Folks,
Having connived (mostly by asking) Dennis Hess to play the Stalnie Prostori CG with me, I was reminded by him the other day that I was supposed to be composing an AAR of the event. Dennis was good enough to accede to my request to play SP, so I was more or less obligated to follow through in this regard. That said, I missed getting anything for Turn 1. I made up for that in Turn 2.
Starting here
You can maybe see that things have not gone perfectly according to schedule, which is off-putting if you're German. The units to the north under the CX counter are a Heroic 9-1 leader and a squad. Why is the leader Heroic? Because during Russian (Soviet?) DFF a 50mm MTR (under the Acq) hit the hex the 9-1 and the two squads (with a MMG and an HMG) hit the hex they had ended their MPh in, and had scored a 1KIA. The leader -narrowly- missed catching the round. A squad (apparently armed with a baseball mitt) instead caught it for him. They died as a result, and the rest of the stack automatically broke. Evocations and lamentations ensued. The good news is that the leader went Heroic in the RPh thereafter. Still, on T1 I am down 2 CVP. The Germans live and die in this one by, amongst other things, the CVP differential at the end of a scenario. Taking buildings and other Strategic Locations (bridges, buildings, Level 2 hills and higher, etc.) also helps, but getting shot into the negative one T1 does not make for happy faces. To the relative east things go better, which is to say that no sons of former Vikings choose to take a shot.
This changes on T2. The Germans, out for blood, press hard. The Germans also apparently throw caution not just into the wind, but into what could be said to be several winds. See here
Yes, you're reading that right. That's two dead tanks. Why? Because a certain German player who was not Dennis was seeing red for having lost a squad to a bad roll. Note to all, never let your blood override your common sense, even if you don't have any. Especially when you don't have any. I'll mention that Dennis needed what could be called 'good dice' to score a kill, even against a Pz IV. I'll also mention that Dennis' dice were red-hot. The result was two dead tanks.
That brings the CVP tally so far to something-like 12, in the space of two GT. What do I have to show for it?
Yes, that's right.
The good news is that I did in fact break the squad crewing the light mortar. Then I reduced it, scoring a CVP. Hooray. I'm also pushing forward, which has to be taken as a good thing. I'm about on-schedule, insofar as taking terrain is concerned. That's also to be taken as a good thing. I have a Heroic leader, which I will also fail to complain about. Still...
For all that, I've killed a Russian HS. 1 CVP , against the 12 Dennis has scored against me. OK, that's maybe to be expected. 'You have to spend money to make money'. 'For an omelette, you break eggs'. Sure.
I'm doing, in terms of advancing. But I'm taking losses, and my inherited sense of parsimony is not liking it.
BD
Having connived (mostly by asking) Dennis Hess to play the Stalnie Prostori CG with me, I was reminded by him the other day that I was supposed to be composing an AAR of the event. Dennis was good enough to accede to my request to play SP, so I was more or less obligated to follow through in this regard. That said, I missed getting anything for Turn 1. I made up for that in Turn 2.
Starting here
You can maybe see that things have not gone perfectly according to schedule, which is off-putting if you're German. The units to the north under the CX counter are a Heroic 9-1 leader and a squad. Why is the leader Heroic? Because during Russian (Soviet?) DFF a 50mm MTR (under the Acq) hit the hex the 9-1 and the two squads (with a MMG and an HMG) hit the hex they had ended their MPh in, and had scored a 1KIA. The leader -narrowly- missed catching the round. A squad (apparently armed with a baseball mitt) instead caught it for him. They died as a result, and the rest of the stack automatically broke. Evocations and lamentations ensued. The good news is that the leader went Heroic in the RPh thereafter. Still, on T1 I am down 2 CVP. The Germans live and die in this one by, amongst other things, the CVP differential at the end of a scenario. Taking buildings and other Strategic Locations (bridges, buildings, Level 2 hills and higher, etc.) also helps, but getting shot into the negative one T1 does not make for happy faces. To the relative east things go better, which is to say that no sons of former Vikings choose to take a shot.
This changes on T2. The Germans, out for blood, press hard. The Germans also apparently throw caution not just into the wind, but into what could be said to be several winds. See here
Yes, you're reading that right. That's two dead tanks. Why? Because a certain German player who was not Dennis was seeing red for having lost a squad to a bad roll. Note to all, never let your blood override your common sense, even if you don't have any. Especially when you don't have any. I'll mention that Dennis needed what could be called 'good dice' to score a kill, even against a Pz IV. I'll also mention that Dennis' dice were red-hot. The result was two dead tanks.
That brings the CVP tally so far to something-like 12, in the space of two GT. What do I have to show for it?
Yes, that's right.
The good news is that I did in fact break the squad crewing the light mortar. Then I reduced it, scoring a CVP. Hooray. I'm also pushing forward, which has to be taken as a good thing. I'm about on-schedule, insofar as taking terrain is concerned. That's also to be taken as a good thing. I have a Heroic leader, which I will also fail to complain about. Still...
For all that, I've killed a Russian HS. 1 CVP , against the 12 Dennis has scored against me. OK, that's maybe to be expected. 'You have to spend money to make money'. 'For an omelette, you break eggs'. Sure.
I'm doing, in terms of advancing. But I'm taking losses, and my inherited sense of parsimony is not liking it.
BD