I had my ASL moment of 2017 yesterday playing FtF at our local Saturday game day. We were playing BFP113 Bunker Bash and I was the defending Poles. The Germans win if they control or eliminate the majority of buildings and pillboxes in the Polish setup area. The Poles win immediately if they eliminate, immobilize, recall all four of the German halftracks. After eliminating three of them with across the board diagonal shots from the 75 ART Guns emplaced in Pillboxes, the last German halftrack had taken up a position directly behind one of my pillboxes where I had no LOS to him from anywhere on the board. He had a MALFd MA, so he was just sitting there wasting time while his infantry took building locations from my dwindling forces. I tried to move a 4-5-7 with an HMG into a building that had LOS but was broken in the street and had to drop the HMG and rout. My hopes were dwindling. After taking a shot with the 75 near the ht in prep, I advanced the Gun's crew out of the pillbox and into a building, hoping that in my next MPh I could assault move into the HMG location, survive and get a few shots at his AFV. In the German's next MPh, figuring what I was trying to accomplish, he run a HS from the trees into N5 adjacent to my crew. I nail him with a 3 and eliminate him, leaving 2 resid in the hex. He then runs another HS at me with a FT from the same spot into the woods at O6. I nail him with a 3 in SFF with PBF eliminating him too, leaving 1 resid and the FT in the hex. He then waltzes a 4-4-7 adjacent to me daring me to FPF. I hold my fire, knowing that he is going to advance in for CC and there's nothing I can do about it.
He advances in to my hex and we roll for ambush. I ambush him and withdraw to O6. I pick up the FT in the RPh and roast the last halftrack adjacent to me to immediately end the game. Great scenario by the way, highly recommend it.
And as an interesting side note, I won this scenario without rallying a single unit. I believe I ended the game with 8-9 broken squads, all three leaders broken (two of them wounded to 6 morale) and 2 squads having been eliminated for FTR. I never rallied one unit the entire game which lasted just into the PFPh of the defender half of turn 6.
