Jacometti
Elder Member
Steve W. and I finished playing VOTG 26 A Bad Day for the Luftwaffe today. A Tom Morin design on a nice part of the VOTG map. Reminds a bit of "To the Rescue" from RB, with a small German force stranded and cut off on the banks of the river Volga, and other Germans have the job to "save" them. Nice little trick is that the Russians finally have some decent Air Support, in the form of two of Fat Hermann's Stukas with Bombs, who hammered their own forces twice on that day.
The Russian setup (sandwiched between a potent "stranded force", more potent relief force and expecting the imminent arrival of 3 StuGs) was a real puzzle. The first few Turns everyone was acting tough, passing 2 MCs as if it was just a fun fair. Steve's Germans found out why Wide City Boulevards are a lonely place. You can enter as a squad and come out as a broken HS.
My best leader Mr 9-1 received a letter and an engraved domino set from Stalin, when he Battle Hardened in appreciation of his commitment to global communism and recycling. Then the Stukas showed up and bombed the crap out of two German squads, turning one of them into a shellhole. One of the few times a 1/2" counter can turn into a 5/8" counter in the game. Thoroughly enjoyable of course, if you are the Russians.
Steve's StuGs were also not the brightest lights, bogging twice in Debris (11+) and Malfunctioning their Ammo Shortages MAs (per VOTG rules) three times. So all was Dandy for the Russians. This joy could not last and it did not. In the second half of the game, one of his StuGs drove up to my KV and blasted it.
In the last Turn, another StuG crashed into the rubble where my 9-2 and elite squad were playing dominoes. The StuG knocked over the table and the Russians became very angry. Unfortunately, they expressed their anger in a CC Reaction Fire attack, which turned the StuG into a burning wreck. Now they could no longer see their domino pieces, but worse they could not see a swarm of angry Germans coming to ruin their inner peace.
One of those German friends delivered a lovely purple bag (DC - design by Joop!), which exploded in spectacular fashion. My proud 9-2 pinned and the faithful domino players (4-5-8) broke (by one pip), creating the string of hexes needed to save the day for the Germans.
It was a pretty bad day for the Luftwaffe. It was an even worse day for inner peace. If you were Russian.
VOTG rocks, well done mr Morin thanks for this lovely design.
The Russian setup (sandwiched between a potent "stranded force", more potent relief force and expecting the imminent arrival of 3 StuGs) was a real puzzle. The first few Turns everyone was acting tough, passing 2 MCs as if it was just a fun fair. Steve's Germans found out why Wide City Boulevards are a lonely place. You can enter as a squad and come out as a broken HS.
My best leader Mr 9-1 received a letter and an engraved domino set from Stalin, when he Battle Hardened in appreciation of his commitment to global communism and recycling. Then the Stukas showed up and bombed the crap out of two German squads, turning one of them into a shellhole. One of the few times a 1/2" counter can turn into a 5/8" counter in the game. Thoroughly enjoyable of course, if you are the Russians.
Steve's StuGs were also not the brightest lights, bogging twice in Debris (11+) and Malfunctioning their Ammo Shortages MAs (per VOTG rules) three times. So all was Dandy for the Russians. This joy could not last and it did not. In the second half of the game, one of his StuGs drove up to my KV and blasted it.
In the last Turn, another StuG crashed into the rubble where my 9-2 and elite squad were playing dominoes. The StuG knocked over the table and the Russians became very angry. Unfortunately, they expressed their anger in a CC Reaction Fire attack, which turned the StuG into a burning wreck. Now they could no longer see their domino pieces, but worse they could not see a swarm of angry Germans coming to ruin their inner peace.
One of those German friends delivered a lovely purple bag (DC - design by Joop!), which exploded in spectacular fashion. My proud 9-2 pinned and the faithful domino players (4-5-8) broke (by one pip), creating the string of hexes needed to save the day for the Germans.
It was a pretty bad day for the Luftwaffe. It was an even worse day for inner peace. If you were Russian.
VOTG rocks, well done mr Morin thanks for this lovely design.
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