First T&T-game

[Poliorketes]

Yesterday, Lt. Hazel and I played our first game of T&T. We wanted to learn the game mechanics and played similar forces:

1 Hero
1 Leader with 10 Veteran Infantry with rifles & LMG
10 Regular Infantry

Hazles Hero had a hand grenade, pistol and sabre. He was an artillery specialist and drunkard.
My Hero had the driving skill and +1 Initiative. He was equipped with two Colt M1911 pistols.

We played a small scenario in a village of 4 small houses. Inside two crates where randomly hidden, one by each player, the locations kept secret. After entering a house you had to do a skill check. If succesful, the opposing player would tell you if there was a crate inside (obviously you didn't have to check for the crate you hid yourself). Picking up the crate required another action, and two men were needed to carry it, these men weren't able to shoot.

Entering the village from opposing sides, the veteran units faced each other in a fierce firefight. As both were in cover, casualties weren't that high at first, but mounted quick as we rolled amazing amounts of 9s and 10s.

Hazels regulars tried to sneak around one edge of the Village. My Hero and the regulars sped right through the center to a house on the opposite side of my deployment zone. This had two reasons - I knew a crate to be in the other house on that side of the village and entering a house on my side would have ment standing in the open for one or two turns.

#1 Rules question: My regulars got a Move & Action order while Hazel gave his veterans move and shoot. Both units had initiative 3 (as my hero was part of the regulars and he had the appropriate skill). The Veterans started behind a hedge and had to cross it to have line of sight to my regulars starting position. As both units Moved simultaneously and the regulars ended their move inside the house and out of LOS of the veterans, we decided the veterans couldn't shoot at them. Is this right?

I got lucky and found the crate hidden by Hazel in the House I entered.

#2 Rules Question: When a hero enters/leaves a unit, played it that you declare it when dealing the unit cards at the turns start. Right or wrong?

The veteran units continued their firefight. now in the open, the russian veterans seemed to be in real danger, but amazingly they killed of my veteran unit one by one. Meahwhile my regulars entered the second building to pick up the second crate. Here they were charged by Hazels regulars.

#3+4 Rules Question: As my guys were inside the building and the chargers outside, we decided that two models each could fight through the door. Do the defenders get any advantages? Could my hero use both his pistols in CC?

The fighting was quick and bloody, and Hazels chargers got mauled.

#5 Rules Question: When one side looses a HtH combat, it has to take a leadership test. What about supression? Is this the same test or a second? What if the unit passes the rout test but fails supression? As this was the case, we decided to keep them in combat, but removed them next turn as my side of the combat activated first and they got no chance to play a recovery.

Now my regulars tried to escape with the crates, while my hero started a firefight with Hazels veterans. For the first time in the game his hero left the unit to get the chance of throwing his grenade at my regulars, while his veterans fired at my hero. In the end my regulars made it of board with the crates, but my hero died in close combat with Hazels regulars.

Overall the game was fun, though we need to get deeper into the rules to have it more fluid. I like Price of Glory, and in my opinion it might be the better game for open warfare, but T&Ts great advantage are the Heroes. They enable you to play character-orientated scenarios in Hollywood-style and I think I may try to refight our last scenario for PoG with T&T with a few alterings. Another idea is pitting a small group of heroes against the might of a whole enemy force...

[Driscoles]

Thanks for your report Mike.

1. Page 9 right column. When he can see you ( LOS ) before he plays his order he  can shoot at you when you start to move.

2. When you want a leader to join a unit you have to play his card with a move order to let him join the uni. When he is with the unit you remove the hero card from the stack. When you want him to leave the unit again you put his card back into the stack.

3+4. Nope. The defenders dont get an advantage. Because all combatants in your example are in the same situation. The charger gets the charge bonus die for the first round of combat and the hero can use both his pistols in close combat.  Giving him the dice.

5. You continue to count up the supression in HtH combat. But the test on morale is for loosing the fight.

When you are surpressed after the close combat being either the winner or looser of  the melee ( your enemy is either destroyed or has withdrawn ) you have to test morale after the hth fight has been resolved.

I hope I could answer the questions and the rules are a bit clearer now.
What about a pictured battle report  for your next game.

Greetings
Bjoern

[Poliorketes]

Thanks for your report Mike.

1. Page 9 right column. When he can see you ( LOS ) before he plays his order he  can shoot at you when you start to move.

They couldn't, so we had it right

2. When you want a leader to join a unit you have to play his card with a move order to let him join the uni. When he is with the unit you remove the hero card from the stack. When you want him to leave the unit again you put his card back into the stack.

OK, we didn't give him the order, but I guess in the end it's been the same effect as he didn't have a separate activation. We'll do it the right way next time.

3+4. Nope. The defenders dont get an advantage. Because all combatants in your example are in the same situation. The charger gets the charge bonus die for the first round of combat and the hero can use both his pistols in close combat.  Giving him the dice.

So we#Ve been right, again

5. You continue to count up the supression in HtH combat. But the test on morale is for loosing the fight.

When you are surpressed after the close combat being either the winner or looser of  the melee ( your enemy is either destroyed or has withdrawn ) you have to test morale after the hth fight has been resolved.

Thanks, now it's clearer. We made the mistake of doing the supression test in the middle of melee.

What about a pictured battle report  for your next game.

Who knows? The pics this time weren't of the game, as it's only been a test game with a rather silly scenario.

[Driscoles]

Hi,

see you did most rules right  
Please keep on asking either here or send me an email.

You should tryout the sample scenarios from the webpage. They are not silly. Maybe the night raid scenario is, cuz its hard for the germans to win  

The Darkest Africa scenarios can easily be adopted into other periods as well.

Cheers
Björn

[Poliorketes]

Maybe the night raid scenario is, cuz its hard for the germans to win  

I remember crisis...