{"id":2699,"date":"2014-03-29T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T15:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2014-03-29T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T15:12:52","slug":"almost-all-vehicle-play-test-of-g-a-m-e-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2014\/03\/29\/almost-all-vehicle-play-test-of-g-a-m-e-r\/","title":{"rendered":"(Almost) All Vehicle Play Test of G.A.M.E.R."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night at the club meeting, I ran another play test of G.A.M.E.R. (which stands for the attributes of a figure in the game: Guts, Accuracy, Melee, Endurance, and Reaction). \u00a0I have been pretty happy with the way the infantry rules are working, but I have been needing to give the vehicle rules a good workout. \u00a0Last night I ran a game that was almost entirely vehicles. \u00a0It wasn’t a particularly realistic scenario, but it served its purpose. \u00a0I also wasn’t very accurate on vehicle mixes, as the scenario included some late-war tanks, even though the scenario was set in Poland in 1939.<\/p>\n

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Polish infantry and an anti-tank rifle attack a German 38(t)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A column of German tanks was assigned the task of pushing across the board. \u00a0They were supported by two tank-killer infantry teams, one with a panzerfaust and the other with a panzerschreck (recall that historical accuracy was not part of this event’s objective). \u00a0The Poles had two 7TPjw tanks, two Vickers E tanks, two TKs tankettes, an anti-tank gun, and an infantry team with an anti-tank rifle.<\/p>\n

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Another shot from the German perspective<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The game began badly for the Germans, with a Hetzer and a Marder getting knocked out by the two tanks on the far hill in the picture (above). \u00a0After a while it evened out and was considered a marginal German victory, since they still had two “real” tanks left at the end, and the Poles only had one.<\/p>\n

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A shot from the German end of the table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the objective was to give the vehicle rules a workout, I was glad to see Bill use anti-tank rifle grenades (again, not necessarily historically accurate) and a satchel charge against Chris’ 38(t). \u00a0I don’t think he ever knocked out this tank, but he immobilized it early. \u00a0The tank-on-tank action in the center of the table between Geoff and Sam (Germans) and Duncan (Poles) seemed to have about the right feel. \u00a0Duncan’s Polish AT gun had ammunition trouble or something, because it kept jamming.<\/p>\n

Recall from previous posts that G.A.M.E.R. is designed to be played at three levels of \u201cdetail\u201d or \u201cresolution,” at the GM’s or players’ choice:<\/p>\n