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L02 A Foreign Legion
By: pilotofficerprune Date: December 31, 2019, 3:02 am
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This is a thread stub.
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Re: L02 A Foreign Legion
By: Scott Spencer Date: January 4, 2020, 10:01 pm
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Scenario: L02 A Foreign Legion.
Version: 0.1.
Playtester: Scott Spencer(Solo).
Report: I played the first try fairly straight up with the
French moving to engage as quickly as possible. The French
climbed to the level of the bombers. Both sides rolled poorly
on tallies, leading to a point-blank encounter and a long
running fight. Me-109 superiority coupled with Veteran crews
and French Rigid Doctrine led to a very one-sided fight. French
dice rolling was terrible and they could never find their
footing with the German fighters keeping the French away from
the bombers. The Germans bombed above the Flak envelope and the
results were poor, only 1 hit.
Victory: German 13 Aircraft shot down, 1 Bombing Hit. French 1
Aircraft shot down. Actual Victory Level: German Victory(by
+6). Perceived Victory: German beat down.
Recommendations: This needs a couple more plays to better form
an opinion, but it may not hurt to make one German squadron
regular instead of Veteran. This might be a good scenario to
employ the new [L2.1] Hunting From Cloud rule. The German sweep
feels like it ought to be moved forward to T9 or S9 rather than
lagging behind at U9. The Victory Conditions need to be fixed -
it shows German Victory at +7 or more, but also shows a Draw as
+6 to +10.
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Re: L02 A Foreign Legion
By: pilotofficerprune Date: January 5, 2020, 2:48 am
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Roger that. I've made some tweaks.
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Re: L02 A Foreign Legion
By: Scott Spencer Date: January 5, 2020, 10:34 am
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Second go around I plan to have the French be more circumspect
and have the lead fighters minimum move to their vectors to
allow the MS.406s to catch up.
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Re: L02 A Foreign Legion
By: Scott Spencer Date: January 10, 2020, 11:47 pm
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Scenario: L02 A Foreign Legion.
Version: 0.2
Playtester: Scott Spencer(solo).
Report: The lead French units held back, climbing slowly to
allow the MS.406s to gain ground. The German escorts split
after tallying the CR.42s and one flight engaged them and routed
them. However, The MB.151C1's were able to avoid the remaining
escort flight by a head on attack on the trailing DO-17
squadron. They were veterans and had the experte so they did
some damage. The Lead MS.406 squadron tied up the 109 Sweep
while the 2nd squadron attacked the lead DO-17 squadron. In
retrospect I should have split the 109 sweep and had the DO-17s
descend to a more effective bombing level. French dice rolling
was much better.
Victory: German - 8 fighters shot down, 1 straggler, 1 Bomb hit
= 9 VPs. French - 4 fighters shot down, 5 bombers shot down =
14 VPs. Actual Victory Level: -5 French Victory. Perceived
Victory: French victory.
Recommendations: I think another play or two with some
adjustments ought to produce a more balanced result. Drop the
109 sweep to S8 so that it can hunt from cloud.
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Re: L02 A Foreign Legion
By: pilotofficerprune Date: January 11, 2020, 5:39 am
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Okay, I'll make the recommended change. Have one more play at
this and see if any more changes come out of that, then I'll
think about passing it on to someone else to take a look at.
Note that since the Do 17s were re-rated as light bombers in the
second edition it's a legit tactic to glide bomb with them.
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Re: L02 A Foreign Legion
By: Scott Spencer Date: January 12, 2020, 2:11 pm
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Scenario: L02 A Foreign Legion.
Version: 0.3.
Playtester: Scott Spencer(solo)
Report: A tense affair, made more so by several of my cats
showing up and trying to lie on the map but they rolled poorly
against my defense and their cohesion was broken. The French
held back as before with the MBs and CRs moving slowly forward
to allow the MS.406s to gain ground. I had hoped for lucky
vector rolls so I could get some fighters above altitude 6 but
no luck. The Germans split both squadrons immediately and
aggressively engaged and routed all but one MS.406 squadron.
The Germans tried glide bombing this time but rolled very poorly
and only got 1 hit.
Victory: German: 12 fighters shot down, 1 bomb hit = 13 VPs.
French: 3 fighters and 2 bombers shot down = 7 VPs. Actual
victory Level: Draw. Perceived Victory: Minor German.
Recommendations: I think this one is about right - either side
could have won this fight with a better roll or two. From the
French perspective it felt like a loss but it was a near
victory. Glide bombing by the Germans seems the way to go here.
No cats were harmed in the making of this report.
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Re: L02 A Foreign Legion
By: pilotofficerprune Date: January 19, 2020, 5:27 am
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Okay, I'm going to drop the draw window on this one and pass it
on to someone else to have a look at.
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Re: L02 A Foreign Legion
By: Elias Nordling Date: February 1, 2020, 12:27 pm
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"This scenario requires ownership of Victories, Blitz, and
Origins"
Why would it need Origins?
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Re: L02 A Foreign Legion
By: Scott Spencer Date: February 1, 2020, 12:54 pm
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For the Belgian and Czech pilots of course!
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