Firestorm: Stripes

West Germans "won" the roll off this time and got to go first...... yey!... Seriously we need to change this, the winner of the roll off should choose. I think we should house rule it.

The Leopards advanced on the right, successfully blitzed (18", got to love it) and got into a position to fire on the T-64s behind the woods. They killed one T-64 and bailed another. The Leopards behind the hill got into hull down positions, and shot at the T-64s that were in view but concealed. Rolled well but only killed 1, and bailed another.

Moskva could have done a better job hiding his troops at deployment, a lesson learnt.

Soviet Turn 1- all bailed tanks got back in at the urging of their political officers, the T-64s on the right went hull down, to get a shot but still be concealed, a successful blitz meant they could shoot their Songsters. They were out of range of their guns, but the Songsters were still in range, which is a great improvement compared to the T-72. They fired and killed one of the Leopards that were hull down behind the hill.

The tanks on the left advanced and tried to take down the smaller Leo 2 platoon, Unfortunately they all missed but 2 ( out of 6) and the Germans rolled 5 and 6 to save. Not good.

The smaller Leo 2 platoon, blitzes back then moves hull down on the hill to fire on the advancing T-64s, their ruse to lure them into the open worked, and 3 T-64s were still in view, 6 shot , 6 hits and 3 more coffins for 3 brothers. This was a bit risky , but I was betting I would not lose too many Leo's when I drew them out, so I could then use my superior movement to get back into a good firing position, it worked, this time.

The larger platoon on the hill with the HQ, fired back at the hull down T-64s, they killed one more and bailed another. They then scoot and shoot back out of view

The Soviets thought that the best way was to get closer, and blitzed again and dashed to get as close as possible, they needed to get within 16" so they could have the best chance in knocking the Leopard 2 out.

The other T-64s sought cover behind the forest

While the odds were not in the T-64s favour, once again my dice won the game for me.

We wont be doing this again, its not fair on the Soviet player, also as other more veteran WARSAW pact players have shown, it is much better to use smaller 3 tank platoons of T-64s. Also smoke may have helped to shield a soviet advance.

We will play again this week.

T-64s retreat and go back for repairs