Go Big or Go Home ETO (id:#61266)
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Connage, France 1940-05-14 ()
Designer: Martin Svärd
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Balance:
GermanFrench
55.46218487395%

Overview:

The German surprise attack through the Ardennes and over the Meuse River at Sedan had succeeded. The last chance for the French to avoid a total disaster was to destroy the bridgehead before too many German troops arrived. Though time was of the essence, it took more than half a day before the French counterattack started and even then the right flank was delayed. The Germans were as fast as the French were slow. Led by General Guderian, German forces were assembled within minutes and thrown towards the advancing French. As French tanks ran into German anti-tank guns, French infantry units recaptured the village of Connage. The Germans responded immediately and attacked the village with assault engineers supported by tanks according to Guderian’s principle: Klotzen, Nicht Kleckern! (Smash, don't Fiddle!)
Attacker: German (Sturm-Pionier-Bataillon 43 and Panzer-Regiment 2)
Defender: French (213e Régiment d'Infanterie, 55éme Division d'Infanterie and 7e Bataillon de Chars de Combat)  
5.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:5.5 D:6.5
AFVs: A:2
PzKpfw IIIF x 2

AFVs: D:3
FCM 36 x 3

Guns: A:0 D:1
Canon AC de 25 SA-L mle 34

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: French 25LL Canon sets up on S5 bridge, concealed but not Emplaced.
Overlays: NONE
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2025-10-25(D) Neil Andrews vs Rhys Powell French winSo, after a lot of discussion on the last time Rhys and I played this. Mainly based around the fact that if I rolled dice they were 7 or less most of the time. Conversely when Rhys rolled his they were 7 or more (with one exception being a CH on a moving French tank by a Panzer in motion..... Lets just say lots of impossible, But he still did it :-) ). But that did not win him the crackers as the French infantry were basically unharmed by turn 4 and he chucked in the towel

So, we decided to do exactly the same thing again. Well actually this time with Rhys hopping that the dice were not exactly the same.
Good news for him they weren’t .
He managed to drive forward in a methodical way, but continued to lose infantry ½ squad at a time. The French on the other hand lost troops mainly to being captured for failure to rout.
The armour battle went the way of the Germans in the middle of the game, he nailed two of the three FCM’s in a DFPh phase when I tried to move the platoon to a better position on the other side of the stream. But the Panzers Killed one and then Immobilised the other. And of course my brave French tankers jumped out instantly. Right into tank MG fire that broke them too…… Run away !!!!
But the last French tank (sans it CMG which had malfed) held on and held off the Germans. The ATG got moved into a building eventually. It got a shot at the tank with the now known AL inside. 1. Hit RoF Bounce 2. Hit RoF Bounce 3. Hit RoF Bounce 4. Malf !!! Argh !
The Germans got some Infantry across to bridge. But the MMG Pinned or broke a few more. And in the end there just weren’t enough German troops to threaten the 3 remaining French MMC that were scattered across the buildings. One was so far back, only 1 of the tanks could get to it
The final nail in the coffin for the Germans was a CC with the MMG/8-0 combo. Which the French won. This stymied the trust of the German troops forward. The others were just too far back to get fire on all of the French who were by now sitting and cowering under concealment counters
French win
2025-07-19(D) Neil Andrews vs Rhys Powell French winEasy French win when the Germans could not buy a morale check for free.
2025-06-30(A) Eric Partizan Eric vs German win
2025-03-03(D) Chris Larkin vs Chris German win
2025-01-08(A) Johan Vrijdaghs vs Carter Adrian French win
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Andruz61 Added a playing2025-10-25 14:39:06
gekko_66 Linked the scenario to ROAR2025-09-01 00:19:37
Andruz61 Added a playing2025-07-20 06:09:00
Andruz61 Rated the scenario2025-07-20 06:07:31
Hutch Modified the misc. rules2025-06-30 19:04:35
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Estimated Play time: 2.7 hours
Recorded Games: 35
Archive recorded plays:
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Drawn:0

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Go Big or Go Home [Confirmed]
[A] French 55
[D] German 29
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