Posts made by dictator_wanna_be

@me109:

Hi eveyone,i noticied that at ebay and if you type in Axis&Allies Miniatures, it shows something absoutely amazing  :-o :-o :-o :-o It is a set that has everysingle A&A mini made so far,but when I Looked at the price I almost died :-( It costs 900 dollars,I thoght I could could get it for christmas, :cry:guess I will have to really save up a lot of $$$$. post and see what you think

hehehe I saw that same ting… all 4 complete sets in bags… but thats really just for collectors… They r all still in bags, it would be a bad thing to open them! lol Just pick what kinda country u wanna play with then blueprint a build and buy the peices 4 it online!

@Imperious:

HUH? no Kursk?  Market Garden? El Alamein?

I prefer early scenarios… although I love Krusk, but I lack a number of tanks to make it interesting… panzer III & IV’s r relativly cheep to get so I can build in mass :lol: Der Leiter has done a gaint Krusk battle… very nice pics too! My playing group lacks enough T-34s (but im working on that!) I will defently run this campain when I have enough units!

As for El Alamein… well thats true I dont see many campains on this one, but we are missing some British tanks nessary. I want some Mitilda tanks!

Market Gardens is a wizards scenario…

cool… im trying to organize a big (not sure on da size yet) Operation Barbarossa Campain/Scenario…

Were I play though we r short on T-34s  :-P Im also hunting for some T-20s and possibly will use the new early soviet armor in the upcomming set…

Ebay is ur best bet… you can get some great deals! Or u can get into bidding wars depending how badly u need the peice!  :wink:

Just dont try to bid on stuff Im biding on LOL  :-P

nice! so whats the next big one? Anyone like to do a big 1940 France campain or 1941 race to Moscow? I like the earlier campains… less die rolling, i dont wanna get carple tunel too early! lol

Last league play torrny I bought 2 boosters 1 base set the other set 2… I got Tiger 1 and King Tiger… crazy!

@dictator_wanna_be:

Axis & Aliies Minis Torny Thursday Sep. 21st 5:30pm-8:30pm

Dean’s Dugout
1815 Wehrli Rd.
Naperville, IL 60565
Phone: (630) 527-8888
Fax: (630) 527-8955
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I think we have another torrny tonight! If ur interesed call or come on down! 5:30pm-8:30pm

looks very interesting… I cant wait until I have enough units to try such large scale battles! Dont forget to post the pics!

@Der:

Unfortunately not until next year; some time in the first quarter.

well i spent a lot on a&a this year so thats ok!  :wink:

I went 2-1+ at leage night

I was 2-0 with my soviet squad

KV-1 x1
T-34 Guards x1
T-70 x1
Cossack Captain x1
Fanatical Sniper x1
Soviet Grenaiders x2

Worked pretty well unfortuently the grenaders get so left behind from the action that they make little difference…

1st game I played an axis squad who had a lot of small armor units. My T-34 Guards had grat position on the map and just cut threw his panzers. But he had incredible rolls he was able to destroy my KV-1 in the 3rd turn (i made a rookie mistake of forgeting to use hulking mass). Also my T-70 was destroyed on turn 3 with almost a perfect enemy roll. But It was the T34 who had great position by the objective who ended the game.

1-0

2nd game I played an Axie squad with a vet Tiger. I was very scared of the Tiger and avoided direct confrontation. Then I managed to secluded and isolate the Tiger and blitzed with my T-34G & KV1… unfortuently I lost the T34 but I killed the tiger. Once the tiger was gone it was over.

2-0

3rd game I was Axis running my newly pulled tiger one (I bought 2 packs 1 base the other base 2… I pulled a tiger 1 and king tiger! omg). I threw together this team so I had no big expectations… also worst case if I lose I new I would be tied for first. I chaced around his tanks… but time was called about turn 4, and I still had strong position and good control of the objective but point wise I had lost much more infantry. Since it was so early in the match we went by points but I didnt complain because I tied for 1st.

2-1

The guy i tied with didnt want to play a tie breaker, he claimed he had to go, so we broke it over WW2 history trivia question and I got it!  :-D Not bad for my first tornment  :wink:

Any ideas what I should run instead of the soviet grenadiers?

Looks cool… when is this stuff gonna come out?

@MechanizedWarfare:

@dictator_wanna_be:

i just wish all armor got the overrun abuility… 5/5 infantry pisses me off  :x

Especially when you are dealing with them using the Ruskies.

Ya as russians Ihave problems with 5/5 infantry… any ideas?

i just wish all armor got the overrun abuility… 5/5 infantry pisses me off  :x

WOW amazing battles! Great job!

Krusk is my favorit WW2 battle… once my friends and i get enough tanks we will run it… but not so many Tigers as u had just to give the soviets more of a fight… and I think i’ll divide it have germany come from the north and south and russians defending in the middle. hehehe I cant wait!

-sharif

Axis & Aliies Minis Torny Thursday Sep. 21st 5:30pm-8:30pm

Dean’s Dugout
1815 Wehrli Rd.
Naperville, IL 60565
Phone: (630) 527-8888
Fax: (630) 527-8955
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about time  8-)

@Der:

Two new russian units posted: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/aa/welcome

The BA-10M is nice for early war games, and even later war can be useful to hunt down support units.

The Su-152 has a nice attack against both soldiers and vehicles with Bombardment. It has the good defence and hulking mass of the KV-1, but also a drawback - no defencive fire - meaning units can easily move around (or through) it to get out of arc. However they still have to get passed the defence. An interesting unit.

I like the Su-152, because it can do what many of the other heavy armor cannot… it can beat infantry very well! The no turret could be a problem… but the heavy armor should offset that problem. We shall see…

Well what can I say Germany has some great tanks but if im playing in a 100 pt game im not a fan of putting 2/3rds of my points in one tiger. Lots of the german builds I see are mainly all infantry. But i love the tiger tank, is the Panther tank an alternative in a competive 100 pt play? Or what other armor setups have people found to work well for germany in 100 pt games?

Hello Im new to the game, but am learning fast…

My local store will be hosting A & A games (I asume 100 point 15 unit limit)

Right now my best side by far would be soviet union…

I have:

Armor
KV-1
T-34
T-34 Guard
T-70

Soldiers
cossack captain
communist partisans x2
PPsh-41 SMG
Fanatical sniper

*Now i relize that im a little short on infantry but i can get them easly…

Im looking for more of a blanced build… but players I play against tend to have a more armor heavy build… its hard not to play with those sexy tigers even though they take all ur points ;p

Im look at somthing like this:

KV1
Cossack captain (of da combo with KV1)
T-34 Guards
T-70
(thats 86 points so far)

not sure how to approach the infantry… looking at soviet granaders, but they have a very limited range…
partisans seem interesting, but i may need a few pointers on how they should be used effectivly & how many should be run…
Also is there any advantage to running the T-34/76 instead to take advantage of its transport ability?

Im more worried with enimy infantry than armor… I pretty confident that i have enough armor to go mono de mono with a armor heavy german side… Anything I should do to deal with infanty? Is aircraft gonna give me fits?

And basic strategy with this Russia i should be made aware of? hehehe ya that was a mouth full… Thanx ahead of time!

@Der:

The Russian tanks were slaughtered but there were a few reasons for this. Firstly it was our mistake to put one new player, and one relatively unexperienced player on the Russian side while the Germans had three experienced players - we had assumed the Russians would be able to hold their own despite this but we were wrong. Secondly, perhaps because of their experience, the Russian player (West) refused to commit his tanks and concentrate his firepower. Consquently his forces were destroyed piecemiel; he held most of his T-34s in reserve.  He also had several very unlucky rolls.

The Eastern Russian player just rushed all his tanks into battle, often going to point-blank; which is actually fairly historical. Left against the Panzer Company he might have even defeated them, however since the Western player wasn’t actively opposing my Army Group Centre I was able to swing around with a platoon of Tigers and decimate him.

However we knew in the beginning that the Germans had the advantage in armour; the game wasn’t based on points but capturing several objectives which the Germans (just barely) failed to do.

We used the equivalent of a Regiment for each side, and found that it left enough room to comfortably maneuvre units. Here’s the main elements of the SS Panzer Regiment used:

Tiger Company w/ HQ
8x Tiger I
6x Veteran Tiger

Panther Platoon
5x SS Panther G

Panzer Company w/ HQ
6x Panzer IV G
2x Panzer III F
2x Elite Panzer IV D
7x SS Panzer F2

We don’t always play games of this size, in fact we often find small 50 point infantry platoon battles to be just as fun (and a little less time consuming).

Im just randomly interested with what was the make up of the soviet army in ur huge krusk battle…