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Salerno ’43- 3

Salerno ’43 Game play continues: The Commonwealth press home, but have done a poor job defending beach heads and almost lose their footing! Goring tanks arrive too late to save Salerno. But press their counter attacks anyway in the hills and near Nocera Interiore. Top of Turn 5. Yanks slowly bring more force to bear, and are really feeling the lack of Column shift benefits when attacking.…

Salerno ’43-2

We pick up Salerno ’43 from the German Turn 1. Where they aggressively counter attack Allied forces on the landing beaches. Fighting is bloody and the 16Pz takes losses too. The Brits fare a little better holding onto their gains and are not constrained by ZOC bonds in the North! Germans pick up an air unit for a turn! 16th Panzer fights its way into Salerno. The new Mountain rules allow…

Salerno ’43 Landings and background of play

GMT Games partner and game developer Mark Simonitch has done it again. After releasing now the sixth game using the ZOC bond system [was France 1940 one as well, I have not played so I can’t say definitively, unless I go quickly read the rules! ] So, let’s call it six plus an expansion for Stalingrad 42. Nice, oh and one on the way with Africa ’41 on P500 though my understanding is this may not…

Reading number 2- Salerno ’43

Stalingrad ’42 Redux – Playing the Soviets Part 1/Turn 1

Turn 1 Stalingrad ’42 This time I play the Soviets. Surely he [Steve will face all the same challenges I did right?] Great opening attack. Piles in gets the exploit / breakthrough attack and carries on! So this is what a solid T1 looks like. Full retreats for every one and he even bounces a few retreated units. Further south the pain continues But here the 45th calls for a determined…

Start of Turn 9

Containment is all but impossible. As we continue this battle I’m now feeling the strain of those early attacks I made, and have gone the opposite way. His VP count starts to rise, and I give more ground.

GD takes a hit in a counter attack, as do other units. Kharkov is fixing to fall!

We bug out of Stlaine and give up the VP’s with barely a fight.

  Soviet spile on the…

As I look back on this game play with hindsight. It’s distressing to em how aggressive I was counterattacking. Plus f$%k you vassal die roller…lol. Nah its all good, but A1 results really bite deep for the Germans. Losing an armour step is like losing 4 steps to russians. They can afford to bleed you white. I am accelerating that process.

So stuff is going down way faster than our prior play.…

Ukraine ’43 Turn 2

Soviets attack Sumy again : 26v7 with a -1L + and air and he applies Zhukov. For a net 4:1 , this causes a d1* the Germans retreat into Sumy. Zhukov causes a loss hover.

In the North we manage to hold for now. But for how long?

Compared to our last play Steve is way ahead of the curve. It took me a LONG time to get even close to Kharkov. Here turn 2 he is on the offense for sure,

We bounce out…