Played ftf with Hugmenot.

Something like 100,000,000 crazed fanatics attack a police station in a town. They gain complete control of the town with the exception of the police station itself where the police calmly hold off the fanatics but the police captain, losing his nerve runs away after calling the army to come save them.

The army arrives and chases away the fanatics after a surprising amount of difficulty due to the fanatics surviving morale checks. In all of this the army and police avoid any losses but the fanatics suffer severe losses as their supporters begin drifting away and looking to all intents and purposes as though they are innocent bystanders.

But enough about Pittsburgh and the last time the Steelers won the Super Bowl. This is about a Panzer Grenadier scenario where about 100,000,000 Razakars attack an Indian police station...

It really did go just about as described. The Razakars were unable to effectively dislodge the Indian Police and were rousted late in the game by the Indian Army. While they have lots of steps the Razakars with only a 2-1 DF on their full strength side, were unable to cause any losses or indeed to cause much disorder, amongst the Indians. What difficulties the Indians incurred were due to the Razakars ability to maintain their morale in assault hexes thus causing delays to the Indians throughout the scenario.

It was a perfectly fun scenario given the asymmetric situation. I felt that my Hyderabadi nutcases were almost able to pull it out, but I had exceptional luck with my rolls on morale checks so this tilts towards the Indians. I give it a "3".

Played ftf against Matt W in about 75 minutes.

A short, straightforward scenario. The Hyderabad forces will take over part of a town defended by two Indian platoons and then try to hold on against the Indian/Ghurka reinforcements.

The Hyderabad force stood their ground for 10 or so turns but then collapse inn like 2 turns after they suffered from decapitation. The Indians seemed to catch a second wind and quickly gained complete control of the town.

Indian major victory.

I rate this one a "3". A good introductory scenario and also a decent 1-session Skype scenario.

This was a short scenario (by PG standards) as Wayne and I were able to complete the game in a little under 3 hours. Wayne mentions it and I have to agree that this boils down to a puzzle for both sides. where the Razakars must figure out how to possibly eliminate the police units and take the town while the Indians need to hold on until the reinforcments come in.

The Hyderabadi split their forces and grouped about 4 hexes from the town on both the east and west sides, south of the road. They started their attack by moving towards the north end of the town, which would prevent the Op fire from the Indians (setup in 0710) and force them to move if they wanted to engage. The Police did split up to try and achieve op fire opportunities but ultimately ended up in the same area of town (0610) where they were assaulted and remained there the rest of the game.

In the meantime, Wayne setup a defensive perimeter on the north side, digging in 2 units and attempting to dig in a third just outside of the town. The remaining Razakars filled in positions in the town. Unfortunately for the Hyderabadis, the Indians received their reinforcements on the first eligible turn and so they moved in. The tanks rolled right up to the dug in units while the infantry followed behind and were able to clear out one dug out but then they stalled as they could not clear the other. The infantry following split, with a CAPT and LT leading 2 Gurkha RIF units and a WPN unit moving to attack the one unit that was in the process of digging in while the MAJ and his 2 RIF units skirted the town to meet up with the Police force in 0610. The digging in unit stopped and was able to inflict the lone Indian casualty. The tanks meanwhile moved around the town to the west and then entered in 0810. They then assaulted into 0710 and held that unit in place until the Major and his Gurkha RIF were able to join them in a combined arms assault that essentially cut through the town. After several turns of assaults, the Indians were in control of 3 town hexes, had lost only 1 step while the Hyderabadis were down to 14 steps out of 32 and most of those were in disrupted or demoralized status in assaults that were being battled at 13, 24 or 30 to 1 or 2 in the Indians favor. They conceded on turn 13.

The key here for the Indians is how to structure their attack to take maximum benefit from the combos offered (better morale, leader, Gurkha and combined arms) in assault. Time plays a factor if the reinforcement rolls are not in the Indian favor. Wayne played to the best that he could, given the circumstance and did offer that it may have been better for him to stop attacking after the initial assault against the police as that would have forced the Indians to make the attacks at better odds for the Hyderabads.

In all, an ok scenario that I wouldn't play again unless I was teaching someone the game.

Played in one session against Tony L, this scenario shows the Hyderabad militia provoking the Indians with an attack on a Indian town just over the border. The town is defended by two police units who telephone for help and are reinforced by a Gurkha company with Heavy Weapons and Sherman's in support. This is a game of two puzzles, how can the Hyrerabad player seize the town without losing to many casualties, how doe the Indian player take the town back within the time scale. The answer to the first is he can't take the whole town because unless he is very lucky or the Indian player is inept he wont eliminate the police units. For the Indian player the puzzle is slightly more complex but should the reinforcements arrive on time then its just a case of planning some combined assault to sweep through the town in fairly short order. The problem with this scenario once the Hyderabad force take the majority of the town there is little else to do, I pushed a few units one hex North of the town to provide some form of defense in depth but really I spent most of the latter part of the game rolling recovery rolls. Not one for the connoisseur.