Roundhammer

[Brummbar]

Finished first battle of Roundhammer last night. Decisive victory! Men-30, Soft Veh.-1 & APC-3 in 10 Turns. No armor lost. Combined arm's is the key. The second battle looks very interesting. Can hardly wait to start it.

[PanzerBob]

Awaiting your next Sitrep.

[Brummbar]

Battle#2: I am on turn 5. So far I am getting pounded. I used some airborne troops and one plane load of them landed right on top of a nest of Germans! That cost them their lives. Another plane was blown out of the sky. It did drop the troops before it crashed into the town. That was really neat to watch though. I'd say so far I have 25% casualties in my airborne force. In my beach assault one landing craft has been lost, along with a platoon of infantry to the Luftwaffe but the rest are on the beach or very close to it. I will keep you informed.

[Brummbar]

Well it didn't turn out to well. We were defeated. A lot of rookie mistakes. I'll explain it as best as I can.
My plan was to land infantry on the flanks and armour with engineers in the center. The landing on the flanks part went O.K. but a good deal of the armour got stuck in the mud on the beaches. My troops pushed inland too slowly it turned out as time was also my enemy when they got to the final assault on the town. I used my paratroopers to help open routes into town but think they may have been better used to start an earlier attack on the town. It ended up with less than half of the objective's in my hands as time ran out, about 2 turns earlier than what I think I needed to accomplish my mission.
Oh well. You can't win them all. I learned some valuable lesson's for many battles in my future.
As another gamer say's "I love this game".

[Marek_Tucan]

I daresay abn troops in this scenario are waste of points, but then I think so always so I am biased

[PanzerBob]

Thanks for the AAR. I always learn more in defeat than victory, but alas victory is more satisfying.