Finally getting around to playing a senario from FotB tomorrow night probably going to start with 'shock and awe' (as im missing map board 33, so limits my choices atm). Has anyone played this one yet? love to hear people thoughts on this one.

Soooo?

well played this one tonight and wow it was close (before playing I thought the germans were going to have a hard time) i played the russians and a friend of mine the germans (we play ToI as much as each other so on the same skill level)

the german AT gun was taken out on the first action of the game. ( i would have set it up somewhere other than the front hill hex)

I used the tanks to try to wear down the german infantry in the buildings from afar while advancing the squads. (as move and fire didnt seem to be that effective)

I made good use of a strafing run card pinning all squads on the 2 hill hexes (freeing up some time to move)

The germans had some bad luck through the game with only being able to make contact with 1 out of 5 attempts with arty (this didnt cause any loses to me though)

I had to resolve the effects of a sabatage card, in the process loosing a T34 (it was the one about explosives, cant remember the name of it)

i set my reinforcements up ready to make an assult on the victory objective on the hill hex (round 4 the assult ended in a draw Rus rolled 13 dice ger 7 no cover, bit unlucky, both scored 5 hits)

Round 5 I assulted the hill again this time taking it along with one victory token. The german reinforcments came in over on the board with the buildings and casued some heavy casualties to my squads awaiting to enter the 2nd victory hex, the germans then occupied the victory hex. I used my remaining units to try and wear down the elite squad the germans had (getting a bit unlucky took a number of squads and 2 tanks to kill them off) the final move was my T34 (who also was transporting a squad moved in for a close range attack which finally killed off the elite squad. Then the unit being transported made an assult on the building hex where on squad of normal inf were waiting, i rolled 3 hits the germans also rolled 3 hits (no sucsses with cover for germans) so the assult ended in a draw with one german figure left in the hex ahhhh so i couldnt advance to take the victory

soooooo close

after the game we did the whole debrief and what if’s , will be playing this one again

looks like it went well. nice write up.

BJaffe01