Scenario 32 Danube Rivermen

[Imp]

This is a really well designed scenerio so many choices on what to do was up till the small hours playing it now on turn 14 & things are coming together. The force North of the river is finaly making progress & my cavalry will be at the bridge road shortly & its still up with arty covering the far end. Paras ignored your advice & charged for the bridge at all costs along with truck infantry when they turned up, not far to go but they have paid a very heavy price for the ground. Boats moving under cover of there own smoke are about 500m from the bridge & can hopefully cover any attempt to blow it soon. Another couple of turns & first landings in town should be possible then all I have to do is sink that ship without losing mine & cover the bridge for engineers was my thought when went to bed.
Said this was good had to have a quick go this morning to find out if I can keep the bridge up, now at turn 18 the monitor ship is very heavily damaged & some troops have landed in town. My tanks have turned up & are halfway across the bridge though had a big scare when an R-35 appeared out of nowhere. Looks like made it just in time as a squad has come into sight at the far end of the bridge sending half my cavalry that way. Should be able to turn my attention to the fort now sending units still in boats will head that way.
As I have the turns 14 & 18 uploaded if want a look

[gila]

Took a look at your game.

It looks like you are doing well,

Those R-35's are hard to crack arn't they?
Gotta love those toldi AC's for pinning down infrty.

I see you landed most if not all north and are slugging it out,I tried to land them further up the river big mistake or not this where replayabilty comes in.

You got the demo team that was to blow the bridge, well done,

How the hell your calvary got so far mostly intact is a mystery to me, mine were decimated by the DARVA mortor boat which seemed to have a penchent for horsemen.

I sank that SOB though

Good luck taking that fort

[Imp]

Landed about half up North would have been slightly less but any damaged ship unloaded rather than risk another hit & sinking as no idea whats out there.

My cavalry was slightly slow off the mark deployed with leader at front & HQ is gone so not going to risk losing him. Meant they were not that far ahead of ships then ran into MG on other bank & waited for ships to deal with, they also smoked out the monitor from this time on so it never fired.

Toldi AC have saved the day nicely balanced scenerio but they & a tank attacked R-35 point blank after a MOL hit routing only no damageso far.

[iCaMpWiThAWP]

Did anyone Had That bridge blown by enemy engineers?

[gila]

Originally Posted by iCaMpWiThAWP

Did anyone Had That bridge blown by enemy engineers?

Check again my starter post and #3 reply to you

[Imp]

Finnished with 5 turns left they fought to the last man bless em.
Fort was easy enough though LOS were difficult had surounded in the end.
Not only did this scenerio have every type of unit but by about turn 15 I was managing ammo. Ships & engineers were low had several troops out of ammo before game end, discovered troops the hard way snuck up adjacent & fired but nothing happened oh heck.
You have got to give the designer some serious credit for getting this to balance, any other suggestions chaps.

[iCaMpWiThAWP]

Originally Posted by gila

Check again my starter post and #3 reply to you

i wonder how the AI Z-Fired into a bridge hex to blow it, AI doesn't do it on its own

[Imp]

Originally Posted by iCaMpWiThAWP

i wonder how the AI Z-Fired into a bridge hex to blow it, AI doesn't do it on its own

There was an engineer unit at the end & at least 2 demo teams on the bridge, they certainly set of a demo charge may have been vs my unit rather than the bridge directly. There is also ammo placed on the bridge which obviosly spawns mid game & belongs to me so they target it hence the reason I was stuck for a while defending it as there are a lot of troops on the far bank.