- This topic is empty.
-
Posts
-
We had 11 players, including new guy John Tessier, for our ASL Game Day at Chez Nixon in Long Beach:
Blair Bellamy's Poles fell to new guy John Tessier's Slovaks in “Across the Border.”
Ric Hammond's Americans defeated Peter Stand's Germans in “Ranger Stronghold.”
Hank W.'s Canadians defeated Fen Yan's Germans in “The Good Shepherd.”
Dan Plachta's Germans and Stance Nixon's Americans fought to a draw in “Stop Gap.”
And Eric Visnowski took the Germans against me and Sal Pelaez as the Russians in “Knife in the Flank.” This scenario has a reinforced Guards company supported by two each of T-34M43's, T-70's, Sukas and Carriers manned by AT-crews, attacking a village held by a couple of platoons of Germans. The Germans are supported by a 28LL AT Gun and a 20L AA Gun. They are reinforced by two PzIII's and a PzIVH, as well an another platoon of infantry.
Since we had a lot of open ground to cover and not a lot of time, Sal and I chose a spread out attack. We sent the T-34's and T-70's forward with 6-2-8/LMG's as riders. We also sent the Carriers blitzing through the German lines to get in the backfield and interrupt the German reinforcements. We spent three turns pushing our troops into the village, but held the T-34's and T-70's until we'd dug out the AT assets. The Carriers and their AT crews set up behind the village on the German right, awaiting the German reinforcements. We sent the Suka's through the German left to challenge the oncoming German armor on that side. Eric sent his reinforcing infantry to his right, to take out the Carriers and used his tanks to take on the Suka's. That didn't go well for Eric, and the PzIV, which was the only vehicle that could take on the T-34's, died in short order. The Russians now had six AFV's (the T-34's, T-70's and Suka's) facing EV's two PzIII's. But Eric is a tenacious bastard. His infantry kept fighting hard in the village and his PzIII's killed the Suka's. So we sent the T-34's in to finish them off while using the T-70's for bypass freezing. But one turn later one T-34 was knocked out by a deliberate imob, while infantry took out the other in street fighting. Meanwhile the slugfest in the village continued, with both sides killing off infantry at an alarming rate. On the last Russian turn the last of the Russian infantry finally cleared the last victory building, leaving Eric with two broken squads in his rear, a 1-2-7 crew and the two PzIII's. His last-gasp counter-attack came up short, and we called this a hard-fought Russian win. We all had a great time. We all thought the scenario was excellent and well worth the effort.
We made our usual lunch trip to the nearby food plaza, where some of us got subs, or burgers at The Habit. The survivors enjoyed our usual excellent late dinner at Hambone's Barbecue. It was a great day of ASL! Thanks again to Stance and Cheryl Nixon for bailing us out once again and opening their home for our use!
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.