In "competitive" games I find there are two kinds of luck. You are lucky if you get a good roll and you can be lucky if your opponent has a bad roll. The last session of WiF delivered both kinds of luck to the floundering, struggling, Europeans.
As 1943 came to a close the weather remained bleak with storms on the Eastern front and rain elsewhere. Undeterred the Soviets attacked Romania and threw the greatly feared squiggly fourteen, the worst out come for an attacker on the CRT. They took three losses in their attack on Chisisnau. The European defenders took one, but Romanian reinforcements were at hand to fill the gap.
The Imperialists seized the initiative going into 1944 only to have Mother Nature unleash a blizzard across Europe.
If only the bad weather can be maintained for the final ten turns of the game, the Imperialists and their Communist allies will be defeated.
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There is still hope then 😁 The year without a summer 1944 😊
ReplyDeleteI should try and work out the odds on worst weather plus shortest turns.
Delete.... AND many more Russian squiggly 14's
ReplyDeleteAnd a few US and Commonwealth ones too! I expect their ability to withstand losses is not as good as the Soviets.
Delete'squiggly fourteen' ?
ReplyDeleteAn adjusted die roll that gives a 14 result on the assault table causes 2 losses to the attacker and 1 to the defender. However it has a ~ which means the attacker takes an extra loss if it is a "hard hex" (i.e. mountain, city etc). Also all the attackers are flipped which can mean an end of operations for the turn for those units.
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