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Man...that gun is BRUTAL....so winning the initiative as the Russians---we dash over the bridge and spread out a little north of the hill---we can only get one hex from the bridge.... The Germans...waiting just below the south end of the hill with their Tiger...their infantry to the front.... And the tiger shoots...at 5....an 8...vs. 4...+4 ....rolls 9...+4=13...2steps POOOF 2nd shoot....takes out a step.... That was turn 1..... By Turn four the last surviving steps (other then the demoralized step heading north....) on the hill are overwhelmed with Infantry...though they gave as well as they got---the Tiger was only 1 hex away at this point....have been swamped, pointlessly, by the T34s which remained after the first two fire sequences of the Tiger.... Tiger took out step with almost every shot....... no wonder ... |
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I has based that scenario from Steel Panthers: World at War. The SP:WaW scenario is even more brutal. 1 Tiger (not platoon) faces off against 2 companies of T-34s. It usually ends with 20 burning hulks.
If there was ever an intended side for the mentoring scenarios, it would be with the student getting the Tiger in this one.
Yes, the Student MUST play the Tiger....it gives one a sense of what CAN be done with the right unit in the right circumstances...
It's a good introduction to how critical chokepoints and stoppers can be