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Post by mikeh on Jul 9, 2022 14:40:43 GMT -5
Part of Hanleys squad makes it into town and are immediately hit by rifle fire and grenades, result 1 KIA 1 Suppression.
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Post by mikeh on Jul 9, 2022 14:43:41 GMT -5
Saunders and his men, so far unscathed make it into town by the church ruins.
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Post by mikeh on Jul 9, 2022 15:02:34 GMT -5
Things are getting pretty intense for the Americans with Saunders squad having 3 knocked down by a grenade blast and 1 of Hanleys men being knocked down by rifle fire. 1 of Saunders men knocked down the German behind the street barricade. The American Sherman's MG got off 1 shot at the German on the second floor but missed. Turned a Joker for his second shot immediately ending the turn. Both sides survived their Morale rolls casualty roll, 3 Americans KIA 1 Suppressed. Germans had 1 down that passed his casualty draw and is back in action.
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Post by mikeh on Jul 9, 2022 15:14:34 GMT -5
Picture of how things sit at the moment. Saunders has 4 men including himself pinned down in front of the church, Hanley, not including himself are entering on the far end of town. Hanley is protecting himself, and those motivation points he carries back with the Sherman's. The Sherman's are going to have to move up, or at least get to better angles to attack in the town now that most Germans have broken their concealment and can be fired on.
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Post by mikeh on Jul 9, 2022 15:17:47 GMT -5
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Post by mikeh on Jul 9, 2022 19:29:17 GMT -5
Condor is knocked out.
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Post by mikeh on Jul 9, 2022 19:47:09 GMT -5
Time to call this for the Germans. It really started well for the Americans, the 2 Sherman's got the infantry to the town unscathed. Once the city fighting started their luck turned really quick. American loses 1 Sherman and 7 KIA German loses 6 KIA, and still have the fuel. Great game that was.
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Post by mikeh on Jul 10, 2022 0:47:01 GMT -5
Looks good in B/W!
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Post by mikeh on Jul 10, 2022 10:49:14 GMT -5
I see I was explaining rules to a rules set I didn't mention!😂 Great set of diceless Skirmish rules.
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Post by Whiterook on Jul 10, 2022 11:09:43 GMT -5
Super awesome AAR and I really loved the running dialogue! Corgi does make some amazing minis… what brand are the figures? …15mm? Also, I love the buildings-terrain …what brand are those? Great scenario!
Ive been curious about this rule system… interesting use of cards - poker cards - instead of dice for activation and combat. Is it a long rulebook?
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Post by mikeh on Jul 10, 2022 12:10:41 GMT -5
Glad you liked the story Em. The figures are 1/72 soft plastic by Revell, Italeri and Pegasus. The buildings and the little odds and ends are Italeri, Hasegawa, and Pegasus the lamp post, telephone poles, sandbags and pull carts are from the Forces of Valor sets Target used to sell.
The OHSW book is 100 pages with the core rules being 11 pages then there are chapters with specific rules for the time period you are playing, the author does a thorough job of explaining his reasoning behind the rules. You can be playing in an hour after cracking the book open. One thing I was doing wrong that is not mentioned in the book was everytime I turned a Joker I would reshuffle the decks, I found out at the OHSW fb page that is not right, you just run through the deck then reshuffle. If you want a light skirmish game with a few figures, and you can even get in a couple games in an evening I recommend you get this book.
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Post by mikeh on Jul 10, 2022 13:29:51 GMT -5
Table of Contents.
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Post by Whiterook on Jul 10, 2022 14:18:44 GMT -5
Nice! I plan on getting it off of Amazon soon.
On the AAR, I like naming soldiers to keep it relatable in a story context… that Ghosts game of Mike Lambo was real good at that, by having the four major characters named; I plan to kick that whole game up a notch with custom tiles, miniatures, and maybe a fresh take on the squad’s name and nationality. The game is definitely expandable. But back to this one, I love how you can game multiple eras… and I think it’s perfect to put some of my Battlefield Evolution minis to good use, especially how I have a couple forces represented…. I do have a couple modern tanks and keep-like vehicles with machine guns, so maybe I’ll finally be able to use those.
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