| Trojans Revenge - on Crete | ||||||||||||||
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This was a 3-session, online reenactment of the Trojan War, but on Crete with the defending Germans as the Trojans led by the reincarnated version of Hector (Treadasurus). Like the Ancient Greeks, my guys were the attackers, but forgot to bring along that hollow horse (an early, towed, APC). Oh well . . . I think that I may have outdone Agamemnon by making many tactical mistakes, and like him, I drew a very poor set of leaders, while the Germans (Trojans) drew some great ones. We played using the FOW and excess initiative optional rules, and since I had annoyed the Greek gods on Olympus, I had terrible die rolls in all areas, from the beginning. Menelaeus's treacherous former-wife, Helen, must have giggled all the way through this battle. Too bad that Homer was not around to catalog my long list of errors, and the repeated German counter attacks. Others authors have already reviewed this scenario, so let's just say that I tried hard to push the Germans off of that cursed 60-meter hill (Troy) and lost many steps, plus 2 leaders - updated versions of Achilles and Ajax - who were both killed in close assaults. My morale recovery rolls were uniformly awful and the German reinforcements arrived on time, maybe like the Trojan's mythological Amazon allies. This was a fun to play scenario that deserves a 4, which we both thought should be recommended for shared and also solitaire play. |
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With apologies to Homer . . .
Zeus has decreed that we must play this one again, as punishment for excessive Trojan parachutist hubris, by assuming the role of the ill-fated King of Mycenae to lead the Greeks in an 18-game turn rematch, followed by a tragic bath drawn by Clytemnestra upon returning home with Cassandra in tow. Compounding this strategic error, I guess that Agamemnon should not have sacrificed Iphigenia, to get his ships (trimotor Ju-52s?) to Troy, or brought Cassandra home to the wife . . .