Not again! 12 on the 36 FP column!

[Kijug]

OK, honestly, how many of you have ever rolled <= 7 when you had the opportunity to roll on the 36 FP column? I don't think I have ever rolled low...but I got another chance the other night!

Case in point. My German 76L rolled snakes for a TH on the ITT...whoo-hoo! My German 76L gets a 36 FP at the nasty Americans with a -2 DRM for the building! Whoo hoo! I'll take that!

I roll boxcars...<snif>...2MC...OK...he rolls a three. 'nuf said. Boy I love/hate/love this game!

- Matt

 

[zgrose]

Feel ya

 

[skarper]

Wouldn't a 12 be a dud - or is that just for AP attacks?

 

[Eagle4ty]

Wouldn't a 12 be a dud - or is that just for AP attacks?

Yup, only AP/HEAT (in some instances) can be duds. No such thing as a round(s) that doesn't explode in ASL.

 

[skarper]

OK - I guess since HE fire would be several rounds 'duds' could be subsumed in the poor result of a natural 12. Makes sense.

 

[GeorgeBates]

I don't think I've ever had an outright KIA result with an FT or a DC. Lotsa 8s and 9s.

 

[bendizoid]

I believe there might be a subsequent dr necessary and if successful the attack should have been a 24 -2.

 

[Vinnie]

Ive had a 2 on 280mm OBA....

 

[GeorgeBates]

Ive had a 2 on 280mm OBA....

That's obscene

 

[David Reinking]

If you play ASL long enough, you might get to enjoy the aggravating Critical Hit- Dud sequence. It has happened to me more than once.

 

[GeorgeBates]

If you play ASL long enough, you might get to enjoy the aggravating Critical Hit- Dud sequence. It has happened to me more than once.

75mm HEAT round from a HIP airborne howitzer into the side of a Tiger. Didn't even singe the fur.

 

[bprobst]

If you play ASL long enough, you might get to enjoy the aggravating Critical Hit- Dud sequence.

It's exponentially more aggravating if your CH was from an Improbable Hit.

 

[Gamer72]

OK, honestly, how many of you have ever rolled <= 7 when you had the opportunity to roll on the 36 FP column? I don't think I have ever rolled low...but I got another chance the other night!

Case in point. My German 76L rolled snakes for a TH on the ITT...whoo-hoo! My German 76L gets a 36 FP at the nasty Americans with a -2 DRM for the building! Whoo hoo! I'll take that!

I roll boxcars...<snif>...2MC...OK...he rolls a three. 'nuf said. Boy I love/hate/love this game!

- Matt

Shouldn’t that have been 24 FP for the crit ?

 

[David Reinking]

Of course, I have also had a 150mm OBA hit a Bridge occupied by halftracks loaded with passengers and rolled a Critical Hit— dropping 3 bridge hexes into the water and all the halftracks and their passengers to their doom. You gotta love this game.

 

[King Scott]

The memory that comes to mind is playing against Paul Simonsen in a scenario on the Red Barricades map...I was the Germans defending against Paul's Russian attack. I had a squad upstairs with a DC and Paul moved a Russian squad adjacent in the street...I thought that it would be cute to throw the DC into the street...the attack against the Russian squad does nothing, the attack against my German squad for throwing the DC resulted in a critical hit that rubbled the lower floor, thus causing the upper floor to rubble as well, killing the German squad.

That's a Warner Bros. cartoon moment right there.

Semper Fi!
Scott

 

[von Marwitz]

Ive had a 2 on 280mm OBA....

Once I had a roll of 2 on 400mm NOBA. Must have been the Yamato, Musashi or somethin'...

Unfortunately, afterwards I had to procure a new gaming table, as per G14.651, to resolve that you need to hit the hex in question with a sledgehammer.

von Marwitz

 

[ColinJ]

Last year played a scenario involving JadgTigers and T-34\85s. My opponent managed a CH from a JadgTiger on a poor T-34-85, TK roll 6,6. Of course Karma hit back, a second T-34\85 managed to get behind the JadgTiger and manage a CH with APCR, the resulting TK roll 6,6!

These tails are what make ASL such a great game to play.

 

[bendizoid]

Can someone explain how a 76mm (12 FP) CH gets tripled to 36 instead of doubled to 24?

 

[bendizoid]

Do you know only a ‘FINAL’ DR of less than half (usually 3) is a CH or you must do a subsequent dr? It’s not like Area TT where a 2 is an auto crit.

 

[von Marwitz]

Can someone explain how a 76mm (12 FP) CH gets tripled to 36 instead of doubled to 24?

Let me chime in here...
A 76mm (14FP) CH would neither get tripled to 36 nor doubled to 24, but rather doubled to 28.
Long live the IIFT!

von Marwitz