Had two great fun 100pt games last night, Jagdpanther, Panther & StugG V Sherman 76 and 3x Sherman including about 15 pts of upgrades each. First game 1hr the second 45min, the Germans one quite convincingly both times with no losses, the US lost two Shermans at game end after objectives and winning conditions were met. We did however forget that destroyed tanks can still shoot but as it was the Stug doing all the damage and having the lowest Initiative, I don't think it mattered to much, a few observations.

Not having a turret is not a big issue as it only comes into play at point blank ranges when enemy can get past, a Stug with upgrades is generally a far better option than a PzIV.

Here's a bit of an oddity with this in effect.

The Jagdpanther can shoot the Sherman but the Sherman doesn't get a flank attack despite having a much better shot onto the side.

And the funnest moment.


The Panther is stationary holding the objective, the Sherman is disabled and also not moving so at point blank range has no defence dice and only 1 wound remaining. Panther rolls 5 misses, rerolls and all miss again. The Sherman does the same and the the Sherman is finished off by a moving SugG with 2 hits, fun times :) (pic taken at the end of the previous turn)


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Good AAR hithero, and nice observation MATRAKA14 on the angle of impact mechanics (makes one wonder why an X pattern wasn't chosen).

We're going to muddle through a play-test next week, with only the rules, and the AFV cards and player aids scanned from the website here. Therefore, we won't be playing any of the special damage or repairing rules, or have any of the crewing upgrades.......

I wonder how the game might play without all the repair & crew embellishments - and if greater numbers of AFVs would compensate for the loss in game satisfaction w/o the extra card play?

I think the pattern used here is more akin to how many linear warfare rule sets determine flank (oblique) fire.

It's always been pretty easy to determine a useable angle of impact arc by putting the 3-dots face of a D6 on a model's hull corner (which renders a 45 degree angle).

Something additional for those table dice to do when they're not being used for rolling.

Cerebus, I was hoping to hear that! Thanks for the reply, and thanks again to hithero for the posting here.

Edited by user Friday, April 22, 2016 3:32:58 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Sp!