sdennis
Elder Member
So Carl and others... can Dinant be spoiled by bad traffic management?
Neil had a thought that than came true to some extent during our scenario.
The question is, if the French put EVERYTHING in position to kill trucks and/or ACs on the narrow streets could you effectively end the CG because no vehicles could get to the shore? Especially the pontoons?
So the example in our game was Neil brought 2 trucks with Pontoons down the river road in the PP/QQ row. At some point the lead truck ended up in QQ49 I think in bypass, motion with the other one behind him in QQ50. I was looking for random targets for my MTR and realized I could see him, 5 TH at 46 hex range, motion +2 and of course I rolled a 3 followed by the 7 to immobilize him. So at this point as far as we can tell those pontoons AND THE ONES BEHIND are "dead"!
Can't unload in bypass, can't reverse while towing, can't push the wreck out of the way with a heavier vehicle on a narrow street... Did we miss anything (it turns out I shot at the hex containing the trail truck to hit the infantry in the bulding and killed it anyhow but still the concept is the question here.
can't tow in bypass except on a narrow road either
If we understand it correctly than that the pontoons MUST travel down these narrow streets to unload their cargo...
Imagine if the French setup for and pulled off the following on narrow roads:
wreck in QQ48 (blocks all traffic from the connecting roads)
wreck in SS47/RR47
wreck in SS47/TT46
wreck in WW39/WW40
wreck in SS25/TT24 (I think you can hit this from DD4/DD3)
wreck in TT22 (is a wreck on a woods road enough to block it?)
If you managed to do this, does it really mean that NO pontoons can get down to the shore?
I suppose you could unload in WW26 and try to manhandle them 6 hexes through buildings??
Again, even blocking SOME of those roads would make it VERY difficult on the Germans...
I've blocked several of them and the other CG had a sniper effectively do the same thing if I remember...
If we have this right, it sort of turns the German side into a civil engineering project in traffic management doesn't it?
Neil had a thought that than came true to some extent during our scenario.
The question is, if the French put EVERYTHING in position to kill trucks and/or ACs on the narrow streets could you effectively end the CG because no vehicles could get to the shore? Especially the pontoons?
So the example in our game was Neil brought 2 trucks with Pontoons down the river road in the PP/QQ row. At some point the lead truck ended up in QQ49 I think in bypass, motion with the other one behind him in QQ50. I was looking for random targets for my MTR and realized I could see him, 5 TH at 46 hex range, motion +2 and of course I rolled a 3 followed by the 7 to immobilize him. So at this point as far as we can tell those pontoons AND THE ONES BEHIND are "dead"!
Can't unload in bypass, can't reverse while towing, can't push the wreck out of the way with a heavier vehicle on a narrow street... Did we miss anything (it turns out I shot at the hex containing the trail truck to hit the infantry in the bulding and killed it anyhow but still the concept is the question here.
can't tow in bypass except on a narrow road either
If we understand it correctly than that the pontoons MUST travel down these narrow streets to unload their cargo...
Imagine if the French setup for and pulled off the following on narrow roads:
wreck in QQ48 (blocks all traffic from the connecting roads)
wreck in SS47/RR47
wreck in SS47/TT46
wreck in WW39/WW40
wreck in SS25/TT24 (I think you can hit this from DD4/DD3)
wreck in TT22 (is a wreck on a woods road enough to block it?)
If you managed to do this, does it really mean that NO pontoons can get down to the shore?
I suppose you could unload in WW26 and try to manhandle them 6 hexes through buildings??
Again, even blocking SOME of those roads would make it VERY difficult on the Germans...
I've blocked several of them and the other CG had a sniper effectively do the same thing if I remember...
If we have this right, it sort of turns the German side into a civil engineering project in traffic management doesn't it?