{"id":8016,"date":"2018-07-16T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=8016"},"modified":"2018-07-16T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:14:58","slug":"star-wars-with-combat-patrol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2018\/07\/16\/star-wars-with-combat-patrol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars with Combat Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title:\u00a0 Rear Guard at Outpost Priebe<\/em><\/p>\n

Rules: Star Wars Supplement for Combat Patrol\u2122: WWII<\/em><\/p>\n

Period: Science Fiction \u2013 Star Wars<\/em><\/p>\n

Description:\u00a0 Clones are advancing toward the Republic base camp on the planet of Christophsis.\u00a0 Supplies are running low and the Trade Federation is refusing to let any through to the Clone troopers.\u00a0 Droid forces advance steadily.\u00a0 Lieutenant Boomer and his Clone platoon conduct a delaying action at Outpost Preibe to give time for supplies and reinforcements to arrive.\u00a0 Can Boomer hold long enough?<\/em><\/p>\n

Greg and I ran our sixth game of Historicon Saturday evening. \u00a0We used a modification of the France 1940 scenarios we had run in the morning and afternoon. \u00a0We swapped out the terrain a bit and replaced the Germans with Droids and the British\/French with clones.<\/p>\n

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Starting deployment for the Clone Wars game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I don’t have enough droid tanks to exactly replicate the earlier scenarios, so the droids had two tanks, and the clones had shoulder-fired AT rockets.<\/p>\n

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Droids advancing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Clones take up defensive positions atop buildings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was probably our least successful game of the weekend. \u00a0We are still struggling to get the balance right in these Clone Wars games. \u00a0Sometimes the clones just shred the droids and people complain. \u00a0Other times the droids don’t die fast enough, and the clone players complain. \u00a0We had a critical clone player who didn’t quite understand the activation sequence, and as a result the anti-tank rockets never really played a role. \u00a0The droid tanks shelled the clone positions with impunity.<\/p>\n

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Cones defend the roofs despite heavy casualties. You can see a rocket launcher in the center of this picture. You can also see Obi Wan Kenobi has jumped on a droid tank to destroy it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The clones needed to draw in the droids. \u00a0Instead they sat on the roofs of the buildings and just got shelled over and over. \u00a0Lots of lessons experienced, but no lessons learned. \u00a0Had the clones dropped down behind the buildings out of sight, the droids would have been forced to advance to where the shoulder-fired rockets could have taken out the tanks and where the high rate of fire and accuracy of the clone small arms fire would have been decisive.<\/p>\n

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Despite taking cover properly, the clones were torn up by HE fire from the droid tank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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