Campaign Series Vietnam

[Jason Petho]

The campaign continues, much to my surprise! I thought it would end with scenario 6. But we were sent off to defend a line and holy crap, it turned ugly. We learned all about how to defend against Japanese Banzai attacks and how brutally effective they are. You can watch two companies of Marines be evaporated in this playthrough. What a brutal realization of how effective the Japanese can be when they want to! We were successful, but at what cost indeed...

[Jason Petho]

 The Greek holiday continues! Crete is an impressive place, there are lots of places for the Greeks and British to hide in the hills. They keep attacking though and some of their hits are quite impressive. The Germans are holding the line and have secured some key positions and doing their best to maintain some form of order during all the counter attacks. Due to the losses, we are starting to more effectively use the terrain to our advantage, although sometimes it seems the British have all the luck. On the bright side, we have some more reinforcements we can use to start the assault on Chanai!   

[Jason Petho]

It was a great campaign, we finally finished it. The last battle was a doozy and went right to the wire. We pushed our way through the jungle and coast as hard as we could. Our light tanks suffered terribly due to hidden Japanese engineers and very potent infantry with leaders. Even though the Japanese massed, the assaults failed and our last assault was victorious to scrape a major victory, concluding the linked campaign. After that, we played a defence as the Dutch against a Japanese assault. That was the first time playing the Dutch in a short scenario, learned a lot and would be happy to play them again!

[Jason Petho]

Campaign Series West Front - I'm really enjoying this Crete scenario. I've forgotten how well the British can fight. I'm suffering far too many causalities in these initial stages, but I'm making progress. I have set up a few kill zones which is making life a bit easier. Although, the British have done the same, especially in the new landing area northeast of Chanai!  Those blasted Bofors guns are a royal pain in the bottom. We have some timely reinforcements, so I will see what I can do for clearing up behind our landing areas and start slowly pushing out. Things are looking, well, tough.

[Jason Petho]

Campaign Series West Front - We only managed to do a few turns of this scenario this time, but there is lots of action and fantastic discussion! Thank you Tim and Alistair for keeping the conversation flowing. It was a nice trip down memory lane indeed. Much to our surprise, during turn 17 we ended up experiencing night. That will help our horrific artillery casualties, but will make advancing a little more challenging and we have to make sure our lines are very well formed before we start pushing out towards Chania. All the positive vibes for our paras, right?

[Jason Petho]

I made it back to streaming after a small hiatus into RL. What is the world coming to, eh? We returned to our invasion of Crete. It is still night and we are making some slow and steady progress. I took the opportunity to show you some effective assaulting in these old games and how to herd. Does it always go your way? No, but it is extremely rewarding when it does! Our Italian navy is getting closer to Chania, hopefully that will be helpful for the pending assault.

[Jason Petho]

Ah it's good to be back to Campaign Series Vietnam. We started up a new scenario using the latest BETA version of the Fall Update, mostly - I noted a data error so didn't use the weapon files. We started up Digging them Out, a Marine and ARVN infantry fight that takes place near Quang Ngai. We started our advance, which is unnerving on so many levels. The hidden snipers and machine guns are definitely something that makes you skin crawl. We have some Hogs on station, but with a dug in enemy, they are only so effective. We did start the morning with some napalm though! Gotta love the smell of napalm in the morning...