06-06-2015, 03:14 PM | #1 |
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Let's talk MARK IIIs ATTACKING
Like Mingo did with the Raid discussion, I want to start talking about another old scenario, Mark IIIs Attacking--and to bring attention to the official fix for this scenario, which might be overlooked by some players.
(As an aside: Jen, should these threads be moved to the scenarios subforum, or is that just for the new scenarios being released?) Attacking with a pair of Ogre Mark IIIs makes for a good three-player game, as noted in the scenario itself. It's also a good way to introduce more than one new player at a time to the game: give them both a cybertank and have them kill the command post. Having played this scenario as the defender a few times, I agree that the forces originally given the defender in this scenario (30 squads of infantry and 22 armor units) are inadequate. The errata rules update v. 1.01 changes the defense to 36 squads of infantry and 28 armor units. Has anyone defended against the two Mark IIIs with the upgrades forces listed in the errata? If so, how did the game go? Was it too easy for the defender, still too hard, or just right?
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06-08-2015, 01:21 PM | #2 | |
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06-19-2015, 06:42 AM | #3 |
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Re: Let's talk MARK IIIs ATTACKING
So I played this with friends for the first time last night over Tabletop Simulator (I 3D-modeled my own counters, not a public mod) and we did this scenario.
I managed to take out one Mark III's MB, get it to M2, and knock out 1 SB; it fell back and I let it go since it was just extending out long it would take to get to the CP. Meanwhile against the second one it took *forever* to kill off the MB, and by that point I was missing so much armor I took him down to 1 remaining SB. I was really getting routed at that point though, and he finally picked off my MTs (who couldn't get away) then mopped up my remaining infantry. At the end I really felt like 30 infantry & 22 armor wasn't enough to take them on--but I assumed I just made a bunch of mistakes (I mismanaged my GEVs for sure). I'm relieved to hear there was errata for this scenario! Where can I find it? I've looked through all the errata and AtO's and don't see anything. EDIT: *slaps forehead* How about the sticky at the top of the page? Sorry I'm dumb. Last edited by Eugee; 06-19-2015 at 07:06 AM. |
06-20-2015, 09:17 AM | #4 |
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