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Paper Army MTO (id:#56666)

Multi-Man Publishing (ASL Starter Kit #2 ID: S10)

Sarandoporo River Valley, Greece 1940-11-03 (2 others)

JB 1: Sir, the Greeks Are Firing (Internet)
PAD 4: Iron Coffins (Map Pad Pack)

Designer: Brian Youse

Starter kit scenario?: Deluxe scenario?:

Balance:

GreekItalian

72.072072072072%

Overview:

Determined to present Hitler with a fait accompli in the Balkans, Mussolini launched another ill-advised, ill-planned and ill-informed campaign, this time from Albania into the mountains of Epirus, Pindus, and Macedonia, just in time for winter. The Italian offensive was launched on October 28th in a driving rain that negated any air cover. . .

Attacker: Greek (Greek Army Mountaineers)

Defender: Italian (3rd Alpini Division)

5.5 turns

Players: 2 OBA: None Night: No

Unit Counts:

Squads: A:12.0 D:11.5

AFVs: A:0 D:0

Guns: A:0 D:0

Misc Rules:

Grain in Season. D: MMG begins malfunctioned, no repair attempt until Turn 2.

Map Board(s):

x

Overlays:

NONE

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Last Played:

Date	Reporter		Opponent	Result	Comments
2020-01-11	(D) John Smith	vs	Scott	Italian win	A wacky scenario. It's reported as being very unbalanced, so we gave the Italians the balance rule. Victory, IMO, hinges on 2 things. First, the Italians cannot dawdle, the majority of their units have to be moving at all times, never Prep firing, and moving CX every chance. If they don't it's impossible to exit. It's literally a sprint. Leave a few squads in strategic locations as delaying forces. Second, if the Greek get their reinforcements on turn 2 you might as well just end the scenario. The Italians are easy to break and have horrible ELR. If the Greek don't get reinforcements until turn 4 the Italians can win. Was still a fun "hide and seek", hot pursuit type of scenario.
2019-12-14	(D) Jacob Elmqvist	vs	Ingemar Gardell	Greek win
2019-11-02	(A) Dmitry Klyuykov	vs	Anton	Greek win	Very poor one-sided scenario design by Brian Youse, like other his scenarios.
2017-10-14	(D) Vic Lauterbach	vs	JM	Greek win	SK warm up for ASL 90 Pride and Joy. I forgot that in SK building P7-08 has no upper level, so MMG couldn't fire over the grain at Greek squads on the I1-Q1 road! I got one 8-0 and three squads off at CC10, but the Greek flanking force wiped out a 7-0 and two squads at W4, and I needed to exit 3 of those 5 points. This one comes down to when the Greek reinforcements arrive (GT3 in this case).
2017-05-25	(D) Louis Langdeau	vs	Andrew S	Draw	Woopsies! We completely misread the Greek entry rules. Marking this an incomplete to avoid messing up statistics, since it completely through off this scenario. Not really sure what the Italians are supposed to do here, although that could be inexperience showing. We looked at the balance beforehand, and decided to give the Italians their balance adjustment. Honestly though, it didn't seem to matter. Post game discussions led me to conclude that the issue with this one is two part. One, the map is horrible for this. There's no real way for the Italians to approach the Greek force that doesn't eventually devolve into them charging into a Greek line. The Italians don't have enough troops to try and overwhelm the Greeks, and any shooting match is going to heavily favor the Greeks, especially if the Italians don't fix their gun. Two, the Greek reinforcements are super punishing. The ability for them to come in to flank, reinforce, or just block the Italians makes this feel massively out of whack. I feel like this scenario is deeply flawed, but I'm interested to see whether there is an AAR somewhere that would prove me wrong.

Action	Date
Thradar Added a playing	2020-01-11 17:18:06
jacelm Added a playing	2020-01-05 04:14:47
MoriQuessir Added a playing	2019-11-03 07:42:27
MoriQuessir Rated the scenario	2019-11-03 07:40:38
bqsfgame@gmail.com Rated the scenario	2019-05-15 17:19:21

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Greek infantry conduct a bayonet charge (aera40.jpg)	Image	King Billy	576
(greek-ital.png)	Image	hoxson1	213
(paper army map.png)	Image	hoxson1	127
(s10.jpg)	Map Image	Twirling	527
Situation at end of GT5 (S10 end of GT5.JPG)	Map Image	dieneuner25	168

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Statistics:
Avg Rating: 5.89	Votes: 54
Views:	3933
To-Play list count:	4
Estimated Play time:	3 hours
Recorded Games:	43

Archive recorded plays:
Greek	31
Italian	11
Drawn:	1

ROAR Data: (as of Nov 2019)
Paper Army [Confirmed]

[A] Greek	49
[D] Italian	20