| Luke and I had the luxury of a second game this week and decided to get the stutzpunkt and armoured regiment on the board. I made both lists and we then rolled to see who ran what. I came up as the British and Luke as the Germans. We rolled for the mission and got Hasty Assault. |
Steven's British Armoured Regiment
| Luke's Stutzpunkt
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SETUP AND DEPLOYMENT
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| The stutzpunkt is deployed in the center with commanding views. One objective is in the middle of the strongpoint, the other in the open on the right. |
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| The mighty 8.8 completely shuts down one entire flank. |
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| The 5cm gun looks over the other objective. |
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| The entire strongpoint. |
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| The CS tanks deploy on the rocky ridge ready to provide cover. Hopefully they never have to navigate down the craggy rocks! |
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| CS tanks. |
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| Cruisers- Tally Ho! |
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| Panzer IVs emerge from immediate ambush, but the rest of Luke's turn is uneventful. |
Steven's British Armoured Regiment
| Luke's Stutzpunkt
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| Steven's British Armoured Regiment:One squadron and the HQ begin on the board. Luke's Stutzpunkt:Luke begins with the strongpoint and the Panzer IVs (in immediate ambush) | |
TURN 1
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| Tally ho! |
| Steven's British Armoured Regiment | Luke's Stutzpunkt |
| Steven's British Armoured Regiment:advance! Luke's Stutzpunkt:wait. | |
TURN 2
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| Tally Ho! |
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| The first reserves arrive |
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| Another platoon arriving from reserve deploys on the left to make sure nothing comes after the lone British objective. |
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| Smoke shuts down the 5cm nest |
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| Panzer IVs crash through the palms to shoot at the cruisers. |
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| One A9 blows to pieces! |
Steven's British Armoured Regiment
| Luke's Stutzpunkt |
| Steven's British Armoured Regiment:Advance! Smoke knocks out the 5cm nest by ranging in on an adjacent infantry team Luke's Stutzpunkt:Panzer IVs maneuver inside the wood and blast apart one A9. | |
TURN 3
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| Turn 3 |
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| Cruisers hug the wall of the rocks, just out of range of the 8.8 |
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| One Panzer IV falls to 2 pounder fire! |
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| Panzer IIs surprise the cruisers by crashing their way through the woods! |
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| Another A9 goes up! |
Steven's British Armoured Regiment
| Luke's Stutzpunkt
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| Steven's British Armoured Regiment:Cruisers swarm forward and knock out a Panzer IV. Luke's Stutzpunkt:Panzer IIs arrive and knock out another cruiser. | |
TURN 4
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| Turn 4. Note- these "turn markers" are slightly out of order. Luke had the top of the turn, but I got off sync a bit becuase of those 2 turns where he didn't do anything. Sorry if it seems like I had the top of the turn- we played it right! |
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| The Panzer IVs are finished off, as well as 2 Panzer IIs. |
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| More cruisers drive towards the fight |
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| The cruisers originally sent to guard the other objective move at the double- with one breaking down! |
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| Pioneers arrive at just the right moment! |
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| armor saves for return fire from Panzer IIs on a lone Cruiser- this would have big impact shortly. |
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| Flame throwers tear into my cruisers leaving only one active!! The cruisers are spun around in case they needed to fire their deck turret MGs at the other infantry- uh oh! |
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| But the ensuing pioneer assault is stopped!! Why? Because the one cruiser that was unable to be knocked out by Panzer IIs was in one of the assaulted platoons giving me 8 shots in defensive fire- which I passed! The pioneers could have severely crippled my entire army right here, but I got incredibly lucky. The strongpoint platoon tries to assault where the pioneers failed... |
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| But are also stopped in defensive fire. |
Steven's British Armoured Regiment
| Luke's Stutzpunkt
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| Steven's British Armoured Regiment:The cruisers push all the way to Luke's board edge, and knock out more tanks. Luke's Stutzpunkt:Pioneers arrive from reserve and very nearly gut the entire British company. But they are barely stopped due to some insane luck. | |
TURN 5
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| Turn 5. The British miraculously survive, and rally fully. |
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| And they swarm like hornets- annihilating the Pioneers and 2 more Panzer IIs. |
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| Combined fire from the HMG nest, Panzer II, and 5cm nest knock out 2 more tanks. |
Steven's British Armoured Regiment
| Luke's Stutzpunkt
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| Steven's British Armoured Regiment:With renewed vigor, every single tank remounts. Luke's Stutzpunkt:Combined fire knocks down two more A9s, but it's nearly hopeless now. | |
TURN 6
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| The end is nigh |
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| Cruisers tear into the strongpoint platoon and grab the objective. With only a single Panzer I and a handful of teams from the strongpoint left, Luke decides to call it. |
Steven's British Armoured Regiment
| Luke's Stutzpunkt
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| Steven's British Armoured Regiment:Cruisers light up the strongpoint infantry and grab the objective. Luke's Stutzpunkt:With not much left, and smoke coming in reliably from 2 CS batteries, Luke decides to call the game here. | |
| Seriously, Luke almost gutted my company in turn 4. I Can't believe that my front armor 1 vehicle took 3 AT 5 hits and wasn't even bailed! I can't say this was a super fun battle- it looked more interesting than it was. Nothing really clever going on, just cramming cruisers down Luke's throat. I need a good swirling tank battle for these tanks, dammit! Thanks to Luke for the game though, alwaysa pleasure! |
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