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We had five members and a cameo for our second engagement of The Red Barricades Project at St. Crispin’s in Anaheim.
Mike Cirrincione, Stephan Tourville and Dan Plachta ran the German attack. Henry DeVries and I took the Russians. Last month we left off at the Defensive Fire phase of the German part of turn two. Yesterday we played from 10:00 AM and wrapped up around 6:00 PM. We completed turn 4; playing at a pretty easy pace. Scott Thompson dropped in for a short visit.
Casualties are fairly light (by RB standards) at this point for both sides; the Dead Cup shows 6.5 German squads, a 9-2 and a Pz III (burning). The Russians have lost 8 squads and a crew.
The Germans have pushed very hard on the west side, driving the Russians back to building B13 along the board edge. They used their OBA to good effect, pounding the Russian strongpoint at F5 into submission and killing off two squads for failure to rout. The Russians have fallen back to a defensive line that runs from F11 down to the O6 factory.
On the eastern flank, Henry’s 45LL AT gun from hell all but shut down the German attack. Three consecutive CH’s from the Gun (at level 1 of W10) plus another from a 50mm mortar on the roof of U17 broke up the attack on this flank. The Russian line on this side runs from the O6 Factory to the W7 block of wood buildings, across Leninski Prospect and back to the north board edge. From the Russian perspective, the hot AT gun helped to compensate for horrible luck we had with our two OBA modules. The first never got into play (double red on the first two draws) and the second was eliminated with a broken field phone after one fire mission.
I am quite pleased with the set-up/breakdown system. It took us less than a half hour to set up in the morning, and only about 15 minutes to break it down when we wrapped up.
Regards,
Jim
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