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We had seven members at our Special 5th Saturday Game Day at Stance Nixon's house in Long Beach.
Dave Nicholas' Brits fell to Blair Bellamy's Japanese is “On the Kokoda Trail”.
Eric Visnowski's Japanese defeated Stance Nixon and JJ Ma's Americans in “Statue of Liberty Attacks”.
And Dave Kocot took the French against my Germans in the early war scenario “Esbeck's Pursuit”. I love France '40 scenarios, and this was a good one. A well-led reinforced company of Germans supported by four Pz35t's and four PzII's have to clear and hold one of two roads defended by a spread out company of French infantry supported by a couple of B1-Bis tanks and three 25LL AT Guns.
I chose to go left, because there was only one AT Guns in that set-up area. After a prep fire rate tear from my kill stack, I pushed my infantry forward quickly. I held my tanks back on turn one, hoping to flush out the AT Gun on that side. On turn two, things continued to go my way, and I unleashed my tanks to keep the momentum going and cut off a lot of French infantry. Dave brought his AT Gun into action, and quickly killed two of my tanks. What I miscalculated was the arrival of the B1's, which I thought were coming on the opposite board edge. Yikes. With 8 armor and two Guns, they may have well have been King Tigers. My panzers could do nothing to effect them. I ran infantry at them to try to jump them in CC, and managed to at least keep them busy while my armor and infantry continued to push forward. Dave ran the infantry from the right flank into the flank of my attack, and pushed his remaining two AT Guns into better firing positions. For the next three turns it was a swirling shit-storm of attack and counterattack. On the next to last turn I realized Dave was perilously short of infantry on the right, and I swung my three surviving tanks that way to finish off the AT Guns and infantry on that side, leaving all the infantry there not good order, and giving my Germans the win. Whew! What a fight! David played a great game, as he always does, and this could have easily gone the other way. We both liked the scenario a lot, and agreed we would definitely try it again.
We returned to the nearby plaza with the Habit and Jersey Mike's for lunch. For dinner, the survivors adjourned to Hambone's, the BBQ place we previously discovered in Bellflower, for an excellent late dinner.
I want to extend a special thanks to Stance and Cheryl Nixon for hosting our game day. It was a great time!
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