George Fagin  - Oct 20, 2005 11:47 am (#27655 Total: 27683)  
Honoring Jaak Panksepp, pioneering neuroscientist who discovered 
rat laughter. 
	 
Target Arnhem

Played two games of Target Arnhem last night for the first time, and had
a different experience than Frank. 

If the two British paras land in 1503, they can immediately take out the
weak German infantry in Arnhem, but have an interesting problem
thereafter. Advancing into Arnhem means unstacking, because one of the
paras must guard the supply point. This makes them vulnerable. 

Initially the Brits have two 4-5s and the Germans have one 3-3 and a 6-3
in the area, so the Germans can get a base 2-1 attack immediately. After
a couple of turns, the Brits will have a third 4-5 and the Germans will
have another 6-3 and a couple more 3-3s, so the problem remains. The
Brits will have an 8 stack and a 4 stack, while the Germans have 21 to
attack with. 

By turn 5, my Brits had taken 7 or 8 more hits than they could recover,
and were forced to consolidate into the supply hex or die. The problem
with that, of course, is that the Germans then fill Arnhem with a 12 or
15 point stack that isn't going to be budged again. My drive from the
South never got past Nijmegen, and I lost. 

In the second game, my opponent tried landing the 82nd and 101st farther
North, so they could link up with the Brits and secure Arnhem. They
succeeded in that, but it left them too far away to support the
advancing XXXth corp armor, which my Germans held at Son after managing
to cut the main Allied supply with a mech unit that exploited its 3rd
phase movement and slipped past a screening foot unit. 

Looks initially like a tough win for the Allies, but very interesting.