OT: Death on Skyline Drive (No Schanilec)

[jeffk3510]

Turn 24:

Marc moved up the one infantry unit..I believe all he is doing is spotting...just artillery exchange again. No damage for either sid.e

[nashvillen]

What's bad is I find myself hovering over you units in your post to see their status...

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: nashvillen

What's bad is I find myself hovering over you units in your post to see their status...

Haha, yeah!

Are you enjoying your purchase?

[Crossroads]

Looks like a done deal there, I would hate to march up the slopes against your dug-in troops!

I had a quick look at the Blitz scenario Db, and it seems this one is quite unbalance (as you said yourself too). I find it useful to look at a specific scenario statistics there, when selecting a PBEM game to play. Especially if a scenario has a lot of games logged for, you can usually then trust the statistics. Just saying.

Nice AAR, keep them coming! [:)]

[Crossroads]

Looks like a fun and different scenario though, with dense fog and a visibility of only two hexes. Very difficult to predict what lurks out there if one fails to recon the surroundings...

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: Crossroads

Looks like a done deal there, I would hate to march up the slopes against your dug-in troops!

I had a quick look at the Blitz scenario Db, and it seems this one is quite unbalance (as you said yourself too). I find it useful to look at a specific scenario statistics there, when selecting a PBEM game to play. Especially if a scenario has a lot of games logged for, you can usually then trust the statistics. Just saying.

Nice AAR, keep them coming! [:)]

We did before we started...we both thought his fixed units would be "released" half way through or so..

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: Crossroads

Looks like a fun and different scenario though, with dense fog and a visibility of only two hexes. Very difficult to predict what lurks out there if one fails to recon the surroundings...

That was very difficult with the fog..it's harder to position units for ambush and long shots...

We played the Burma Road a vew scenarios ago, and it was brutal. A night scenario, with only one-hex visibility.

Thanks for the comments.

[HansBolter]

Just wanted to apologize for the confusion I brought to the thread earlier. You were absolutely correct that this games does have an edge scrolling map. I was mixing it up with another old classic I had loaded up on a DOS platform I built last year for old parts, The Three sixty Pacific V for Victory series Utah Beach.

Seeing this thread lead me to reinstall this game and get started on two of my favorite campaigns. Rommel's Spearhead and Guadalcanal. I prefer the linked campaigns. You go from one scenario to the next with a core battalion that only gets a few replacements between scenarios. Pretty soon you find yourself struggling to fight with heavily attrited platoons.

Great game!

[Schanilec]

This scenario is pretty much over now, just a couple of moves left. It was brutal. Started out as a pretty good fight but when the minefields failed to do anything at all it was over. Reinforcements were late and few; the other units were in fixed positions and unable to help. 'Death on Skyline Drive' pretty much sums it all up. And so it goes. Still great fun. On to the next scenario.[:)]

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Just wanted to apologize for the confusion I brought to the thread earlier. You were absolutely correct that this games does have an edge scrolling map. I was mixing it up with another old classic I had loaded up on a DOS platform I built last year for old parts, The Three sixty Pacific V for Victory series Utah Beach.

Seeing this thread lead me to reinstall this game and get started on two of my favorite campaigns. Rommel's Spearhead and Guadalcanal. I prefer the linked campaigns. You go from one scenario to the next with a core battalion that only gets a few replacements between scenarios. Pretty soon you find yourself struggling to fight with heavily attrited platoons.

Great game!

Im in one campaign in West Front with my armoured battalion that has maybe 5 Sherman platoons with each strength 1 hahaha

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

This scenario is pretty much over now, just a couple of moves left. It was brutal. Started out as a pretty good fight but when the minefields failed to do anything at all it was over. Reinforcements were late and few; the other units were in fixed positions and unable to help. 'Death on Skyline Drive' pretty much sums it all up. And so it goes. Still great fun. On to the next scenario.[:)]

Thanks for stopping by good pal!

What are you thinking next... you like those damn Rising Sun scenarios...

[nashvillen]

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Just wanted to apologize for the confusion I brought to the thread earlier. You were absolutely correct that this games does have an edge scrolling map. I was mixing it up with another old classic I had loaded up on a DOS platform I built last year for old parts, The Three sixty Pacific V for Victory series Utah Beach.

Seeing this thread lead me to reinstall this game and get started on two of my favorite campaigns. Rommel's Spearhead and Guadalcanal. I prefer the linked campaigns. You go from one scenario to the next with a core battalion that only gets a few replacements between scenarios. Pretty soon you find yourself struggling to fight with heavily attrited platoons.

Great game!

Im in one campaign in West Front with my armoured battalion that has maybe 5 Sherman platoons with each strength 1 hahaha

Not quite a paper tiger, but close!

[Schanilec]

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

This scenario is pretty much over now, just a couple of moves left. It was brutal. Started out as a pretty good fight but when the minefields failed to do anything at all it was over. Reinforcements were late and few; the other units were in fixed positions and unable to help. 'Death on Skyline Drive' pretty much sums it all up. And so it goes. Still great fun. On to the next scenario.[:)]

Thanks for stopping by good pal!

What are you thinking next... you like those damn Rising Sun scenarios...

I have the weekend to mull it over as the current scenario winds down. I'd like try the Japanese in a denfensive scenario.
Have fun at the lake. Really didn't know Kansas had lakes.[:'(]

[Schanilec]

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

This scenario is pretty much over now, just a couple of moves left. It was brutal. Started out as a pretty good fight but when the minefields failed to do anything at all it was over. Reinforcements were late and few; the other units were in fixed positions and unable to help. 'Death on Skyline Drive' pretty much sums it all up. And so it goes. Still great fun. On to the next scenario.[:)]

Thanks for stopping by good pal!

What are you thinking next... you like those damn Rising Sun scenarios...

[jeffk3510]

Final results

Very fun scenario...fairly one sided, which I felt bad about selecting not knowing it would be one sided.

Here is my final position, which looks pretty strong to repel any counter attack that Marc could have thrown together. He did mount a small one with a Sherman platoon, which ran into some well placed Panzer platoons to the SW of my position a few turns ago. I then moved my Panzer unit out the last couple of turns to try and find him. I could have moved right past him and not even known it with the limited visibility.

Overall, it was a fun game and spurred some interest here.

I am really thankful you guys didn't mind me posting this at all here. It made some sales for Matrix, too!

Next up, if I plan on doing an AAR is a Rising Sun scenario in Jan 29, 1945 in the Philippines called Breakout from Pemnieta.

Marc will take Japan and I will have the Allies...it appears to be a very bloody attack by the Allies against a well dug-in Japanese defender.

Thanks again!

[Schanilec]

In Breakout from Pemnieta, I will the attacker in this scenario. I thought defender when I picked it, but oh well. Kinda funny, I just read about this engagement on Sunday. Did not end well for the Japanese. Well it never does, does it. The Japanese are escaping to the Sierra Madre from the Lupao, San Jose, Munzo pocket. Not realizing San Jose had fallen to the American's they ran into trouble. Big trouble. Only 12 turns to get off the northern map edges. This will be bloody. I'll see what I can do. Canadian whiskey to the right, check; ashtray to the left, check; Japanese soft hat on, check. And here we go. BANZAI![8D]

[jeffk3510]

I hadn't read the scenario yet.

Sorry for the confusion

Sounds fun!

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

In Breakout from Pemnieta, I will the attacker in this scenario. The Japanese are escaping to the Sierra Madre from the Lupao San Jose Munzo pocket. Not realizing San Jose had fallen to the American's they ran into trouble. Big trouble. I'll see what I can do. Canadian whiskey to the right, check; ashtray to the left, check; Japanese soft hat on, check. And here we go. BANZAI![8D]

I didn't know you were a smoker.

[Schanilec]

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

In Breakout from Pemnieta, I will the attacker in this scenario. The Japanese are escaping to the Sierra Madre from the Lupao San Jose Munzo pocket. Not realizing San Jose had fallen to the American's they ran into trouble. Big trouble. I'll see what I can do. Canadian whiskey to the right, check; ashtray to the left, check; Japanese soft hat on, check. And here we go. BANZAI![8D]

I didn't know you were a smoker.

Yep, keeps me from rubbing out mankind.

[Schanilec]

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

I hadn't read the scenario yet.

Sorry for the confusion

Sounds fun!

Only twelve turns. Yes, this is going to be a carnival ride. Please, remain seated and hold onto the bar.