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We had 7 players, plus a cameo from Jim Svette's friend John, for our SoCalASL Game Day at the Guild House in Bellflower.
Eric Visnowski and Scott Thompson took the Russians against Dan Plachta's Germans in the Winter Offensive Pack scenario “All the Stops”. Dan's Germans took the hard-fought win. This looks like a bitchin' scenario, I don't know why I've never played it. It is now on my play list.
Dave Nicholas' Germans defeated Jim Svette's Americans in “Resignation Supermen”.
And Stance Nixon and I paired up for “Belgian Blitzkrieg” from Journal 12. This one has been on my play list since Journal 12 came out, and several players had good things to say about it.
The Germans have to take two multi-hex buildings, one of which is very close to their set-up area, and if they can capture it and hold it by the end of turn 2, they win a sudden death victory. Obviously, the Belgians have a hard choice to make, how much of their small force should they designate to hold the Germans out of the forward building. Too little and they risk a sudden death loss, too much and they'll have too little to defend the rear buildings. On the German side, they have the option to designate up to five MMC's to enter on the flanks on turn 3. Again, a tough choice; too little and they've got a long way to the remaining victory buildings, too much and they might not be strong enough to defeat the front building quickly. The timing of the scenario is tight for both sides. On turn 5, the Belgians get some bicycle mounted reinforcements and two very weak (but important) tanks. This scenario, from beginning to end, is a n exercise in force and time management. It looks simple enough, but is very challenging.
Stance took the Germans, and I set up two full squads and two HS concealed in the front building, with the remainder going to the rear force. Stance used a two prong attack, with 3 additional flanking squads. He was able to filter two or three MMC's forward early, but my forward defending squads held on for dear life, and the final squad wasn't eliminated until turn 5. This turned out to be a superb, exciting fight that went down to the last fire phase. In the last Belgian turn, with my defending Belgians barely holding on, I pushed one tank into bypass freeze to cover a reinforcing squad, only to have it pin in the street. I sent my open top tank around the opposite flank on a suicide mission to try to freeze Stance's giant kill stack that would probably break my defenders and force them to rout. Stance hated to do it, but finally fired one squad and an LMG to stun the OT tank. But that left his kill stack weaker, and his final fire s hot wasn't enough to break my Belgians, and they held on for win. Wow, what an exciting finish to a great game. We both felt this was an awesome scenario that is well worth the effort; exciting, well balanced and challenging for both sides. We both said we would happily play it again straight up as either side.
We decided for the quicker, cheaper choice of Burger King for lunch, and the survivors adjourned to Chris and Pit's for a late barbecue dinner. It was a great day with three really good games played.
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