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January 24, 2007

First fire for my FoW US Armor Company

This it, I've finally finished my 1500pts worth of Flames of War US Armor Co. (ok I cheated, I picked the US armor co mainly because I found the excellent Johnny Lightning diecast tanks which gave me a lot of painted Shermans in 1/100 scale for about $4.00 ea.). Without going through the min/max exercise that afflicts many of the FoW tourney play, I just build up a force and went at it.
Chris and I had our first game (my first game in about 1.5 years, and first time ever against someone that actually knows the rules) at GameKastle, the local FoW hangout (they have a FoW gamenight every wednesday night). It'll be first fire for these newly painted American troops (think Kasserine Pass)..

ABOVE: American commander studying the war dept manual on what to so with German Assult guns that's setup in range...

...The results also approximate Kasserine Pass. I cannot do a proper blow by blow After Action Report since I am still in shell shock. So the following report resembles more of a flashback from the mental ward more than anything else...

Lesson number one: American Armor sucked. I was facing Chris's German Infantry Co which had attachment of Stug III and a lone Tiger tank. On my side I have two understrengthed Sherman Platoon (3 tanks ea.), and a M10 tank destroyer Platoon. We played a "meeting engagement scenario" where we take turns setting up our platoons one at a time. I made the mistake of setting up my Shermans with a clear los to the Stugs. Big mistake. First thing I learned is that for the future, Shermans has to be setup WAY hidden and then do the run and shoot routine.

ABOVE: A tiger and its prey...

Lesson 2: Arty kills. For the whole game after the initial raft of dead Shermans, my Priest mobile artillery turns out to be my biggest assets. I was sitting back and bombarding anything that moves waiting for a break. It didn't ultimately work but the queen of the battlefield at least stabilized the situation for a while.

Lesson 3: US Infantry fire power rocks. I was timid with my lone mech Infantry unit. But whenever they stick their guns out to shoot, they get results. Next time I'll try a arty-> smoke -> infantry advance -> shoot Germans to pieces ploy...

Lesson 4: Big Platoon is a good thing. Americans have pretty feeble tanks (which means a platoon should have 4~5 tanks to stay afloat, not 3), and heavy fire powered infantry (which means a big platoon can dish out even more firepower which is how Americans can win). All my minimum sized platoons just didn't cut it.

Lesson 5: German Stormtruppen move rule is WAY broken. German units can pass a skill test (being Skilled Veteran it's 3+ on a D6) and then move 4" in the assult phase. That means they stick their head out of defensive position, take their shot, then stormtruppe move back into concealment to avoid American return fire. Nasty!

Lesson 6: Ditch the 37mm Gun and get some Bazooka! (self explanatory)

I am now tweaking my force into a US Mech Infantry with less tanks and more / fuller infantry platoon. A rematch is coming soon...

Posted by msoong at January 24, 2007 05:54 PM

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