132 Dirtier by the Dozen

 
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132 Dirtier by the Dozen

A really strange scenario.
Played with my friend Ale tonight and still we don't really understand how the Americans could win.
We appreciate some other point of view.

I'll make a short list of the concerns that emerged during the last match:

1. If hexes shared with adjacent boards are allowed during setup, are those units considered to belong to both boards for the "Patrol" special rule?
2. Following the "Vehicle Drivers" special rule the German reinforcements correspond to an Opel Blitz carrying 2 units. What would be the point of calling only one infantry at a time?
3. What stops the Germans from deploying 4 officers in a single squad base and placing them at the farthest point of the map compared to the Americans (as you can see in the scenario picture). The Americans do not physically have time to get there, eliminate them and go back.
4. The river, apart from offering 1 cover, requires 2 movement points to be crossed, so even if the Americans chose to advance tirelessly they could reach the extreme edge of the forest (thus maintaining cover and concealment) on turn 5 and would no longer have time to come back.
5. The 2 command points on the bridge would force the Americans to waste a turn to stop there... but they don't have all that time.
6. Even if you always remain in terrain that offers cover, the concealed marker is lost at the exact moment in which a German unit ends the round adjacent to the American units: the chances of losing concealment within the first 3 rounds seem very high to me.

I haven't yet tried to play this one, but when I do I'll take these points into account and report-back my results.

Sounds like the scenario needs a lot more effort to make it good, though. Thanks for bravely going forth for all of our benefit!

JVHillegas-Elting wrote:

Sounds like the scenario needs a lot more effort to make it good, though. Thanks for bravely going forth for all of our benefit!

Some scenarios (like this one) have good potential or are interesting at first glance, but once the game begins some gaps emerge immediately.
During our games Pino and I try to be as objective as possible and we like to share doubts and concerns on this forum (to avoid them being just our own errors of interpretation).