Skill vs Numbers

[richvalle]

End of turn 4/start of turn 5.

   


   
Not much happened on The Hill. The Stug reinforcements moved into the town. The morts got ready to move to try and avoid the incoming Inf moving across the board from below. 


   
The incoming Inf in a formation I call "The Blob". Also the M4 that harassed the forward observing leader moved up to harass the now leaderless dug in inf. 


   
Where all the action was this AS.

At the very top you can see the stack of Inf that assaulted where I thought the Castle was. After bravely taking the top of the hill and looking around for where to plant the flag they were pounded by every gun/OBA/Mort that could reach them.  2 series of bad rolls (3 10's in a row and 3 11's in a row!) result in everyone being demoralized at the missed photo opportunity. 

The 2nd APC ambush went much better. The HGM's DF'ed and the Inf assaulted resulting in an X and both APC's taking a hit. 



And at this point we called the game. Besides having a lot more steps on the board I've inflicted about 15 steps worth of damage vs his 4. I think the fight for the big town would be interesting but it seems pretty clear the US were going to roll on this one.


Funny... the next battle we picked from Winter Solders I'm on the other side. Number 29, with the ice and snow I have 18 turns to get 20 steps off the map and the Inf can only move 1 hex a turn across a 17 hex map. Ummm... no?