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Post by phgamer on May 6, 2017 3:04:53 GMT
The Third Battle of Sheboygan An All Quiet on the Martian Front battle report The ruins of Sheboygan are still held by humanity. But the Martians are on the offensive everywhere. Breaching the Mississippi, pushing into Ontario. Holding Sheboygan is important to keep the Martians from overwhelming the industrial heartland of America. philsmartianfront.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-third-battle-of-sheboygan-part-1.htmlEnjoy |
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Post by Quendil on May 6, 2017 11:47:28 GMT
Great report and an exciting game. Can't wait for part 2
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Post by David N.Tanner 07011959 on May 6, 2017 14:15:37 GMT
Damn that Red Martian. Where's Bugs Bunny when you need him.
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Post by mikedski on May 7, 2017 12:49:37 GMT
What rules do you use for the smoke pots?
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Post by madmorgan on May 8, 2017 9:08:56 GMT
As always, another excellent game, write-up, and picture series. Looking forward to the next installment.  |
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Post by phgamer on May 8, 2017 12:32:11 GMT
What rules do you use for the smoke pots? I thought that was in the House Rules, but it wasn't. It was in MY copy Smoke area. Human defenses can contain areas of canisters designed to throw up a large amount of smoke. Units within the smoke and up to 3 inches behind the smoke are have their defense to heat rays increased by +2. (Grenadier bombardment, Green Gas and Black Dust ignore this effect) Beyond that the Martians elevation allows them to shoot and be shot at normally. Chains. Any Tripod crossing the chain obstacle rolls a d10, on a 1 or 2, they are entangled. The roll to disentangle on subsequent turns is a 4+. While entangled, Tripods cannot move, and have their to hit number reduced to 5+. They may shoot normally. Tower guns. Tower guns have the chain obstacle sited in and get an additional +1 to hit an entangled Tripod (4+ to hit) Tower guns are well camouflaged and cannot be targeted until they first shoot. After which the normal 3+ is required to hit. |
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Post by madmorgan on May 9, 2017 9:22:42 GMT
Nice set of positional rules - ty, definitely going into further OOBs for various battles I've yet to construct |
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Post by boxholder on May 13, 2017 13:03:21 GMT
phgamer's use of flash for photos highlights a problem with cardstock buildings: The burned out, wrecked interior is stark white.
So, when I build them up (if they have no printed interior), I will be giving the inside coat of black or dark gray to kill the bright white. I can also go over completed ones with a wash to fix them.
May need to use a marker to avoid too much water wrinkling the building, but trials will tell.
Thanks for the photos phgamer. They really add to the AARs.
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Post by phgamer on May 23, 2017 11:38:12 GMT
"the photos phgamer. They really add to the AARs." The photos actually make these AAR's possible. I have been doing AAR's before I owned a camera that could take adequate pictures of the field. And a two page report would take 8 hours. I know, I timed them. Trying to describe the situation without a picture was murder. Here is an example of one of my better ones. An Ancients fight, Anglo-Normans vs Islamic Persians. philonancients.blogspot.com/2011/10/aar-warrior-anglo-normans-vs-islamic.html . With the camera, the time is about 30 minutes to lay out the pictures. Though that is going up as I am doing some post processing there now, 2 hours for the prose, and about 30 minutes to run the link out to all the forums and Facebook. I started blogging (in priority order) to see about what it takes to drive traffic to a web site, a useful skill in this day and age. To practice writing, in case this DBA gig doesn't pan out, and to talk about my hobby. Before I started AAR's on the Martian Front I was doing Ancients, then Flames of War. You got the benefit of that, as my "Fit and Finish" was already polished, and I started the concept of naming the units, and characters of the participants. Mainly "Monty’s Pythons", the 2nd Squadron, 22nd Regiment "Canadian Grenadier Guards", 4th Canadian Armored Division, which I stole whole cloth from my Flames of War series of fights. See The Battle of St. Zoot the Naughty philonworldwartwo.blogspot.com/2012/01/aar-battle-of-st-zoot-naughty.html |
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Post by phgamer on May 23, 2017 11:39:12 GMT
As always, another excellent game, write-up, and picture series. Looking forward to the next installment. FYI, we finish the game tomorrow night, write up to follow. |
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Post by phgamer on May 26, 2017 11:17:04 GMT
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Post by mikedski on May 27, 2017 11:01:45 GMT
Thanks for posting. Can you provide a close up of the rough riders? Interested in the paint scheme.
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Post by David N.Tanner 07011959 on May 27, 2017 13:42:48 GMT
Give 'em hell George!
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Post by phgamer on May 27, 2017 14:01:25 GMT
Thanks for posting. Can you provide a close up of the rough riders? Interested in the paint scheme. Sorry "mikedski", this is a rather long explanation. Regarding my Rough Riders, they are probably not the best scheme for anyone else to use. My army is actually painted to be Canadian. I call the unit "Monty’s Pythons", the 2nd Squadron, 12th "Three Rivers” Regiment, 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade. Why? Because when I was writing Battle Reports for Flames of War, I fell into using Canadians, as they have American Equipment, and good national special abilities. I picked a unit that did exist, then somewhere along the line, started naming my commanders as actors from Monty Pythons. For AQMF, I have a new audience, so I am getting a bit of reuse out of those FOW battle reports. And AQMF gets the advantage of a fairly mature writing style and format from the start. Unfortunately, due to either incompetence of the Canadian Players, or competence of the Martians, or possibly a skewing of the points system in favor of the Martians, my Canadian environment, "Fort Edmonton" has fallen, leading to the fall of all western Canada, except Vancouver. So my Monty's Pythons are now expats, supporting the American war effort, and trying not to die. That being said, my "Rough Riders" are painted as Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Images of which you can down load from google. My paint job is really not worthy of close up shots. |
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Post by mikedski on May 27, 2017 23:16:22 GMT
Fair enough.
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