Easy8 vs Goblin

[M4Jess]

8ball is a honest man.. I would be happy to have him join me or face me on any field of Honor!

hats off to EASY8! a man who still needs to die!

really...people like you make this all worth it!

M4 Jess~made a new friend!

[Goblin]

US OOB:

6 Infantry Companies (scouts replaced with two 57mm ATG's)
6 Ranger Platoons (Just shy of 3 companies)
3 Airborne Companies
1 Battalion 155mm FH
1 Battery 105mm FH
3 Platoons M15 SPAA
1 Company M4A3 Shermans
2 M3 Scout Cars
3 FO's
4 P38 Lightnings

Reinforcements:

6 Wolverines
1 Mechanized Engineer Company
4 AB AT units (8 teams)
1 Battery each 75mm FH and 155mm FH

Again, thanks for your honesty. I know you don't think anything of it, but we all do.


Goblin- A Goblin had a horde

[Hades]

Originally posted by M4 Jess

a man who still needs to die!

Don't worry I'm trying to kill him.

[Easy8]

Captain Schmidt was tired of war. Three long years of campaigning had taken their toll. It seemed so long ago that he and his friends had earned their wings, and now all but him, gone.

He circled above the advancing Panzer columns, with his three young. green pilots, when they recieved word that the Amerikaners had been sighted moving inland from the beachhead at Salerno. He followed his young charges, diving through the clouds, the morning sun at his back.

He amied his Ju87 Stuka at the earth and caught his breath as he broke through the clouds .

"Gott in Himmell!", he thought to himself as he saw the burning Panzers behind line after line of advancing Yankee infantry and vehicles.

He called for Col. Vebber on the radio. "This is Maj. Stoltz, Col. Vebber's command was overrun." came the reply.

"There is at least a regiment defending the ridgeline just ahead of you!", the Capt barked.

50 cal tracers arced through the air. Captain Schmidt stared in horror as they traced a neat line from the nose of his fuselage and into his canopy. It was the last thing he would see.

Major Stoltz, who minutes before had assumed command of the kampgruppe, reluctantly issued the order for his Panzers to fall back onto prepared defensive positions.

Revenge would have to come another day.

[Easy8]

Kampfgruppe Vebber OOB

17 Snipers
1 Motercycle Company
6 FJ Platoons
2 Special Ops Platoons
2 Pionere Platoons w/ 10 total SdKfz 250/1 HT
6 Panzerfaust 30 Squads
4 SdKfz 7/1 AAA HT
1 Stug 40 ausf G Section
1 Marder II (m) Section
2 Flammpanzer III Section
2 Pz IV H Platoons
1 PzIII L+ Platoon
2 Panther A Platoons
1 Tiger IE Platoon
1 Elefant Platoon
2 Brumbar Sections
2 SiG33 auf 38t Sections
2 Forward Observers
2 Stukas
2 BF110 d
2 150 FH Batteries
4 105 FH Batteries
5 81mm Mortar Squads


After "seeing" Goblin's forces, I'm convinced there is no way I could have pulled this one off. I had a formidable force remaining, but had taken more losses and also suffered several breakdowns.

There was no way I could pretend I didn't see his forces and continue my planned slow, methodical advance. His infantry heavy force was deployed in depth and he would have ground me down.

On the other hand, I couldn't just plot artillery on his positions and force a breakthrough, what's the fun in cheating?

I offered Goblin the victory, I honestly think he would have won had the game continued normally. Of course being the gentleman that he is, he refused.

Too bad it had to end like it did:mad:
looking forward to a rematch.

Easy8 sez - "See you in Honshu, Gobrin-san":D