Posts made by Audacity

I’ve sent you the emails Dezrt.  If your unit wants to hire a consultant for this, I can travel. :-D

The way I figure the beach landings in this game is that you concentrate on the moment the boat touches shore.  While you may get effective fire on the Higgens, the troops in  the Higgens can obviously not fight back.  They wouldn’t need to because the ship to shore bombardment would be in place for them to soften up the defences.  Therefore, I assume that both defensive fire and ship fire has been succesful to some degree and that what is in play is what we have the moment the boats touch the beach.

I’m curious about the compass rose.  Wouldn’t most of the attacks been in a southerly direction?

I like the map.  I like the open ground sited for killing fields and a sea side would have lots more roads.  I think there is too much space taken up by water, that should be only 1-2 hexes.  That way you concentrate on the actual ground battle.

Another option is to put the beach along the long edge and and have limited beachhead targets.

Excellent.

I finally picked up a booster for North Africa.  Was pleased to get a German tank, a U.S. truck, a german soldier, a Brit soldier and some other guy (French Alpine).

I like the truck a lot.  It has great potential for large games.

As an uncommon piece, if I bought two cases (being aware of the dichotomous packing systems used this time) how many trucks could I expect to get?

How many of these new small boosters are in a case?

Help,

I’m such a technophobe and I live on dial up.

Guys, I’ve held my first really big game and I need help getting the pictures to you.  They seem too big to load into the site from my data stick so a friend put them in photo bucket which is some shared site and sent me links.  But when I copy the links into the forum they lose the link status.  If any one wants the links, give me your email address and I’ll forward the email.  Then maybe one of you can figure out how to post these.

About the battle.  We fought the Moro River which was a huge Canadian affair in Dec '43 outside of Ortona Italy.  My own Regiment was a feint that after 6 days was the only unit successfully on the north shore of the river.

I built a 3 dimensional hex board (8 x 18) based on maps and my own visits to the valley on a battlefield tour.  I used styrofoam and a hot wire cutter.  Then painted it and added woods using scenic modeling materials.

The forces arrayed (that I picked) had 575 points on each side.  They were divided into Companies of 12 units each and each side had 5 players controlling the pieces. While mainly infantry I gave each side 4 tanks and two aircraft.  The Germans defending also had a lot of barriers.

This was Professional Development for the Junior Leaders of the Regiment.We started off with a history lesson on why we ended up at the valley in '43, followed by a reminder of the combat estimate (aim, factors, courses open and plan) and then had rules “battle school”.

I then let the Canadians conduct a recce of the actual model and conduct recce for fords (die roll) before they retired to plan their fight.  Then the Germans had a chance to view the terrain, counter roll to see if they knew about the fords and set up.  We covered their pieces with paper cups so that the Canucks couldn’t see them during their set up.  The Canadians got a final recce of lifting off ten cups prior to deployment.  The found an 88mm but also found some empty ground.

The game was interspersed with history of the battle and we broke for meals together.  With two of us being umpires to keep it moving, the game went 10 hours.  When one guy stepped up to move, another was there to roll his dice.  Planning was done while waiting to step up.  I had them recording the combat estimate thought process as well, complete with intended and actual outcomes.

It was a hugely successful day.

When it comes to dismounting, things could get crazy when you allow the tank commander and his crew to dismount.  Especially with that russian tank that had a crew of 7.

I like the idea of catastropic kills.  Let the tank crew fight on damaged for a while and then when destroyed, remove them. Besides, most tread heads make lousy infanteers.

So, if you are new to the game.  A big welcome.  There are lots of us out there that like this game.  Unfortuanately the Wizards didn’t get the scale right from the beginning and they are now ensuring the scale is consistent.

Infantry from the old sets are fine but vehicles were all over the map.  If you’re new, I’d just collect the 39-45 set and the north africa set.  You’ll get enough pieces.  You may find some of the old ones appropriate in which case you can trade to get them or purchase particular ones on EBay.

Audacity

Sounds liketime to switch it up.  Besides, one of the best ways to know your enemy is to wargame from their perspective!

Audacity

Hear hear for KISS!

This is another reason that when I buy into a game I get enough that if it goes belly up or is mixed up by the corporate giants, I still have enough in the games room for my friends and I to play.

Audacity

No issues! No hurry!

I check in daily, though other than a bit of trading, my gaming hobby has generally dried up over the last year.  I’m now a dedicated student and that takes all of my time.

Things will change a bit now and I’m coming up on my huge 1100 point (combined axis and allies) battle of the moro river in Italy.

Audacity

Mot,

Any of that mix will do.  Just send what you think is fair to

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I’m slowly moving towards collections of armies that fought in Europe.

I’ve 54 Japanese pieces to trade away if anyone is interested in a big trade.

Mot,

Just to clarify, you want to keep vehicles from sets 1-5.

Are there ones from NA that you don’t want and would like older pieces instead?  I’ve got lots so ask if I’ve got what you want.

Audacity

Mot,

I’m interested in Canadian Riflemen, eagle eyed NCOs, British inspiring Lieutenants, Brit rifles, Gurkas, Aussie rifles.

A small handfull of any of these is worth a plane.  I’m not picky. You get the plane and you decide whats fair in exchange.

Send me an address.

Audacity

Want to be my son?  I’m a Dad with a son who only plays PS2!

Mot,

I’m not really concerned either way. If you have larger scaled vehicles that you’re not hooked on, we could do something with those.

I’m currently building up for a 1000 point game, Canadians verses Germans outside of Ortona Italy.  So I’m collecting commonwealth pieces and German pieces.

I need to take a photo of the 3D hex map I’ve built for the game.  I also still owe this forum photos of my 3D buildings for gaming.  I’m such a technophobe and I live on dial up so I’m slow about that stuff.

Send me a personal email.

Mot

I’ve got one I could trade.  I’m looking for Canadian, Aussie and British gear in exchange.  No swimming Shermans and no artillery.

Audacity

My local store seems uninterested in the whole game.  They still have some boxes of Base set, eastern front and contested skies.  (10-15 of each) and don’t carry starter packs etc.  They have not brought in NA at all.

I recently bought out another stores final 8 boxes of eastern front at cost and if I had any money I would do the same with all of the above.

Does the NA set really have vehicles that are not properly sized to the new scheme?

You’re thinking outside of the box like any good Canadian boy!