Time for another blast from the past: here’s an After Action Report from a game played five years ago. It was the first game played with what is currently my American army.

The table was very random, since it was pulled together from the collections of several people who were not actually going to play the game.

The American deployment was in hidden: with lots of widely scattered units spread amongst what little cover was available.

The German deployment, also in hidden, was less dispersed.

In this game I learned that you need to spread your troops out far enough apart so that they can move forward in a coordinated way without tripping over each other’s feet and blocking each other’s line of sight.

The Germans, although concentrated in one place, knew what they had come to do.

To win!

And therefore caught the Americans in total disorder.

American units were being destroyed one by one like clockwork!

As already mentioned, this game taught me not to deploy so many units so close together, as initially they hinder each other’s movement, especially if those initially deployed furthest forward are the slowest, and, if destroyed, then get in the way of the advance and the line of sight of those following.

Burt Minorrot