What's your most outrageous non-computer wargaming win

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

Just looking to get a light hearted thread going.
I am not wanting to hear of computer wargame wins thoughh, because all to often its just a dumb AI generated result.

I'm interested in hearing of a board games that went really wacky though.

My two best examples would be games I played waaaaay back before I discovered what girls were for heheh (saddly I was in my early 20's all the same though!!).
1. was a game pitting Britain in Malaya against the Japanese in 41. First time playing the game too. I routed and destroyed half the Japanese with my British units, and captured the rest. It was really a hoot. The game was supposed to be about how I managed my defeat heheh. Lost the two battleships though but they never had a chance.

2. was a game of Nato: Next War In Europe. I took all my special forces units, suicide missioned them on the Warsaw Pact Headquarters units thus eliminating them (the headquarters units that is). I deprived my opponent of his ability to win technically (rules stated he had to have functioning Headquarters unit for the subordinate units of it to allow them to claim victory hexes. He had to play the whole game using the Czech forces to garner any victory points. This was really quite futile to him.

[plloyd]

In high school I was playing 3rd Reich. My freind decided on an invative strategy, which was to split his force and attack on both fronts on the first turn. Poland held (barely), and the west front attack only succeded lowlands.

Now mine turn, buy stuff and reinforce the line. During his turn, the west front holds and Poland falls. The came my strange opertunity.

Bremen only has one fleet unit in it. So a small air attack makes it invadible. Combine British and French fleets with all available armor, and a little infantry, assault the beach and exploit to Berlin, and take it. Next turn is do or die. Germany must recapture Berlin, or be out of the game.

He retakes Berlin leaving the armored corridor intact. So my turn begins with half of my armor behind enemy lines and about to be surrounded. Then I get a weird idea.

I run across Germany and attack Hungry. The has fallen, but according to the rules, supply can come from a conquered capital. The Germans chase me and I jump on Romania. The French and BEF retake the lowlands. As I lose Budapest, I draw supply from Bucharest.

As '41 is about to close, I evacuate my one surviving armor unit of the adventure through the Aegean. The west allies are solidly on the Rhine and the Americans will enter the turn after next.

That was just wierd.

[troopie]

One of the few non-computer wargames I've ever played was an East front operational game. I've forgotten the name even. I was the Poles playing against the Germans in 1939. I made alliance with the Soviets, promising them East Prussia and a free hand in the Baltics. We struck first. I caught the Germans in Danzig and wiped them out. In Feb. 1943 (game time) the Polish army entered Berlin as conquerers.

I quit that game after that, knowing I could never repeat that feat.

troopie

[Ryne]

Advanced Squad Leader. German Panther was about to cross bridge to complete victory conditions for the Krauts when a broken green US squad rallied, moved to a captured German heavy machine gun, and fired on the tank from the rear, getting a critical hit (don't remember all the dice mechanics, it's been so many years...might have had to roll double snake-eyes...can't recall) and destroying the Panther. I was dumbstruck. My opponent was apoplectic. Most outrageous win I've ever experienced.

[scimitar]

I remember me about a good old boardgame:

Napoleon's Last Battles (SSI): playing the campaign with the French troops, a charge of cavalry (Lefevre-Desnouettes if I can remember correctly...) killed Wellington at Quatre-Bras! My opponent was literally disgusted and surrended immediately...

[valdor17]

Well, at the US Army's National Training Center (NTC) I was commanding an MRB conducting a Security Zone Defense against a 2 Task Force Heavy Brigade. I got my T72 and 2 BMPs on the flank of 2 Tank Heavy Teams pushing South of Crash Hill and destroyed both of them. We caused so much disruption that the Brigade Commander actioned the entire trail Task Force at my small force--we died shortly after! <img src="frown.gif" border="0">

In another battle I actioned my T72 and the MRB Reserve (2 more T72s and a BRDM/AT5) on 2 Cav Troops and a Tank Company trying to flank our position through John Wayne Pass and Hidden Valley. One T72 (my XO) died almost immediately, followed shortly later by the BRDM. However, we destroyed most of the enemy force and forced the remnants to go to ground. I was especially proud that day since my Dad, a Marine infantry veteran of WWII and Korea, was riding in my tank. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

A66
1 MRB

[Rune Iversen]

My most outrageous win wargames wise was a couple of years ago.
We were playing World in Flames (WiF), a WW2 strategic scale wargame, and i was playing Germany.
My attack into France had bógged down, and i was unable to conquer it and install a vichy government until 1942 (bugger!).
I then procedeed to launch Barbarossa in late Autumn 1942. The russians were deployed far forward, and by the use of paratroopers I was able to cut their supply, and later to turn them face down. I then had some outrageous lucky kand dice rolls, and before i knew it I was standing in Moscow by late 1942, with the russkies pulling back to the Urals <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> . The allies forfeited the game soon thereafter <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> .

[Ranger-75]

I remember an old game of Global War and SSI boardgame of all of WWII, with all the obvious limitations that these grand strategic games had. I was the Allies (mainly US, Britian, USSR), my friend Chris was Germany & Italy, and another friend, Mark, was Japan. That game limited US production until it was at war at which point it instangly went to "war footing" and was just about equal to everybody else put together. Nonetheless, I started building a large fleet and ASW force (US & British) right away. Everybody could see it in the "production track" and Mark & Chris were pretty worried. Anyway Mark waited one turn too long to make his allowed surprise attack againse the US. The rules required such an attack to be made before 1942 and Mark came out in Jan 1942. I retreated with the US Pacific fleet and he didn't sink any fleet units. That got Mark and Chriss really piassed off and they both gave up in disgust because without suffering any 'suprise attack', losses the US fleet was like 3 times the size of the Japanese.

[john g]

Originally posted by Les the Sarge 9-1:

I'm interested in hearing of a board games that went really wacky though.

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We were playing a game of SPI's War in Europe tacked to the wall using pins into cork board behind the maps to hold the units in place.

I was the last to volunteer to play the game so I was "stuck" with the USSR since none of the other players wanted it.

The Germans made short work of Poland but took extra long in France due to an extraordinary effort by the British.

This ment that the timetable of hitting the Soviet Union in summer 41 was busted, so the Germans decided to hold off until 42, all this time I am building the 4-4 infantry corps that I felt were the key to stopping the Germans like mad. Very few armor brigades get built, and only enough 1-4 infantry are put in to build into 4-4.

The Germans decline to attack in 42 against me putting their effort in the Med trying to take out the British North Africa presence.

When 43 rolls around, the German looks at my shell of units holding the frontier and the Triple line of fortified 1-4, stacked with 4-4 and the 8-6 armored corps I was now building which gave each hex a strenght of 19 on defense (each 1-4 became a 3-0 and doubled a infantry unit with it) all built out of supply range of the German frontier.

The German players went ahead and rolled forward and started attacking the fortified line, out of supply and discovered why I was defending that way. I rolled the line back approx 1 hex a turn as the supply heads moved up keeping my units out of German supply range. I ran out of 1-4 units to build as I put out the reaction divisions.

By the end of 43, the fortified line is about 5 hexes thick all the way across the map and I start limited counterattacks.

When the weather clears up in 44 it is obvious the Germans have something up their sleeves, without warning the Brits attack from the South moving towards the oil fields. The US lands and attacks near Murmansk. I have been stabbed in the back by my fellow allies who have thrown in with the Germans. We play several more turns like this and then all the other players give in and admit they couldn't believe the production I managed, the Soviets were too tough a nut to crack, even with every other army thrown against it.
thanks, John.

[IKerensky]

Hum, some nice victory of mine <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

-Balkan Front ( Europa serie ): The game is about the italian offensive versus grece. I played greck and manage to surround and retreat the whole italian army in the 2 hex island of Corfou <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

-Scorched Earth/FITE : playing the russian I put ALL the VVS and Red Air Force in the south front slaughtering the ME109 with snake eye roll. My opponent give up early august when he saw I have a double line of unit from top to bottom of the map <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

- WiF : Playing Italy like always I managed to succefully invade South France and take Paris. Each time I set sail, invade ( Nice then Marseilles ) and end the turn on a roll a 1 before the Royal Navy can sail against me <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

- WiF: Playing Poland, my opponent forget than csezcoslovakia was german national territory so he let my cavalry corpse run havoc deep into his backyard <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> I overruned 3 or 4 stack of stukas and 109 and destroyed some factory... too bad we start a new game right there after <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

[JWW]

Just remembered a SCOPES scenario during ROTC summer camp at Ft. Riley, Kansas, in 1976. SCOPES was the deal where you put a number on your helmet and scopes on your rifles. If you called out the number of an opposing soldier, he was dead. It really taught concealment, even though it wasn't very realistic overall. As part of a leadership exercise, my platoon had to attack frontally up a steep hill covered in brush and weeds with the enemy in fighting positions at the top occupied by real soldiers, not college students. I was made platoon leader for the exercise. On the spur of the moment, with the training NCOs screaming at me to get moving, I divided my platoon and sent half straight up the hill and the rest looping around to the right. This caught the enemy by surprise, and we won, eliminating the enemy. I lost most of my platoon. Funny thing was that once I set the attack in motion I never saw what happened until it was over, just a few of my folks crawling forward in front of me. The training NCOs bawled me out for splitting my platoon and said I'd violated all kinds of principles. Then one took me aside and told me the attackers hardly ever won this scenario.

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