Saturday, March 28, 2020

ASL Dispatches from the Bunker 24 No Respite

Played this one with Tycho on VASL.  I was the Italians and he the British. 

The battlefield.  The Italians have 5 turns to take 4 of the 6 building hexes in the red lined area. 
Game start.  The Italians have a lot of troops but about equal numbers of tanks and guns.  We thought this would be more of a walkover till we noticed the Brits start concealed.   That makes things a little tougher for the Italians.


Game end before turn 5.  Failed my PMC but it could still have gone on for an Italian win.  Not likely though.  The First fire counter near the bottom middle is where an Italian squad went Berserk and died in CC - a pity since the other CC went my way.  As I recall my Italians could not make an MC to save their lives (literally) .  A good scenario and I would play it again.  I also love how VASL can recolor the maps to the theater.

Sunday, March 8, 2020

PHD Game 3 TM 2

Reusing the picture from the end of the first TM.  This is third (and final) playing of this campaign.  The first two ended up as one US blowout and one German blowout.  This one ended pretty much where this first TM ended.  The US managed to get three squads across the bridge when a gap appeared in their smoke screen (two OBA modules being used to create smoke and WP to cover the bridge).  The German OBA was accurately placed in the gap between the Bridge and The building to the left when just about anywhere else would have been out of LOS (I think, would have to review - the WP might not have been enough to block LOS).  The Germans then placed a Harrasing OBA so the entire route to the bridge and the bridge itself (and one hex beyond onto the German side of the draw) was covered by the OBA.  Excellent OBA rolls and lousy MC rolls broke all the US troops on the German side of the draw and most of those in the OBA pattern on the US side including those in the stone buildings.  With that the campaign game was called as a German win.  If playing as the US don't go through the draw, take the gap around to the left instead.