Corporal Leoce
Member
ASL-a-maniacs,
Albany 2017...the 14th one...has come and gone and it's
afterglow will warm me till Christmastime. It seems to come
and go faster every year!
Here's what it was like for me:
Round 1 A Polish Battlefield vs. Mike Puccio
"Pooch" is a great friend and my Albany travel and room mate.
We don't play each other as often as we'd like and always plan a
"getaway" scenario on the last day. Since we were not playing on
Sunday, we matched up for a larger than usual scenario in Round one
and "Polish" seemed like a good one. We picked sides straight up
and I got the SS attacker.
I set up my entire OB on the German left, with just the off board
Arty observer on the right and I moved out. When my board entry movement
ended with virtually nothing lost or effected, I breathed a sigh of relief.
That sigh turned into a wail as Mike revealed a HIP 76LL gun on the hill with
an LOS to almost all of my tanks in line. By the next half turn, 3 of my Panzer IV's
were gone ( 1 burning ) and the British sniper recalled my CE Stug. Oh Oh!
2/3 of my Armor was gone. It was going to be an infantry fight for the hills.
I caught my breath...and personal morale...and moved off to contact.
I got a Sherman with a 'faust and another with the Arty. Hmm. Pretty good.
I also started rolling up British infantry as I climbed the hill on the left and
started moving to the right.
Pooch did a great job of positioning his remaining assets so that the Arty
couldn't affect more than one unit at a time and getting up onto level 3 and
over it to the British left flank started costing me pins, breaks and kills.
In turn 6, I assessed my position, my assets and the remaining work at hand and
determined that I didn't have the time and assets to accomplish the VC so OI threw
in the towel.
0-1
...to be continued
Albany 2017...the 14th one...has come and gone and it's
afterglow will warm me till Christmastime. It seems to come
and go faster every year!
Here's what it was like for me:
Round 1 A Polish Battlefield vs. Mike Puccio
"Pooch" is a great friend and my Albany travel and room mate.
We don't play each other as often as we'd like and always plan a
"getaway" scenario on the last day. Since we were not playing on
Sunday, we matched up for a larger than usual scenario in Round one
and "Polish" seemed like a good one. We picked sides straight up
and I got the SS attacker.
I set up my entire OB on the German left, with just the off board
Arty observer on the right and I moved out. When my board entry movement
ended with virtually nothing lost or effected, I breathed a sigh of relief.
That sigh turned into a wail as Mike revealed a HIP 76LL gun on the hill with
an LOS to almost all of my tanks in line. By the next half turn, 3 of my Panzer IV's
were gone ( 1 burning ) and the British sniper recalled my CE Stug. Oh Oh!
2/3 of my Armor was gone. It was going to be an infantry fight for the hills.
I caught my breath...and personal morale...and moved off to contact.
I got a Sherman with a 'faust and another with the Arty. Hmm. Pretty good.
I also started rolling up British infantry as I climbed the hill on the left and
started moving to the right.
Pooch did a great job of positioning his remaining assets so that the Arty
couldn't affect more than one unit at a time and getting up onto level 3 and
over it to the British left flank started costing me pins, breaks and kills.
In turn 6, I assessed my position, my assets and the remaining work at hand and
determined that I didn't have the time and assets to accomplish the VC so OI threw
in the towel.
0-1
...to be continued