Reffed this one with a new friend and my son. Jeff (new guy) took the US and Jordan (My son) took the Germans. A six turn fight over a crossroads in Normandy.
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| The Germans enter from the bottom and the US setup behind the line. I made a mistake and the US roll of a 1 on the setup only allowed a single unit to setup south of the topmost hedgerow. It would make a big difference. Also forgetting that moving off a road required a bog check. |
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| The Germans throw in the towel on turn 3. The first US shot at a PZIV is a crit and kills the tank. The unit morale makes the survivor run off the board. The next shot is another crit and kills another German tank. The remaining German tank managed to kill that Sherman (the exchange of shots shown) but then failed it's unit morale check for having lost a tank. The US passed their check so at this point the Germans were down 4 tanks (one broken tank left) while the US were down a single tank with 9 left. Points wise it was over. If the hits had not been crits or if they had missed it may have ended differently but the odds are with the US in this one. It also does not help that the stats on the PZIV are different between the 2nd edition rules, this module, and the latest unit charts. The latest unit charts probably would have given the PZIV an edge since they had more armor and might have stopped another hit. The M4s also had another point of armor too though. |
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