ASL: St Louis Tourney AAR (Part 2 of 2)

ASL: St Louis Tourney AAR (Part 2 of 2)



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  Subject: ASL: St Louis Tourney AAR (Part 2 of 2) 
  From: Herpaul.S.Sidhu@am.pnu.com 
  Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:02:07 -0400 
 
  Hello,
  
  Continuing the AAR...
  
  Round 4 PBP26 Steamrollers vs Bob Holmstrom
  This is an awesome scenario.  Bob and I played once before but he 
  couldn't catch a break in this game.  It features 3 JS-II, 2 JSU-152, 
  and 2 T34 vs 2 King Tigers, 1 Jagdpanther, 1 PzIV all playing in the 
  mud.  Russians have 6 628s with limited captured PFs vs a mix of 6 
  658/467/447s.  Bob chose the Ruskies who need to clear the bd 42 
  village.  I set up all the big boys (3 88LLs) at the hedge with the 
  PzIV back a hex, 4 squads in the woods and 2 to support the tanks.  I 
  put the dummies as afv ?s to my left flank.  
  Bob came on strong up front but my third shot (the Jadgpanther) got a 
  turret hit to for its first kill.  I PM sleazed back into the village. 
  Bob and I were both lucky in that only 1 afv bogged all game.  Bob 
  sent the 2 T34s on an end run to his right and the rest moved straight 
  ahead.  My Tiger got into a 1:1 duel with a Stalin and took it out in 
  a prep intensive fire shot.  The highlight of the game was the jpz V 
  rolling over to the t34s (who were in motion) taking them both out, 
  then getting a 3 on an adv fire shot to take out a JSU-152 and then 
  rolling up behind a helpless, bogged JSU for kill #5, Panzer ace!  
  Don't see that too often.  Meanwhile Bob's infantry was having a hard 
  time and failed MC after MC in the woods.  After that we had a lot of 
  fun trying crazy things for bingo boxes.  4-0
  
  Round 5 J63 Silesian Interlude vs Wes Vaughn
  Into the finals!  Wes and I have played 3 times before, all great 
  games.  I was trying to even up our record.  We narrowed the playlist 
  down to LSSAH#2 They Stop Here and J63.  I said I'd rather not play 
  J63 as I've already played it but knew it is an excellent scenario.  
  Wes really wanted to give it a go.  Germans have 12 squads, 3 
  Panthers, 1 PzIV against 1 JS-II, 1 T34/85, a little atg and 9 squads. 
   Germans need to take and keep 4 very exposed buildings and exit 11 
  VP.  Russians get 2 Su-100s and 2 527 on turn 4 (of 6).
  
  I said I thought it favored the germans a bit but not enough to use 
  the balance (a second JS-II replacing the T34/85).  I took the 
  russians as I had played the scenario before.
  
  The Russians have some interesting options in this one.  I chose a 
  forward defense with the T34 up on the hill, the JSII in the forward 
  bldg, a platoon of dug in 458s in the orchard hexes with the atg, 
  another platoon around the JSII, the 8-1 w/MMG up on the hill.  I 
  again used the ? as afv dummies and put them in more rear positions.
  
  Wes put a platoon in the woods on his right and the rest of the 
  infantry into the woods on his left.  He accidentally gave me a side 
  shot on a panther with the T34 (had two tries to hit on a 7 due to 
  APCR and a non-dud would kill), scratch one panther.  The stalin 
  needed an 8 to hit another and a 7 to kill with a hull hit, scratch 
  two panthers.  In my prep the JS-II again needed an 8 to hit and 7 to 
  kill, scratch 3 panthers.  To his credit, Wes's passed his 3PMC 
  (3-panther-loss personal morale check) and kept going.    
  
  His PzIV rolled up and killed the T34 with a frontal adv fire shot, 
  tempted my JS-II into malf'ing its gun (which I later recalled trying 
  to get back its 24 fp HE, 1945 germans aren't too scared by 4 fp mg 
  afv's, even less by the Su-100s with no mgs).  Then the panzer rolled 
  off board for 6 vp before my reinforcements arrived.  Wes also knocked 
  my MMG team off the hill to clear a path for his 5 vp of infantry to 
  exit and gain the approach to the bldgs.  One of my 527s went berserk 
  but Wes advanced onto him and took him out in CC.  Turns 4+5 I rolled 
  my Su-100s and reinforcements up to the central bldg while one studly 
  458 fought off about 6 german squads in the cluster of 3 bldgs.  The 
  lack of his own vehicles for cover/smoke really hurt Wes as he had to 
  take a bunch of low fp -2 shots and kept failing MCs.  He took out one 
  Su-100 with a PF from a self-rallied squad to create a hole for a last 
  turn charge but I got a couple KIAs on -2 shots to end the game.  Wes 
  did make the game great fun.  His excellent play made it a 
  surprisingly close game (he got his exit VP and took two bldgs for 
  sure, might have gotten #3 in CC).  With even one Panther, Wes 
  would've made some hay.  5-0
  
  Thanks again to Jim Burris for organizing things, Mr/Mrs Brasseur for 
  the use of the hotel, and to my opponents for some very fun games.
  
  Paul Sidhu




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