Mine was in a center hex in the hills and upon deployment it was one of those cringe moments.  He had a Typhoon.  The funny thing is he didn’t use it on the Nash so I was able to bump it off mid game.  I’m please with the results 55 point to 45 cost I’ll take that any day.  If it wasn’t for the mortor and the Improved Indirect fire it may have been higher kill points.

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Honestly, I have definitely been looking for something like this.  But I’m not sure if you’re talking about the same thing as me; could you possibly provide a link that shows the finished product?

the pieces i am mainly going to collect and get doubles of are the following : U.S -  Resourful Hero, Sherman, and P-51. Germany- Panzer Grenaider, Me-109,Hetzer,Elite Panzer 4. The perfect units to wage war!  :evil:

Yes. We could try playing out scenarios here in the boards but the games might take too long.

i found the limited AAM rules…. its a starter and a booster or 2 boosters played with 1 army of 80 points. <<< official from wizards >>>

my thoughts about this…

you are getting 18 pieces totally random. appr. 9 axis and 9 allied pieces. building an 80 point army. if you pull a 30-40 point rare tank awesome… but what happens if you pull a 50-65 point tank… you almost can’t use it. and what if you get the pieces i consider “time and place pieces” that have uses, but not every day army usues… it just seems it could get too unbalanced too quickly with only 2 boosters totally random.

however i am thinking 3 boosters drafted instead of random gives you more options… i would prolly suggest 100 point army or true tournament style with 2 different 80 point armies. with the draft you could either draft heavy axis or heavy allied with 1 army or if doing 2 armies makes you select the best piece from the box. it takes some of the randomness of opening out of the picture. then if you pull that 50+ tank you could be more inclined to take a good UNC instead and hope that you are getting passed a 30ish tank that the next player didnt need for his army.

honestly there is so much that you could do… and withing the next 2 weeks I will be doing this… will post all rules and results after then.

what we do know… it will be 4 players with prolly 3 (maybe 4 if we have lots of time) boosters choosing (1x reserves, 1x d-day, 1xcontested skies) or we could sub in a set II or base set as we will be doing the 10 pack to save money and give most variety.

“…Because these are special abilities with a negative effect that have nothing to do with a plentiful ammo supply”, I may not reroll those 1’s."

You get the re-rolls from Plentiful Ammo first, then look at the dice. If you had plentiful ammo and Guards crew from a T-34/85, you would get to chose which of the two abilities you used first, then use the second. After all that’s done you can then look at the results for your overheat, rapid fire, flamethrower, etc.

You might also sand the bottoms flat with some 240 grit sand paper, though this is something I have not tried!

Okay, does anyone who has loaded in this game want to try this?

Thanks for the info and the reminder of the front page!

I’m looking forward to the consolidated rules book.  I assume it has all the errata which will make it easier to play without searching out the newest bits.

Although I most often build my own maps, I’m a lover of maps and am looking forward to these new ones.

No mention of more for the miniature navy this year though.

Dezrtfish,

Thanks for the update,

-LT04

Those are pretty decent pulls.  You got a Nashorn!  That piece is like rare rare!!  More rare than the King Tiger.

Ive only bought two cases……one of Contested Skies and one of D-Day.  The Contested Skies one was the best one I got.  I didn’t get any duplicates, thus only missing three pieces.  Its the set that im just about to complete.  I’m going back to basics soon and getting myself a case of Set I and II’s.  :-D

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Here’s my list for Polish units http://boards.avalonhill.com/showpost.php?p=222941&postcount=8

My older 1939 Poland is listed here under the scenario subforum.

@Motdc:

@Mechanized:

Maybe Motdc’s map program will help a lot in this kind of game.  :wink:

We just need one or two test games going and then I can continue work on it!

Mot

Well damn……no one wants to play against me.  I suppose I can play a test game by myself.  :wink:

It’s a realy basic map of Stalingrad, but it way beter than the maps that come with the minis.

I heard that as well.  It seemed that at tourney’s  people were stacking their armies with all hero’s so a general house rule of one hero. I do not think it’s mentioned in the rules at all.  Some tactics can be employed as far as 4/4’s go.  I too have no problem mixing units.

example:                4/4 Bar gunners  support 5/5 Ranger’s I sure people can come up with more but that just springs to mind.

You have to be carefule I was used like a tool when I sent KAR 98’s against Screaming Eagle’s (First game) It was a blood bath. The trick is to play to the utits strengths and use supporting units.  I’m a big fan of snipers and MG42’s

@Audacity:

Excellent!  Are you able to post pictures of these battles like you have done on some of your other epics.  I especially liked the pics from Kursk.

I didn’t think of it for the first turn, but will definately do so for future ones. They aren’t nearly as epic as Kursk though ;)

I certainly am not disagreeing with you on the historical concept and especially with the War at Sea where you can play with ships that actually represent ships that were in the fleet on a particular day.  There are however many books out there, written by dreamers and histoirians alike, that attempt to paint the “what if” scenarios just like we do with these games when we try to start within a historical context and then see how things turn out.

Therefore, if one wants to explore the idea of the Battle of the Atlantic with a German air carrier capability one will have to borrow a ship from some other nation to represent the concept that Admiral Raeder was successful in his fleet developments during the 1930s.

@Audacity:

The scenario.  An infantry soldier is in a town hex and a vehicle crosses the open ground and enters the same hex.  The soldier is entitled to defensive fire.

The rule states the defensive fire effects (ie which hex it occurs)  is determined by the defender.  In this case that means the defender says if the effect take place in the open ground hex or if it happens in the town hex.

Question.  If the defender awaits until the vehicle has entered the town hex, can he use his abilities to attack vehicles in his own hex with the far superior dice rolls or is Defensive fire only about direct fire

Yes. You get to chose where the defencive-fire occurs, and if you have any special abilities such as flamethrower or close assault you can use them. Only a few abilities are worded such that they can’t be used for defencive-fire (eg the Goliath’s ). So if your unit is, for example, simply a regular infantry it will probably be best to make the defencive-fire attack in the same hex where it can use its close assault.