Here's some data for newbies from the ASLML:
"Tom writes:
> Sam and I played The Agony of Doom on the VASL server
> tonight, with a good
> audience of about 6-10 people. Thanks to those who came out.
>
> The board situation at the end of Russian turn 2 can be found
> here:
http://www.mindspring.com/~tqr/AoD_R2end.gif
VASL Log files are also available if people want to step thro them.
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> Turn 1 featured a 2-pronged Russian attack from the right side of the
> board, down board 5 and down the bottom edge of board 3. We
> lost a 9-1 to a
> nasty snakeyes from an LMG at the 5H3 bottleneck, but the
> Russian sniper
> compensated by breaking the LMG squad in 3N1 level 2.
Hey! He didn't just "break" the LMG squad. He KIA'd the 7-0 leader too!
> Turn 2 saw the German Tiger fall back off the hill in 5W6 and
> a general
> shuffling of the German defenses while the 9-2 pulled up in
> his Kubelwagon
> and attempted to restore order. For their half of the turn,
> the Russian
> infantry pushed toward 5W1 and through 5W8, capturing a
> broken halfsquad
> for failure to rout and immediately deploying the Guard squad
> because...
> well, just because.
Style point to Tuomo...
> The T-34/85 probing around 5T3 did indeed find the German 75L
> ATG, in 5R1,
> but a perhaps-hasty Intensive Fire resulted in boxcars and
> the elimination
> of said threat.
Perhaps??? Perhaps???? Yeah, It was a foolish decision. Typical of my
"style" of play.
> For their upcoming turn 2, the Germans get two JgPz V's, the
> bastards that
> are on the cover of the Panzerblitz box, and that's going to
> be no fun at
> all. The Russians have gained ground nicely, but it's a
> 9-turn game and
> time really doesn't matter as much as the armor battle is
> about to. Three
> German 88mm tanks against 5 Russian tanks, three of them
> turretless and one
> of them small-stunned. With the German infantry toting fausts and the
> Russian infantry toting commemorative pieces of the Rodina.
> I'm thinking
> this puppy ain't over.
I hope not.
I hope we can capture some of those commemorative pieces. They'll go for
big buck on ebay someday. Of course, Tom's decision to drive his big
tanks down the road CE had nothing to do with the big guy now being
stunned.
Sam"