Normandy 44 continues! (Turn 14)

Lawrence and I continued our Normandy 44 game via vassal.

CLEAR SKIES!!!  The perfect weather leave JABOS flying all over the battlefield.  The Germans (me) rashly decided to attack anyway - there was a 50% chance of the jabos not showing up over any particular battle and only a 1 in 6 chance of them being a 3 column shift... 
First attack with Tigers went from a 3 to 1 down to a 1 to 2 and ended up a A1 result...
Second attack with Panthers went from a 2 to 1 down to a 1 to 3 and I forget what the exact outcome was but it was not good.  Yup, double sixes for the Allied air followed by bad combat results for the Germans.  German counter attacks out of Caen were now a thing of the past.

End of Allied part of turn 14.  The Jabos strike again!  Destroying what was left of my Panthers near Caen (strafing attack).  The US pulls off three attacks pushing the Germans back toward Cherbourg and nearly cutting the Cotentin.  The Commonwealth forces do not do nearly as well.  The attack along the cost is stopped by a DD and the other two attacks end up exchanges.  

If they do not get at least Overcast tomorrow the Germans are probably done for.

Normandy 44 continued via VASSAL (turns 12 and 13)

Lawrence and I continued our Normandy 44 game via Vassal due to Covid-19

German Turn 12 start.

Start of Allied turn 12.  German attacks are shown.  The Allies are pushed back in a few spots.

Results of Allied turn 12.  The Germans taketh and the Allies taketh back.  Allied attacks and results shown.

Results of German turn 13.  More attacks force the Allies further away from Caen.

The Allies do not attack on Turn13 and reorganize instead.

That was all the game time in for that day.  We would be playing a game a week on Friday's or Saturday for the foreseeable future.  Vassal is not as nice as FtF but does allow the game to be easily stowed and with no drive time to get to a game allows short game sessions. 

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.

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. 

PHD Game 3 end of TM1

A boring update.  Tycho and I started up our 3rd run of Purple Heart Draw by Lone Canuck Publishing.  The US made a push through the town for the bridge over the draw.  An early game end kept them from taking all of the bank on that side of the draw but they came very close.  Losses are on the right and amounted to a single US squad and two German squads and a busted gun.

Normandy 44 continue

A very boring placeholder post.  Continued the Normandy 44 game today.

Normandy 44 continues

A boring post.  Lawrence and I continued our game of Normandy 44.