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Post by phgamer on Oct 18, 2019 11:50:44 GMT
The Second Battle of Pithy Gulch General Schiff's 98th Brigade lay in total ruins. The field lay obscured in black oil fires of burning vehicles, occasionally brightened by the release of a Martians heat ray. The last radio communication from the field was over 5 minutes ago. He scanned the field one last time through the big eyes and saw nothing, he gave the order to evacuate. An order he knew would result in the death of at least half his brigade, but also life for the other half. philsmartianfront.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-second-battle-of-pithy-gulch.htmlEnjoy! |
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Post by easye on Oct 18, 2019 14:56:13 GMT
Humans got a big break on this one.....
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Post by boxholder on Oct 19, 2019 13:04:41 GMT
Taking down an Overseer and having Patton survive is a double dose of good luck!!
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Post by phgamer on Oct 23, 2019 10:39:37 GMT
It's funny how that came about. I write the narrative to suit the events on the board. With some creative license. After the first battle of Pithy Gulch, I wrote how Patton survived, but had to take a long trek across the mountains, and was presumed dead and posthumously promoted to Major. When he shows up, he turns down the promotion, stating all he did was bail out of a burning tank. But it was explained that he was right on the situation, the Brigadier of the 98th division said so, and Patton's new job would be to train brigade level tactics to mid level officers and he needed the rank to back that up.
Then a rerun of the battle was done, and Garth sent me the pictures. So I rewrote the history, locking it in stone.
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Post by madmorgan on Oct 28, 2019 17:52:00 GMT
Very interesting realignment of the battle. I'm a little confused about one thing. I was surprised to see Scorpions drop from the Overseer. Those figures weren't available when the rule book was printed and I've always thought that only 'regular' drones could be the Overseers payload. Do you allow other drone types to deploy from your Overseer?? Shockers, Snipers?? How do you assign the 3 Snipers? Just curious as I suppose in the later years, the Martians would have advanced that technique. Great battle review as always  |
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Post by bigwally on Oct 30, 2019 3:22:19 GMT
I enjoyed reading your AAR tremendously! How long in actual time did this battle take to play?
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Post by phgamer on Oct 30, 2019 10:28:17 GMT
Under 4 hours. We tend to start at 7pm and are usually cleaned up and out the door by 10:30
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Post by phgamer on Oct 30, 2019 10:31:41 GMT
Very interesting realignment of the battle. I'm a little confused about one thing. I was surprised to see Scorpions drop from the Overseer. Those figures weren't available when the rule book was printed and I've always thought that only 'regular' drones could be the Overseers payload. Do you allow other drone types to deploy from your Overseer?? Shockers, Snipers?? How do you assign the 3 Snipers? Just curious as I suppose in the later years, the Martians would have advanced that technique. Great battle review as always We never even considered that Overseer drones were exclusively the "Regular" ones. As far as we are concerned all drones are fair game. Regarding Snipers, they are an odd duck with drones as they can be assigned to any tripod, and shoot what it shoots at. A very interesting nuance. |
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