In spite of a non-intervention policy adopted by the League of Nations, foreign nationals flocked to Spain by the thousands. As a result, both the Nationalists and the Republicans used foreign troops to fight their war. On March 8, the Nationalists opened an offensive with the objective of taking Guadalajara and surrounding Madrid. Near Brihuega, in one of the ironies that only a conflict as convoluted as this could produce, units of the same nationality clashed on the road to Guadalajara – the Garbaldi Battalion of the 13th International Brigade made up of Italian socialists, communists, and other anti-fascists clashed with the Black Flame Division of the regular Italian army.
Attacker: Italian Republican (Garibaldi Battalion)
Defender: Italian Nationalist (Black Flame Division and attached Armor)
A close fight that saw two turns of vast numbers of troops breaking and being eliminated for failure to rout. The Republicans made good use of their turn 1 movement to nab two of the four buildings needed, and the back-and-forth between the two sides often came down to close combats, where the 1fp advantage (per squad) really shone. Although the CVP was lopsided, the dramatic end was far closer than the points would lead you to believe.
2020-12-09
(D) wayne baumber
vs
Graham Smith
Italian Nationalist win
Interesting scenario, lots of low percentage shots, low morale and tin cans rattling around the battlefield. I thought it looks tough for the Republicans but I see that they have the advantage in ROAR playing's. Our game was a stalemate around the mansion on board 6 and all the action was centred on the woods in the middle of the board.
2020-06-15
(A) Shane Pask
vs
Italian Republican win
Nationalists withdrew their tanks on turn 1 after 1 was forced to withdraw (Stun/recall) and 1 disabled its MG. Quickly settled in to a fairly static game after Nationalist thrust on 6K2 was rebuffed - 2 buildings each with Republicans slightly up on CVP. Turn 6 saw an all out push by Nationalists on 6K2 again - all they needed was one hex in 6K2 to win 2 buildings to 1. First push was broken, second push was broken, last push was fired on by both hexes as final fire - Boxcars! Now down to final CC. I managed an ambush but failed to kill. Nationalist also failed to kill so building remained in Republican hands for CVP victory 10-5.
2020-04-30
(D) Rob MacGinley
vs
David Castander
Italian Republican win
TIn cans need to do more!
Down to the wire though thru building control and CVP
2019-04-19
(D) C. Scott Kippen
vs
Neil Gowen
Italian Republican win
2018-10-28
(A) Allen Evenson
vs
Greg Rodgers
Italian Nationalist win
Came down to last turn. Greg was able to take 3 of the 4 buildings and also had more VP. Fun scenario with attacking on both sides.
2018-10-05
(A) patrick palma
vs
Derek Ritter
Italian Nationalist win
2018-02-11
(A) Jim Kloss
vs
Bob Eury
Italian Republican win
I won as the Republicans by avoiding the big 6N4 building, and whittling down the Nationalist forces for a CVP victory. I would recommend using the LMG's/MMG primarily as AT weapons against the L3 tankettes.
2017-09-06
(A) Martí Cabré
vs
Toze Santos
Italian Republican win
Duplicate of 137
2014-09-28
(D) Michal Bonaventura
vs
Italian Republican win
2013-10-01
(D) Juan Garrido
vs
Solo
Italian Republican win
2012-07-30
(D) Ron Garcia
vs
Darryl M.
Italian Republican win
2011-11-15
(D) David Ramsey
vs
Martin Barker
Italian Republican win
Lost after destroying all the tanks thanks to 4 squads who all broke and surrendered in one terrible turn!
2011-11-11
(A) Steven Cummings
vs
Andy Daniels
Italian Nationalist win
2009-08-27
(D) Scott Fischbein
vs
Chris Olden
Italian Republican win
Great game! Made the classic newbie mistake of misundertanding the VCs and tried to take a building at all costs that I didn't really need to capture. Managed to still pull out a good game and it was close until Chris killed a Commissar which caused all the units with him to break and lost me control of a key building.