Date | Reporter | | Opponent | Bal. | Result | Comments |
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2023-03-03 | (A) Asad Rustum | vs | Jesper Orland | | German win | Played at ASO 2023, 2nd round. |
2023-03-03 | (D) Øyvind Jacobsen Bjørkås | vs | Stefan | | German win | ASL Scandinavian Open round 2. Stefan found a glaring hole in my defense on my right hand flank and never looked back. |
2023-03-02 | (D) Asad Rustum | vs | Jim Bishop | | German win | |
2023-03-02 | (A) Jim Bishop | vs | Asad Rustum | | German win | This was a pretty close game but eventually the Germans ground down the Brits with the weight of their AFVs. It is important for the German AFVs to do the heavy lifting as their Infantry is garbage. |
2022-12-27 | (A) Dwayne Duval | vs | Kevin Duval | | German win | |
2022-12-27 | (D) Kevin Duval | vs | Dwayne Duval | | German win | Used British balance. Brits gave up in Turn 5. |
2022-02-14 | (D) David Garvin | vs | Nick Faryna | | British win | VERY last roll. That's how close this was. |
2020-07-07 | (A) Vilis Pavulans | vs | Santiago Penabella | | German win | Awesome game! Very intense! In the first two turns I was convinced I was going to lose all my infantry. They all broke with ELR to the right and left. Then I started using the AFVs as infantry, going into buildings and giving close support and on occasion, giving some smoke scrreens and then, slowly the germans started to wear down the british defenders. As in most really good games it came down to the last movements in the last turn and ultimately, a defensive, final fire that managed to pin a british squad who was counter attacking. Great game versus a very pleasant opponent. |
2020-06-06 | (A) Andy Bagley | vs | Gordon Jupp | | German win | Excellent scenario - as reported by Gordon below. As the Germans I made slow and deliberate progress keeping concealment as much as possible and just made it. No fewer than FIVE of my tanks malf'ed their MA through rolling boxcars, but their MGs were still useful, and taking out the best British leader with the German sniper probably just made the difference - although it went down to the last CC. |
2020-06-05 | (D) Gordon Jupp | vs | Andy Bagley | | German win | I setup on the back line and invited the Germans forward, so as to preserve my force and to intice the German tanks into the BUA. It worked to a degree but on T5 my best leader was taken out by the German sniper and I wasa scrambling to take back two buildings on the last turn - managed one but the Sherman fell into a cellar whilst attempting to overun another! |
2020-05-20 | (A) Ron Garcia | vs | Darryl M. | | German win | |
2020-05-16 | (D) Christian Knudsen | vs | robert schaaf | | German win | This is a very strange scenario, that I don't think either of us quite got. Robert proved more adept at improvising his attack than I did my defense; while we both made errors in setup, mine were harder to come back from. Good fun! |
2020-05-15 | (A) Andy Beaton | vs | Darren Kovacs | | British win | CASLO 2020 |
2020-05-08 | (A) John Gorkowski | vs | Bill Stoppel | | German win | It’s in the name; tanks come here to die! But first, you have to smoke ‘em. Awesome scenario.
My Germans set up with two Panzer IVs on distant level 2 hills (46G8 and 18X5) so they could fire smoke along the 46Y4, Z4 road that bisects the British position. Another Panzer IV was in the building at 46W2. The Panzer IIIs started on level 1 hills, one of them 18P7, so they had good lines of sight to 46X2 and 46Y1. I had a kill stack of 9-1, HMG, MMG, and two 4-6-7 on level 1 in the building at 46U3.
From those vantage points, I fired four smoke counters (46Y4, 46Z4, 46X2 and 46Y1) during the first prep fire phase to isolate and safely access the 46Z2 building cluster. I used my conscripts as half squads to “out” British concealment. That’s not cheap. The British blew one HS off the map and captured another in close combat; but still they revealed a dummy stack, stripped British concealment, and enabled my better squads to dash forward against weaker (SFF) fire. Meanwhile, the German kill stack in 46U3 used opportunity fire to shoot between smoke and whittle down and break a newly exposed 4-5-7 in 46Z3. That kill stack cranked out similarly effective fire through turn 4 when it split into half squads for an end-game rush. One of my panzer IIIs drove into the building at 46Z3 to anchor that corner and threaten his HMG (still in smoke) across the street. Such moves are critical for the Germans in this scenario since they are short on infantry. The Germans really do need to select a few good “parking spots” in building hexes where they are ready to spend the rest of the scenario since bog is a very real possibility with the cellar a small, acceptable risk.
Bill’s Brits bit back! His 8-1, MMG, and 4-5-7 in 46CC3 fired at 46Z2 to break and cut two German squads in half along with their 8-1, a major loss. They eventually routed back, but the 8-1 rolled box cars to exit the game. A concealed Brit squad in the stone building at AA4 popped out to ambush and capture an adjacent, exhausted 2-3-6; post ambush, the Brit then jumped back to avoid German fire. Meanwhile, his concealed 9-1, HMG, and 4-5-7 in 46Z5 stood idle – out of the fight – for two turns thanks to an opaque smoke screen.
The armor battle started out slow, since the Germans were blowing smoke from a safe distance, but went ballistic on game turn 4. The British Sherman started in the building at 46 EE4 while his Churchill kept watch from the graveyard in 46Z7, both concealed and with their hull rear, but turret front, facing the enemy. From good cover, that’s a great way to shoot and scoot. Unknown to me, his 57mm ATG in 46CC7 had a good view of the smoked-up road at 46Z4.
Snug in the graveyard at 46Z7, that quick firing Churchill tank at first restricted the Germans to cautious advances on the other side of buildings 46W7 and V9, both defended by British squads. Once those fell, the German armor executed a pincer move around them to come at the Churchill with five tanks from both flanks. One at a time, panzers moved into 46X4, W3, and W10, stopped, and then fired in the movement phase. The Churchill waited patiently, relying on hull down and +4 to hit modifiers for defense against the first two shots, from X4 and W3, both of which missed. When the Panzer IV with CE 9-1 armor leader darted to W10, the Churchill swung his turret (+1) and fired at the moved target (+2) while buttoned (+1) to miss! The 9-1 fired back with 75L to score a turret hit that killed the Churchill. Two Panzer IIIs then rushed nearby British infantry while releasing smoke dispenser screens for their own infantry. Machine gun fire killed a PIAT-toting 1-2-7 and scared a 4-5-7 into skulking away rather than advancing into close combat. Meanwhile, the 46Z4 smoke screen cleared so the British ATG in 46CC7 fired down the now open street to kill two German tanks, one in the street (46T4) and the other in the graveyard at 46W3.
But Bill’s Brits yielded when a Panzer III in 46AA10, who had outflanked the British position, found HEAT to kill the Sherman trying to set up a new line in DD8 on turn 5. At that point, the Germans controlled only 13 buildings, but they had five tanks to Britain’s zero and three of those tanks had acquisition on key British infantry positions.
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2020-04-23 | (A) Michael Rodgers | vs | Bruno L'Archeveque | | British win | German conceded after three turns. Too many casualties to take seven more buildings. |
2020-03-21 | (A) David Garvin | vs | Andrew Luden | | German win | |
2019-07-07 | (A) Jonathan Kapleau | vs | Duenskie, Ron | | British win | |
2018-08-19 | (A) Paolo Cariolato | vs | John Bays | | German win | |
2018-01-12 | (A) Doug McMullen | vs | Steve Steinmetz | | German win | Great hard fought scenario. A few wild CC's in the final Axis CC phase settled things. It could have easily gone the other way. German side has a little more to do and is a little more fun to play. In our game my opponent used a forward defense and created a line thru which it took almost the entire game to penetrate. The British left flank finally gave way entirely at turn 5. Highly reccommended, balanced, and an excellent workout for using tanks and infantry to overcome high quality troops in (mostly stone) buildings |
2018-01-12 | (A) Doug McMullen | vs | Steve Steinmetz | | German win | Great hard fought scenario. A few wild CC's in the final Axis CC phase settled things. It could have easily gone the other way. German side has a little more to do and is a little more fun to play. In our game my opponent used a forward defense and created a line thru which it took almost the entire game to penetrate. The British left flank finally gave way entirely at turn 5. Highly reccommended, balanced, and an excellent workout for using tanks and infantry to overcome high quality troops in (mostly stone) buildings |
2017-11-11 | (A) Paolo Cariolato | vs | Chris Mazzei | | German win | My opponent was plagued by bad luck and the scenario ended in the second turn. I will play it again because it's good and it shows. |
2017-06-09 | (D) patrick palma | vs | Ken Dunn | | German win | |
2017-05-08 | (A) Dwayne Duval | vs | Kevin Duval | | German win | |
2017-05-08 | (D) Kevin Duval | vs | Dwayne Duval | | German win | Used British balance. |
2017-03-03 | (D) James Lowry | vs | Tom Arnold | | British win | |
2016-08-01 | (D) Scott Sherer | vs | Daniel Soukup | | German win | |
2015-01-28 | (A) Vic Lauterbach | vs | EL | | German win | Very close - last buildings fell on final turn |
2014-04-27 | (D) Andy Beaton | vs | Richard Hooks | | British win | Germans were too cautious with their armour |
2013-04-30 | (D) Paul Messina | vs | Chuck Hammond | | German win | |
2012-06-23 | (D) John Van Natta | vs | Jeff T. | | German win | Disappointing result for the British. I didn't contest the approaches to the village and paid for this mistake. Excellent play by my opponent sealed my fate. |
2012-06-23 | (A) Jeff T | vs | JVan | | German win | I played as the Germans attacking JVan's British. His defense was in the village, not much up front with both AFV deep in the village. I took advantage to smoke two stacks and assault moved into the streets across from the graveyard. From the beginning I was aggressive, driving a PzIII right into the middle of part of his defense and getting smoke from a sD to further reduce visibility and defensive shots. JVan never got the rolls on the defense, despite his AT gun taking out a PzIV, his sniper being active and the Germans struggling with rallying the few squads that broke. The game-breaker for the Brits was when their Sherman malf'd his main gun and then disabled it. Without the Sherman threat in the middle, the PzIIIs drove up on his right flank and sleazed a position with his MMG and a leader while another broke/pinned his HMG squad and 9-1 leader with point blank fire. He was forced to pull back and the wave of Germans advanced. It got worse as the Sherman was flamed by a panzerfaust in defensive fire. At the end of turn 3, the Germans had 15 of the 20 necessary victory buildings, tanks in the rear of the Brits, and no conceivable way for the Brits to take them back or prevent the Germans from getting to 20. The Brits conceded. Good win for the Germans, but disappointing that it didn't go longer. The Brits couldn't inflict enough damage missing with Piats, and two street-fighting close combat attacks. It could have easily been a lot closer but the rolls went to the Germans this day. |
2011-10-14 | (D) Michael Rodgers | vs | Matt Zajak | | German win | |
2011-04-01 | (A) Will Willow | vs | N, Wegener | | British win | FtF Chicago Open |
2011-04-01 | (D) nathan wegener | vs | Will W | | British win | German Panzers stood back to shoot in an attempt to rush the British right flank. The Tommy's held firm and many infantry died. Grenadier graveyard in our game. ASLOpen'11 |
2010-09-27 | (D) Glen Taylor | vs | Dennis | | German win | Fun, but pay attention to the setup rules for the Germans. I didn't, lost my 2 British tanks quickly |
2010-08-01 | (D) X von Marwitz | vs | Chris Hofland | | British win | |
2010-03-18 | (A) David Ramsey | vs | Martin Barker | | German win | Germans snuck the win by 1 hex, nearly losing on the last rally phase by just failing to rally a squad who could have retaken some buildings and then again when I boxcar'd the last CC roll, but held on to exactly 20 buildings. |
2006-01-01 | (D) Bill Brodie | vs | Stephen Mugford | | German win | A real barker in my view. The Germans must do sothing real dumb to loss this. |
2004-04-22 | (D) Eric Partizan Eric | vs | Luis Sagaz | | German win | |
2004-02-25 | (A) Aaron Sibley | vs | Ian Pollard | | German win | |
2004-02-22 | (D) Eric Partizan Eric | vs | Michel Bongiovanni | | British win | |
2001-02-17 | (D) Jason Wert | vs | John Garlic | | German win | |
2000-05-06 | (D) Rich Weiley | vs | Peter Jeffrey and Mark McGilchrist | | German win | Paddington Bearz - May 2000. |
2000-04-28 | (A) Fred Ingram | vs | Jeff Thompson | | German win | |