Sunday, September 23, 2012

Fighting Formations GrossDeutschland blooded

Played Fighting Formations face to face at my Dad's tonight using the initial tutorial scenario. Another great game with us both liking the Initiative System and interactive nature of the game play.
My Russians eked out a narrow win by taking a single Victory Location from the Germans in a vicious Melee against German Pioneer platoon, swung Ivan way with reserves and unlucky Germans suffering a nasty hit counter that stopped them firing or moving.
German Stugs gave my T34s a hard time however.
Whilst we got mechanics of system pretty much sorted the tactical nuances will take much longer to delve into.
Great stuff and yet another game to add to the growing 'want to play again list' !!

 












7 comments:

  1. Sounds great, I love the fact that your dad plays games with you.

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    1. Well he instilled my love of all things Military/Wargaming so only fair he gets involved.

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    2. It does sound a good game!

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  2. So, it sounds like this is tightly focussed historically - are there a whole series of these games?

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    1. Planned I believe to have several more titles including Big Red One but no idea of when

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  3. Anonymous9:04 pm

    Sounds like your dad played a canny game. That's 5 expensive looking orders in the picture before last! Look forward to your next run out for the game. Norman

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    1. It was a close game in this scn after 1st turn order matrix was rolled for randomly and on that turn we had 5 blocks in the 9s and 10s !!

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