Killing Stugs with SMGs

[Nigel_s]

I spent last Friday enjoying five back to back PBI games. One of which gave a memorable moment 😀.

I brought a veteran Soviet Recce company (first time used), mounted in half tracks. No tanks or guns... risky! Faced an average Heer coy with two Stugs.

Anyways, long story short.

I send a mounted platoon all the way down the table to defender row 2 on GT 1.

Causes opponent some worries but seeing i have no anti-tank he brings on two Stugs arriving on his base edge road in square facing my mounted platoon. Yikes!!

My turn. Thinking i'm russian, i'm not running away. I decide to dismount and assault as i was confident I'd have enough dice to win the assault and thought the stugs would then fall back off-table and be lost.

I get enough action points, dismount four SMG bases and charge madly into an open square containing two STUGs.

I lose one base to here they come.

Assault sees me get four hits to his none(lucky!!!).

Each Stug gets two hits allocated and we check the rules. Now i discover that if target is on table edge then the fall back is to left or right, not off the table. Ive cocked it up, he'll still have two stugs facing my inf platoon!! I should have run for cover.

But then

He throws to save the stugs. Two rolls each. He says out loud those dangerous words that should never be said "so, I need anything but a one" and rolls....

Stug one - 5,1
Stug two - 6,1

BOOM. BOOM.

Funny thing is that if i'd checked the assault rules first to see fall ball was to left or right i wouldn't have done it.

[Sean Clark]

And that's why play games!

[martin goddard]

I bet your opponent laughed and laughed until he stopped


martin

[Nigel_s]

Tbh Martin he did smile when we discovered he wouldn't retire off table.

But then became somewhat frustrated. I did the gentlemanly thing and went to the kitchen to put the kettle on. I did my celebration dance there, out of sight.

He's my long standing gaming mate and a good guy. He took it all in good spirits once he had a fresh cuppa in his hand.

[mellis1644]

That sounds awfully like my die rolling

[martin goddard]

Well Nigel, you need to mention it at every game you play. Let the story mature into "i killed 3 stugs with one SMG base" and things will be good for all (possibly?).


martin

[Sean Clark]

I'm not sure if I ever told anyone the day I killed Richard III twice in a day.

Colonel Kilgore might remember.   

[Colonel Kilgore]

It had slipped my mind, Sean - thank you so much for reminding me   

Simon

[Flaminpig0]

I'm not sure if I ever told anyone the day I killed Richard III twice in a day.

Colonel Kilgore might remember.   

I captured Napoleon at a refight of Marengo

[martin goddard]

This all clearly demonstrates good games with a twist.

martin

[mellis1644]

The best games tell stories. One of the reasons I loveBlood bowl if that nearly always seems to 'tell a story'