Anzio – New LCP Scenario Pack –
Estimated shipping date: November 16th
This 7 scenario pack comes with 140 counters representing the Herman Goering Panzer Division and the FSSF. All this for only $16 shipping included! Don’t forget to add the new St. Lo campaign game from LCP with this order if you don’t already have it.
Friendly Fire 11 – Eight Scenarios
Estimated shipping date: November 16th
we are waiting on shipment of the brand new Friendly Fire. You can order it now to ensure that it ships out the day it arrives here (Hopefully next week). We are also running a special on the entire Friendly Fire Collection of 11 scenario packs.
FrF85 Junkers Junkyard
Ypenburg Airfield, Netherlands, May 10, 1940: The Germans had an ambitious plan: to knock The Nether-lands out of the war in a single day. Airborne troops would first capture three airfields near The Hague, then the Dutch cabinet and the queen. Ypenburg airfield was defended by two grenadier companies, about two dussin AA guns and six Landsverk armored cars. An early-morning bombing attack and Fallschirmjäger both failed to neutralize the AA defenses, and the slow Junkers carrying the airlanded main force met a devastating fire as they came in for their approach.
Designer: Mattias Rönnblom
FrF86 Belgian Tigers
Kapelle op den Bos, Belgium, May 17, 1940: In 1935, the Belgian government agreed to purchase 25 French-built AMC 35 tanks, armed with a 47 mm gun and a Hotchkiss MG. Over the next years, for economic and political reasons, the order was reduced to only 10 vehicles. When Hitler’s army invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940, the AMC 35s were the best armored vehicles in the Belgian arsenal. By 16 May, German forces had broken through Belgian lines along the entire front and two of these tanks were about to charge into battle for the first time.
Designers:
- Peter Struijf
- Chris Mazzei
FrF87 Mormal Forest
Northwest of Locquignol, France, May 20, 1940: The battle of France raged on. The 4. Panzer-Division was tasked to seize Aulnoye-Maroilles line and continue to secure the northwest edge of the Mormal forest. The division’s reconnaissance battalion passed through the forest near Locquignol without enemy interference. Two hours later, the reinforced Schützen-Regiment 12 followed in its tracks. By then the road was closed by competent hands of French colonial troops supported by Renault R35 tanks of the 39e bataillon de chars de combat.
Designer: Mattias Rönnblom
FrF88 Panzer Shield
Ryschkowka, Belarus, July 13, 1941: On 12 July, Guderian’s Panzergruppe 2 had two bridgeheads across the Dnepr; one east of Kopys and Shklov and the Bykhov bridgehead south of Mogilev. Mogilev’s defenses had been under construction since late June, and were by now deep and extensive, with minefields, anti-tank ditches, trenches and log bunkers — all in an reminiscent of World War I. XXIV. Armeekorps was to attack out of the bridgehead to the north, and destroy the enemy southeast of Mogilev and open the Dnepr crossing, but its 4. Panzer-Division was quickly forced on the defensive.
Designer: Mattias Rönnblom
FrF89 Red Tears Shed on Gray
Karpova, Ukraine, August 18, 1941: Under German-backed dictator Antonescu, Rumania joined its Nazi ally in the fateful Operation Barba-rossa. After two months of defeats, the Soviet Army in the Ukraine was reeling. Second line units, factory militia and ageing equipment were thrown into the path of the Axis invaders. On 17 August, the Rumanian 11th Infantry Division approached the town of Karpova, a key railway junction 30 km northwest of Odessa. The factories and warehouses near the railway station were defended by a ragtag company of Soviet units.
Designers:
- Peter Struijf
- Chris Mazzei
FrF90 Speed is the Essence of War
Slim River, Malaya, January 7, 1942: The British were in full retreat from northern Malaya. Two battered Indian brigades were arranged in depth back through Trolak to the Slim River bridge. In the early morning hours of 7 January, a Japanese tank company accompanied by truck-borne infantry charged down the road. The Japanese tanks quickly overran the bulk of the 12th Brigade, and next up for lighting-fast defeat was the 28th Brigade. Because of very poor British communications, the brigade were unaware of the impending threat, and the Japanese caught them on the move.
Designer: Mattias Rönnblom
FrF91 Moonlight Drive
North of Yigo, Guam, August 8, 1944: Although the Japanese had been blasted out of Yigo, they had enough strength remaining to trouble the US 77th Infantry Division. Encouraged by a recent armored night raid, which had wreaked havoc in the lines of the 305th Infantry Regiment, the Japanese decided to put the 306th to the same test. Late in the evening, several enemy infantry patrols felt out the American positions. At 02:00 tanks were heard approaching from the north. The Americans readied bazookas and flame-throwers, the only anti-tank weapons available in the moonlit night.
Designers:
- Peter Struijf
- Chris Mazzei
FrF92 Arms Race
Lonnecker bridge, Twente Canal, Netherlands, April 1, 1945: The British Guards Armoured Division were ordered to break through the German lines and reach Hamburg via Bremen. In other sectors, the Germans were in full rout, but ahead of the British tankers was the experienced and battered, but still cohesive, 7. Fallschirmjäger-Division. A step on the way was the Lonneker bridge between the Dutch towns of Hengelo and Enschede, and the rocket-equipped Shermans of the 2. Squadron, 1st Battalion set to capture it in a surprise attack.
Hidden Gems:
I just realized that I have had these FTC packs (FTC 5,6, and 7) in stock for over a year and never posted them to the web site for sale. These scenario packs are on sale and in stock now:
Also, remember to order the brand new From The Cellar 8 which should be arriving this month. Order all 4 and get a free T-shirt (click on t-shirt and select your size (scroll down to the free t-shirts, the photo will not match but do not worry, you will get this uber cool red Tiger shirt)).
My first game was against Hennie from Holland. We played ‘Ambush on South Knob’ from the new Action Pack. I had the honor of trying to pry some GI’s out of a bunker on the top of a jungle hill. As so many PTO scenarios end, one bad CC roll finished off my hopes for the V. As fate would have it, I would get my chance for revenge in the Desert Mini.
My second game was as the Russian player against Chris Brackney. We played AP131 Cricket in Spring. My three Russian guns did enough damage to turn the tide against the German attackers. Nice to finally meet and play Chris.
My third game was against Chris Mazzei from Germany. I played as the German attackers against his defending French in FrF87 Mormal Forest. Everything went to hell in the first two turns as I gambled with a mad rush with loaded halftracks trying to get behind his lines early and force him into a counterattack. His tanks and hidden AT GUN made quick work of my AFV’s and their riders. Almost conceding after turn 2, I decided to hang in for one more turn to see how my infantry push fared in CC. Well, one lucky CC after another finally overwhelmed the French and their personal moral and I pulled off an unlikely win without any ht’s. On a side note, neither one of my guns got off a single shot as my initial placement was quite horrible and the ART too heavy to move.
Game 4 was against my good friend and fellow Canadian Jeff Wasserman. Every year I try to make a point of playing Jeff, Andy, and Wei who travel in together from the Toronto area. We played yet another one from the new Action Pack; Mechanized Sacrifice. In this almost all armor battle, billions of radioless AFV’s swarm over a raised road into German armored cars and halftracks trying desperately to get off the board. The Germans get some PzIII’s as reinforcements (have I mentioned that PzIII’s are my favorite thing in the whole world?). Although in this one too, I thought I had lost early, I was able to, with the help of some great ROF, stop the Russians from getting sufficient numbers off.
Intermission: Tuesday night we partook in the second annual Game of Thrones the board game event. I was able to win the game and lose a bunch of friends in the process as we backstabbed and lied to each other as is necessary to stand a chance at victory. I look forward to betraying and being betrayed again next year.
The OOP Rat Charts are on their way to us and will be sent to you with free shipping the day they arrive. The price is at the ever low $32 Shipping included.
One Assorter Box = 16 Trays
AAR for ‘Where the Iron Crosses Grow Team Tournament 2017’
