Best tank for Set I

In my area the stores seem to be selling off the old stock and new stuff is no where to be seen.  This is why I buy enough when I start something to last me a life time.

idk the 88 works awsome if you surrond them with good infantry and meduim tanks "panzer IV’s

Yes, you are right about the planes being rares. I looked at the previews on the Avalon Hill site again and it seems I mistook the rare symbol for the uncommon symbol. Which is is something very easy to do, given that it is so small.

Rangers are strong competitive piece, though unless they get new (non-improved) indirect fire units the Spotter SA is mostly just thematic.

(Edit)Here’s my full review:

As the opening salvo says, “its inevitable that it will be compared to the Axis workhorse, the SS-Panzergrenadiers.” Quite true, though thankfully the Rangers have enough differences to keep them from being just carbon-copies.

The Lead the Way SA is interesting in that it’s once per turn, not per phase (or during movement and/or assault), so be careful when you use it; unless it’s to grab a last minute objective, re-rolling a movement roll isn’t too important, though thematically it’s nice.

Spotter is again nice, if not too useful. The M1 81mm Mortar doesn’t need a spotter, nor do spotters enhance them, and the open back M7 105mm Priest is an easily neutralized unit. I suppose you could save 1 point and use the Russian mortars instead if you really wanted to. Also, lacking the Spotter SA they can’t enhance aircraft.

The Rangers have slightly improved defence and a re-roll over the similar Veteran SMLE Riflemen; the only time the Australian unit is, well when you can’t take Rangers (eg Pre-1942 game). By themselves the Rangers are at the high end of 5 points, but compared to the Garand they perhaps should have been 6; as is they make the Garand fairly useless. Sure the Garands can have the same dice, without a re-roll, but that requires more points for an adjacent commander, and is -1/-1 defence.

A great unit that I’m sure will see a lot of use both in casual and competitive games: 4.5/5

So I got the case of D Day releases and am generally quite pleased.  As I got to the last box I was hoping for a German or British Rare but got that French tank.  Oh well I had no doubles on other rares and am pleased.

What happened to the scale of the 88mm.  I know it was a scary piece but its not that big.  At the same time there were a couple of other vehicles that came across very small.

So we set up a new map.  I made a 3 foot by 8 foot hex map on a roll of brown craft paper.  For all of the various terrain types we cut different coloured paper hexes and laid them out.  It was a very cool map and I can change the trerrain as desired.  We played a European game of 500 point armies in a meeting engagement.  It was about four hours to play 7 turns.  With so much terrain it was important to build significant transport into the mix and run it up and back shuttling the infantry into the fight.

I lost three Sherman varients just to take out the veteran Tiger.

Great fun!

Heres the deal. Its my 3rd consecutive defeat against my friend who plays the axis. Here is his starting lineup (he doesnt really vary)

1 x SS-Panzer IV Ausf. F2
1 x StuG III Ausf D
1 x Wehrmacht Expert Sniper
2 x SS-Haupsturmführer
2 x SS-Panzergrenadier
2 x MG 42 Machine-Gun Team
1 x Luftwaffe Infantrymen
1 x Panzerschreck
1 x Imperial SNiper
1 x SnLF Paratrooper

Any Ideas to Kick his butt out of the game ???

Heres my new army i came with. It is a prototype as usually i put in at least 2 tanks or 1 tank and 1 Mustang

1st line of offense
1x Mosin-Nagant
1x Lebel Grenadier
1x MAS 7.5mm RIfle
1x PPSh-41 SMG
1x Commu PArtisan
2x Kuomintang Riflemen
1x Red DEvil Cptn

2nd Offense
1x BAR Gunner
4x Marine Riflemen
1x Red Devil Cptn

Anti-sNiper
2x Screaming Eagle Para

Defense
2x Vicker Machine Gun
2xFanatical Sniper

Tank
M24 Chaffee

I got lots of other units for the allies within set 1,2 and 3 So any ideas that would give me a flawless victory is welcome. Thx!!

A special ability does trump normal rules… but usually states as much on the stat card.  For instance, “Close Assault”  It ignores cover.

Angriff doesn’t state “this movement ignores defensive fire.”

So to help give Germany a slight extra advantage, we play as a house rule that the vehicles must setup on the back hexes. It really helps balance the game.

Apparently in the original play tested versions of the game all units started on the back hexes but the game took to long. So instead of having infantry setup 5 in and the vehicles on the back. They did everything in the first 5 hexes.