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Desert war, or rather, let's have some Brits for dessert
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100 pt game Trying out some pseudo Desert war tanks. Brits had a Grant , 2 Crusaders and 3 Sherman V. Crusaders had Bloodthirsty gunner, Grants had various upgrades taking it to I8 moving, I6 shooting.
Germans had 2 Panzer IV short, 2 Panzer IV long and I popped in a Puma and Stug. P IV long had racing driver, one P IV short had precise loader. Stug bigger hammer, Puma, Scout and Cunning commander. I also reduced the shots by one for the Puma and Stug to be more in keeping with earlier versions.
Brits got absolutely hammered, all dead for the loss of one P IV short. 3 Hit points is not good.
Grant, on one HP left got hit by a Puma sideshot. 2 or 3 hits against 6 def dice. Grant failed them all.
I am struggling a bit to see what the Brits could have done differently in this setup as the P IV long had higher I and so could decide to stay still and tough it out, Germany rolled well for defence but 4 shot rerolls against max 3 defence for the Crusaders was like shooting fish in a barrel.
I looked through my binos at the smoking ruins, brushed the sand off my uniform and retired for some Schnapps and listen to Lili Marlene on my gramophone. |
2 Dec 16, me to BF CustServ Is there any news on my replacement replacement cards for the Achilles please? 6 May 18 no
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A Honey with Scout may have given you some options against the higher Initiative, but yeah, Sherman V as your highest attack seems rough.
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Rank: Commander
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I was quite happy with my Germans facing that :) He did had some bad luck though, 12 shots at a stationary stug I think resulted in a "shell shocked" and nothing else. Now i know that i am justified in going after stugs when i fight against Germans, they are little buggers! |
2 Dec 16, me to BF CustServ Is there any news on my replacement replacement cards for the Achilles please? 6 May 18 no
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The puma only got 1 hit, which made the 6 failures on the defense roll all the more amusing:) when the new tanks get released will revisit this list as crusaders are fun to use. Think I am justified in never taking a sherman again as they have never given any results. That grant at least hurt things:) Already had ideas for next weeks list.
Could pair honeys and grants with scout card to help that hull gun
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