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We got a great game of Blitzkrieg Commander in last night. Russians attacking Germans with overwhelming numbers. Oh man was it tooth and nail. The Russian eeked out a victory after the germans succeeded in failing multiple command rolls. Great game.

http://frozengamerak.blogspot.com/2011/04/aar-b...

"Road: Counts as road."

You know this sounds like something you would actually see on a military map. What were the long orange markers on the RR denoting?

Looks like a really good game. One thing that came to mind however, since you use the BF's 15mm minis (and very well painted they were) could you not benefit from a little more playing room? Things looked a little cramped, the Russian armour deploy area looked like the 401 in Toronto at noon.

Otherwise looked like a great little East Front dust up.

I did that because some guys in our group get confused.

plus we have played eastern front games where roads are difficult going because of spring conditions.

We normally play short end to short end so it is not as cramped. probably could have been a little wider, but no one seemed to mind. Also I think it got cramps because no one wanted to send their tanks into the open fields because of the effect it had on command. that forced the armor to bottle up, which is what I wanted to russians to have to do. its just to bad that they still won.

Looks good, nice amount of terrain on the table

I love having lots of terrain. Make players have to move.

Nice game.

Paul

NB. Did the cows servive? or did they become beef stew?

Most of the cows fell into Russian hands and had God knows what done to them by some of the Penal Troops. Then the NKVD realized that before the war many of these cows had lived around Kursk. Most of them where rounded up and deported to Siberia for betraying Comrade Stalin and the Motherland, while the ring leads of the heard where shot on site and fed to the men.

A hand full managed to escape with the fleeing Germans and made their way west to the American lines. They where rescue by elements of the 3rd Ar. Div. and brought back to Iowa where they worked tirelessly for several years to give milk and locate their loved one in the Russian Far East. Eventually they where caught up in the McCarthy Show Trials of the 1950s and after being accused of being communist spies they where shot outside the Hormell Meat Process Plant in Austin, MN and turned into the fourth ingredient in SPAM. That SPAM was sold to Russians and served to none of other than Stalin himself the night before he died.

Glad to see that some of them lived productive lives, and even gave Stalin his 'last meal'