ASL BFP Iron Greeting finish

 Finished playing Iron Greeting today.  It is a small scenario and I am posting this months later so I don't remember why it took two game sessions.

Writeup from last week

ASL Scenario BFP 140: Iron Greeting

 Replayed this one with the new Freeze Sleaze rules in the latest journal (bypassing vehicles no longer kept units from firing out of the hex, only from out of the location).  

The Poles have to capture and hold onto the three circles buildings to win the game. Before when we played it was a comple blowout for the Poles, being able to freeze sleeze the Russian defenders well before their reinforcements arrived.

Start of the game with the VC buildings marked.  The Russian reinforcements come on the right side on turn 3.  In our previous game it was all over by the end or turn 2 with the VC buildings taken and the Poles waiting for the Russian reinforcements.

End of turn 4 on this game.  The Russian ability to keep firing made the vehicular sleaze freeze less effective but Russian fire on the first turn was pretty bad.  Later on it picked up but the damage was done.  Although the game was called on the end of turn 4 it was very close, a single CC could have kept the Poles from capturing a building and then the Russians would only need to keep holding onto it instead of recapturing one.  

ASL scenario Kalina Klash

Interesting scenario.  The Germans have 5 turns to destroy all the polish armor or control the two circled buildings.

 

End of the game.  The Germans probably rushed a bit, losing too many tanks early on and that big stack of broken units at the bottom of the map came from trying to rush as a stack after a single Polish squad.  The German guns also did not get into the game (they are on the trucks).  They had the ability to take out the Polish armor fairly easily.

ASL Scenario DB060: Acorns in the fire (second playing)

 US did better this time (me) but still too many mistakes.

Different setup allowing US troops to get in position without as much risk.

A couple of stupid mistakes and it ends up another German win.  Have to be very careful with the tanks till the fight with the German armor comes up.

ASL scenario DB060: Acorns in the fire

The setup, US basically has to take the building at the top (with the four German stacks)

 

End game.  Too many US losses.

ASL scenario FF 12, Hitler's Samurai by Heat of Battle (Game 2 - second game day, one month later)

 After a whole LOT of missed games due to illness, the blahs, work, power outages, and more blahs we finished up the game started last month.

After leaving off with the start of Russian turn 3 this is German turn 3 with the reinforcements now on board.  The Cats are formidable but have to kill enough Russian tanks to make up for their loss (if they are lost).

End of German turn 4.  Each Cat managed to take out two Russian tanks leaving just two on the board.  We did not count out the points remaining but if the German squad managed to Faust the tank in the center of the square it would have been very dicey for the Russians and even if they missed it would have been a challenge.  

ASL scenario FF 12, Hitler's Samurai by Heat of Battle (Game 2)

 After misreading the VC on the first round we played this one again.

Game Start setup.  Russians have to get a lot of CVP off the far edge or get the CVP from German unit elimination.  Russian losses are not a problem (other than they can't get offboard for points of course)

End of first game day (game turn 2).  I think my Germans are in a world of hurt.  The town is basically clear of defenders but the German reinforcements come on next turn.

ASL scenario FF 12, Hitler's Samurai by Heat of Battle

 The Russians have to get 64CVP either by exiting or enemy casualties in this one.  With 10 tanks to start with they have to cause casualties and not to very badly at losing tanks so they can get them off the board.  The Russians also get FB possible starting on turn 4 and a 120mm OBA battery.

Game start - Russian forced come in from Off Board but the Germans do not get Bore Sighting.

End of game after 2.5 turns.  The Russians were doing well till the turn 3 Defensive Fire phase when the German 75L finally immobilized a Russian tank and then the 37L with the Stielgranate rounds took out three Russian tanks in a row (a less then 10% chance of that happening) .  The Russian arty also did not make come into play, first two draws for Arty were red chits.  

We are going to give this another play through with a change to allow the Russian Arty to automatically get a black chit for the first draw.  The smoke from that should change up the result a bit and the Russian player will scale back the speed of the assault - he misread the VC thinking that he lost CVP for Russian losses, but they only have to worry about getting off the board and causing German CVP.

ASL scenario DB 192 - Express for Leningrad

 A scenario I totally goofed up on as the Germans.  Tycho handed me a solid defeat (even ignoring the whine at the end, I was on the path to losing).  The Germans have to take two factories and having one AFV north of the River with functional main armament to win.

Scenario start.  The ground is soft and woods are light (which I did not properly read up on).  Finally the two circled buildings are factories and I kept forgetting I could drive my tanks right on in to them...

Two and a half turns later out of a 5.5 turn game I concede.  The four Russian tanks were due on the map in the Russian half of the turn and I was down to a single functional AFV.  The gun had just revealed itself this defensive fire and instantly got two crits against vehicles it should have had only a small chance of killing.  But all my own fault for messing up too many rules and not making proper use of the factory for the tanks to stage in.

ASL scenario DB 157: Morning Massacre part 2

 Finished up Morning Massacre today.  No picture.  Just a note that that it is a much closer situation then I thought and might play it again.

ASL Scenario DB 157: Morning Massacre

 Too lazy (and busy) to log much.  I thought this scenario would be a walkover for the Germans but it was much closer then I thought it would be.  Will have to play it again someday.

ASL Journal scenario 157: Rage Against the Machine. Finish

Finished this one up today.  The Germans were hard pressed after their ambush only failed to kill a single Russian tank, leaving the three AFVs to take on 7 Russian AFVs.

Start of turn 4.  The German AFVs came on last turn but were not able to get into good positions yet.

Start of turn 5.  The Russians did preliminary moves and the Germans moved to better positions.  At the bottom of the board one German AFV is firing at one Russian AFV.  In the village the Russians manage to get into the street but not into the village yet.

Start of turn 6.  The German AFV at the bottom of the map is destroyed when taking on three Russians, before it went it destroyed the Russian AFV on the road near the village.  (The two T34s closest to the German missed, the SU152 across the river then rolled a CH...
In the village the Russians have managed to get into the VC building by using an AFV as cover (in this case as a burning wreck from a Faust shot next door, if not that the Germans in the building would have been stuck in CC/Melee).

End of Russian turn 6 and the game.  The Russian unit in Melee with a German squad went beserk from fire outside the hex, the German unit wen DM from the same shot.  In the VC building the Russians were making headway. Finally the Germans were outnumbered enough that the Russians were able to run squads around the defense to the other VC hexes for the win.  Once again with a burning AFV to provide cover in the VC hex - the German HS there "luckily" rolled snakes when CCing the AFV doing the bypass.

ASL Journal scenario 157: Rage Against the Machine.

 Played the first 3 full turns of a 7.5 turn game.  A nice meaty ASL scenario from Journal 10.  Rage Against the Machine.  After a long stretch of smaller scenarios I was finally ready to tackle something with some more meat to it.  I took the Russians and Tycho the Germans.  At the end of 7.5 turns the Russians have to control 2 of the 3 victory areas to win (a bridge, a building, and a couple of buildings straddling a road).  

Start of the game.  The Russians get 8(!) meaty tanks.  The Germans will get 3 AFVs and a 75L gun.  Plus leaders are allowed to use the alternate faust rules and can setup HIP if stacked with one of two HIP MMCs.

After some crappy attack rolls the Russians run STRAIGHT into the German kill zone, with the range being near max the only blessing for them.  Well that and the VASL dice roller had it ought for the Germans too.  The Shrek missed on a 10 and was removed.  The 75L killed a T34/85 and shocked at IS2.  The leader with a Faust rolled boxcars.  The leader was already wounded and survived this wound check so no harm done except the wasted ambush.  The shocked IS2 would survive the shock, the 75L crew would break from a hit by the 152mm gun and the crew killed for FTR next turn.

The end of turn 3 after the German reinforcements come on.  The armor situation is looking bad for the Germans but the low ammo depletion numbers for the Russians may be a problem.  Next game session is on the 18th.