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Hexsides and Hand Grenades: LnL: Forgotten Heroes - Tread Heads: Post-Ambush Aftermath
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades. Friday, September 28, 2012. LnL: Forgotten Heroes - Tread Heads: Post-Ambush Aftermath. For the past week, I've been reporting on a playthrough of "Tread Heads", a scenario from Lock 'n Load Publishing's Forgotten Heroes: Vietnam. So the U.S. has taken some heavy casualties in the initial ambush. Here's what happened next. At the start of the next turn, Anders and Jensen dismount from their respective vehicles and head for the cover of the jungle to the east. My tactical error...
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades: Gulf Strike - Scenario 5 Redux
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades. Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Gulf Strike - Scenario 5 Redux. If you've read much of my blog before, you'll know that I'm a huge fan of Victory Games' Gulf Strike. After it sat on my shelf for the better part of a year, I picked it up and got it on the table. It's a real gem of a game and I unfortunately got distracted by something else before I could seriously delve into it. One of my first write-ups on Gulf Strike. So what to do here? I haven't played much of this scenario before...
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades: Aegean Strike - Learning the Lessons
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Aegean Strike - Learning the Lessons. I've been playing Aegean Strike. System and I'm starting to relearn it again, which is no easy task. Fun in the sun of the Aegean Seas - Victory Games' Aegean Strike designed by Mark Herman. Anyway, here are a few things I've slowly gleaned from my first plays of Aegean Strike scenario 2. Spetsnaz raids captured a small island near Greece that had an empty airbase. They stationed a MiG-31 here to intercept en...
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades: Aegean Strike - Closing the Curtains
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades. Sunday, August 9, 2015. Aegean Strike - Closing the Curtains. The first order of business was to push back the Greek gains in southern Bulgaria, which the Soviet mechanized infantry did without any problem whatsoever. By the 4th turn, Drama was captured by a single Soviet armored brigade and Thessaloniki looked to be ready to fall to two Soviet mechanized infantry divisions barreling through the southwest of Bulgaria and into Greece. 4 2nd Bulgarian Mechanized Inf. Divisio...
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades: Fire Team - Reconnaisance on the Nuremberg Highway
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades. Saturday, April 4, 2015. Fire Team - Reconnaisance on the Nuremberg Highway. Troop Recon Patrol consists of two platoons of BMPs, both of whom have a very small detachment of troops riding along with them carrying RPG-16s. Helicopter Forward Detachment has a mix of Mi-24 attack helos and Mi-8s along with a couple of BMPs and a full platoon of infantry. The American forces also change according to what version the Soviet player chooses. In this case, the US player would get...
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades: May 2015
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Gulf Strike - Scenario 5 Thoughts. Over the past weekend, I went ahead and replayed Scenario 5 ("The Horn of Africa") from Gulf Strike again and I think I'm starting to understand it a little better. Here are some random thoughts that occurred to me while playing it over:. 1) The Soviets and USA going to war over Somalia. Really? 2) The Soviet CG tailing the US carrier group:. 6) Soviet priorities should be: 1.) Keep US surface fleet bottled up near ...
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades: Aegean Strike: Scenario 2 - Part 1
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Aegean Strike: Scenario 2 - Part 1. After playing around with scenario 1 in Aegean Strike, I decided to take the training wheels off and give a scenario that uses the whole map a spin. I don't have time these days to write a really detailed AAR but I'll update occasionally as I play. I can't stress enough that this is the first time I've played this game and I really don't know what I'm doing in terms of strategy. Setup of Turkey and Greece. Looks int...
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades: August 2015
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades. Saturday, August 22, 2015. Harpoon: Captain's Edition - Surface Encounter. In this scenario,.called "Surface Encounter", an Arleigh Burke-class. Destroyer is escorting a merchant vessel somewhere and it happens to detect a Soviet Sovremenny-class destroyer. With an Ivan Rogov-class landing ship. A skirmish ensues with both sides trying to sink the other's escorted ships. The Soviets win a victory if they sink the merchant vessel while NATO wins if it can sink the Rogov. The So...
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades: Unconditional Surrender: Poland 1939
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades. Friday, February 20, 2015. Unconditional Surrender: Poland 1939. World War 2 in Europe (USE). From GMT is designed by Salvatore Vasta and has been heralded by many gamers as a possible contender for one of the best games that deals with World War 2 on a strategic level. Just to give you a flavor for what the game is like, I thought I would post a short playthrough of the 1st training scenario from the game, the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Here goes! We get a 6 for the G...
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades: June 2015
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Hexsides and Hand Grenades. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Well, I'm happy to say that for my first Father's Day present ever, I was presented with a used copy of Aegean Strike. Which is - as the box states - "A Complete Game Based on the Gulf Strike. System". Let's see what we have here:. First off, take a look at that awesome box art! We have an F-15 zooming in from the lower right corner after firing a missile that has already hit a MiG(? The rules for Aegean Strike. But there are some changes (marked with a...