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We had 7 members for the June edition of our ASL Game Day at All Ways Gaming in Chatsworth:
Dave Nicholas' Partisans defeated Phil Seymour's Germans in the LFT scenario “For Hitler, For Allah”.
Mike Soffa's Americans and Larry Reinking's Germans fought to a draw in “Guns for St. Barbara”.
Dave Lewis and I took the attacking Soviets against Eric Visnowski's Germans in the heavy metal Schwerepunkt scenario “Hohenstaufen Hoedown”. This looked like a cool scenario, with a well-led company of Guards infantry supported by 4 JS IIm's, 2 T34-85's and an SU-152 fighting for control of a village defended by some German infantry supported by 3 Jagdpathers, a Panther and a Wirbilwind. The Russians have to cross a lot of open ground. Eric had a good, up-front defense with his Jagd's covering most of the approaches. He had one Jagd isolated on the right, backed by the Wirbilwind. DL took the infantry and worked his way up the middle, where the going was slow but the approach was covered. I took the armor. The armor match-up was interesting. The Jagd's could kill the JS's, but they needed a turret hit and a decent TK Roll. The JS's could kill the Jagd's straight up on an 8. We sent all the tanks to the right, creating a 4 on 1 armor match-up of the JS's against the isolated Jagd. Eric's first shot was painfully lucky, he got the turret hit and rate, and killed the first JS. Ok, that wasn't good, but it was a risky attack. I shoved the rest of the armor in on that side. Eric's rate shot Shocked a second JS. In the advancing fire, one of the two available JS's broke its MA, and the other missed completely. Things were looking bad. In the ensuing German prep, Eric killed the JS with the broken MA, and burned a T-34 that had a bead on the Wirbilwind. He then launched a counter-attack with his remaining tanks, right into the flank of my armor. The SU-152 went down, and it was obvious the remaining Russian tanks were now in a kill box. We threw it in at that point and called it a German win. We didn't feel so bad afterward though, when we found the scenario is 6 to 1 pro-German on ROAR. Not to detract from Eric's excellent play and perfectly timed counter-attack, but I think this one is a barker.
With time to spare, we set up “Mitra's Secret”, another heavy metal Schwerepunkt scenario. A gaggle of late-war German infantry have to defend 4 board 20 buildings, supported by a King Tiger. The Americans get a well led infantry force (mixed first line and elite), a FT and a mutant M24 with 26 AF, plus a Sherman 75 for a wing man. Roar had this about 15 – 8 pro-German, and DL and I took them and gave Eric the Americans with the balance. This turned out to be a pretty fun, challenging scenario that came right down to the final advancing fire phase. It sure didn't play like the ROAR record. It was close, but Eric lost his 10-2 to a sniper on turn 1, and his FT X'd out on its first shot. We all thought we'd try this one again.
We had our usual lunch on the patio at San Carlo Deli, and the survivors retired to The Habit for our usual late dinner
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