Its a nice problem to have, but when a game is so engrossing, so exciting, I get distracted from taking enough pictures to blog the game properly. Which is a shame, cos Daniel's Fate of a Nation scenario was a doozy!
Peter and Daniel were playing the Jordanians:
I was playing the Israelis. We rolled for the scenario - the Israeli's would be the attacker. That suited me fine, because this scenario is a real challenge for the defender!
The attacker gets to lay the objectives down, then defender has to deploy first, and leave 40% of their force in reserve, so the attacker has it easy - put the bulk of your forces in the pocket closest to where you laid the objectives! These started the game thinly defended...
Plus the Israeli Air Force put in an early and devastating appearance, knocking out one of the dread Centurions on Turn 1!
Given this action pitted Centurions against Sho'ts - which let's face it is simply a Centurion with a proper engine - lethality was going to be high!
Short story short, my Centurions were nice and close to the deep objective which was initially lightly held, and under early and continuous bombardment by the Israeli 155s. Once the Jordanian reserves turned up that firefight started getting bloody for the Sho'ts, but a second, even more devastating airstrike evened things up a little....
By which time my venerable old Shermans had dragged their sorry asses sufficiently into the action to take the Centurions in the flank.
A hasty infantry assault cleared away the surviving Jordanian riflemen to seize the objective and end the game!
A short game but riveting - interesting to pit Jordanian Cents against Israeli Sho'ts. The only difference of course being the training, motivation, and skill of the crews:
Does this Israeli victory mean that the man matters more than the machine? Only further games will tell...
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