000-07:002017-08-01T03:07:11.976-07:00first play of saga in at least a year<span style="color: orange;">Not much to say about the game. They were brawls, as Saga games tend to be. Special welcome to Tim, new to the club and reasonably new to gaming in general I believe. I was winning (possibly?) overall, but in our two quick games he killed my warlord both times. Bit of a bummer then if you're the warlord!</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Not much to say about the games themselves. No real tactics stood out, almost. 1 thing, I reminded myself that I don't have any (many) spearmen. For an anglo-saxon army?</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">The only real tactic played during the game was when Tim lined up his archer levy to try and enfilade my troops as they came around the woods. Which meant he exposed their flank to my troops, so I sent a unit of axe-wielding hearthgard through the woods to hit them in the flank. Otherwise, it was mostly me struggling to remember the rules, and Tim politely waiting as I did so...</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Pictures for eye candy purposes, don't think I can remember most of where they belong in the two games. I do like the vignettes of Harold Godwinson taking care of his enemies though!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16812441537609481495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4286594829041213871.post-69887574429696989842017-07-18T02:55:00.003-07:002017-07-18T02:55:59.698-07:00Second run of Horizon Wars<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500355448242_48569" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">Gary and I played another game of Horizon Wars last night. Reduced the size a little, to 15 points, to make it more managable for an evening game. Also played the reconnaissance mission, which further reduced Gary's force, I think by 3 points, which equated to him taking off 1 heavy tank.</span></pre>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">Tyson's Furies! Well most of them at least. Infantry hidden to the rear. Also the large and medium transports in the back were just there for show. To intimidate the enemy of course!</span></td></tr>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500355448242_48569" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">It was a good game, ran about 2 hours, still slowed down a little by my not being entirely familiar with the rules and especially aircraft and scenario rules. I should give them a closer look for next time!</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500355448242_48569" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">Important lessons; aircraft can be very brittle. Any aircraft with any value needs at least 3 armour. Consider that criticals count twice on aircraft, at shooter's choosing, so assuming both are pinned to armour destroys a 2 armour aircraft.</span></pre>
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As we played the recon mission, I was the defender, which -- importantly! -- meant I got to keep all my pieces. (I wanted to play with all my new toys!) And yes, getting the models out on the table matters much more than any thought of tactics or strategy!</span></pre>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">Gary's home-made chemicals factory and adjacent toxic waste pond. We played it as dissolve upon entry! Really, Gary is doing some great work with home-made urban terrain -</span></td></tr>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500355448242_48569" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">The recon mission details that the attacker (the recon) is limited with how many units he can bring on at the start and for each turn of the game. As the defender I had a similar limit, but much less so. I did decide to mostly abide by the limited introduction of units, however, as I could place them in various selected spots of my choosing during the game -- having chosen the spots before the game and then announcing which spots they would come in as Gary brought his troops on. It seemed a much more appropriate and faster way to engage his troops, rather than start from my back table edge (which I did at the end of the last turn, but with triple move for aircraft who cares?!?!)</span></pre>
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In the end, neither of us won. In theory I might have, as I might have been able to clean up Gary's force once I finally destroyed his hq, which I very luckily did with the very last throw of the dice for the game. </span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500355448242_48569" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">But it's a maybe to that. In fact, in the spirit of the game, I think it would be much better to say Gary actually won. He would have if I didn't get a very lucky last roll for the game, and, even more importantly, if he didn't remind me of his victory condition to have all or most his starting units on the table once i had all my advance force on the table.
Thanks Gary!</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500355448242_48569" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">Other observations - the lucky dice cup was much more average this time than my first engagement. Pooh. Gary's defense die rolling, however, was very strong, canceling many of my would-be hits. This was critical as his HQ, a heavy tank, with spotting ability for his artillery, proved a tough - almost impossible - nut to crack.</span></pre>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">The first of Gary's many strong defense rolls, his 11 knocking out my 11 and so canceling what I think was a long-d</span></td></tr>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500355448242_48569" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">I wanted to be sure to take his HQ tank out so my troops didn't keep getting blasted by artillery, but it took all game (approximately 4 turns I think) with all of my units firing on it, till the end of the game, to finally kill it. It's very arguable, maybe obvious, that I should have sacrificed getting hit by Gary's artillery to make sure I killed other units of his. Perhaps, but I'm not convinced that was the right move. Although, assuming Gary was reconnoitering for a superior reserve force, then my objective would have been to stay hidden and my tactics would have been faulty.</span></pre>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">My landspeeder (light cav) shooting at Gary's tanks. A single 1 wasn't going to get it very far!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">Gary shoots down one of the attack aircraft in its first engagement! Brittle they prove!</span></td></tr>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500355448242_48569" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">No distinction between soft cover and hard cover for woods. Deploying my heavy tanks in the woods for a <span style="font-family: inherit;">+3 cover bonus would have been, and was tough, on Gary for trying to hit them.</span></span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500355448242_48569" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">I'm still not clear on disembarking airborne troops. And, now that we've begun to use aircraft, mine were rotary, which means they can hover, but how does that effect movement and especially altitude changes? That's not addressed in the rules, which otherwise state for aircraft generally rules for 1 or 2 step altitude changes, assuming forward/turning movement etc. But if a rotary aircraft can hover, then it should also be able to change altitude more easily?</span></pre>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffd966;">My airborne troops arrive to save the day! Literally! They fly in from my table edge, land in the crater, disembark their troops, who then spend their next action to scoot and shoot Gary's HQ tank. Both score hits from almost point blank, and the die roll shows the luck on the second! I needed a 5 to hit, with a single 5 (the kill) backed up by 2 1's! Talk about cutting it close!</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16812441537609481495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4286594829041213871.post-26469863908319324532017-07-18T01:44:00.001-07:002017-07-18T02:03:54.892-07:00the unfortunate history of tyson's furies<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Why Tyson's Furies?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Or the whole Major Mike Tyson thing?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Well, this is the internet, and we are talking about thumb-sized science fiction miniature wargaming. So the rule as it seems to be tends toward the ridiculous.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">I am a Mike, one of the 2,351,691,914 or so on the planet (I completely made that number up...)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">So I needed something to go with Mike, a name for what will hopefully be a hard hitting series of little miniatures campaigns, not just science fiction although that is the current flavor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As I am a child of the 80s, who could possibly provide better inspiration than Mike Tyson? Remember by definition we are talking about the ridiculous. I make no pretense as to defending Mike Tyson as an individual etc or admiring him as a person.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Imagine my further entertainment after reflecting on Tyson Fury. Talk about colorful characters! Again, no comment regarding him as an individual.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">That's the background for the naming of Tyson's Furies.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">But wait, there is further color to this story, literally.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As I'm painting up my latest batch of minis, basically aircraft (transports and attack aircraft) and a few mechs, with a couple of wheeled armored command vehicles thrown in, I wanted to go for a very neutral color scheme. Think camouflage, so olive drab or what have you. Except in the sci fi realm, we have no idea where these troops will be showing up. What planet? what part of what planet?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Grey seemed the best solution. suitably drab no matter where they land. preferably a darker grey, but not so far as charcoal/slate. I found that color and was very happy with it - field gray.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Heaven forbid but after painting them up, I learned the Tamiya field gray I was using was basically German gray during the war. So as a Jewish guy I've just painted up my sci fi minis in German field gray from the war. Not appropriate at all!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">I did try to minimize the field gray on some of the minis after the horrible realization, by painting over them with a lighter gray. 2-color scheme camouflage. I think that works reasonably well, at least until someone points out matching patterns of German armor from the war!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Other notes re the minis. The large freighter (had been intended as an airborne command vehicle, like an AWACS, but apparently not allowed in Horizon Wars), the Kirin combat walkers (not pictured at present but likely to surface in future games), and strike fighter (not picture at present) are from Brigade models. Very happy with the level of detail and design of these minis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">The rest of the minis, at least the aircraft, are from ground zero games. The AV9 VTOL gunship, and troop/medium transports.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">The cockpit glass is black with a little silver/metal mixed in to give a shine effect. it looked really good after painting, but the dull/flat coat i sprayed has toned it down too much. Gary liked it though! And the engine exhaust from the large freighter/airborne command is orange (actually yellow and red mixed) with a little bronze thrown in. I thought the bronze effect would add nicely to the color mix, but also again give it a little metallic shine like the glow of an engine. pretty pleased with that i was.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Note the color coding, little flashes of color discreetly painted on to panels of any duplicate models. As there is some amount of record keeping for Horizon Wars, I wanted a way to tell the individual models apart. Hence now I can actually have a "gold leader" leading my attack wing for science fiction minis!</span></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16812441537609481495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4286594829041213871.post-61681264931743277412017-06-22T02:38:00.000-07:002017-06-26T00:55:37.727-07:00horizon wars first game experience<span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">sadly it's almost a month later after playing, but finally i'm getting this post up with my report of the battle and the photos. the report is geared heavily toward my experience, but then I'M WRITING IT! and i was buy learning the rules, so not concentrating on how badly gary felt while i was pasting him... (hint to the serious good luck of the magic die cup!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">First turn 2 of 3 of my airborne units try scooting up my right flank</span></span><br />
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">I think I then brought a p1 mechanical or perhaps a land speeder on.
Gary brought up infantry and mechs to support. To counter my air assault and go for the table objective, the high rise at the centre of the table.
2nd turn, finished my air assault. more of the same from Gary.
Worried a little about giving up the objective so easily. But let's see how the game plays is most important.
My transport aircraft have disembarked their troops and are on to making a pain in the arse out of themselves. Flaw in rules? (the rules suggest transport aircraft will be carefully used. mine were until they dropped off their passengers, and were then used very egregiously!)</span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">I was worried about not having my mechs or my tanks on yet. Expensive and heavy firepower not being used. Not being used before it's too late? </span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">Gary had his stuff on the table. Or his artillery was off table but still effective.
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">A few turns into the game and my p1 mech and land speeder have arrived in the middle of the table and combined to kill Gary's hq!</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">Apparently infantry dies if you get a critical hit. This would be a big recurring theme during the game (at gary's expense!). I also managed to kill his recon unit on the right too.
Next turn, or 2 later, I i killed his infantry holding the objective. Another critical hit! The dice cup is starting to glow with magic!</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">My recon deep deploy on the opposite end of the table (left side) from my airborne infantry. Opposite what I expected (i had intended them to deploy with the airborne infantry for protection), but the airborne were taking stiff resistance and I wanted the recon to survive to call in heavy fire from my p3 mech. </span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">I had also talked up deploying the recon with the airborne for at least 1 turn, leaving me starting to feel like they should come on somewhere else gary might be less prepared for...</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">The recon deployed behind a hill in gary's rear, on the far side, to protect them from getting shot upon landing. that also meant they weren't in a good spot to perform their job function (spotting), at least without suffering heavy incoming for it. So they boogied over the hill into the nearest high rise.</span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">My tanks and heavy mech were finally on the table. But too far away to be useful?
The heavy mech started first. Indirect fire directed by the recon unit. Miss. Direct fire. Also a miss. Should have been able to put a good hurt on Gary's artillery which he had brought on table for lack of clear targets (or my killing his spotting units? i don't remember...) </span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">The heavy mech didn't do much the next turn either. Disappointing. Think it was bad luck with the dice, despite having otherwise tremendous luck with the magic dice cup.
Tanks moved up next. Maybe effective, but not really used enough to know.
End of game left Gary with little if any infantry, but 2 P2 mechs, all his artillery, and his p3 mech.
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">Judged in my favor. I should have been able to kill his artillery. With indirect fire from my mech, or direct fire from the mech or the tanks. His p2 mechs were a problem. But outnumbered by my tanks. And I had indirect fire from the p3 mech to call on if needed. Assuming it didn't take long to wipe out his artillery. His p3 mech presumably cancelled out mine. Although I still had the advantage of indirect fire on my p3 mech.</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">apologies for the pictures, they seem to lack oomph and maybe a bit distant. yes this is micro scale! but my cwc commander pictures seem to come out better. i will probably try using our pocket camera and tripod, but even then most of my cwc pictures are from the camera phone.</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">Thoughts about the game?</span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">Lots of fun. It plays well, reasonably fast paced. took a while, we started playing i think 4:30ish, went till 9:00ish. only a couple of potty breaks. we used large forces - 20 points. but that gave a proper combined arms experience - tanks, infantry, mechs, and transport (gary had at least one ground transport instead of air transport). look forward to playing again.</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">rules observations and queries:</span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">disembarking airborne troops wasn't entirely clear. can the aircraft land, disembark, and the troops move all in the same turn? we played it over 2 turns, i don't remember the exact order. think it was landing, then disembarking and moving the next turn.</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">the freedom of the transport aircraft to fly around and make a pain in the arse out of themselves had entertainment value, but did seem to violate the spirit of the rules which as mentioned suggest they should have left the table. this deserves further explanation; the aircraft were lightly armed, with only 1 attack die, which is what they were meant to represent (think a transport helo with a door gunner rather than an attack helo with some troop carrying ability like a hind...)</span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">so there was a limit as to how effective they could really be. that said, they still got some good shots in (magic dice cup to the rescue!), and so presented gary with a pressing need to shoot them down. which meant distracting his fire from my other stronger units.</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">artillery is punchy. i didn't have any, but i did worry about what gary had, since i couldn't hit any of it while it was off table. that said, i still appeared to come out stronger in the end, albeit not decisively.</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">infantry is tough, but brittle. takes a lot of hits to kill them. or, 1 lucky critical hit where you can reduce their armor stat. fortunately for me, the lucky dice cup rolled quite a few critical hits!</span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">that leaves a question as to whether infantry should occupy an objective, which is traditionally their job. not clear what else would be better, however, except from probably a mech. but mechs are expensive toys to squander on occupying objectives.</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">cover rules were strange. we played anything could take cover and benefit, which maybe is a little excessive? but then i remember the rules weren't quite so generous (we may have played a house rule? it was almost 1 month ago)</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">action tokens of some sort are strongly suggested. i bought these at £4.50 each, could easily have used more for our 40 point game (20 points each side). we also used smoke (painted cotton) for kills.</span></pre>
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_6336" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_6346" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; padding: 7px;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">4Ground Marker Light/Lock On Token Set (Green)</span></td><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_6335" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; padding: 7px;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">MG-TAM-148G</span></td><td style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; padding: 7px; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">1</span></td><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_6356" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; padding: 7px; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">£4.50</span></td><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_6357" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; padding: 7px; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">£4.50</span></td></tr>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">a spreadsheet for your army is strongly suggested, as there is record keeping. the record keeping doesn't detract from game play if you set up a spread sheet. but i hadn't done mine quite right - the columns were justified left i think, whereas the headers weren't, which made it difficult (not really, less easy) to do the record keeping as it wasn't quite as easy to see what belonged where.</span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">i messed up the aircraft design somehow, not figuring the allocation points right. don't think it made a big difference, but maybe, and git gives gary an excuse to argue otherwise!</span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">freedom of army design: i haven't played any other scifi games. aside from 40k years ago. so the freedom of design is both very novel, and also works well i think. it does introduce record keeping, but i don't think this will be a significant drawback (and i abhor record keeping for tabletop games).</span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">a few questions about the rules, however. 1, recon is limited to infantry. what about other sorts of recon units? my old epic troops (never used before this hw game!) include recon bikes and lightly armed land speeder type things, which i also would have intended for recon. but they don't seem to be allowed (infantry only). so instead i just made the speeders light cav, which played a decent role in the game (see above, including the pictures). but would have preferred them as recon.</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">i remember questioning what exactly mobile infantry was. something like regular infantry (at least as that's between light infantry and heavy infantry), which can mount up on transports (but distinct from airborne infantry, which tend to be airborne...)</span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">to me, all that means is they lose the benefits of the other infantry classes, but i don't really see the offsetting advantage. i mean, all the other classes can mount up too (but can't drop from the sky like airborne, although this didn't stop me from loading my heavies onto air transport and landing them...)</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">epilogue:</span></pre>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">i have significant amounts of airborne transports and attack aircraft, both vtol types (think avatar) and a more traditional fighter (something that might be star wars or battlestar galactica, but isn't).</span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1498119820604_2108" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #ffe599;">look forward to getting them all out on the table again!</span></pre>
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very pleasant little find. light on the armour, from what i saw, but good collection of aircraft, all in a good state. wwi up to the present, or at least the cold ward.<br />
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Vyskov airbase museum. I had driven past it, just off the d1 about 20-30 minutes east of brno. lot of the stuff is in a state of disrepair, but a good collection of migs, a few hips, a frogfoot, and some other stuff including apcs, field guns, etc. nice little collection of information on czech pilots from the war (i think in the raf, and they probably would have socialized in the czechoslovak pub in west hampstead...!) and many aircraft models of all nations and stripes.worth a good hour or so for a visit, maybe 2. you'd have to be a real nut to get more out of it but i could see there being potential if you wanted a more detailed inspection -</div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sirs, the
little that is left of our command is in full retreat from Gronau. After 2
previous attempts, Soviet hordes finally massed in force and have crossed the
river and are breaking through to Western Germany! Urgent reinforcements
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Thanks to Brigadier
G (Genghis) Kamden again for another good game. And to his dog Fenrir for
providing much needed distraction from the slowly unfolding massacre on the
tabletop. This game could have otherwise been called, ‘How to make the best of
a lost cause’…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Things I
could have done differently. Not much, I can’t think of, given Genghis had
twice as many troops, and I had a somewhat difficult table to defend. My right
side (the southern flank) was pretty clear, although even here the field of
fire from my defensive line was somewhat broken up by hedges on either side of
the river. The town was always going to be hard to defend, so I figured the
best spot would be at the river crossing, and I would use my phantoms (newly
acquired and painted up) to bomb it, calling in artillery strikes as needed.
Looking at the West German army lists, the artillery observers are reasonable,
command value 8 I think, and to boost that I upgraded him (twice the cost) to a
9. One lesson learned here, detailed below! The air controllers, however, are
Soviet quality, at a 6. So I figured not worthwhile, and any air attacks would
be better as scheduled (pre plotted) rather than called in.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">My left
flank, the northern flank, was difficult if not impossible to defend. The line of
trees/hedges cut my visibility, so I would have a very limited opportunity to
fire on things coming at me from this direction before they took cover.
Accepting this, I ordered a phantom strike for the second turn, which worked
out well, or as well as could be expected. I also had a recce unit placed on
the hill behind the trees, to observe anyone hiding behind them, which worked
out well, except for what you will read regarding my artillery below.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Anything
coming behind those trees on my left flank would have been basically impossible
to defend against, at least without placing a major effort to do so, and so
taking that effort from the centre and right side of the table. I figured
better to let them cross, and then when they attacked the town I would be in a
more defensible position at that stage, even if I had to defend a crossing over
the bridge from the front as well as from the northern flank.</span></div>
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minding of course that Genghis’s principle objective would have been to break
through, and so he could have just driven off the table rather than turn the
flank and assault the town…</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gronau from behind German lines. You can see the line of trees running along the left flank screening everything behind it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The same view with trees and hedges which lined the river and screened so many fields of fire</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the Soviet side along their Northern flank. You can see the hill about in the middle on the right edge of the table where the German recce deployed in a hope to be able to call in indirect fire to anything marching behind the line of trees.</td></tr>
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The German lines from the northern (left) flank.
Blurry imaging a result of German camouflage? In the first turn I dropped a
fascam minefield just to the bottom of the picture (the north/left flank) as a
further screen/defense against having this flank turned. Which would almost
play a big role at the end of the game!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Soviet assault begins with a pair of Frogfoot
strikes just across the bridge, right on my positions in Gronau. Worse, Genghis
also targeted both his artillery batteries on the same location! And he would
do it for the rest of the game!<o:p></o:p></div>
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As it worked out all this bombardment did take a toll,
but for the most part, the bit that I had in the area survived. I lost 1
infantry carrier and 1 infantry stand I think in the first round, and then
toward the end of the game 1 anti-tank missile vehicle. Critically, the first
round also caught my artillery observer, making my artillery useless for the
rest of the game! With my few airstrikes scheduled, they weren’t available to
be called in, making that excellently placed recce stand on top of the hill to
the north almost useless…<o:p></o:p></div>
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and infantry vehicle destroyed (the pair of black smokes, cotton balls, in the
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having 2 frogfoots! (actually I do have a mig27 in storage but its not painted
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The grey streak (pipe cleaner) represents an air
defense missile. Missing. Also, I think with the exception of 1 turn, we forgot
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My redeye man portable air defense missile missing one
of Genghis’s Frogfoots. The right is the right/southern flank which I chose to
defend, and I had some concern about Genghis ordering an air assault between
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Rumblerumblerumble. The Soviet hordes appear! Oh ****
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Start of the second turn. My phantoms return. One
strikes the front of Gronau, where I expect Genghis’s troops to concentrate for
an assault across the river. Unfortunately, too soon…<o:p></o:p></div>
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My other phantom strikes the little clump of woods on
the left flank, which I had so much concern about screening Genghis’s approach
on this side. I figured if I couldn’t shoot it, I could still bomb it! (with
the pre-plotted missions…)<o:p></o:p></div>
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This worked out well, but would have worked out much
better if I could have hit the tanks with something else to compound the
damage. Like requesting an artillery strike, sighted by the recce unit! Except Genghis
had already killed my artillery observer…<o:p></o:p></div>
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suppression, mini dice representing hits. But nothing serious enough for a kill
(as mentioned, I needed to compound the damage somehow…) note we clear the
trees from the wood to make placing the cotton markers easier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Speaking of pre-plotted missions, my air assault goes
in behind the Soviet southern flank! Of course, I didn’t expect the Soviets to
be still occupying that village given it was the far end of the table, rather
than advancing forward… Lucky for me, Genghis’s air defense was located on the
wrong side of the village, so my choppers were safe! Realistically, I didn’t
need 2, but the ch53 models are new, and I had a mission to get all the new
toys out on the table! I do think that having 2 helped split the loads, so that
if 1 got shot down, it wouldn’t have been a total loss…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Soviet view of my air assault. The coloured cotton
to the right represents a smoke screen to screen the landings from air defense
weapons.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not much happened after this, I don’t think. Or at
least I didn’t take pictures. There wasn’t much my ground forces could do, and Genghis’s
central command failed a command roll so couldn’t do anything.<o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He did, however, manage to call
in a pair of Hinds to hit my air assault force. My one little bit of bad luck
(aside from losing the artillery observer at the start of the game) was the air
assault command failing its command roll after getting out of the choppers.
Leaving them exposed in the open, whereas if they had passed the roll, they
could have gone into the town and assaulted Genghis’s anti-tank weapons and air
defense unit, and made mince meat out of them…</span></td></tr>
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The casualties quickly start to mount from a pair of Hind
strikes Genghis urgently called in. Tragically, the entire assault force would be wiped out – those Hinds
can be very powerful! And infantry caught in the open can be very vulnerable…<o:p></o:p></div>
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My phantoms go in for their final mission, a cluster
bomb attack on the river front in Gronau, where I had expected Genghis’s
assault force to be concentrating. Note the added black smoke over 2 of my
units at the bottom of the picture. One, the truck toward the right, was a hq.
That doesn’t help the command!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Genghis’s Hinds go in again, looking for targets on
the German right/southern flank. I don’t remember if they got anything, but
there were slim pickings with most troops hidden in the town or in/behind the
woods/hedges.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Back to the German center. Hey what’s all that smoke
(the cotton streaky stuff) to the left? And what’s that enormous noise coming
from behind the smoke?<o:p></o:p></div>
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That would be Genghis’s Halo, his air assault from the
largest helicopter ever made… Note the strip of clear plastic between the helo
and the smoke. That was the fascam minefield I dropped at the very start of the
game! Good thinking! Unfortunately Genghis didn’t specify exactly where he
would land the assault, drawing up a box between smoke screens (you can see the
other side behind the helo). It was reasonably well specified, and fair enough.
So he rolled a die to see if he landed in the minefield or not, and
unfortunately for me he avoided it. It might still present a decent obstacle
though…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yikes! That Halo can carry a lot of guys! None of whom
were dumb enough to step in the minefield…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Double yikes! Are those tanks coming up behind the air
assault? That was actually pretty well planned and executed…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Genghis’s tanks streaming across the Leine river on
the north flank of the German line. Note the bridging unit helping them get
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Things starting to look desperate for the German
centre. A few ko’d units, mechanized infantry with anti tank missiles
approachign from the front, while the air assault and tanks are approaching
from the north/left. Note the 1 infantry stand which noticed that while the
town was getting bombed, the ground just below on the riverbank (by the grey
stone bridge) wasn’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A step back from the German centre, showing the
mechanized infantry across the river to the front, the airborne infantry to the
left, and the tanks behind them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Basically, it was a tough task for the Germans to
defend against twice their number, on a table with a restricted view down the
left side, especially after their artillery observer, who I counted on to
provide support as needed especially on the left flank, got killed at the start
of the game. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">The best option seemed to sit and wait and try and
take anything out as it came in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">It worked, kind of, but not nearly well enough. Genghis’s
tanks went along the north flank and came in on my left, and without artillery
support, the only thing I could hit them with was the luck of 1 of the
pre-plotted phantom missions. Although I did get 1 of the tanks that turn by
the recce unit calling in (from the cinc) a helicopter strike on the tanks (new
bo105s!). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">His attack from the center came too slowly for my
phantoms to hit as their scheduled attacks came earlier, and then they were in
the town and I couldn’t see them any more to hit them. He hadn’t done much on
his left/southern flank, but then he didn’t need to as the tanks crossing in
the north, the airborne assault, and the mechanized infantry coming across the
river through the town in the center were all entirely too much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">I will say, as I was contemplating the table and how
to defend it, I did think that there were no easy ways for Genghis to attack.
He had to assume I was going to do something in the town in the center. He
actually said he expected me to defend more forward, which I considered, but it
wouldn’t give as good a defense since he would have been in the town too, and
being concentrated in the town in the middle would have limited my range of
fire to the flanks…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">And he ought to have assumed I would do something,
like I did, to frustrate any advance along the north/his right, behind the line
of trees. As I actually did with the first phantom strike, and planned to do
with artillery if he hadn’t killed my ao.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Perhaps I could have dropped the fascam minefield more
forward, like along the tree line on the left, so making it irrelevant or,
better, catching anything he might already have there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Obviously, I didn’t need the air assault toward Genghis’s
rear. But if it worked it would have been a big success. It would have wiped
out all his anti-tank weapons in that village, and would have provided an
excellent and lethal flanking shot into anything coming across that side of the
table, including potential anything going for a central assault through Gronau.
Even if Genghis routed his central assault through the middle of Gronau, so
hiding from my airborne assault, they doubtless would have attracted units to
beat off the flank shot. And that would have taken pressure off the center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Air assaults are cool, and one of the doctrinal rules
is to get all the toys out on the table…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">So it went in, and it was with a little bad luck that
they failed to immediately assault the town after getting out of the helos...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Obviously I didn’t need 2 phantoms, or even 2 ch53s to
conduct the air assault. But none of them were very expensive. And remember
doctrine says to get all the toys on the table, and arguably the phantom
strikes paid off (1 certainly did, and how would you know which 1 would have if
you pulled 1 out?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Upgrading the artillery observer – I don’t think I’d
do that again. you get better odds of calling something in, but only slightly,
and at twice the cost. And at twice the cost, you can just buy a second
observer, again raising the odds of doing something, and making them twice as
hard to kill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">And perhaps I could have defended more forward. But
that would have been of little benefit as I couldn’t expect to drive all the
way through Gronau to the Soviet edge, so defending the town from its edge.
Instead I could expect to drive into it, and meet Genghis half way. Meaning he
would have the same benefit of cover as me. Actually it would have been worse
as I was counting on using fire from protected locations to take out what I
could of Genghis’s troops. And deploying more forward in the town would have
restricted my field of fire as well as be of limited benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Deploying to my left I passed on and really couldn’t
see how to make it work. The hedges along both sides of the river meant you
couldn’t hide behind the river and shoot anything approaching it. Perhaps a
more forward minefield deployed there would have helped. But I gave myself only
1 fascam round (using more minefields I think starts to deny too much of the
table and make the game much less fun). And deploying it forward would have
meant not deploying it immediately to my left, which probably would have left
that flank open to attack somehow anyway, and certainly would have left it open
to a helicopter assault regardless, as actually happened. Indeed, that
minefield deployed on my left came very close to taking out Genghis’s air
assult all by itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Finally, I had much better luck with my command rolls
this time. Or should I say not nearly as bad luck as last time (which is kind
of funny, considering I sort of won that game, and completely lost this game!) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">I did bring out the fancy new leather dice cup, and I
think it’s quite possible my dice wisened up at the threat of never being
thrown by hand again. Now I just have to remember to use it for other games,
especially ones without such a big concentration on throwing so many dice, like
king of the battlefield…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">As it stands, however much I might feel I fought a
brave defense in a somewhat hopeless battle, Genghis planned well, executed
well, and beyond doubt blew through the German lines (almost not touching my
right flank, but who cares?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">I look forward to the next game, and where Genghis
decides to send his invading forces! My most important recommendation: start
learning Russian! </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The front south of
Hanover is in urgent need of reinforcement after a Soviet reconnaissance has
taken the Highway 1 bridge crossing the Leine, threatening the integrity of our
lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Soviets have not yet
reconned the rest of the river, however, although a tank battalion is sitting
in Nordstemmen waiting to engage, with Soviet reinforcements expected to be
brought up to try and exploit the opening of the Highway 1 bridge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">In game terms, as the second game in a Cold War Commander campaign:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I lost the opening initiative
so Brigadier G Kamden went first (G short for Genghis, as in a direct descendant of the Great Khan himself). Which was very bad for my right flank guarding the
Highway 1 bridge as the regimental commander was apparently stuck in the beer
hall, or possibly in a brothel. This meant they hadn’t been able to take cover
and deploy in the village immediately in front of them…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Genghis promptly drove up
his mechanized brigade right up to the village, and then called an artillery
strike on all my units caught in the open. Fortunately, my troops suffered only
light damage and casualties and suppressions, which were removed at the end of
my turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Howard also drove
another small mechanized infantry detachment up to the rail bridge in the
center, and juggled his armor on his right, the north flank immediately in
front of Marienberg Castle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">When I did get the
initiative, my recce called an artillery strike on Genghis detachment in front
of the railroad bridge and wiped them out. It also wiped out my lonely air
defence unit parked right in front of the bridge and right in front of Genghis' detachment. That unit could easily have been given orders to move, but
something about the CO not leaving the beer hall or the brothel…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I also sent in some
close assaults in on my right. My one ATGM shot of the game (3 units, parked
behind the village for cover, which meant they couldn’t shoot out from behind
the village and were too close to the village to shoot into it) went after
Howard’s tank on the right but he evaded it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Things were looking
better for my right, guarding that critical bridge, and less good for Genghis.
But I failed my next command roll and so couldn't move any other units into
cover or keep shooting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">So, back to Genghis who started
shooting up my units guarding the bridge, before he missed calling an artillery
strike and an air strike. Typical for Soviet observers…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Back to me, I called an
artillery strike into the town on my right and promptly took out Genghis' artillery observer. It also put some hits on his tank, but I didn't have any
units to shoot and follow it up with as they were either stuck behind the town,
had been killed, or were suppressed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The seesaw battle on the
right let Genghis shoot up more of my troops, before I sent in more close
assaults, which didn't fair as well, before Genghis proceeded with mopping up operations
with what was left of my right, eventually getting down to just my command and
a single infantry stand (starting with 3 atgm vehicles, 5 marder infantry
fighting vehicles, 2 recce units which fought well, and 5ish infantry units).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">He won outright. I took some
of his units on the right/southern flank, he wiped out that side of my army.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strategically, going
into the next game at least it’s a little more mixed. Genghis pushed me back on
the southern flank (wiped it out!), and gained the highway and the bridge. But
he didn't get to scout out fording points over the river and didn’t get anyone
across the river yet (technically he hadn’t occupied the bridge, but by the end
of the game there was nothing I could do to stop it).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The pictures. All are
from the southern flank in front of the bridge, as that’s where all the action
was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The first shows my
troops shrugging off most of their hits (the only one with a marker is an
infantry stand with the red cotton puff to the left), and a few kills on
Genghis' troops (the black cotton puffs) with another suppression further back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The second/middle
picture is my favourite. I’ve started to pick up a couple of kills, but check
out the red glare on the middle atgw vehicle. That’s Genghis' forward air
controller laser painting him! Years ago I picked up a laser pen for line of
sight judgements, and promptly buried it never to be seen again. until the
other day when I was rooting around through all the old stuff, and brought it
out for this game. Really happy with that – laser designating artillery and air
strikes! And it looked much better live, when it was a real laser, than the red
glare in the photo -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The final picture shows
my right/southern flank heading toward its rapid demise. Most vehicles ko’d,
and not many infantry left…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Soviet observers are
****. Just pre plot everything!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">My deployment was
terrible. I’m not sure there’s much I could have done about that; we chose the
map, I might have chosen differently if I just wanted something I could defend,
but the point was to defend the river for our campaign; I realized from the
google maps that defending the town of Nordstemmen would have been a better way
of defending the river than defending the river itself. There were hedge rows
running across the table cutting visibility, and along the banks of the river
in the center. I couldn’t defend the near (east) hedge as my units would be in
the river. If they were behind the far hedge/river bank (west), then the hedge
along the east bank would block line of sight. I did leave a few infantry units
behind the river, but more as a just in case and without really anywhere else
useful for them to go, rather than as a useful place to be…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4286594829041213871" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Losing the initiative on
the first turn sealed it. if I had won it, my troops are in the town, very
different battle. Who know what the dice roll and the opposition bring, but it
should have gone the opposite way, probably even more in my favor as I had 3
heavy shooters plus the arms/armor of the 5 infantry carriers (slightly better
than howard’s), vs howard’s 1 heavy tank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I should have
aggressively used opportunity fire as howard approached the village in front of
the bridge, and as he started picking my guys off. That would have interrupted
his attacks, and hit/suppressed his units before they had a chance to go
through mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Genghis had decent
command rolls for his group attacking the bridge. Because he took the command
over with his c.o., which has a higher rating. I pointed out that’s a risky
tactic as it potentially means precluding doing anything with his other units,
but he pointed out he wasn’t doing anything with them anyway…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The cotton balls are a
neat way to mark kills and suppressions. Kills we’ve known about for a while.
But it’s cool for suppressions too. the plastic ones I bought, what cheap ****.
Dying the cotton balls, cheap and easy! I’m also glad I sprayed them with a
tinge of black, otherwise they looked like coloured pompoms dropped over the
tanks!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Genghis’ infantry is
deadly as he upgrades them with rpgs…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are toast for artillery strikes. I think I got a little lucky with taking
howard’s 3 apcs out as they approached the railroad bridge, but still, this is
a known liability…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teufelsberg on the top right corner of the picture. The Soviets had cleared the bridge on the bottom left.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The German air assault takes the village in the northwest (German left) corner. It would be a good spot for flank shots into any advancing soviets. If they advance...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The meat grinder in Teufelsberg. Fortunately most of the kills are to Soviet tanks!</td></tr>
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