Campaign

[jeremyb]

Looking at starting up the mini campaign. We will be doing the battle for France starting with D-day and ending with a mege battle in march. Anyone wanting to play in this, if you could be there on the 9th of Jan to hear the rules and choose sides. I'm looking for equal numbers for both axis and allies.

[Edge]

Jeff Lowe (new guy) - I have German Gepanzerte Panzergrenadierkompanie and lots of tanks (Schwere Panzerkompanie) so I can be flexible so long as people are tolerant of me being a bit slow. I may need to proxy a couple of units but I will have 90% of the list put together.

[John]

Sounds great Jeremy. I will do my best to be there. I guess I will have to take up the allied cause to even things out. Will our forces be from the appropriate books for each period?

R/JB

[John]

James,

Are you out there?

PM me about GKs.

[jeremyb]

Yes everyone will be building from the same books

[steve hughes]

My US paratroopers are ready to Jump on Normandy. On Sunday the 9th should we be planning to play?

[John]

I can bring ni some enemy to play you. :-)

[Quantum]

Sounds good I have been looking forward to this campaign.

[John]

Anyone up for some early war on Sunday?

[chaosdividers]

John,

I'm still working on my French army. Hopefully in the next two weeks it should be done.



regards,

Mike s.

Anyone up for some early war on Sunday?

[Wraith]

All,

Tonight I recieved my base assignment after UCT and I'm pleased to announce that I will be stationed at Schriever AFB. So I'll be returning to the Springs around mid-March and boy will it be good to come 'home'.

-Josh B.

[jeremyb]

Lucky bugger.

[jeremyb]

I'll bring my early war to play after setting up the campaign

[Edge]

My friend Stephan and I will be there for the campaign and we will need an experienced player to walk us through and we have not played an actual game other than reading the rules and doing a couple tank battles against each other (and that was last summer).

[ghoststalker]

I will be there if anyone wants to play mid-war or late. let me know so i will know what to bring.

[jeremyb]

John, could you please bring your d-day books that would be great.
Mark just bring your mid war brits and use them as early, give the early war a try.

[Quantum]

I will be bringing early, mid and late. I will be also bringing my WoW planes. IF it snows like it did last weeks Thursday I will not be there or leaving early, I'm such a wimp in the snow LOL.

[John]

Anyone up for a quick one-on-one game Sunday after we talk about campaign?

Early, Mid, Late????

[John]

OOps, didn't see the other notes. I will bring early war.

[John]

Jeremy,

Got the books and bringing them. I am bringing early war. I want to play and then head home to watch the Packers win against the Eagles.

[John]

Jeremy,

Did you get the pages I sent you?

[jeremyb]

This up coming sunday the 23rd will be the first game of the campaign. If i could get a roll call of who will be there and what they are bringing so i can figure up how many tables we need and what set up we will need.

[John]

Jeremy,

I will come and play allied if I can get a game going right away. I really want to watch the packer game that starts at 2 PM. I can miss the first quarter but want to see the rest.

So, if you can pare me with a german pplayer and we can start real quick I will play.

Let me know if this will work and who I might be playing.

[Quantum]

Ditto above from John, put us to together and we can run rampant over each other and then go watch the Packers avenge my poor plucked Seahawks.

[steve hughes]

Jeremy,

SORRY. I cannot play Sunday Jan 32. I have to catch a plane at 1:00.


I do want to play in D-day campaign as US airborne.

[steve hughes]

Jermey,

SORRY. I have to catch a plane on Sunday 23 at 1:00. I thought my flight was later.

I WILL NOT be able to play Sunday Jan 23 2011.

I should be able to play most othere Sundays as US airborne

Steve Hughes

[Quantum]

Is this going to be a regular campaign game or are you planning a beach landing? If its regualr John and I can probably get a quick game in, if its the beach landing then I expect it to take abit longer.

[John]

I believe it is supposed to be the beach landing scenario "Hit the Beach Mission" from page 35 of Das Book. I can kill you off in an hour or less no problem. :-)

[Quantum]

Hey John the guide says the Packers/Bears starts 1500 eastern which is 1300 not 1400 our time.

[John]

Hi Bob,

I believe that the pre-game show starts at 1 pm and the game starts at 2.

But we can throw down when the store opens on Saturday and then it won't matter on Sunday. What say you?

[Quantum]

John, Saturday is out for me for we already have plans. If you think we can really get set up and play that fast since I have never done that scenario and it includes fortifications and having to wait for reserves on both sides we can try.

[jeremyb]

John and Bob, you guys can call the game anytime you want to. Just follow the guide lines as to who the victor is. If I remember the faster the attacker takes obectives the bigger a victory, but call it when you see fit.

[Quantum]

Jeremy did you say there was a different point count for the landing scenario vs. the 1750 total for the scenarios after the landing one?

[jeremyb]

Yes the defender only gets 1000 points but gets fortifactions. These are in the das book under the beach assault. So this will be the only time where combat and weapons platoons can be changed.

[Quantum]

So I can drop part or some of a weapons platoon for a support platoon?

[John]

So Bob,

Do you want to play our battle next Sunday as part of the campaign?

JB

[jeremyb]

Well the first day of the campaign turned out in a draw. Tom and Dave winning for the allied side. Jeff and Bob winning for the germans.
With the super bowl in two weeks we will be doing round two next sunday the 30th. I will have the team ups and what battle they are in next sunday. So no asking who do i play, you will find out sunday with everyone else.

[Quantum]

Yeah sorry John I ended up going to GH and playing. Troy kept us updated on scores. It was a good battle, Stephan (spelling?) and I fought down to the last of turn 12. It could have gone either way quite a few times.

[jeremyb]

Do to some of the german players having to modify list to play in the hit the beach and the fact that the allied airborne had to be all airdroped, I'm allowing everyone a one time tweaking to thier army list. The basic company will stay the same such as if you had a british tank it will stay a british tank, but feel free to tweak this one time. Also if everyone could supply me with a list of thier companies to review, i did not do this last week, but want to just verify everyones list.

[Quantum]

Bob's Panzerspah Lehr Kompanie Page 112

HQ
1 Sdkfz 234 Puma 50pts

Combat Platoons 3 total
1 Sdkfz 250, 2 Sdkfz 250/9 115pts
3 Sdkfz 234 Pumas 150pts
3 Sdkfz 234 Pumas 150pts

Weapons Platoons 2 total
3 Sdkfz 233s 145pts
6 Sdkfz 251/9 270pts

Total Points 880 with no support platoons listed.

[John]

John's British Rifle Company.

HQ 50th T&T C/V 30
INF Plt 180
INF Plt 180
Carrier "Wasp" plt 3 x Wasps 115 These are the base company that can't change.

Breaching Group, 6 x AVRE, 1 x Crab 280
Croc Platoon, 3 x Crocs 400
Recce plt 3 x Humber IV, 2 x LRC 190
INF Plt 2 squads 140
Arty Plt 4 x 25 pdr 185
AOP 25
Total Points: 1725

[John]

Jeremy,

When is the next campaign game and what scenario are we playing? I will be there on the 30th, but not on Superbpwl Sunday since the pack is Back!!! I will have a house full of cadets to feed.

[Quantum]

FYI I may not be able to make it tomorrow for the campaign

[jeremyb]

The germans won round two, I want to thank John B. for filling in for the some of the german players who couldnt make it. The next game for the campaign will be on feb. 27th.

[jeremyb]

Just to remind everyone that next sunday the 27th will be the next campaign game.

[John]

Cool,

I am excited. Another chance to kill off the evil Axis empire.

See you there.

[jeremyb]

Well the allies bounced back today. So now its one victory for each side with a draw. The next game will be march 13th, this will determine who gets the advantage for the big game that will be on march 27th.

[HellRaiser#7]

This is Ed who was with the two boys at the shop yesterday watching everyone play FOW. (With the neck brace) Thank you to everyone being patient and courteous to both me and my oldest son as we fielded a gazillion questions. Looking forward to playing and participating. I will have some units completed ASAP. (I am initially building early German and US troops). I am getting married in 3 weeks, so you probably won’t see me up there to April.


Ed

[John]

Good for the allies.

Unfortunately, I will have to miss the next battle since I will be in D.C. for a week and back on the 18th. Just in time for the tournament. I must paint now.

r/ John

[Quantum]

Ed, I look forward to seeing you and your boys at our battles in the future. Your boys were very polite and respectful. I had a fun discussion with one of them on why we each liked the Germans better and it turned out to be for the same reason "we both thought they had the cooler looking tanks" . - Bob

[jeremyb]

Just to remind everyone this sunday will be the last of the one on ones. And then the big final game will be the 27th of march.

[steve hughes]

jeremy,

can you play monday at 5:30 or so. I have 1950s UK and USSR. I would like to use hidden deployment. I will tell you all about tommorow.

[jeremyb]

So this sunday will be the last game for the battle for france, I need as many objective markers that i can get. Thanks

[jeremyb]

Well the battle for france is over and while the germans left france to you allies, we did get more equipment back to the fatherland to use against you in the future. Now is the time to go beat on the russians.