Reply To: Poland 1939 – Preparing for 80th Anniversary of World War II

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I will start with the standard disclaimer.  @oriskany you should be aware,  like how many times,  FoW is a multi scalar gaming system.  When talking area you are talking on the weapons range scale which makes the average area of a games table 4km x 6km. I grant you map is still larger than this.  Please in future keep it generic and call it 15mm or for a real change use BG instead.  ***** Disclaimer  End *****

 

well the classic definition for maneuver is movement and fire or movement to fire. So maneuver is a two part thing so taking two turns to do it properly seems fair.  In FoW you are encouraged to do the same and if you choose to do both in the same turn it is as the cost of diluting your fire.

I liked Yavasa’s opening with his cavalry.  This is delaying action at close to its best.  It is in keeping with Polish strategy of avoiding the Germans for forcing a decision.

I think tanks are at their best when they occupy ground that just had something obliterated off it.

A lot of tabletop wargamers I have encountered try to reduce the game to tank on tank shooting matches and never really get to see what true CAT gets you and it is not boring either.

Like seeing it happen,  its just not pretty what a battery of British 5.5″ or 155mm Long Tom will do to a Tiger. Best of all it is done at ranges the ‘lil’ kitty can only dream about.

I have read several actions in Poland where the Stuka comes up under par.  The first planes are deadly accurate but after that there were so much dust and smoke obscuring targets that they were no better than level bombers. The old story of you can’t hit what you can’t see.  Oh but wait,  artillery can always plougher the field.  Why do I hear evil chuckles in the background some where?

In all for the most part I enjoyed the second installment and truly appreciate the effort you guys went to in producing it. Not sure why but just your productions on my Samsung Tab A I have to max the volume just to hear you.

Most definitely look forward to the final installment 🙂