Tuomo
Keeper of the Funk
Turn 6 of SP11 Pomeranian Tigers. Dave Mareske's Germans are doing fine, but my 57L ATG has mission-killed all three non-KingTigers and one of the KTs succumbed to an IS-2 on turn 5. It would have helped if I hadn't plunged another IS-2 into a Building Cellar, but we weren't keeping close count of VPs. Still, I felt pretty good, with an IS-2 and an 8-1, 628/LMG guarding the road from Q7-Q10 to keep the Germans from going left:
Movement Phase comes around, and the 548 in R9 Dashes to P8. Shrugs off a PTC from the 8-1's stack, which laid a firelane.
Much to the 548's chagrin, the problem with winding up next to an IS-2 is that the turret spins pretty easily:
8-flat shot from the tank's CMG gets a 2MC. Which the squad rolls snakeyes for, HoB'ing to Fanatic. And then comes the tank's MA shot:
Oooh, a CH from a 122mm gun. I haven't been in the Heavy Payload section of the rules for quite some time. It got resolved as a 36(-1) shot:
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
But wait! Boxcars are Duds only on TK rolls! An 11 on the 36 column is still a 2MC!
Well. THAT didn't go very well:
Still and all, if I could just nail that last remaining King Tiger who started the turn in U2, maybe I had a chance. Especially since he just rumbled right up to my other IS-2:
My To Hit:
GAH! Hull hit!
Dave says what the heck, let's take a Bounding Fire shot:
Aaaaand that's all she wrote, One Day In Pomerania.
Sigh.
Movement Phase comes around, and the 548 in R9 Dashes to P8. Shrugs off a PTC from the 8-1's stack, which laid a firelane.
Much to the 548's chagrin, the problem with winding up next to an IS-2 is that the turret spins pretty easily:
8-flat shot from the tank's CMG gets a 2MC. Which the squad rolls snakeyes for, HoB'ing to Fanatic. And then comes the tank's MA shot:
Oooh, a CH from a 122mm gun. I haven't been in the Heavy Payload section of the rules for quite some time. It got resolved as a 36(-1) shot:
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
But wait! Boxcars are Duds only on TK rolls! An 11 on the 36 column is still a 2MC!
Well. THAT didn't go very well:
Still and all, if I could just nail that last remaining King Tiger who started the turn in U2, maybe I had a chance. Especially since he just rumbled right up to my other IS-2:
My To Hit:
GAH! Hull hit!
Dave says what the heck, let's take a Bounding Fire shot:
Aaaaand that's all she wrote, One Day In Pomerania.
Sigh.