Roundhammer

Brummbar · #1 November 30th, 2007, 02:24 AM

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 · #2 November 30th, 2007, 09:30 PM

Awaiting your next Sitrep.

Brummbar · #3 December 1st, 2007, 02:57 AM

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 · #4 December 21st, 2007, 09:34 AM

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 · #5 December 21st, 2007, 02:45 PM

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

PanzerBob · #6 December 22nd, 2007, 08:41 PM

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

Brummbar · #7 January 4th, 2008, 10:03 PM

After reading your AAR's I got the bug for some German armour. One of the game's I've got going right now is a late war(44-46)long campaign. Can hardly wait to read more of your exploits.

BTW what is a Hubz?

PanzerBob · #8 January 6th, 2008, 01:11 AM

It's short form I invented for Hubschrauber (Hubz) Helicopter (Helo) I armed and armoured the Drache.

I figure it a week or so my new Campaign AAR will start.

Bob out

Quote:

PanzerBob said:
Joint Intelligence Bulletin---45-27845

Along with new ground weapons, the Germans have fielded yet another surprise onto the battlefield. This comes in the form of a machine called a helicopter, specifically an Attack Helicopter. It appears to have been employed down at the Battalion sized unit level in direct support of that units operations. It has the ability to take off and land vertically and hover or stand still at altitude. This has made for a deadly opponent for for ground forces.

The Tornado as it is called, is based on the Luftwaffes' first successful Helicopter the Dragon. Tornado has 1500hp power plant and is armed with a 30mm cannon, 2 MMG and an assortment of HE and AP rockets. It's primary mission is Scouting but, will attack given the right targets. They are armoured over it's vital spots. They move easily out of danger when attacked from the ground or air.

Brummbar · #9 January 6th, 2008, 05:04 PM

Thank's PanzerBob. My redneck mind just had a hard time picking that up.

Am looking forward to AAR's.

Shan · #10 January 10th, 2008, 06:10 AM

Wow - please post your custom OOB with the Angriffshubschrauber!! I'm normally not so fond of such what-if scenarios but in this case I'll make an exception ;-))) - and as we know the Germans had a real fancy for futuristic weapons (ever heard about 'Midgard-Schlange' and other projects like that?) and arming a helo ain't such an unlikely idea to have ...