Flames Of War 4th Edition Boot Camp: Day Two
Oriskany's El Alamein Campaign Begins - A German Counter Push?
Mar 4 2017 @ 19:59
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Things have been heating up as we move towards the end of the day. We focus in on some more of the key areas where people have been battling it out.
This also means that we have to look ahead to how these last engagements are going to go towards the end of the day and where we'd like this to go tomorrow.
come on afrika korps , crush the brits 🙂
DAK for the win
🙂 i agree
its nice having a really nice visual map for the campaign it makes the battles they are playing have alot of weight behind them
This is where the DAk finally starts to turn it around. The problem is, can they overcome that massive lead the British built up early in the campaign?
Among the ‘what if’ scenarios I have often played with was how would the North African campaign have gone if Hitler had simply defended the Eastern Front and not gone ahead with Barbarosa. If even 10% of that massive force had come to the Mediterranean theatre instead, it would have allowed the possibility of invading Gibraltar, Malta and Rommel would have much more to play with in Libya and Egypt.
@dorthonion – I don’t think there’s any doubt the Germans would have won in North Africa had they not been involved in the Soviet Union. The question is, would they have been involved there in the first place? from October 1940 through May 1941 the German military and Foreign Ministry is concerned with securing the southern flank of the upcoming Barbarossa offensive, mostly by . . . a) securing a network of alliances in the Balkans, including Croat-governed Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania, and Hungary. b) saving Italians from their badly-prepared offensive in Greece (mounted out of Italian-occupied Albania), especially once the… Read more »
Love the map guys!
Pretty sweet
DAK ftw baby!
strike hard and fast kameraden!
It’ll be cool to see an article on making the maps and graphics
Looks like history is repeating itself on the tabletop.
Great visual work there and good to track a campaign in this manner – keep it up guys.
it all looks very confusing and tactical , i like it 🙂
Wooo!!! Come on Brits!
Keep pushing DAK.
Really nice
Its a very short campaign then? I thought there would be more games each day
Great question, @lawnor . I actually was hoping for four games on Saturday, two on Sunday. We wound up with three on Sunday, and two on Sunday (basically, five total instead of six). But trust me, that battle at the end makes up for it big time! 😀
Are the map board and icons magnetic?
@irontom – printed on cardstock paper and affixed with small bits of kneaded eraser (a lot like “blue-tack” but not quite as strong and leaves no coloration marks when removed.
Which reminds me, thanks 100 times again to @lloyd for printing out the map for me! 😀
Fantastic way of linking the games together.
Oooooo come in DAK!
DAK for the Win…. Come on you boys in Gre……. eh Dunkelgrau
Looking good
Come on the plucky Brits
Glad to see the allies doing well. Lets hope they keep it up tommorow or I might end up speaking German. Wait… that is how this works, right?
@m30wm1x – only if you live in Egypt. 😀
A great way to spend a Saturday when it’s wet cold and windy outside…..
@wolf320f – Better than NetFlix, eh? 😀
Finally the Germans got a couple of licks in.