I used my 1st platoon of the 7th Motorized Schutzen aka " Max Roscher". They are East German which is different. This is my 4th battle but the first time I have ever posted with these guys. They have won most of their battles but the first squad has done poorly every time. ULT Volstadt had threatened to replace their NCO when he had conveniently gotten KIA during a patrol to a factory. That dropped the squad morale and he wasn't replaced. The squad is now undermanned and led by Gefreiter Elbaum. Volstadt is evil [ not taking sides here I just rolled it up!] and this war has been inconvenient so far but might help his progression either up the ranks or politically after the war if he can get his platoon to do what he wants. Lets check in with this interesting unit...
Characters
ULT Volstadt son of a govt official evil/ hedonism Avg ldr
1st squad Gef Elbaum temporary poor morale of squad poor 8/6 for FoF
2nd squad Unteroffizer Rossic son of disgraced official Volstad constantly questions his loyalty to the state. Therefore he feels he must be twice as good as everyone else. conformist/ technology Avg leader which for Warsaw pact NCO is good. morale of squad avg 8/8 for FoF
1 BDRM
4 T-55s
Volstadt didn't mind the war but it had surprised him. Did the Russians really think they could win? He hoped so. Being in a front line combat unit could certainly do him well as long as his unit didn't screw up this chance for him. Either climbing in the military or back in the party would be fine with him and his father would certainly help where he could. His unit was made up of dolts primarily; Rossic had some potential but the rest were sheep who wouldn't even get out of the rain.
He had a chance today to score some points with his CO Maj Kettler. Kettler had been a problem up till now as he wasn't a political type. " I don't care who your papa is. I need you to be a good infantry officer and train your platoon!"
Well the company had been held in reserve and a small breakthrough had occurred. Each platoon was to be sent through the breach to secure an objective! Now was his time to shine. He was to secure a bridge on the outskirts of the town of Lemm. The situation was fluid and resistance was expected to be minimal so no artillery or air was allotted. [ I rolled up the scenario Explotation and failed rolls for artillery and air. I made the rolls for armor automatic. ]
The village of Lemm to the right. 1st platoon enters from the town. I decreased the number of "As" and "Cs" by 1 to reflect NATO fighting outnumbered.
A shot range out as the BDRM neared the bridge. "Nuts" thought Volstadt. this isn't going to be as easy as I hoped. 2 Tanks moved forward as 2 tanks swung right.
The Shika AA unit quickly sends them downstairs. { West Germans had UNLIKELY chance of air support and missed their rolls as well. In retrospect should have made that POSSIBLE to LIKELY.}
The West Germans rally in the tower and then retreat.
Fun battle that was bittersweat because I couldn't share it with my dad. It should have been closer than it was but I misplaced the Leopard on set up. I should have switched it with the jadgpanzer and given it more LOS over the board.
Post battle Maj Kettler is impressed but not enough to promote Volstadt. He and Rossi also miss their leadership roles to improve. Interestingly, 2nd squad does not grow any closer to Rossi even though he is doing a great job. Volstadt does meet the battalion S-4 Maj Rother and thinks he impresses him with his tale of the battle. Actually Rother pegs Volstadt correctly as self serving but is politically astute enough to see which way the wind blows. A new NCO is assigned to the platoon for first squad, Unteroffizer Weiler and they are brought up to full strength. Hopefully that will help morale. [ it didn't]
Will Volstadt climb the ladder or be found out?
Will Weiler rally first squad?
Will Rossi take 2nd squad to the next level and continue to be the rock of the platoon?
we will have to wait and see my friends
Enjoy
Joe
Another interesting fight in the ongoing saga. I didn't see when the Leopard came on, but it seemed to be after you were across the bridge and the W Germans were falling back. I imagine if it had been there earlier it would have made a hell of a difference to the game.
ReplyDeleteI do like the style of your 2 blocks of flats, utilitarian springs to mind very appropriate although I'm not sure which side of the border Lemm is.
actually the leo was on board from the start but I thought its LOS was better than it was. I didn't get any good pictures of it. I do love those flats. they are from battlefront. are you getting any games in?
ReplyDeleteI seem to have lost all interest in solo games over the last 6 months, I've no idea why.
DeleteStrangely though 3 of us have been playing over the internet using email and whatsapp to communicate information, the host has the game set up on their table and plays the game out there. I hosted a WW2 game, an attack on a cross roads, a British platoon of 3 squads and HQ attacking 2 squads of Germans, about 60 men on the table. The big advantage of this sort of game is that I only showed the players what the CO could see and that was at 17mm eye level, or at least as low as the camera could go. The rest was verbal discription if they sent a runner to find out what was happening.
I had great fun with it, and reaction to events was interesting. The British player kept moving his 2" mortar so it was very ineffective but one round fired blind overshot a long way. The German player suddenly sent a man to his rear to find out if her was under attack from that direction. It's the sort of thing that would never happen in a rable yop game, you would just think it's an over shoot, forget it.
Similarly, the Brits got stuck behind a wall with heavy fire coming from behind a hedge on the opposite side of the field. He out numbered the Germans by about 4 or 5 to 1, but he was fixated by some trucks he could see and remained bogged down behind the wall. If he'd outflanked the position he would have won the game easily but because of limited actual visability on the table top, he missed the obvious move that a gamer looking from 6' would see.
I've just finished a rescue mission set in Vietnam based on the film Bat21, using maps and the table top for contacts. It was going well for the US until a small series of mistakes/lucky choices by the VC and one mistake in not moving decisively enough by the US meant it ended badly. I was gutted when the 4 man team were caught in a firefight with only 7 VC and wiped out by a few unlucky firing actions, ie dice rolls.
Sorry to waffle on so.
Cheers
that sounds very cool! your right you couldn't do that face to face. would love to join a game with you to try it out. thanks
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