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We had nine players, including a new guy, plus a cameo by Bruce Kirkaldy, for the February edition of our ASL Game Day in Montclair.
Gerard Unterreiner's Germans were defeated by Peter Strand's Russians in “Marders, Not Martyrs”.
New guy Tanner Huggins paired up with Dave Nicholas for a SK training session of “Gavin Take”.
Jim Svette's Americans fell to Fen Yan's SS in the new Deluxe scenario “Checking Out”.
And Eric Visnowski and Scott Thompson took the Hungarians against my Russians in the Schwerepunkt scenario “Transyvania 6-5000”. I had not played this scenario in quite a few years, but recalled liking it a lot. And it's very high on my list for best scenario name as well. I set up almost all of my force on the right, with only the 5-2-7 squad and a couple of dummies on the left. I used my remaining 2 dummies to create a dummy tank on the right-hand hill. The remainder of my force went to the right, with both foxholes on the hill, containing the Mtr and MMG, supported by 2 squads on the far right in the woods, and another manning the LMG in the building next to the hill to the left (board center). From there it could cover most of the road and the approach to the right hand hill. I put the T34 in a reverse slope position on the side of the hill.
Scott came in on my left, with a platoon and two StuG's. Eric took the remaining force to assault my main position on the right. Both attacks came in fairly carefully. They used the StuG's very effectively, since they had little to fear from my T34, and started to hammer the top of the hill. On turn 2, after getting Smoke down for an attack on the left, three of the StuG's ran out of Smoke on their first shots, and Scott broke an MA on one of his. But Eric's shots on the hill were quite effective. He drove off most of my infantry, and got a CH on the squad and mortar, killing both. On the bottom of turn 2, I brought the T34-85 in on the left, where it pulled up and killed the StuG with the broken MA, then turned to the right to get in behind my main position. The reinforcing leader and 5-2-7 went in behind the hill. By turn 4 my main position was in trouble, and I had a 5-2-7 and 8-0 cut off in the center woods area. Those guys made a move to get back to the left, into the victory area, forcing Scott to move 2 squads over that way to check them. Eric had made a very effective attack on the hill, and was able to jump two of my squads in CC. With numerical superiority, this was a correct move. It backfired however, when he lost one of the CC's, leaving my squad in an excellent blocking position. On turn five one of his StuG's went one-on-one against my T34 M43. I ignored his move up (he had a second StuG ready to come in and I was facing in the direction of the second tank). His bounding shot missed. But then Eric pulled one of the moves that I've seen him do in so many of our games together; he made a well-timed, high risk-high reward, gutsy move. He took an IF shot against my T34. His DR of 3 hit my tank, and the 3 TK burned it. Damn.
The problem was, the Hungarians were running out of infantry, and a last turn rush came up just a little short. My Russians were happy to take the win. It was a great game from start to finish, and we had a great time.
With some time left over, Eric and I set up the quick-playing scenario “Front in Flames”. This is a meeting engagement on good old board one. Eric took the Russians and I had the Germans. We finished this one in about 45 minutes, with my Germans coming out on top amid laughs and cheers. We had a blast.
We returned to The Hat this month for our usual excellent lunch. The survivors adjourned to Jersey Mike's for dinner. It was an excellent, fun and productive day for all.
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