Author Topic: Flying Lead AAR - Solo - Take the Farm! (Read 6171 times)

pauld · « **on:** 06 March 2011, 03:08:55 PM »

Tried my first game of Flying Lead by Ganesha Games yesterday. A small action skirmish where a small group of GI's attempt to wrest control of a Farm Complex from Panzer Grenadiers.

Sadly for the Americans breakfast was over and the Germans were alert and ready to prove the effectiveness of cover over fire and movement.

An overhead shot of the battlefield at the start of play

and from the NW edge looking over the Farm

The Farm - commandeered by Panzer Grenadiers (the Tiger is for show only and plays no part in the battle). The Allies must drive the small garrison out by the end of the day.

Sergeant O'Brien and his section start by sneaking through the woods at the NE corner

while Corporal Stanley and his fireteam come up through the SE woods - they need to open up on the famhouses and gain the German's attention while O'Brien comes in from the north.

Stanley and his team draw fire and PFC Waters is shot down whule sprinting to the cover of the wall

thinking Stanley has the undivided attention of the Germans O'Brien comes out of the woods but a vigilent Grenadier in the upper room of the farmhouse spots the emerging troops and fires with deadly effect. Private Winters is out of the fight.

Later on in the game things don't look too good for the Americans - Stanley and Waters are down in the SE and the remaining GI retreats back through the woods.

and the O'Brien and another GI succumb to the deadly fire from the windows of the buildings leaving 1 lone stunned trooper crawling backwards across the rough pasture next to the farm.

The Americans are routed.

...next time some Heavy Support may be available- a BAR or even a HMG seems essential to keep the enemy pinned down.

All in all a good game that played fast and well. Germans 5 Americans 2 was the final score and not even a whiff of extra time.

An offence/defence scenario is quite easy to work solo and the activation mechanism kept things unpredictable.

Farmhouses and walls Italeri 1/72 kits
Figures Valiant 1/72
Trees from some eBay shop in Hong Kong (cheap and good but VERY green - I must spray them and tone them down)
Tiger a diecast off the cover of a multipart publication (first issue was £1.99)
Hills by the Evil Empire^TM
Rules by Ganesha Games - I like.

Calimero · « **Reply #1 on:** 06 March 2011, 04:03:45 PM »

Nice AAR, I like it! Keep’ em coming!

Sangennaru · « **Reply #2 on:** 06 March 2011, 04:27:36 PM »

is it from gw? it is strangely well looking!

anyway, it looks it was fun!

i have my own copy of flying lead, and i think is quite a good game..

even if really bad-written... really hard to understand the rules - in any language!

Rich J · « **Reply #3 on:** 06 March 2011, 06:57:14 PM »

Only fair to mention at this point that San seems to have a problem with the Italian translation of the rules (weird I know it is an Italian company but the Ganesha rules are written in English and then translated into Italian) - no one I know has the same 'problems' with the English set ...

Nice rep though

Rich J

Sangennaru · « **Reply #4 on:** 06 March 2011, 07:31:24 PM »

Quote from: Rich J on 06 March 2011, 06:57:14 PM

Only fair to mention at this point that San seems to have a problem with the Italian translation of the rules (weird I know it is an Italian company but the Ganesha rules are written in English and then translated into Italian) - no one I know has the same 'problems' with the English set ...

Nice rep though
Rich J

i was talking with silfigoi in the few time he has free, and actually i made a short list of "holes"... i think there are many.

but still it is something different and brilliant, so i will play it! just filling the missing rules with the common sense! ^^

Rich J · « **Reply #5 on:** 06 March 2011, 07:48:34 PM »

Ok - that is your opinion

Trying to fit a generic set of fast play skirmish rules into one's idea of a particular genre with detail will always throw up something ... which is why supplements will cover genre in more detail for those that want them - like the Hearts and Minds Afghan supplement etc ...

Andrea has never mentioned your chats which is strange as I wrote the rules.

Also being picky - how can a 'short list of holes' then mean 'many' ?

Sangennaru · « **Reply #6 on:** 06 March 2011, 08:02:54 PM »

well, i don't think it is the appropriate place for this discussion, and since this discussion has already been on the appropriate place i think that now all this is clueless.

i REALLY love this game, and i already made many people (well, at least one!

) buy this ruleset, so i'm not afraid of express my opinion (wich is only my opinion, of course!)

so... back to the topic!

Jack

pauld · « **Reply #7 on:** 06 March 2011, 08:28:43 PM »

thanks for the comments - yes that is a GW hill from my Battle of Five Armies set (which with all the Warmaster stuff I have added will take me another 20 years to finish painting)

Rich - really looking forward to the WW2 genre expansion. Any ideas if it is soon? I think I read somewhere it's all done bar the publishing.

2 weeks perhaps

Rich J · « **Reply #8 on:** 06 March 2011, 08:40:27 PM »

Jack - 'virtual handshake' if you want, just please don't make sweeping statements like them being 'bad written' and 'hard to understand' - statements like 'I find them .... etc etc' is a fair opinion etc .. but like you say ... dead and buried if you want it to be

WWII done but I am still figuring out what to include ... want to do it as late war europe but tempted to do the Pacific in it as well ... but there is a lot of detailed rules needed as soon as it needs to be not generic ... also includes tweaks to the core system for cover and using the Joys of War cards like in Hearts and Minds etc ... there is also a 'patrol scenario' system. Still considering if to include the bigger battle (platoon a side) rules or to hold on and do them as a complete system (not over fond of that idea though).

Sangennaru · « **Reply #9 on:** 06 March 2011, 09:01:15 PM »

yee!

i would be really interested into the WWII expansion, it should be great for the figures i just bought.

Quote from: Rich J on 06 March 2011, 08:40:27 PM

Jack - 'virtual handshake' if you want

O_o "virtual bows", then!!

of course that is my opinion! i think this is a free forum, and as costumer i can (i have to) express my feedback! ^^
dead and buried... so be it!

pauld · « **Reply #10 on:** 06 March 2011, 11:05:59 PM »

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WWII done but I am still figuring out what to include

Europe and Pacific and an engagement generator sounds good ... there are a good few other rulesets for platoon sized actions so they would be nice as an extra but necessary? maybe not

Had the rules a long time now and only just had a first play - I liked the rules and can see them coming out again much more in the future.

Rich J · « **Reply #11 on:** 06 March 2011, 11:24:09 PM »

Thanks -
The Modern Supplement tweaked the cover rules to enable good body armour and we use it all the time for a better take on 'cover'. In the core rules which had to follow SOBH as much as possible cover just means that if you lose combat by 'one' you are saved the won by 'odd' 'even' ... this never actually meant that the cover saved you when you needed it to (when you are doubled or tripled) SO the new rule in Hearts and Minds (and will be in the WWII supplement as well) is that cover ADDS to a losing roll by one or two (depending on cover, medium and hard) so it doesn't help you 'win' but it decreases the chance of you being doubled or tripled etc.

The vehicle rules in the supplements are more detailed obviously as well and geared towards that particular genre.
I didn't want to make a game where one has to keep buying the supplements to keep current with the rules so the changes and tweaks plus new rules will only really be genre specific for those people wanting more detail etc.

Armada01 · « **Reply #12 on:** 14 March 2011, 07:31:32 PM »

Nice AAR. Excellent board!

tony

Anatoli · « **Reply #13 on:** 14 March 2011, 08:46:25 PM »

I reacted most to the GW hill, it looks fantastic the way you have painted and flocked it! Looks like something completely different from the GW pictures of it. Great job!

z1pp132002 · « **Reply #14 on:** 15 March 2011, 08:55:22 AM »

Excellent AAR and table layout.

Thanks for sharing.

GReg

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