a fairwell to arms....

[larry marak]

Goodbye to our dear 3rd edtions friends and fiends.

So long to the Italians, vanished with Desert Rats, Afrika Korps, and Fronte Russo

Day one of the Bulge offensive is no more

We'll never seen IJA carrier borne Auto-Gyro amphibious assaults again

The jungles of Guadalcanal, and Gualdalcanal will be forever tractless.

The misadventures of the trash division now are in the dumpster where they belong.

And no more arguments about how to deploy Soviet Penile Battalions.

[Poor Yorek]

And no more arguments about how to deploy Soviet Penile Battalions.

oh dear!

[plloyd1010]

• On June 4th 1942, Lt. Comdr. Wade McClusky led Bombing 6 (from the Enterprise) against the Japanese carrier group attacking Midway.
  
• On August 7th 1942, Capt. Donald Dickson went ashore on Guadalcanal as an adjutant to the 5th Marine Regiment.
  
• On December 18th 1944 Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe took the 101st Airborne Division to a crossroads town in the Ardennes.
  

Each then returned home, made speeches, and so it was for many years. Then a game company in Baltimore called upon them to take us back. R. Adm. McClusky flew with us over the carriers again in 1964. 1965 found us at Bastogne with Maj. Gen. McAuliffe looking over our shoulders. In 1966 Col. Dickson took us to Guadalcanal.

TAHGC eventually dissolved, but visits to the old battlefields did not end with of those games. Indeed SPI, GDW, and additional roads not only to those times & places, but also to each other, as well as to and from the Avalon Hill's publications.

The 3rd Ed. games will live on. My marines have stood against the Japanese landings against Midway. My paratroops and ground-pounders have dueled with the HG & 15th PzGr divisions on Sicily. The Italians have fought the French in Alpine France. The Czechs did resist the Nazi assimilation (thoroughly thrashed the Germania regiment too).

No, this is not over. Just a little different.

And no more arguments about how to deploy Soviet Penile Battalions.

Want to by a bridge?

[larry marak]

No more sissi's fighting the Soviets, the Germans, and their own cousins anymore.

And lastly, and most strangely of all, NO SOVIETS for a while (till Broken Axis re-introduces the Soviets to the Panzer Grenadier system late in 2015 or early 2016).

This is a much bigger change than the replacement of PG with EFD.

[Hugmenot]

Kursk: South Flank and Kursk: Burning Tigers have Soviets ... Great games, both of them.

[larry marak]

Indeed, my mind was slipping...the two Citadel games show the red flag in 4th edition PG.

Interesting how the facts of the battlefield dictate the type of battles fought. There was no retreat on the Pacific Islands, hence defense to the last man became standard for the IJA. In the Soviet Union, although retreat was often met with execution, retreat was always possible, so Soviet forces knew they could always fight again some other day. The Wehrmacht on the other hand knew it had to surround and capture the enemy to prevent endless retreats..once this possibility was lost, victory became impossible. In the Western Desert, endless retreat and reposte was possible, and that characterized the campaign.