Tag: Eastern Front

Gameplay of turn 4 of the classic Squad Leader scenario, The Guards Counterattack. With fully annotated rules references/notes, step by step mechanics of rally, fire, terrain, movement, sniper, and close combat.

Turn 3 of the classic Squad Leader scenario, The Guards Counterattack. With fully annotated rules references/notes, step by step mechanics of rally, fire, terrain, movement, sniper, and close combat ... AND discussion of my errors during play (we all do it!!).

Turn 2 of the classic Squad Leader scenario, The Guards Counterattack. With fully annotated rules references/notes, step by step mechanics of rally, fire, terrain, movement, sniper, and close combat ... AND discussion of my errors during play (we all do it!!). A human wave is thrown in just because ... RUSSIANS!!

Turn 1 of the classic Squad Leader scenario, The Guards Counterattack. With fully annotated rules references/notes, step by step mechanics of rally, fire, terrain, movement, sniper, and close combat ... AND discussion of my errors during play (we all do it!!). A human wave is thrown in just because ... RUSSIANS!!

Prokhorovka! depicts combat around Oktyabrskii State Farm and Hill 252.2 between the Germans and the Russians. These battles took place in the so called “Tank Fields”, southwest of Prokhorovka town, on the 10th, 11th and 12th of July 1943, during the Battle of Kursk.

The Battle of Mokra - In the early morning of September 1st, 1939 Germany initiated the invasion of Poland. While the invasion itself was not a surprise, the speed of the ‘blitzkrieg’ was, even to the Poles who were prepared for the invasion as best as possible.

John and I played Journal 12’s J187 In Deadly Combat from the deadly designers Mazzei & Struiff. This one has a horde of Russians with T-28s attacking the poor Germans defending a village in December 1941

Operation Citadel had begun, but instead of the desired lightning breakthrough, fighting had taken on the characteristics of World War I trench warfare. In four days of grueling combat, the XLI Panzer Corps had managed to penetrate the defenses of the Soviet 13th Army to only a depth of five miles.

If ASL armor battles are in your wheelhouse, then PROKHOROVKA! is probably the module you've been looking for, portraying the largest armor clashes in modern warfare history.

AAR by: John KnowlesAdvanced Squad Leader AAR: Red Don (AP21) Here's the historical situation: Date: January 1, 1943 Location: Babka, Russia Attacker: Russian (15th Army Corps) Defender: Italian (55th Battalion, 6th Alpini Regiment, Tridentina Division) Day after day in mid-January, the Soviets launched repeated attacks against the Italians of the Cuneense, Julia, and Tridentina divisions. Often the attacks never even made it across the...