Round 2 - Market Garden Firestorm

Firestorm Market Garden Round Two into Round Three

So this round took a little longer to get in. A number of sad events happened with group members families. So we decided to do two week rounds. My game was delayed as well. Unfortunately before we played he rage quit the game store. So I played the allies commander instead. 

Great guy and great game (of course I played pretty poorly). Since I grew a beard (for no shave November) the group has referred to me as Scott Baratheon (we have a number of Scotts). The Germans were winning until General Baratheon went hunting....

Now, I would like to claim I made some of these decisions because I wanted a longer game after the drive to the store. In reality I didn't really focus on the mission. I could have had some of my tanks double move and with my opponent rolling average reserves I would have taken the second objective. However, after playing tin can tanks for so long (Shermans) I wanted to see how tough Tigers are. I think one of the other German players head nearly exploded.

So my tigers would attempt to dig out the american airborne hiding in the buildings of the first objective. Granted it might have work if I didn't fail almost every single penetration roll I made. My rockets hit every time, and on a 4+ would almost never break the cover. My Tigers 3+ almost never did. I also forgot to reroll motivations just about every time.  This would give his reinforcements enough time to get in and secure the second objective.

So Round 2 ended with 3 ally wins and 3 axis wins. Which seems a tie but probably left the allies in a slight advantage due to how attacks work on the map. You really should never attack from a territory worth points. Since you lose it if you lose the battle. However the allies still only have three more rounds to take enough victory points to win.

So round 3 attacks look like this

My battle should be interesting defending the Son Bridge. The opponent will have 2 Firestorm Sherman and I know he likes the heavy guns so the Tigers might be in trouble. However, since the battle is a lost cause hopefully I can lose only 4-3. Either way the campaign has been a lot of fun.