tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59861918815239050062024-03-05T14:28:43.541-08:00Round Down Range 2My excursion into the wild and wooly world of 15mm skirmish gaming!Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-34088311358469990852016-04-13T15:04:00.001-07:002016-04-19T19:05:43.358-07:00New Neo-Soviets spotted on Liberty!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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It's been a while since I posted pictures of a game, but then again it's been awhile since I've played with my 15mm Sci-fi. However a couple of weeks ago, over Spring Break, I caught the painting bug and started pained my Khurasan Sci-Fi Soviets and a few more Exterminator miniatures to play the role of US Army troops.</div>
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Anyway, not long after painting the figures my son, Jeremy, dragged me to the local game shop to play some 15mm Sci-fi. The gamers at the shop are mostly card players so it was something different for them to see. I got a lot of questions about the figures and rules that I used. </div>
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This particular game was set in my world of Liberty and saw a mechanized platoon of Soviets clash with a US Army light infantry platoon. We used Stargrunt for the rules! Stargrunt! What a blast from the past. It's a nice, if clunky, system that plays well. I still think Tomorrow's War is better, but since I was gaming with Jeremy I decided to go with something simpler.</div>
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So to set the scene elements of the Soviet 85th Space Rifle Regiment have landed near the US city of Jagerville in northern Liberty. The Soviets landed near the aerospace port and cleared out scattered resistance. With the Americans in flight the Soviets started moving small mechanized forces toward the city to clear out any remaining American resistance.</div>
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For the Americans the Soviet landing was sudden and smashing. After a short, but ineffective, attempt to defend the aerospace port the remaining Americans fled to the city, leaving small rear guard elements to slow down the rapid Soviet advance.</div>
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The resulting fight was pretty bloody. Both sides scored a lot of hits and D6 light armor really isn't that great. Also suppression in this game can be very harsh. Placing supporting fires on the enemy can really limit their options.</div>
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We played for 2 turns and called it at that point... my wife needed me at home! So here's some of the action.</div>
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Here a US rifle squad engages a Soviet Python infantry support mech. Both sides blazed away at each other, but to no real effect. The US IVARs just bounced off the Python's armor while the Soviets cannons caused some suppression in return. Some seriously bad die rolling on everyone's part here!<br />
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One of the Soviet's objectives were to move troops off the board and that's what you're seeing here. The BMP moved boldly between the two American strongpoints and shrugged off ineffective US fire. Even a well shot GMS/P failed miserably to breach the Bimp's massive armor belt. Yeah, the Americans really needed a MBT or at least a GMS/H.<br />
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Another brutal slugging match between a Python and a US squad. The brave trooper in the center of the picture has a plasma infantry gun, which along with an IVAR, sought to drive off the Python. The GI scored a solid hit but rolled really badly during the impact vs. armor roll. Starting to see a theme here???<br />
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Another view of the Python on the right flank. <br />
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A grunt's eye view here.<br />
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Turn two- More Soviet and Liberty Rebel forces moving between the US strongpoints. The Rockjumper didn't share the same lucky streak that the other Soviet forces had. US grunts with M41B Pulse Rifles poured fire on this technical and chopped it and its crew to pieces. Finally, things are looking up for the Americans!<br />
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To the left side of this picture you can see the Soviet's BTR rolling behind the BMP. The Soviets were a bit cautious with the BTR. It's only a class 3 vehicle sporting class 2 armor. So he kind of hung back and fired its cannon to support the BMP. I tossed a GMS/P at it and missed. Good spoofing roll by the Soviets! It was basic ECM vs. enhanced guidance. Crummy luck for me because the GMS/P actually had a chance here!<br />
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Here you can see the American's left flank strongpoint. The Rockjumper will be dying in just a bit from small arms fire from the small US fireteam that's just to its left. The US squad on the right it pretty fixed on the BTR. The BMP wasn't too sure about what to do. So it sat there, off frame, and fired on US forces.<br />
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In this picture you can see the Soviet MBT with the survivors of the other Rockjumper. The T-555 Red Banner-U pretty much moved onto the board and sat right here for the rest of the game. He never even fired a shot. Instead he used his actions to pass orders and move other units. I shouldn't have placed the platoon commander in the unit's most powerful unit. Tbe CO should be passing orders in Stargrunt, not playing panzer jockey. That is what he did in this game and by doing so the he kept his most potent unit out of the fight. I might have to make another BTR the platoon/company command unit in the future.<br />
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More turn 1 action here. The BTR moved up to the dead Rockjumper and tried to knock out the sentry gun. He scored a hit or two on it and blasted it into atoms. It wasn't the best of ideas to place a sentry gun right on the enemies' avenue of approach. I should have put it off to a flank or something.<br />
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Another look at the US left flank. The Soviet commander is going over his plans!<br />
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A nice view of the gap that the Soviets had to move though. You can see both American strongpoints in this shot.<br />
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Anyway, the game ended at the end of turn two. The Soviets didn't exit a single vehicle. They were just too busy exchanging fire with the US strongpoints. <br />
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Not the best of games, but it was fun and we got to try out Stargrunt. It's definitely worth trying out again when we have more figures and time. <br />
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I have to give Khurasan thumbs up for their vehicles and troops. It was a lot of fun to paint them up and see them, finally, on the game board. I still have several more BMPs and BTRs to paint up along with another 40 or so motor rifles to go with them. Once they are done I'll have two full platoons of BMPs and BTRs (three vehicles each) and I plan to get a few more Red Banners to strengthen the force.<br />
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All in all, it was a nice time out with some excellent minis.<br />
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Time now Charlie Mike.<br />
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<br />Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-88935373542272765942015-06-24T17:07:00.001-07:002015-06-25T14:53:38.500-07:002015 3rd Grade WargameHi all,<br />
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One thing I do as a teacher is during our "Hero" unit at the end of the school year I pick out a military hero for the students to learn about. This year we studied Staff Sergeant Paul Smith of the 3rd Infantry Division and why he won the Medal of Honor during the Battle of Baghdad in 2003. We studied the battle, built a battlefield, and painted up miniatures for the battle. Here are some of the miniatures my students painted up. Pretty good for a bunch of 9 year olds!<br />
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All of the terrain was scratch built using materials we had in the classroom.<br />
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Here's some of the terrain we built. I drew the templates, however the kids did all of the coloring and assembly. <br />
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Making paper palm trees is a pain! But we managed to make enough to fit the scenario. The biggest problem was that the bases were too small. Every time someone moved a stand of timber would fall!<br />
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Here's the game. The boys are playing the Americans while the girls played the Iraqis. It was a pretty tough fight for the girls as the boys had lots of firepower.<br />
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However the girls pulled it off! They scored some critical hits and won just enough victory points to snatch the win from the boys. The kid wearing the "HI" shirt told me that she probably wouldn't play because it wasn't her thing. It turned out that she would become the Iraqi/girl team captain and she led her team to victory! She told me after the game that she had a great time and that it was a "very tense" game!<br />
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Some Iraqi close-ups.<br />
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US engineers with their supporting vehicles. Sorry, we didn't finish the M113 in time. But at least it got a decent base coat!<br />
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Thanks for stopping by. Maybe we'll go sci-fi next year.Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-59869453206692835082014-03-02T16:40:00.001-08:002014-03-02T16:54:09.091-08:00Breakout at Freeman's Farm pt 1<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Crossland: Cullman County, 15 May 2182. Freeman's Farm (300kms from Centreville). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By late Spring of 2182 the LRL offensive aimed at claiming the whole of Crossland Island finally ground to a halt in the suburbs of Centerville, the capital of the Crossland Territory. LRL's offensive inflicted terrible losses on the combined forces of the US's Taskforce Bataan and those who weren't destroyed or driven back were cut off many miles behind the front line in hostile territory. Many small units were destroyed by ambushes launched by Liberty insurgents while others disbanded and scattered themselves in the forests and swamps of eastern Crossland where they suffered from starvation, disease, and isolation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However others managed to stay together, unite with other stragglers and survivors, and began the long, perilous march back to friendly lines. Perhaps the largest of these ragged bands centered on 2nd Platoon, Dog Company, 1/4 Marines led by Staff Sergeant Avery Strong. Strong's platoon deployed to Crossland during the fall of 2181 and conducted search and destroy operations in Summer County, Crossland Territory. Based out of Forward Operations Base Trigger, Strong's platoon carried out a vigorous search and destroy campaign that destroyed dozens of insurgent cells which led to the pacification of coastal Summer County. On December 20, 2181 the exhausted platoon received a FRAGO directing them pack-up and to get ready to return to Centreville for some well deserved R&R. Unfortunately for Strong's leathernecks the LRL had other plans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the end of December the LRL had landed its 2nd Brigade and began a blizkrieg right across the island, cutting off the platoon. Calls for resupply were refused because embattled TF Bataan simply couldn't commit the resources. It was barely holding on to Centreville and needed every round of ammo and every MRE pack for itself! Worse still, the insurgents in Summer County decided that this was the time to take the war to the enemy. Through out December and January 2nd Platoon, Dog Company repulsed 8 separate assaults on FOB Trigger. However each victory costed the gyrenes more men and resources. By February Sergeant Strong knew the jig was up. His men were down to their last few mags and ration packs. Avery was stuck with a very stark choice: surrender his depleted garrison or try to escape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This choice led to a grim, 3 month long odyssey in which Stong's marines battled to breakthrough enemy lines to get back home. For three grim months Strong's exhausted survivors trekked through the dense rain forests, malarial swamps and dark jungles of eastern Crossland all the while dodging LRL, then later Neo-Soviet, patrols. Along the way Strong picked up survivors from several different US units ranging from grunts from the 31st Infantry to half-starved stragglers from the 45th ANG. By the time Strong reached Freeman's Farm in Cullman County he'd rescued some 60 survivors and organized them into an ad hoc infantry company. However his battered band was always, barely, a step ahead of starvation and the next enemy patrol. His luck ran out at Freeman's Farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On May 15, 2182 Strong's survivors made camp in the forest near the farm, looking to grab a few hours of rest and a chance to resupply. However they were just a little too slow this time. The LRL, embarrassed that Strong's men had made it so far, managed to collect a powerful task force drawn from 31eme RI and the Neo-Soviet 67th Rifles. The 67th dug in at the farm while the 31eme RI swept through the forest, looking to drive Strong's band into guns of the Neo-Soviets and their own heavy weapons platoons. By the time the weary sergeant found out what was happening it was too late, he and his men were cornered. It was checkmate. There was no where to go and the men knew what the LRL did to American prisoners... there would be no surrender. All he and his men could expect was a violent death and a shallow grave in this dark corner of Crossland. The mixed band of marines and GIs dug their fighting holes, counted their rounds, and quietly made their peace with their Maker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"If you blokes want to live then grab your kit and move along azimuth 015 toward the fields just outside the farm. We'll cover your move and set-up a LZ. Now move your arse!!"</span></div>
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Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-65299739769935944642014-02-25T09:49:00.001-08:002014-02-25T09:56:03.590-08:00The US Army on Liberty<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note: This is the first in a series of article detailing the various fighting forces on Liberty. In this article I'm going to take an in-world prospective to give the "fluff" for my forces and to demonstrate the miniatures that I'm going to use for each army. Many of the pictures below are of my own miniatures, however I'm borrowed some pictures from Khurasan and and Antenocitis Workshop for units that I on order but haven't received or haven't painted yet. My US Army force is a mixture of miniatures from Rebel Minis, Iron Wind Metals, Khurasan, and Antenocitis Workship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The US defense force on Liberty can be a motley bunch bunch at times. However its solid core are the battalions of the US Army. LIBCON, the joint US military command on Liberty, can call upon one Regular Army infantry battalion, 4 National Guard (ANG) infantry battalions, 2 support fires battalions (ANG), cavalry squadrons, one Special Forces/Ranger SPECOPS company, one aerospace support battalion, and several logistical and support companies. This article will detail the Regular and ANG elements of the US Army on Liberty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Polar Bears of the Regular Army's (RA) 1st Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment provides the solid, veteran core of the US Army on Liberty. 1/31 Infantry is the ready battalion from the 10th Infantry Division (Mountain) which was hurried to Liberty to help blunt the LRL's insurgency on Crossland. Later, the battalion proved instrumental to the defense of Centerville by engaging LRL assault forces in some of the most deadly urban combat seen by the US Army since the Battle of Fallujah in 2004. Despite heavy casualties, the Polar Bears were able find off numerous LRL attacks and, later during the campaign, provide forces for the allied counter offensive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tactically, the Polar Bears are organized as a standard US Infantry battalion with four rifle companies, one heavy weapons company, an attached mecha platoon and ADA platoon. Each rifle company is further split into three rifle platoon who in turn are divided into 1-3 nine man sections. The section is a unique US formation that goes back to WWI and was brought back into use during the late 21st Century as an intermediate level unit between the platoon and the squad. Modern rifle sections are split into two four man squads led by a Staff Sergeant with the small rifle squads being led by 'buck' sergeants or corporals. This organization brings needed command and control down to very small units and allows the US Army to operate very small units over huge combat zones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Typically, US Army rifle sections are assigned two HUMVEE IV Apache tactical troop transports to provide transport in most situations ranging from peacekeeping up to low level insurgencies. However the Apache is well armed and protected which allows it to survive even in more intense combat zones. However when conventional combat is anticipated the standard M577 APC is issued.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If that were only true for the Army National Guard! Modern weapons and equipment comes with a steep cost and it would be prohibitively expensive to equip the ANG with the most modern weapons, so sadly the ANG has to make due with previous generations of combat gear. The ANG on Liberty is organized into four rifle battalions belonging to the 57th and 45th Infantry regiments which use a very similar table of organization as the 31st Infantry. It's the gear, and training, that separate these two organizations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For small arms the ANG continues to soldier one with the M16A5 rifle or the M4A4 carbine. These weapons are based on the same basic design that was introduced back in the 1960s and first saw action during the Vietnam War! This over 200 year old design continues to soldier on even today because of the soundness of its construction, its simplicity of use, and its sheer adaptability. To support these weapons the ANG can call upon two equally antiquated designs: the M249A6 SAW and the M203A6 UGL. Each squad of four men carries one M249 and one M203.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While this has caused something of a scandal in recent years, especially in the Filipino and Liberty press, the Pentagon has pointed out, many times, that ALL USANG units are equipped with this 'generation' of weapons and that it has been quite effective against LRL main force units. Only the most modern LRL formations can claim to have a material advantage over the Liberty ANG troops and that these units are few and far inbetween. Generally most ANG units only see action against Liberty insurgents and LRL regulars who are even more poorly equipped them them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While these are also antiquated designs, they are more recent rebuilds of these classic designs and are still quite effective on the battlefields of Liberty. Unfortunately, the LRL also has a number of these vehicles too! As part of the 2165 Military Assistance Package to the French Union, the Liberty ANG transferred some 24 Abrams and 72 Bradley ICVs to the loyal French Union militia. When the war ended almost half of these vehicles were turned over to the newly formed LRL despite US protest! In fact, the LRL's 2nd Brigade brought a full company of M1s and 2-3 platoons of Bradley IFVs to support their invasion of Crossland. The use of these vehicles cause no end of confusion during the early battles and contributed to the collapse of 1/45 Infantry during the Battle of Ender's Corner. This defeat routed the ANG's defense of northern Crossland and opened the way for the 2nd Brigade to advance on Centreville. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As of the siege of Centreville the Liberty ANG has only a few dozen of these AFVs in operation and husbands them carefully for future use.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However their impact on the battlefield has been decisive! The 1/26's recon efforts kept LIBCOM and Task Force Bataan well informed on LRL troop movements and C Troop was instrumental in delaying 23eme RI's drive to cut off Task Force Bataan from the south. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Scouts of the 26th are currently being withdrawn from Crossland to regroup and reform near Liberty City. The squadron is so badly battered that it can barely muster two full cavalry troops and a mixed platoon of tanks and gunships. However 2-3 platoons may find themselves attached to TF Bataan to continue their scouting missions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note: This is a repost from years ago on my old blog. I'm pulling it over here to make sure that I keep this history of my game. SC 2/23/2014</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some months ago I laid out my basic concept for my gaming world: Liberty colony. I also laid out the basic factions that I would start my gaming with. My first, and main faction, are the Colonial Marines. I have roughly a full company of them now with an attached tank section. But that's the thing about building miniature armies... who are they going to fight and why?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's the answer to that question! It's time to meet "L'armee de la Republique de le Liberte" or the LRL:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As noted earlier, life on Liberty is pretty young when compared to life on Earth. In fact, life has only evolved up to a point that is similar with the Carboniferous era of Earth's history. There are only a scant handful of flowering plants and lots of moss, lichen, primitive trees, and other archaic plants. Animal life is also very simple with insects and some reptiles being the dominant life forms. This makes Liberty very interesting to scientists, xeno-biologists, and biochemical companies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This all came to a head on 2 September, 2161 when Foreign Legion units were dispatched to restore order to the colonial seat of government: Nouveau Marcelles. The Legion used forced to clear the streets and to shut-down the colonial assembly. Legislators and agitators were arrested and martial law was imposed. Dozens were killed or injured during the crack down. However the Legion's effort were for naught. The simmering anger of the colonists soon exploded into violence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Protests and riots in the streets were soon replaced with IEDs, snipers, and ambushes. The National Front for the Liberation of Liberty was formed from many factions that opposed the Union's harsh taxes and tariffs and soon these agitators were joined by hundreds of ordinary citizens who were horrified at the violence used by the Legion to restore order. What were once mere civil disturbances became full fledged battles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For several long years the Liberty Rebellion raged in the Colony. During the war the French Union called upon the United Americas to assist with putting down the rebellion. The UA did shut down LFLL sanctuaries in Liberty Territory, but UA never deployed troops to defeat the rebellion in Liberty Territory's sister colony. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Losses, both in terms of blood and treasure, slowly turned the French Union's citizens against the war and, with corporate pressure, they soon forced the Union to come to terms and to grant the colony independence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The war ended with the Peace Agreement of 2167.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The old colony became the Republic of Liberty. By 2170 the old LFLL was reorganized into the Army of the Republic of Liberty (LRL) and was retrained to fight both symmetrical and asymmetrical wars. The scars of war were slowly healed, however the new republic soon turned a hungry eye toward its neighbor to the south...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By 2175 the LRL was organized into a unified armed force with three principal branches: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A. The National Aerospace Force (Le Groupe National Aerospace)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B. The Regular Army (L'armee de la Republique de la Liberte)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Army and National Guard have roughly 450,000 troops under arms with approximately 50,000 in the Regular Army and 400,000 in the National Guard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Army is split into 10 active service field brigades each consisting of 3-6 regiments. The Army also has numerous support regiments and companies ranging from independent artillery and air-defense/aerospace defense regiments to logistical, engineer, and transportation companies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The basic maneuver unit in the Army is the company which generally has a command section, three rifle platoons, a heavy weapons platoon, and other attached elements necessary to complete assigned missions. Four of these companies together with a HQ/Headquarters company and a heavy weapons company form a regiment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Platoons are very small compared to other national armed forces. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">A typical platoon has a four man command squad and four rifle squads. Each squad has 6 men armed with whatever mixture of weapons is available. Usually a squad has a squad automatic weapon, a RPG, and four basic riflemen, one of whom in the squad leader. The troops in the squad are split into two three man teams/cells. One team/cell usually carries the RPG while the other carries the LMG. Squads which are missing either weapon form one or two rifle pure teams. The platoon command squad forms only one team with the commander and his assistant, who carries additional communications equipment, along with the platoon sergeant and his runner in. As a general rule though many teams equip themselves with whatever weapons are available and according to the task at hand.</span><br />
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A motley selection of LRL armor: US surplus M1 and M2s, French AMX-70 MBT and AMX-60 Hover APCs. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Army has only been able to acquire only a handful of AFVs. The few tanks are organized into independent tank companies that are attached to the brigade. The few military grade APCs in Liberty's motor pool are organized in a similar manner with each platoon having enough vehicles to carry a full platoon of infantry. These companies are kept at the brigade level until assigned to a rifle unit to provide it with a lift capability. However in real practice these mechanized units are habitually assigned to particular units, but on paper they are still independent units. It should be noted that formal AFVs are very rare in the LRL and that most vehicles are converted civilian machines referred to as "technicals". Few of these "technicals" have more than a single heavy machine gun and some "hillbilly" armor. In fact, these improvised AFVs are the only vehicular many infantry regiments have. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This scattering of the few armor resources has armor officers in the Army bitterly complaining of the "penny-packing" of scarce armored forces. They are badly outnumbered by the infantry branch which sees itself as THE army and with all other branches existing ONLY to support THEM. On the battlefield this does lead to some friction between branches and many times there is a serious lack of coordination between the various arms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artillery and indirect fire support is pretty scarce in the Army. The most basic "artillery" piece is the RAM mortar which are kept at the regimental level in the heavy weapons company. Each brigade generally has a regiment of mortars and even artillery, but these are small units with only 6-12 tubes/launchers each. The emphasis here is to place quick fires to support the infantry and then to run "like hell" to avoid counter-battery fires. Many artillery regiments simply use smart missiles (HIMATs are very popular) and very basic launchers to support the maneuver companies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The National Guard is armed in a very similar manner but lack many of the heavy weapons that the Army has. In fact, many National Guard regiments don't even have a heavy weapons company at all! The few support weapons are usually assigned to the brigade's artillery regiment. At best most infantry regiments have a platoon or so of mortars or HIMAT missiles leaving the rifle squads dependent on their RPGs for heavy fire support. Crew-served heavy weapons are almost nonexistent in the National Guard as practically all of them are assigned to the Regular Army. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, the Guard and the Army have a number of independent recon companies attached to each brigade. These companies (referred to as squadrons) are equipped with a mixture of modified civilian vehicles and light scout cars. Their job includes normal recon duties and to provide screening and ambush forces to protect the brigade's movements and main lines of resistance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The LRL's logistical arm is, perhaps,the force's greatest weakness. The LRL has very little experience in moving large combat units on an operational level. In fact, many of the logistical elements in a brigade are pooled together just to support a regiment or two in the field while the rest of the brigade waits in assembly areas for their turn to move. Just putting 3-4 brigades into the field is an immense strain on the LRL's scant resources. This weakness means that most of the Republic's combat forces are little more than local security and defense forces. The National Guard has almost no ability to move at all. If called up these brigades would probably have to confiscate hundreds of civilian vehicles just to gain some operational mobility and even with that in place most of the infantry would have to still move on foot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The LRL is in the process of securing hundreds of additional logistical and support vehicles and forming more support/transport companies. However events on the ground may not give the LRL the time it needs to get its logistical act together!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Confidence Level: High</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Supply Quality Level: Low</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tech Level: 1, with some 2 (missiles, RPGs)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grid: Yes, Tech 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Body Armor: Tech 2, Light Body Armor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Troop Quality/Morale: Some D8/D10 Most D8/D8</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Confidence Level: Confident</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Supply Quality: Low</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tech Level Overall: 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grid: No</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Body Armor: Tech 1, Light Body Armor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Troop Quality/Morale: Some D8/D8 Most D6/D8</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Liberty Republic Regular Army (LRL)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Activation 4+ (some 3+)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Expertise 5+ (some 4+)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Activation 5+ (some 4+)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Expertise 5+ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most Liberty troops are armed with standard assault rifles and use normal LMGs/SAWs. Support weapons are usually limited to RPGs and mortars. </span>Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-30750852184615472882014-02-13T16:42:00.000-08:002014-02-14T03:40:48.017-08:00Using Loud Ninja Games' Chuhuac: Troop Stats and Organization<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in 2012 I jumped in one my first Kickstarter: Eli Arndt's 15mm Space Raptors- the Chuhuac. Well, just a few days ago I finally got my new toys. Awesome stuff and well worth the wait. Note that all pictures here are from LNG's website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I'm mostly a FUBAR player these days, so after looking through my recently gotten loot and visiting LNG's blog ( <a href="http://loudninjagames.blogspot.com/2012/03/equipping-chuhuac.html" target="_blank">link</a> ) I've decided on some rough stats for my Chuhuac company. I'm going to start with the infantry and then work my way to the other units, then I'll go to the vehicles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Activation: 4+</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Expertise: 4+</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suppress: 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Armor: 4+</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fast- Move 6", Duck and Weave 8", Assault 8"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shocktroops- +1 to activate with actions that allow movement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Raptors!- +2 in close combat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Equipment- Plasma Rifle 24" (long range) FP 3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think that captures the essence of the Chuhuac. They are fast, hard hitting, aggressive, and fairly well protected troops. The basic raptor is a pretty tough critter to begin with, but after joining the "military" they are physically augmented to a level that makes them super human. Toss in armor and you have a pretty tough soldier to kill and a holy terror in close combat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm taking the Plasma Rifle right out of the sci-fi supplement, but I'm wondering if that might be a bit over powered! I may scale them back a bit to being "laser" armed. They're really scary at any range and with an activation of 4+ they are going to get to the action, especially with the "shocktrooper" rule to keep them going!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eli gave me a powerful hoard of the things, but I doubt that I'll ever use more than a dozen or so in my games… they're just too powerful to see in platoon + games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now to start thinking about the heavy weapons, battlesuits, jet bikes, and the grav APC!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now the question comes: How to organize them? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the organization for a Chuhuac infantry company from LNG's Kickstarter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Below is the proposed TO&E (Organization) I used to build this.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The 67 figures will be made up of the following-</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 Company Commander</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>1 Company Command Element (4)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>1 Command Security Team (6 troopers)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>2 Platoons of 28 figures each.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Each Platoon breaks down like this –</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 Platoon Command Elements (4)</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>4 x 6-man Squads</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Code wise I believe this is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 CRA-004 Herdmaster (1 fig) – $1.25 USD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 CRA-003 Command Section (4 fig but only 3 are Raptors) – $5.00 USD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 CRA-001 Troopers (6 fig) – $6.00 USD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 CRA-002 Leaders/Weapons (6 fig) – $6.00 USD</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not a bad deal for a roughly $50 USD pledge. Now I'm going to look at my pledge In FUBAR terms (I'm going to skip the close combats and special forces). So I'm looking at fielding:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 mecha (power suits fielded as individual units)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 jet bikes (maybe the whole lot is a unit)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 company command team</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 apcs (each an individual unit- but only enough to lift a 'short' platoon of 16 troops)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12 fire teams of three troopers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 fire teams (really short command squads) of four troops</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's 23 units in FUBAR terms! True, I could cut the infantry unit count in half by fielding full squad units, but that would be killer in FP terms if I go plasma. And yeah, it's way too much to put on the board at once in FUBAR. While I think FUBAR could probably handle it I'm not so sure that I could! But I can see myself fielding a reinforced platoon with an extra rifle squad, APCs, mecha, and the jet bikes. This force could look like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 platoon command team (4 troops).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 (or 5) rifle squads split into 3 trooper fire teams (that's 8-10 units)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1-3 APCs (if I go three then I might reduce the number of squads to make a mechanized platoon).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 Jet Bike squad of 3 (although I think that's actually just a fire team)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1-4 Battlesuits (with each being a unit of its own).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe even 1 special forces squad too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not a bad mix at all! I can see this force giving my Neo-Soviets and US Marines a serious run for the money. Now if only they had some sort of MBT/mecha for some extra oomph! But then again, I could stat out the battlesuits so that they can be serious tank killers in their own right. That would make sense from a Chuhuac point-of-view I think. They might balk at some sort of armored clanker of a tank that's probably too slow and too much of a target. They might prefer a smaller, swifter battlesuit carrying a tank killer plasma gun or missiles/ATGMs. I'll have to look over those battlesuit bits again and hit the LNG site ( http://loudninjagames.blogspot.com/2013/05/chuhuac-support-units-part-one.html )</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for more info on these guys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I'll post my FUBAR stats for the vehicles and other units.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Semper Fi, carry on.</span>Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-30944596565986105372013-07-02T15:04:00.001-07:002013-07-02T15:04:47.452-07:00The 16th Space Assault Brigade has arrived!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, they've actually been around for a couple of months but I've just now gotten round to painting up a few of them. They'll be hitting the battlefield of Liberty as a relief force headed up by the UK's elite 16 Space Assault Brigade! 1 PARA, 2 PARA, and 3 PARA make up the infantry battalions of this force, so in honor of the Parachute Regiment I decided to paint these guys up as British Red Devils complete with the famous maroon beret. I also borrowed colors from WWII British paratroopers to make up their palette:</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do like the contrast that the English Uniform shade makes when it matches up with the basic greens of the uniform and armor. I'll probably do some more highlighting later for the armor and web gear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fellow on the far right of this picture has an interesting history. My daughter, Shelby, snatched him off my work table and decided to paint him in maroon. I didn't catch her until it was too late so now he has a bit of a bloody appearance. I've already nicknamed him "Bloody" Bill. Hopefully he won't be a casualty in every game!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Bloody" Bill's fireteam minus the LMG. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part of Fire Team A and the platoon command team. The Platoon Commander, Lt. Daniel Asbury, is the fellow in the maroon beret in the second rank.</span><br />
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Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-19060440758705220482013-04-28T12:25:00.000-07:002013-04-28T12:25:56.316-07:00Brandon's Pictures from Last Weeks GameLast week, as I mentioned in my last update, I played a game with my two boys. That is unusual because my oldest boy, Brandon, tagged along to play. He normally doesn't play because he prefers electronic games and thinks my games are a bit boring although he likes the miniatures. This time he really took the time to learn the game and to play... and he really enjoyed it! Sweet!<br />
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Anyway, while we were there he used his DS to take some pictures. So here's the game though Brandon's eye!<br />
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Looking north toward the main gate. The two soldiers on the Games and Stuff building are the US ANG command team.<br />
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Close-up of the SWAT team covering the curtain wall.<br />
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My technicals slinking down the board's edge trying to stay out of the Bradley's LOS.<br />
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A random shot of some 40K terrain. Games and Stuff has some nice terrain for the 28mm crowd.<br />
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Jeremy's reinforcements in the process of eating RPGs!<br />
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The nice urban ruin table that was "next door" to us.<br />
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<span id="goog_1980578380"></span><span id="goog_1980578381"></span><br />Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-42578978375454963732013-04-27T08:25:00.000-07:002013-04-29T05:16:31.752-07:00A pick-up game at Games and Stuff: US Army vs. LRL with insurgents<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Sunday I grabbed my boys, Brandon and Jeremy, and dragged them off to Gen Burnie, MD to play a wargame at the "Games and Stuff" FLGS which isn't too far from the Evil Empire HQ! I love going there too, however I wanted to break out my 15mm toys since they haven't seen the light of day in a few months. Rules wise I decided to play my version of Ultra-FUBAR. It's a nice and simple game that takes almost no time to pick-up and play with plus its FREE! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the cool things about "Games and Stuff" is that they have a huge club house room with dozens of gaming tables and whole bins full of buildings and terrain. With just a little work you can cobble together a rather amazing looking table!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Pretty nice eh? What I came up with was a small US settlement surrounded by woods, hills, and swamp to the west. The objectives of the game were:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Inflict 50% or more losses on the enemy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. For the LRL force to get troops inside the curtain wall of the settlement,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. To control the "Games and Stuff" building which is next to the main entrance of the settlement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the boys wanted to be the "good guys" I decided to let the run the US forces while I would run the "bad" LRL forces. But I would also serve as a technical advisor (helper!) for the boys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a rough OOB</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 National Guard squads with about 6-8 men each split into two sections (1 SAW per squad),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 US Ranger Platoon (Veteran) with 12 men: 1 ATGM, 2 AR/GL combos, 2 SAWS, 7 ARs organized into 3 squads of 4 men each,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The USANG troops were deployed in the town and the boys made sure that they had a strong garrison in the "Games and Stuff" building (it's the USANG arsenal building). The squads were deployed in the buildings with good LOS over the wall. Not too bad of a deployment for two little boys! The Bradley, unfortunately, was set-up in the middle of town right were it couldn't see anything. Jeremy was pretty nervous that I would take it out I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The reinforcements would be rolled for at the end of each turn with the Rangers as one group to roll for and the motorized platoon with the Ares suit as the other. Getting access to them was simple: roll a d6, if the result is equal or less than the current turn then you get it. The Rangers, being ODST like troops, are allowed to land anywhere on the board if they passes an Expertise roll (3+). I figured that the boys could use the extra firepower to make things even since I would be running the LRL. The motorized section simple enters the board from the boy's baseline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 AMX-60 Hover APCs carrying one squad each (!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 squads of Liberty Insurgents (Seasoned) with 5-6 troops each and armed with 1 RPG, 1 SAWs, and like 3 or so SMGs, the rest were armed with ARs. I want to say there were 19 insurgents split into those 4 squads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I placed each of the insurgent squads in one of the stands of woods or in the swamp, forming a rough horseshoe around the US settlement. All of the vehicles were deployed about 6" in from my baseline with the technicals on my left with the AMX tank and the AMX apcs on my right. My basic plan was simple. My insurgent squads would pin the enemy squads into place and thus allow my motorized/mechanized squads to rush the main gate, then with tank support they would enter the curtain wall and sieze the arsenal building. Easy peasy, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wrong. The game opened with the boys making a spotting check and locating my insurgent squad hiding in the swamp. The boys then opened fire with a hurricane of small arms fire! I was quite shocked to discover that one of their USANG squads actually snuck 2 SAWS onto the board!!! Seesh! I really need to pay better attention to what the boys do when they pull troops for me. Well, I decided to let them keep the SAW and I took it on the chin. Did you know that a six man USANG squad with 2 SAWS, 1 GL, and 3 ARs can toss out 15 DICE at 12"??????? Yikes!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the boys finally failed their activation I rushed my AMX-60 hovers up to lay down supporting fire. I also tried to activate my insurgent squad but alas... two suppressions are almost impossible to overcome. That squad only got one activation and it couldn't gain fire superiority over two enemy rifle squads, nor could it effectively disengage. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The plasma cannons on the AMX-60s did help but not enough. Over the next couple of turns the boys shredded the insurgent squad AND they pulled half of my strike force away fromt the main gate in what was to be a fruitless firefight for me. Seriously, you need to keep your eye on the ball in wargames and not let the drama of smaller actions derail your plans!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think this picture says it all. The kid was a killer roller and he had plenty of firepower to dump on my insurgents. I REALLY should have taken away that extra SAW!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While things heated up on the right flank I moved my technicals, who were acting as half-squad carriers, down the left side of the table. I used the terrain to screen my forces and I moved my units toward the boy's baseline... maybe a little too far. You see, I had to scrap my original plan because Jeremy, finally, committed his Bradley and moved it in contact with the curtain wall. I just didn't want to expose my thin-skinned technicals to the Brad's vehicle shredding ATGMs and Light Cannon. To counter it I move my AMX tank out from behind the hill in the picture above and I TRIED to engage the Brad. Over the next couple of turns the Brad and the AMX tank tossed missiles and shells at each other for very little effect. The AMX's armor and point-defense guns dropped the enemy missiles and light shells while my gunner proved his credentials as being a graduate from the Imperial Stormtrooper School of Advanced Gunnery... in other words he couldn't hit the broadside of a barn!!! But hey, at least he gave the Bradley a hobby and kept his attention away from the technicals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's that Bradley skulking around the curtain wall and around turn 4 he got some friends to join him. For some reason Brandon decided that the Bradley needed some infantry support so he moved the SWAT team away from their building and placed them along the curtain wall next to the Bradley. Not the smartest of moves as the curtain wall gave them less cover than the buildings. When my technicals came rolling out they dumped HMG fire on the SWATs... target practice!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Around turn 3 or 4 I realized that I had totally blown-off my original plan! My technicals had wondered way too far toward the boy's baseline, my AMX-60 carriers were involved in a losing firefight trying to protect an insurgent squad, and my three remaining squads of insurgents were pretty much sitting around "on guard" and otherwise unengaged. I figured that I might as well have a go at the front gate with them. After all, there was only one US squad near the gate and I did have my AMX tank close by. So I activated them and rushed the front corner of the settlement where a small gap exists in the curtain wall. The boys caught on to what I was up to and rushed in reinforcements! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then things got really ugly. Right before we moved on to turn 5 Brandon tossed the reinforcement dice and succeeded! Now the boys had the Ranger platoon and the mechanized section. They wasted little time getting those forces onto the board with the Rangers taking up firing positions on the same part of the curtain wall that my technicals were rushing. This freed up USANG squads who hurried up to the main gate to stop me. At the same time the mechanized section rolled onto the board... and right into my guns! It really was bad luck for Jeremy! All three HUMVEEs and the Ares failed activation rolls so they only had one action. So all they could do is take a move action and come onto the the game board. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I quickly dismounted my LRL riflemen and proceeded to hammer each unit in turn as it appeared. The Ares ate a AMX main gun shell and a RPG, the first HUMVEE also got some of the action with two RPG hits as well. It was during this turn that Jeremy gave me a classic whine, "Why do you keep shooting up my reinforcements?!?!?!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However these reinforcements did do their job. My attack on the curtain wall bogged down into a vicious firefight between my technicals and troops and the reinforcements. We all got our licks in and both sides took a beating! I lost 2-3 LRL riflemen and one of my technicals was toasted. In response I scored mobility kills on a HUMVEE and the Ares, and I dropped a whole squad of Rangers. I rushed my surviving troops into a couple of stands of woods and dug in for a long firefight. So much for that flank...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a blistering firefight broke out! Both sides had two squads in very short range blazing away at each other with SAWS, SMGs, grenades, ARs, and kitchen sinks... to very little effect! Lots of missing, armor saves, and tom foolery ensued and when the smoke cleared everyone was STILL STANDING!! I honestly don't think I've ever seen worse luck in a miniatures game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that was time! We had to call the game because it was time to leave. A quick look at the victory objectives showed that each side accomplished one thing: I got troops inside the curtain wall, they kept the armory, and neither side inflicted 50% losses on the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a tie!!! How about that? The boys were pleased that they thwarted dad's plans, and I was pleased that my oldest boy, Brandon, told me that he really enjoyed the game! That's huge because he's never shown any interest in "dad's games" so this was his first outing with me and Jeremy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway a great game at a wonderful venue with some fun players! Even the Central Maryland Wargamers stopped over to cheer on the boys as they took on daddy. Great guys and gals!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's amazing that this is a 15mm miniature! There is just so much detail on her. Well you don't know the half of it! A couple of weeks ago I put in an order for miniatures and decided to pick her up too. As soon as I saw her I was floored. She is REALLY SMALL!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll post some more pictures of her today in a "usual suspects" line-up so you can see how she matches up with other common 15mm figures. She's a great little mini! I don't think that my painting skills will even come close to the work of art at the top of the page, but I know she'll be an awesome mini to have on the board for some sci-fi/pulp games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last couple of years for the Liberty Project have been focused on US and Liberty forces so my 15mm collection has had a distinctive "western" look to them with maybe a few odd terrorist/insurgents tossed in. While I love the LRL and its impromptu, ad hoc vibe I think it's time to have a more menacing OPFOR join into the fun. And honestly, who better than the evil empire itself? The Neo-Soviets!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The old Soviet Union was a classic, conventional, foe. Their vast armies of mechanized troops and powerful regiments of tanks scared the bejesus out of generations of NATO troopers in Germany. In fact, I was probably one of the very last troopers to go through the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Armor School with training aimed right at fighting the Soviets! So yeah, I have a soft spot for the Red Army of yore!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I want my Neo-Soviets to echo that force: lots of AFVs, tough motor riflemen, and nearly unstoppable tanks, but with a distinct pseudo-futuristic look! So que in the comrades of the elite 3rd Shock Guards Brigade!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 3 SGB is a independent unit that is part of the Neo-Soviet Union's off-world army and as such it is equipped and trained to fight with just the resources on hand... and they are considerable! The core of the 3 SGB are its three maneuver battalions each with three mechanized companies. Each mechanized company is based around three motor rifle platoons with 3 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BMP-20 Yozhiks or BTR-15 "Turtle". These core troops are happily available from Khurasan miniatures and from Antenocitis Workshop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have the Khurasan infantry and APCs but I don't have the Kabardins yet. Maybe this summer! I purchased the Khurasan platoon pack for the infantry so I have three rifle squads and two heavy weapons squads. I'll probably organize them into a single platoon with the BMP squads being 6 strong and the BTR squads being 10 strong. I might break up the weapons squads and attach them to the troops in the carriers or I'll just have to grab another APC!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm going to 'trick out' the Soviet tanks and I plan to get a couple for my LRL forces, but in the vanilla flavor without the armor or special weapons. I have one tank right now that I'll keep for the LRL. Any new ones will be for the 3 SGB and will become, over the months to come, a full tank platoon of three tanks... or I'll just cheese out and buy the platoon pack with my end-of-the-school-year emolument check. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just love them! They are HUGE for 15mm, bulky, awkward, and just downright scary! I'll probably use them just for the simple fact that I have them! But I have to say, I'm seriously tempted by these guys:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AT $9.99 for a pack of 2 I'm betting that they are very small compared to my Ursa. But maybe they can be the Neo-Soviet answer to the American Valkyries?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Valkyries are the two small mechs next to the big Ares. These are Battletech Valkyrie light mechs and they are 1/285th scale, however they make for some great battlesuits in 15mm. I can easily see the head tipping over and a crewman climbing into the chest of these things. Maybe the Pocket Mecha are the same size.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway the plan is to have a demi-company with one complete BMP platoon, a tank section, a mecha section, and the command team. That will be the foot in the door that might eventually become a full company with 10 BMPs and 3 T-555 Red Banners! That should put the fear of Stalin into the capitalist pigs on Liberty!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, enough for now. Time to gather up the minis and get them ready!</span><br />
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It's definitely a Caiman apc with a new turret. But whats mounted in the turret? Lasers? ATGMS? I can't wait to find out. Perhaps the turrets could be added to my existing M577s! I have several still in the bad waiting for the day when I expand my Marine force to full company status. I haven't bought any Caimans yet... $$ issues since I'm starting Flames of War, but I might have to squeeze out a few bucks this summer!Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-61152372734421692622012-12-01T16:47:00.000-08:002013-04-02T06:52:18.581-07:00The Battle of Centerville Pt. 2: What a fight!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well I've finished up my last game and what a fight it was! It really was a good one and Ultra-Fubar really delivered on the action. I have to say this was probably my favorite solo game of all time. It was a hard fought battle that really wasn't totally resolved until the last turn of the game. I'm still in the process of figuring out the actual victory results from the game, but it was close</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The core of this force was its two mecha: two light Valkyries and a powerful Ares MBS. The Ares is a powerhouse with 4+ armour, a large cannon, and a HMG. The Valkyries were much lighter armed, a rocket launcher and HMG, but much more mobile and sported jump jets! Backing the mecha up was a full section of US infantry split into two four man squads armed with pulse rifles with UGLs and a LMG. To increase their punch the grunts were mounted into two armoured HUMVEEs mounting light plasma cannons (useable against both AFVs and infantry) and four drones (two stationary HMGs and to mobile sensors). The cav troops were a much more experienced force with an activation of 4+ but an expertise of 4+. Adding to their already formidable skill each soldier's pulse rifle or smart gun was equipped with a SUSAT sight (+1 FP if the unit doesn't move). To keep things from getting ridiculous I placed a restriction that only one soldier per fire action could use their grenade launcher. However that still left each US rifle squad with a very impressive FP total: 8FP if the unit moved, 11 FP if they didn't move, 13FP if the enemy was within 12"!!! In comparison my average LRL rifle squad, with a SAW, only could throw 9 FP moving and 13 FP within 12"!!!! Worse still, all of the squad, drones, and vehicles could observe for the Valkyries so they could hide out of LOS and shoot their rockets... that was very ugly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One final thing I added to the Ultra-Fubar game were my "Murphy" cards. I created a deck of 8 cards that you could play in the enemy and it would cause them all sorts of problems. To get them you have to roll a "1" on your initiative die roll. The cards tell you when to play them and what effect they have on the enemy unit. Oddly enough, the US got one during the first turn and promptly played it on the first LRL tank to come out. That totally save the Ares mech because I placed it in full view of the road... and the it was a fire control failure which prevented the tank from firing!! Ouch!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, the game opened with the LRL winning initiative and moving onto the board. The US launched some missiles and took some long range shots at the LRL vehicles. That's when I got my first taste for how vehicle damage is done on FUBAR. It's pretty different from what I'm use to. In fact, it almost has an OGRE feel to it. It's almost impossible to kill any AFV with a frontal shot, no matter how many dice you toss at a target. The reason is when you hit you roll two dice and the defender takes the least damaging effect. That means that the odds are really great that you'll just suffer a stun result! However the chart has a built in rule that allows damage to stack over a turn. That is if you have already stunned a unit this turn and you roll another stun result that the target takes the next effect down the chart. So shots slowly build up damage over a turn with the target getting stunned, losing weapons, becoming immobile, then, FINALLY, a kill result. I say that reminds me of Steve Jackson's OGRE because that's what happens to the cybertank as the game goes along: you knock off guns, equipment, and treads long before you finally disable the OGRE. And that's what happened in the game. Both sides threw out huge amounts of firepower at each other and slowly chipped away at each other's vehicles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So... I did something rather stupid. I rushed my technicals up to suppress the American strongpoint while my APC dumped out their infantry to rush in and take the ruin. It didn't work out well at all. My technicals just couldn't suppress the Americans! Their cover forced me to roll "6s" to hit, and as you can see, my die rolling just wasn't there!! And to add insult to injury the yanks seemed to make every armor save too! And it got worse. These troops were On Guard when my infantry dismounted! They activated and threw a storm of lead at my poor LRL grunts and tore them up. Red squad instantly took 50% losses in one shot! Then the Americans won initiative and activated the same unit which then proceeded to cream my other dismounted squad. In just one turn almost a third of my regular infantry strength was gone and I had yet to inflict even a single loss on the American cavalry. These Philippine Scouts are some tough hombres!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, as the saying goes, God favors the biggest battalions. Despite my infantry being clobbered I still had more vehicles and troops. I rushed one of my AMX APCs behind the right flank strong hold and was able to get some flank shots in on the HUMVEE and even the mecha. That hurt the Americans. It hurt them bad. I started to gain fire superiority over them and they began to fall back. And then I did another stupid thing. I tried to rush a pair of technicals past the strongpoint to rake the troopers from the rear. It didn't work. One of the Valkyries activated with two actions. The nasty lil bugger jumped out of its wooded sanctuary, landed behind the two technicals, and in a spectacular display of gunnery brewed-up both of my technicals. Worse still the Ares finally zeroed in on my right flank Abrams and nailed it with a rail cannon shot. It wasn't a true kill, but it was a mobility kill. And as if that wasn't enough the other Valkyrie found the range to another of my APCs and mobility killed it. In one turn a lone I lost 4 vehicles. All of a sudden the odds of an LRL victory became very slim. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honestly at this time I really considered calling the game as an American win. My LRL troops were in disarray and had suffered heavy losses. I had lost four of my vehicles- two hard kills and two mobility kills. Worst still two of my remaining vehicles had lost weapons and were looking rather shaky. Things were just plain falling apart for my Yanquis of the 23eme RI. But i just refused to give up. I activated my AMX tank and ordered it to CHARGE! The AMX raced down the road, flanked the dismounted troopers, and blasted them with its main gun and HMG. That finally suppressed the yankee cavalry. Then everything started to come together! My infantry rallied and rushed forward and were joined en route by the spunky band of insurgents! My troops overran the farmhouse strongpoint and captured the abandoned HUMVEE. The troops then took up firing positions and started pouring a murderous fire on the retreating cav. Suddenly the American body count started to grow. However the Americans still had an ace up their sleeve: a sniper! This stone cold killer zeroed in on my squad leaders and weapons troopers and started dropping them like files! He even caused one wavering squad to fell apart and ran away... I HAD to shut this guy down. That's when I rolled a "1" for initiative and drew the "are these critter poisonous?" card!! As soon as the sniper activated in turn 6 I hit him with this card. It didn't kill him but it shut him down for a turn (he was suppressed). Then the Americans made a fatal mistake...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Bradley, which just occupied the last building, drew a line on the Ares, and nailed him with an ATGM! That single shot produced one of the two "hard kills" that the LRL scored all game! The road was now open for my AMX tank which activated with two actions! He shot forward and poured fire on the retreating US squad and he drilled one of the evil Valkyries with a main gun shot! A second "hard" kill! The LRL was on a roll now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But alas!!! It was turn 8 and the Americans weren't fleeing cowards. They were "running" for a reason!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The GIs of the 26th Cavalry were under orders: delay the enemy as long as possible, inflict as much damage as possible, and then BUG OUT!!! And that's what they did! The surviving Valkyrie, an intact rifle squad, their HUMVEE, the crew of the other HUMVEE, and that %^M* sniper slipped off the board and into the shattered city of Centerville leaving me master of a blasted field. But the losses..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only this paltry group of LRL troops were able to move off the board by turn 8. The rest of my forces were in sorry shape. Six vehicles were burning wreckage or were piles of immobile junk waiting for the grease monkeys to try to spit and tape them back together. Two of my rifle squads were at 50% or less and one squad, along with the insurgents, were plodding along on foot because they had no rides. I still had most of my troops, but I lost more than half of my vehicles! I was able to secure all of the buildings, but more than half of the American force was able to flee! And worse still, only three... THREE of my vehicles were able to pursue </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a game! It was a real hoot despite the fact that I lost. Up until now I've always viewed the LRL as a straw man, a target meant to be shot to pieces. But this time I took the part of the "bad guys" and I really enjoyed the experience. The LRL troopers really showed great courage and determination in this action and they really fought their hearts out for me. Even 'dead' vehicles like my Abrams were able to show they they were down, but not out by drilling the Ares MBS. But alas, courage and dogged determination just wasn't enough. The Americans fought a brilliant rear guard action and showed their professionalism and training in every encounter in this action. The Scouts of the 26th Cavalry showed me that they are a force to be reckoned with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the whole I am very pleased with this game! Ultra-Fubar really is a great engine and overall it gave me a very satisfying game. There were a few warts though! First I still haven't really decided how I'm going to use drones in the game. I want them to be important but I haven't figured out how to work them. Right now I assign them to squads and activate them with the squad in question However I allow them to move and operate on their own. That's good. However I'm not sure how to use them from a mechinacal point-of-view. Should they count as regular casualities? Should they have their own armor? Should they be counted for suppression? All of these are things that I need to think about. Second, how should vehicle weapons be treated in Ultra-Fubar? Should I be able to fire every weapon on a vehicle with one action, even if it moves? What if a vehicle get only one action, should it be able to shoot every weapon? Finally I have to say that I'm not happy with my spotting rules! Most of the time I completely forgot about them... it that's the case then why do I have them in the first place? I might try to pull them into another game, but honestly what do they add to my game other than complication? I want some sort of rule that allows units to be hidden so I can get some fog of war into my games. But what should it be?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway it really was a great game! I really enjoyed it from beginning to end. Ultra-Fubar really has a lot going for it. It's simple, it's fun, it gives you a better game than I-GO U-GO games. And it does it in such a flavorful way. I'm really hooked on this little engine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So on to the next! Now the LRL's remaining battalion must face off with elements of the 4th Marines and my Marines get to use their Jackson light tanks for once! This should be a hoot! And if i play my cards right and get some work done then the Americans will soon see evidence of a growing alliance between the Republic of Liberty and the Neo-Soviet Union! More later!</span><br />
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Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-39729501650160513572012-11-23T07:47:00.000-08:002012-11-24T17:35:30.121-08:00The Battle of Centerville Pt. 2: The Cavalry's Stand<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>US Background </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the battle was developing north of town, elements of C Troop, 1/26 CAV were moving east of town to establish a mechanized screen in the open plain to cover this wide open avenue of approach. The 26th was a newly formed unit having only been organized back in March of 2181 from elements of the 57th Infantry, Liberty National Guard, and from the regular Army's 1/89 CAV. The 1/26 CAV has always been a fascinating unit to many historians because of it's odd heritage. The original 26th Cavalry regiment was formed in the aftermath of WWI and it served through out the whole interwar period as a vital part of the US garrison in the Philippines. In the opening months of the Pacific War the 26th gained the unique distinction as being the last US cavalry formation to launch an actual mounted cavalry charge with its Filippino troopers led by regular army officers. The new 1/26 CAV wound up being a similar formation: a mixed unit of American and Filippino-American colonists lead by regular army officers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in March LIBCON decided to deactivate the ANG's 57th Infantry Regiment in order to reinforce the battered 45th Infantry which had suffered heavily in the northern county's counter-insurgency campaign. However there were still several hundred ANG guardsmen left after the reorganization so, with approval from Congress, LIBCON reflagged these troopers, along with an attached cadre from the 1/89 CAV, as the 1st Squadron, 26th Cavalry Regiment. The newly formed squadron was brigaded with 1/45 INF and 2/45 INF to form the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the ANG's 12th Infantry Division (Liberty). Unlike the other battalions of the brigade, the 26th had a very large contingent of Filippino-Americans because most of its guardsmen came from Cavite County, a principally Filippino county in southern Liberty. The unit had just finished its organization in August when it was assigned to Task Force Bataan to help defeat the insurgency on Crossland. By late November the campaign was winding down and the squadron received orders to redeploy to Liberty to rest and reorganize. When the LRL hit the beaches of northern Crossland only B, C, and elements of HQ Troop were still on Crossland and only C Troop had any personnel in Centerville. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the time of the invasion C Troop was actually finishing up the process of loading their vehicles and mecha into their dropships to redeploy back to Liberty! The troopers quickly unloaded their gear and troopers from throughout the squadron were dragooned into service to bring C Troop back to wartime manning. The troop had barely two days to reorganize and train before they met the LRL in battle, east of Centerville.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two Recce Sections with: 1 Sergeant, 1 HUMVEE IV Apache w/Lt. Plasma gun, 1 M3 Valkyrie mecha, 1 rifle squad with 1 SAW and 3 M41a AR/UGL (one trooper per platoon with a sniper rifle), 1 gun drone (counts as a sensor drone but has a HMG), 1 sensor drone (Armor 4+, Move 6", may move as an independent unit but doesn't count as a unit for victory conditions, has regular sensors and may spot for artillery and non-los units).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That totals: 2 sergeants (veterans) with M41A AR/UGL, 2 HUMVEEs, 2 Valkyrie mecha, 1 Ares mecha, 8 riflemen with 2 SAWs, and two gun drones armed with MGs. That's a lot of firepower in such a small unit but its anti-tank firepower is a bit lean. I wonder if the plasma cannons will be effective against LRL armor?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm only allocating one artillery mission to this game because I'm going to really need it in the upcoming infantry clash! Hopefully this mix of mechanized elements will be enough to hold back the LRL tide!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While many people view the American-Liberty War as being clash between Americans and the "French" this wasn't wasn't always the case. In fact the Republic of Liberty's population was made up of several different nationalities and ethnic groups. One group which gets missed a lot in post war treatments are the Liberty-Americans. The colonization of Liberty was a joint effort between the US, the Philippines, and France and many Americans settled in the temperate northern continent. These Americans were just as independence minded as their French neighbors and they joined the rebellion against the French Union in the '60s. By the 80's these "yankees" were vital parts of the LRL and the republic's government despite the general feeling of anti-Americanism that existed in the former colony at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, many LRL units that were formed from the southern provinces of the Republic were primarily made up of American colonists. The LRL's 23eme Regiment was one such unit with 60% of its ranks being of American decent. Whenever these units came into contact with American units the fight became particularly grim as the troops on both sides viewed the others as traitors. For American troops, these "damnedyankees" or "tories" were the most vile of foes because they spoke english, were American in custom and culture, but they took up arms against their "own" people to defend a fascist/racist/communist regime To the Liberty-Americans the "loyalists" represented the worst elements of the country they left behind: arrogant centralists who sought to take the lands, resources, and freedoms of everyone they could for the "common good"</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 23eme RI was a highly regarded regiment in the LRL because of its excellent esprit de corps, it's high level of professionalism, and its unwavering devotion to the Republic. These troops were the elite shock troops of the 2d Brigade and their weapons and attachments showed that trust.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 rifle platoon with four six man squads. Two squads have SAWs and two squads have RPGs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 Cells of insurgents (six total insurgents- Veteran) . One cell may have a RPG.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">US: can deploy up to midboard in cover terrain. The gunbots, recce drones, and infantry can start the game deployed in <b>Hidden </b>positions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LRL: On turn 1 the technicals and any two other vehicles can enter the board. The remaining vehicles can enter on any other turn at the LRL player's discretion. The infantry begin the game riding in either any of the troop carrying vehicles except the technicals. The other vehicles deployed on turn 1 can be troop carrying APCs. LRL insurgents may be deployed according to the guerrilla special rule. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>LRL: </b>Sieze all buildings, exit 50% of all vehicles (5 vehicles total) with at least one mounted squad, inflict at least 50% casualties on the Americans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>US: </b>Keep full force on the board for at least 6 turns then exit as many units possible (at least 50% or 3 vehicles/squads), disable/destroy at least 50% of all enemy vehicles (5 total), keep the enemy from exiting 5 or more units/vehicles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One card is drawn if either side rolls a 1 during initiative with the player who rolled the 1 getting to keep the card. Players may play the card when allowed to by the card. If both sides roll a 1 (snake eyes!) then each player draws a card. Cards which are played can go back into the deck to be used again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 Cards: "You're coming in broken and stupid!" During an enemy activation, after they roll the activation die, play this card and this unit cannot take any actions at all and the initiative goes to you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 Cards: "Are these critters poisonous? " Play during any enemy infantry activation. Each player then rolls a die with the high player getting to pick one trooper in the unit to be attacked with 1 FP with no armor save!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 Cards: "Negative on fire support, trooper!" Play after the enemy rolls to activate a fire support mission. The mission is canceled and the enemy loses that fire mission completely!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 Cards: "What a piece of crap!!!" Play after the enemy successfully activates a vehicle of any type. It suffers the following malfunction:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1-2 Engine overheats, vehicle can't move this turn!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 Fire control goes down, no shooting this turn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 JAM!! One projectile weapon on the vehicle goes down until the unit activates again </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and passes an expertise test (treat as a fire action with no actual shot- roll one die).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 Coms are down! This unit cannot spot for non-LOS weapons including artillery for the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 "It's dead, Jim..." The vehicle suffers a serious breakdown. Treat as a vehicle destroyed </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-53264216943302242892012-11-22T17:08:00.000-08:002014-02-13T18:11:35.850-08:00Battle of Centerville Part 1 AAR<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Battle of Centerville Part 1: The Gunny's Alamo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, after much waffling and wasting of time, plus a hurricane, here's a battle report on my game last month. It's just the 1st battle in a simple three battle (maybe four!) campaign using FUBAR to decide the fate of the American controlled colony on Crossland Island. A victory for the LRL will open the door for a massive invasion of the main American colony on planet Liberty. This battle also marks my first use of Rebel Minis Raptor minis. These evil beasts are Neo-Soviet bio-warfare cyber-monsters! These vicious beasts are used as cannon fodder shock troops and are widely exported to nations that don't mind using horrid beasts to do their dirty business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Force wise this was the largest single battle that I've ever ran at my house:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">US OOB: USCM veteran, US Army seasoned</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two Army rifle squads each with 6 rifles with UGL, 2 SAW.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One Bradley AFV</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One Seraph Medium Mech</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One USCM rifle section with two squads of four. Each with a SAW plus Gunnery Sgt Anderson. (this unit is the reserve unit mentioned earlier... I hope I didn't mess up by committing it too soon!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One M577 APC</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One sniper</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LRL OOB: All troops seasoned with one veteran squad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four six man Seasoned rifle squads. Two with SAWS, two with RPGs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One six man Veteran rifle squad with one SAW.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One squad of ten Raptor Cybots.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two Rockjumper Technicals with HMGs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One Abrams MBT.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One Neo-Soviet warbot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two four man insurgent cells with RPGs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both sides had access to three artillery strikes. As it turned out only the American's fires would really be decisive... which was good because that is half of the US force's available artillery support. This means that I'll only have three more salvos to split across two more scenarios. I get the feeling that I'll regret being so aggressive with my reserves and fire support! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were only two of us playing: me and my son Jeremy. Me and Jer usually "play" one side together and I run, with some help from Jeremy, the "bad guys". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We decided that the LRL's objectives in the game would be the ruins near the bridge, the bridge itself, and the Alamo. The side which controlled two of the three would win the game!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After both sides set-up the LRL got to place the two insurgent cells as per the guerrilla special rule. That worked out great because neither the Army nor Marines had motion trackers! So the insurgents took up hiding positions just across the river from the main US strongpoint. This was really irritating too because they were hidden and couldn't be shot at until they move or opened fire! This would bite us later in the game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rest of the LRL hoard was across the river in this massive hoard formation with the vehicles in the center, the infantry interspaced between the vehicles, and the Raptors forming a skirmish line to the front. What an artillery target!!! We couldn't wait for our first activation to start laying down the hurt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other side of the river our troops were deployed into strong defensive positions. Jeremy's Army troops deployed in the Alamo with fire teams in the two main buildings and the rest in the courtyard along the wall. Up in the tower Jeremy's sniper found a nice hidey hole to hang out in. The two buildings next the the Alamo, along the river, were occupied by Anderson's marines with one squad in each building. The vehicles took up positions out of sight but with a good LOS to the bridge. We had great fields of fire with lots of overlap. This would be a really tough nut for the LRL to crack. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The battle opened up very well for us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The LRL troops rushed toward the bridge with the Raptors in the lead. We let them have it when they reached the fighting position in front of the bridge. Over the next two turns we dropped our artillery on their AFVs and started racking up hits quickly. One team of four Raptors evaporated in seconds. Other shells smashed into AFVs and the warbot shutting them down. It seemed like one vehicle after another was mobility killed or stunned. That shut down their mobile firepower and ensured that our positions in the Alamo would be safe from heavy LRL guns. This massing of vehicles was a costly LRL mistake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was one really nasty artillery strike that wiped out one LRL squad and trashed the neo-soviet warbot. The glass beads mark units that have already activated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time to rethink things for the LRL! I decided to split up the Raptors into two teams so that they could cross the river and assault the Marine fighting positions. Hopefully that would shut down the deadly accurate marine rifle fire and allow the infantry to deploy into good cover and force their way across the river. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One thing that worried Jeremy to death was the Abrams. He was certain that it would destroy his Seraph so he begged me to drop our last arty barrage on it in the hopes that it would be destroyed. I didn't think that it would work but I gave it a shot anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it worked! Some great die rolling by Jeremy! We had be able to stun the beast with the other strikes but inflicted no real damage on it. Then that last round came in and BOOM! Up it went on a 6 on the damage table. Now things were really looking up for our outnumbered yanks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime the Raptors made steady progress. These bad boys made every activation roll and swiftly raced for their targets. My marines laid down some fires on them but no joy. The few hits I made were shrugged off by their armor. It was about to get very ugly...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then they made their move!!!! These swift beasts bounded over the river (a special rule allowed them to ignore the river because they could jump across it) and rushed the marine strongpoints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in an instant the leathernecks were in hand-to-hand combat with the monsters. Jeremy really got up-set (hey, he's 9). "They're gonna die daddy!!!" he moaned!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the beginning of turn four things were pretty ugly for the Americans. The two marine positions were in melee with the Raptors which shut-down a lot of US firepower. The GIs tried to keep up the fire but they just didn't have the LOS that the marines had. This slacking of fire allowed the LRL's regular troops to move into cover. Also the new Ultra rules helped a lot too. Normally Seasoned troops had a 50/50 chance of activating and getting to do something. If they failed then they were locked into place, and many times, that could last for several turns. I didn't pass every roll but I was able to move all of my LRL units forward. This created a lot of tension in the game because we could just see all of the LRL grunts moving up to join the battle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melee actions broke out at the beginning of the turn and luck just wasn't with the Raptors! My marines had a hot run on the dice and were actually winning most of the combats. The Raptors took down several marines but they lost even more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These melees lasted for two turns because neither side was willing to back down. The marines dug in their heels, broke out their K-bars, and mobbed the Raptors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even Gunny Anderson got into the fray by going toe-to-toe with a Raptor. I just knew that the vaunted gunny was going down but apparently he didn't get the memo! Anderson killed his foe during turn 4 then joined the other fight in turn 5 and took down that Raptor too!!! Chalk up two for the gunny!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of the Raptors were dead by the end of turn 6 but they did their job. Both marine squads were at 50% and the LRL line squads were able to move into cover. Once the melees were over waves of small arms fire swept over the marine positions. The Gunny's was hit the hardest! Gunny watched as his two remaining marines were shot down by accurate rifle and mg fire. It was just proving to be too much for the Americans! We had little choice but to move up our AFVs to support the handful of marines that were left. The sniper joined in too by picking off both a RPG gunner and a SAW gunner! That was some sharp shooting. Maybe that would be enough to stave off a LRL rush across the river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, as it turned out, moving up the AFVs was a very bad idea. By moving forward we placed our AFVs into enemy RPG range and we instantly paid for it. The squad on the LRL's right flank got into range and nailed Jeremy's Bradley with a lucky RPG strike. In quick succession after that the insurgent squads let loose with their RPGs and hit my M577 and the Seraph mech! My APC was a mobility kill... the Seraph was a total loss. Now things were really bad. We lost nearly all of our armor support and the LRL was in solid firing positions and laying down sheets of small arms fire. I thought that was the game really. The LRL had already secured the ruined buildings thereby taking that objective. To win all they needed to do was to move across the bridge and kill my three remaining marines! By doing that there would no US figures within 12" of the bridge and that would allow them to claim that objective... and in our game claiming two of the there objectives amounted to a win!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And they went for it! While the other squads laid down fires one LRL veteran team rushed the bridge to secure it. In response the GIs in the Alamo dumped all the fire that they could into the LRL vets. My marines concentrated their fires on the two ruins across from the bridge in an attempt to take out the insurgents and the rifle squads. Even the gunny, who was the last marine in the southern building, joined in on the act by shooting his UGL at a squad of LRL troopers on the opposite bank of the river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once again luck was on the side of the Americans! My fires destroyed both insurgent teams (my remaining marines were shooting grenades and SAWs) while Jeremy's GIs swept the bridge and the teams in light cover along the river. At least 12 LRL troops went down in one turn either as suppression or causalities .. and the US sniper was on fire too! He dropped another RPG gunner with a round to the head (a six expertise roll!). And like that the fire slacked off. Two LRL squads failed their activation rolls and fell back because they were at 50% strength. The enemy was broken and had little choice but to fall back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ultra FUBAR takes the basic activation system and changes it by splitting up what a unit can do into two actions. If you pass your activation roll then you get two actions with the unit and then you can pick another unit to activate when you're done. If you fail that roll then your unit only gets one activation and they initiative switches to the other player. That happened a lot for the LRL! Most of their units were seasoned and they failed their activation rolls as often as they passed them. Normally in FUBAR this would mean that the LRL would have not been able to really put the numbers together to launch any real sort of attack. It would have just bogged down into units scattered across the board and unable to launch any sort of coordinated action. Ultra FUBAR kept that from happening. Even with one action a unit which fails it activation roll can still do something meaningful! This caused the tempo of the game to pick-up and made things very interesting. However play still switched back and forth like in regular FUBAR and neither side got everything it wanted. That felt right to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, it was a very enjoyable game! I see Ultra FUBAR as my "go to" game now as it's so easy to set-up and play. No muss, no fuss. Just a plain fun game to toss on the table and play out in an easy afternoon (2 or so hours). I'll keep playing Ambush Alley and THW games because I enjoy them so much but I see FUBAR as my basic game for a quick and fun game. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I meant to do this post a while ago but Hurricane Sandy decided that she knew better... anyway here is the background and campaign rules for my Centerville Campaign. I've already played scenario #1 and I'll be playing #2 later today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Centerville Campaign is viewed by many historians as the opening gambit of the Liberty-American War of 2081. While there were several other "police actions", "counter-insurgencies", and "provocations" going on at the same time it was on the equatorial island of Crossland that American and Republic of Liberty of forces engaged in the first formal battles of the Liberty-American War.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Republic of Liberty has long claimed at least partial sovereignty over the Crossland Island colony by the virtue of being the successor to the French Union on the planet of Liberty. The United States has long hotly contested this argument by asserting that the French Union sold its interests on Crossland to the US in the days proceeding the peace agreement between the Republic of Liberty and the French Union. It is true that the FU did agree to transfer sovereignty over Crossland in exchange for an undisclosed, but substantial, monetary payment. However no international/interstellar body has ever acknowledged the agreement and indeed, even to this day, lawyers are still arguing the point in international court!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The "agreement" between the US and the FU sparked heated protests from the Republic of Liberty and even led to a low level insurgency in the formerly jointly administered territories. The US, which already had troops in these areas, launched a vigorous counterinsurgency campaign which saw many of the pro-republican partisans killed, jailed, or deported. This lead to allegations from the Republic that the US was engaged in "ethnic cleansing" of Libertarian French "Habitants" in order to establish American settlements in the disputed lands. This counterinsurgency effort was still on-going when the LRL's 2eme Brigade stormed onto the shores of Crossland Island. This invasion was launched in concert with LRL supported uprisings in the northern counties of the Commonwealth. In addition, the LRL's infant space fleet launched attacks against US Navy high-guard patrols above the planet. These combined efforts rocked the American forces on their heels and left Liberty Command (LIBCOM, the joint services command on Liberty) in disorder and confusion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In December 2181 US forces on Crossland Island were still heavily engaged in Operation Sudden Fury: an effort to finally break the insurgent siege of Centerville. Earlier back in June Task Force Bataan, led by Brigadier David Wainwright, launched a massive assault from orbit and landed to the west and behind the Crossland insurgents who were laying siege to the city of Centerville and its vital spaceport. The assault, supported by Navy frigates in orbit, broke the siege lines and sent the surviving rebels reeling back into the swamps in the Crossland River Basin which lay to the east of the city. Task Force Bataan immediately gave chase and soon found itself scattered all across the eastern side of the island- split into platoon and strike group sized elements and garrisoning dozens of small Forward Operating Bases (FOBs). The situation on Crossland quickly against US forces when the 2eme Brigade arrived.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the early morning hours of December 7, 2081 three LRL battalions (21eme RI, 22 eme RI, and 23 eme RI) landed, unopposed, on the northern shore of Crossland Island and swiftly began moving inland. Only elements of C Company, 2/31st Infantry were in position to meet the invasion. While C Company's counterattack delayed the LRL's advance for a short time, it was soon clear that there simply weren't enough forces available to seriously contest the LRL's advance. General Wainwright had very little choice but to order his scattered Regular Army and Army National Guard troops to fall back on the island's captial: Centerville. In addition, Wainwright ordered TF Bataan elements engaged in counterinsurgency operations around the Crossland Basin to move concentrate on Centerville for a stand against the LRL. Finally the general called on LIBCON's reserve, the 11th MAU, to board their dropships and to reinforce Centerville from orbit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm looking at four linked scenarios. The first three have LRL units attacking three different US defense forces: a USA infantry platoon reinforced by Marines, a US Armored Cavalry platoon equipped with Valkyrie mecha, and a USCMC platoon with some HUMVEEs supporting them. LRL forces will be roughly reinforced platoon sized forces standing in for the LRL "regiment" that is attacking the city of Crossland. The final battle will be either an open-field action between a mechanized USCMC company (11th MAU) and a LRL company (standing in for the remaining LRL 2eme Brigade forces) or a urban clash between the surviving US forces and the LRL invaders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first battle report will cover the battle at Dover (the Alamo). My second will cover the clash between a mechanized LRL force and the US armored cavalry west of town. The third will be a small town action with my USCMCs trying to defend the eastern approaches of Centerville. The final action will depend on who wins the first three. If the US suffers even one defeat then the LRL gets to invade Centerville and that action will resolve the campaign. If the US gets at least a draw in all three actions then the LRL gets to face the 11th MEU in the open country east of town. This will be a mechanized clash with tanks, apcs, and other vehicles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prior to the scenario beginning, the US players can decide to commit their USCMC reserves (one USCMC section with an M577 APC) to the battle. Once the reserve is committed the US play has no other reserves! The LRL player has only the forces committed to the battle and no reserves. However he does have access to indirect artillery support (three barrages in each battle) to represent their battalion mortar assets and the brigade's artillery assets. The US player has a total of 6 artillery barrages that he can use however he wants in the campaign. But once all six are used then he no longer has artillery support unless he wins/draws all three battles in which case he gets three new barrages to represent fire support from US Navy frigates in orbit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More later!</span><br />
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<br />Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-82388865200664468472012-11-04T17:55:00.002-08:002012-11-04T17:55:42.346-08:00More Ultra-FUBAR updates from Craig<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi all,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Craig just tossed this out for FUBAR:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Assault<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Two<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Unit can move up to an enemy and engage in Close Combat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Aimed Fire Two<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> The Unit can fire at an enemy with a ranged combat bonus of +1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry about the formatting issues up there. Anyway, this is a nice step in the direction of getting the activation system. I'll play around with them some and get them into my Liberty FUBAR 15mm set. I'm assuming that vehicles follow these rules as well with a shoot activation allowing an AFV to fire off all of its weapons unless the unit has a special rule for that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looks like some cool stuff that I'll have to try out with my next game.</span><br />
Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-11631118832714458062012-10-27T13:47:00.001-07:002012-11-24T08:04:30.034-08:00My version of FUBAR Ultra<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In my last game I tried out FUBAR with some of the Ultra changes that were suggested here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I also tried out some of the suggested movement rates for 15mm too. After playing with all these rules from hither and yon I decided to up-date my copy of FUBAR so that I could have all of my rules in one place. So I took that one page format and tried to change it in MS Word... didn't really work right! What an annoying mess. It goes to show you what a tight editing job Craig and company did to squeeze all of text and tables into just one standard page of paper!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So be warned, this isn't a one page FUBAR any more. It's more like 8! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So what's in it? First I changed around the activation rules to incorporate the Ultra suggestions. Then I switched out the movement rates to the suggested 15mm rates which took a little figuring. I'm not sure what I think about the smaller movement rates though. 4" in one turn seems a bit too little for infantry as does 8" for vehicles. I might have to look that over again to make sure I have the correct rates. Finally I added a few clarifications for suppression and assault rifles with under/over grenade launchers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Anyway, here it is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Well we just wrapped up our game a few minutes ago and man, what a game! It was a rip-snorting, good ole fashion, shoot-em up! I've played FUBAR several times now and I've have had a lot of fun with it. But I've always come away from it feeling disappointed, or even cheated, when it came to the activation system. Then back in August Craig posted this as a set of activation rules to consider for the next version of FUBAR:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"I am thinking that we would be better moving to a system similar to, but a little simpler than, Dead Men Walking, i.e.:</span></div>
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So as you can see this opens up a huge number of tactical options, but doesn't disproportionately punish the player who made the poor roll."</div>
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So I tried it out tonight and I have to say, it's a real, honest game changer! Tonight's game was so much more satisfying than any of my other games of FUBAR. </div>
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So back to the game. I started with only a few squads per side then my son, Jeremy, announced that he wanted to play so I really expanded the game! This was easily the largest game, figure wise, that I've ever played in 15mm. </div>
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The LRL was much larger and much more scary!</div>
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The center piece of the force was a full LRL rifle platoon with three six man squads: one with a MMG, the other two with RPGs. The CP team had four men and the LT could call arty like the Americans.</div>
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It was an ugly situation. When I set-up the armory I got this feeling... it was the Alamo!</div>
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Indeed, it was an ugly fight and it cost the US and the LRL dearly! Both sides took awful losses in the fight. The butcher's final bill still isn't known yet. I still have to roll on the survival table to see. But regardless the Americans held but only barely. While the Neo-Soviets haven't reached the battlefield, yet, their reach was felt. The Raptor attack bots were swift and terrible foes. Even the Gunny had to go toe-to-toe with these horrible beasts!</div>
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Good thing the old Gyrene brought his K-Bar!! I took a lot more pictures of the game and I'll write-up a more formal, blow-by-blow of this epic struggle this weekend when I have time.</div>
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Needless to say, I'm very impressed with this new FUBAR Ultra. It still keeps the feel of the older versions but it's more dynamic. Even if you fail an activation roll you still get to do something with the unit that you tried to activate and that did lead to many tense moments in the game. Ultra FUBAR is a much more dynamic, and more importantly, fun game. I think I've found my easy standby game for modern and sci-fi gaming. When I want a harder, crunchier game I'm reaching for Force-on-Force. But when I want a simple, beer and pretzels game to toss dice and blow stuff up Ultra FUBAR is my game. </div>
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Randall Casehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503744399853478981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986191881523905006.post-49263925072195345382012-10-20T18:35:00.000-07:002012-10-21T15:29:53.896-07:00USCMs and the LRL in FUBAR<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'm getting ready for my FUBAR game set for tomorrow night so I decided to go ahead and stat out my forces for the game. I want a fairly quick game so I'm fielding only a section of USCMs and a couple of squads of LRLs with some technicals in support. In addition to the usual FUBAR rules I'm using stuff from the Afganistan module and the Khurasan 15mm module. Because I'm using 15mm I'm using the following mods to the movement rules:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Gunny has been there, done that. Bugs?? So what. Rebels.. yawn. It's just another day in the Corps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These are new additions to Khurasan Jon's old </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sepulveda Resistance range. Up until now you had only the basic resistance fighter with a basic, AK47 style, assault rifle, light armor, and a skimpy skull cap. These guys appear to be better equipped and armored than their follows as they are the beginnings of the Sepulvedian Regular Army. So that's the role that they will play in my Liberty games. My older resistance fighters will assume the role of LRL National Guard troops. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I placed an order with Jon earlier this week and I can't wait until they show up. For now I've ordered two command packs and four trooper packs. That will give me 28 basic riflemen, 4 commanders, 4 medics, 4 RPGs, and 4 SAWs. That should give me four squads of 11 troops each, or I can organized a more accurate platoon of LRL regulars with:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">However, fear not. The Rockjumper Crawler is just too darn useful for the LRL to drop. It will continue to truck along as the carrier for LRL National Guard units and as heavy weapons carriers in the line companies. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">However all of the good, 1st line LRL units will be armed with newer Neo-Soviet gear! In fact, according to reports coming out of the Republic of Liberty, the LRL was able to purchase some of the Neo-Soviet Union's vaunted Red Banner tanks! I was planning on getting some more this year but I found out that Jon is all sold out! That's a shame, but I was able to secure a few of these armored monsters before they disappeared. They should be finding their way onto the battlefields of Liberty pretty soon... No longer with the USCMC be able to dominate the battlefields of Liberty with their AFVs!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've also gotten my mitts on a full platoon of Neo-Soviet troops! It seems that the Neo-Soviets have become very interested in the war on Liberty and have sent materials and even "advisors" to aid the fledgling LRL in its war of liberation! I wonder how the Republic was able to secure BOTH French Union and Soviet support???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hopefully I'll have the whole lot assembled by Thanksgiving and ready for an AAR. Things are looking grim for the USCMC and the Liberty Colony defenders! Stay tuned!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Semper Fi, carry on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When I went back to work on the blog during the summer I discovered something really bad! Google and Blogger started doing some weird stuff with user accounts and in the process the original Round Down Range blog somehow got detached from my old username. So no I can't get into it to maintain it... or do anything with it really. It' still out there, the poor thing:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've tried to get blogspot to fix this but nothing has happened. So, I'm sad to say, it's time to wave goodbye to the old blog and start up another one where the other left off. I'll still link into it from time to time because it has a lot of my back story for the War on Liberty and for my Colonial Marine information. But otherwise, the old blog is effectively dead... or is it undead!?! It's not really gone. It's there but with a "life" of its own. Creepy...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Anyway, welcome to the new blog. I hope you have fun watching me build miniature armies and build onto my world of Liberty. It's been a hoot! So see you on the battlefields on a world far away.</span></div>
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