{"id":355,"date":"2011-03-06T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T12:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2011-03-06T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T12:05:13","slug":"lsnc-game-with-172-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"LSNC Game with 1:72 Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Sam Fuson (who set up the OPD with the 114th Signal) invited a bunch of us to his house to play a scenario he wrote using LSNC. \u00a0The situation involved an ahistorical combined US\/German attack on the Russians right after WWII. \u00a0The “allies” (US and Germans) had to cross the Elbe and attack a large Russian force. \u00a0The scenario was excellent. \u00a0We played from 1030 to 1700 with a short break for lunch and had a great deal of fun. \u00a0My 11-year old daughter commanded a battalion of Russian infantry. \u00a0Kid luck kicked in, and she almost couldn’t miss. \u00a0I think she had precision guided mortar rounds!<\/p>\n

\"Sammy<\/a>
Sammy providing GM guidance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sammy uses 1:72 plastic figures and similarly sized vehicles. \u00a0This has allowed him to create his large LSNC: WWII collection pretty inexpensively. \u00a0 At 1:72nd he uses a single vehicle to represent a platoon. \u00a0He has taken the base label information, reformatted it a bit, and rubber banded the labels to the vehicles as shown. \u00a0He also uses different colored rubber bands to denote different organizations. \u00a0While I prefer the look of 10mm for this scale of gaming, what Sam did was quite effective.<\/p>\n

\"Base<\/a>
Base labels affixed to vehicles with rubber bands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He mounts his infantry just as indicated in the rules. \u00a0There is not a huge different in the look of the infantry between the 10mm and 20mm figures.<\/p>\n

\"Pre-game<\/a>
Pre-game deployment of some Russian infantry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"German<\/a>
German advance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the game progressed, on the “allied” left, the German player aggressively pushed toward his objective near the little town shown in the picture above. \u00a0He may have been too aggressive. \u00a0He kept pushing his tanks and infantry forward without softening us up first. \u00a0As a result, we Russians were stationary blazing away at him while he was moving. \u00a0With a combination of “kid luck” from my daughter’s infantry and an equally aggressive Russian player pushing his tanks and mechanized infantry around the German flank, we were able to eventually grind up this attack and retain control of the town.<\/p>\n

\"Sammy<\/a>
Sammy provides tactical guidance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even compensating for her medicine wearing off, my daughter was very excited by this game and is really looking forward to a future battle. \u00a0Her tactical instincts are good; although, sometime she wanted to be too aggressive. \u00a0One time I let her advance out of cover to go after some German tanks. \u00a0She had a great time, but probably should have remained in cover, since the Germans ran up some Panzer Grenadiers and a hot firefight ensued for three turns. \u00a0Sammy did a good job as GM; the scenario was very good; the gamers were there to play, rather than test their manhood; Sam’s wife kept us well fed; and all of us had a great time!<\/p>\n