What's an Ardennes Offensive scenario in Panzer Leader without the Panzerlied "theme song?"
For the third and final wargame I managed to play in 2016, my friend Joe and I decided on a "Battle of the Bulge" session of Panzer Leader--the actual campaign, not the film.
But speaking of the mediocre movie, I took some liberties with our game and added it to this after action review (AAR). For instance, I changed the name of "Kampfgruppe Peiper" to "Kampfgruppe Hessler," and imported a couple other movie characters, and even movie quotes, into this AAR.
Our game took place at Joe's house on 17 December--72 years and a day after this phase of the German offensive occurred. The scenario was determined by a die roll, and we came up with this:
The German spearhead was led by Colonel Martin Hessler (played by Joe):
While the Americans were led by Major Wolenski (me):
For the AAR narrative I used the names of the towns printed on the Panzer Leader Boards C & D. Also, Joe was kind enough to indulge me in my quest for cinematic quality. Normally in the game when units fire, they're flipped over. Instead of that, we used various counters from his Advanced Squad Leader game to illustrate a unit's status.
Here's the pre-game set up:
I wrote this AAR using a new template provided by the Comic Life program I use.
I'm rather excited about this first issue of The Broadside! The images are in JPEG Format, which can be clicked-on to enlarge. (And if you're like me, with "aging eyes," you may have to use the Zoom Function on your internet toolbar to enlarge the images even more in order to read the print).
I also have a PDF version available, which I'll try to find places to post it on.
Enjoy!
For the third and final wargame I managed to play in 2016, my friend Joe and I decided on a "Battle of the Bulge" session of Panzer Leader--the actual campaign, not the film.
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Our game took place at Joe's house on 17 December--72 years and a day after this phase of the German offensive occurred. The scenario was determined by a die roll, and we came up with this:
The German spearhead was led by Colonel Martin Hessler (played by Joe):
While the Americans were led by Major Wolenski (me):
For the AAR narrative I used the names of the towns printed on the Panzer Leader Boards C & D. Also, Joe was kind enough to indulge me in my quest for cinematic quality. Normally in the game when units fire, they're flipped over. Instead of that, we used various counters from his Advanced Squad Leader game to illustrate a unit's status.
Here's the pre-game set up:
I wrote this AAR using a new template provided by the Comic Life program I use.
I'm rather excited about this first issue of The Broadside! The images are in JPEG Format, which can be clicked-on to enlarge. (And if you're like me, with "aging eyes," you may have to use the Zoom Function on your internet toolbar to enlarge the images even more in order to read the print).
I also have a PDF version available, which I'll try to find places to post it on.
Enjoy!
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