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We had nine members, plus a cameo by Bruce Kirkaldy, for the March edition of our SoCalASL Game Day at Gameology in Montclair.
Karl Johnson's Germans defeated Eric Visnowski's Brits in the Primosole Bridge scenario “Another Bloody Attack”.
In the battle of Jims, Jim Svette's Americans defeated Jimmy Hansen's Germans in “Resignation Supermen”.
In an all day, hard fought battle, Jon Jaramillo's Poles defeated Dave 'Special K' Kocot's Germans in “Bunker Bash” from the Poland in Flames module.
And I squared off against Dave Nicholas in a prearranged game of “The Cost of Compliance”, from the latest W.O. pack. We were later joined by Blair Bellamy, who assisted with the Germans for part of the day. Dave had played this one as the Germans last week against Sal and James, and wanted to try it again as the Russians. He emailed me mid-week, asking if I would work up a defense, and I agreed.
This scenario is set in the opening days of Barbarossa. The Germans have 8 squads backed by two 37L Guns and a 105 Art, plus a PzIII and a PzII. (They get four more Pz later in the game.) Their entire force sets up HIP, after which the Russians set up their attackers (a reinforced infantry company backed by eight rag wagons (BT's and T26's), plus two T34's and two KV's. Once the attacker is set up, the German reveals his force (except of course for the Guns, which remain HIP). The Russians have to cross a lot of open ground, but the Germans are very thin. I put one of the 37L's on the front of the level 2 hill, and the 105 behind it, also at level 2 but looking across the width of the board. The remaining 37L went into the brush around the center of the board. I put the Pz's in two buildings at the bottom of the board, looking toward the hill. I strung the infantry across the board in 3 groups, each with a leader and a MG. My plan was to lay as many FL's as possible on turns 1 and 2, and concentrate on killing the Russian rag wagons as quickly as possible.
My plan worked pretty well, and by turn 3 I had killed most of the rag wagons, one T34 and almost half of the infantry. The Russians had gained the hill and killed all of my guns, but most of my infantry was able to fall back into the victory buildings on board 76. I think a lesser Russian player would have thrown in the towel at that point, but Dave wasn't done. He pushed his surviving infantry forward, and sent his KV's to kill my Pz's. By turn 5 my troops were barely holding on, and my tanks were dying quickly. But Dave was forced to send his heavy tanks into the town to support his attack, and I used that opportunity to jump one T34 (which immobilized) and one KV (which I killed.) At that point it was obvious Dave's surviving force didn't have enough hitting power to get the job done, and we called it a German victory.
We had a hell of a game and had great fun. We both liked this scenario a lot and both agreed it was worth trying again.
We made our usual trek to The Hat for lunch, and the survivors went to Jersey Mike's for a late dinner. What a great day of ASL!
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