Battle of Stalingrad

Next week we’re doing a huge Stalingrad game; I’ll post information on the builds when I finish them and pics as I take them…

It will be long (planning thursday - weekend - thursday) and it will be bloody (tons of infantry and special rules for partisans, snipers, wrecking buildings, etc).

I haven’t actually played an AAM game in over a month now… so thought I’d start this year’s first with a bang.

@MechanizedWarfare:

Nice!!  Please do take a lot of pictures!!  I want to see every detail of this battle!  :wink:

Santa brought me a camera for christmas, so I should always have pictures for now on :)

Due to unforseen circumstances the date of Stalingrad has been pushed back a week. However I’ve got more information on the game for you:

ARMY GROUPS

• German forces will consist of an infantry regiment and some armour support (mostly Flampanzers and StuGs), as well as Luftwaffe Bombers (Me110s).
• Soviet forces will consist of roughly an infantry battalion reinforced by a guards company, and without armour
• We decided for this game to, for the most part, leave vehicles out of it; the battle is to be about infantry.

SPECIAL RULES

Partisans

• These units are being used to represent the Russian Soldiers infiltrating through the sewers.
• Ignore the regular partisan rules; instead these units may be placed at the end of any of your movement phases; they trigger defencive fire from any adjacent enemies.

Snipers

• Snipers may fire at other units with Superior Camoflauge.
• Snipers get +1 cover against other Snipers if they have not attacked or defencive-fired yet this round.

STALINGRAD MAP

• The map will be 1x5; each map will have a different objective such as the Tractor Factory or the Docks.
• Germans may deploy up to 2 hexes out; Russians may deploy anywhere else.
• Objectives will be marked with depot units which do not otherwise have an effect on the game.
• Objectives are worth 1 VP to whoever controls them; there are no other victory conditions.

Railroad

• Treat as clear terrain but gives 5+ cover to infantry.

Ruined City Hex

• Any unit may enter this hex; there is no road bonus.
• Gives 4+ cover to infantry and 5+ cover to vehicles.
• Blocks LOS
• Any Artillery, Aircraft, or Assault Guns may attack this hex as if it were a unit; treat the hex as a Defence 5/5 vehicle.
• If an Artillery, Aircraft, or Assault Gun attacks a target in a Ruined City Hex but fails to score any successes against that unit, it makes an attack against the Hex.
• If an Artillery, Aircraft, or Assault Gun would damage or destroy a unit in a Ruined City Hex, but the unit rolls cover, treat as if the attack was against the Ruined City Hex instead (Don’t re-roll just count the number of successes against it instead).
• If a Ruined City Hex takes 1 or more hits in one turn, replace it with a Rubble Hex during the casualty phase.

(This one seems a bit complicated, but really isn’t; if your Artillery/Aircraft/Assault Gun hits a unit in a city hex and it fails cover nothing special happens. If it rolls cover you count the successes against the city hex instead (even if you made an AI attack - it doesn’t matter what dice were rolled). If you completely miss then you roll an attack (using AT dice) against the hex.

Rubble Hex

• Vehicles require a movement roll to enter
• Grants 5+ cover to vehicles and 4+ cover to infantry
• Doesn’t block LOS.

Mamayev Kurgan (aka Height 102.0)

• This terrain covers multiple hexes.
• It requires a movement roll to enter a Mamayev Kurgan hex, but not to move from one Mamayev Kurgan Hex to another.
• Any unit on a Mamayev Kurgan Hex can ignore terrain when determining LOS.

Mamayev Kurgan alone would make for an interesting battle, that hill changed hands so many times.

After this battle there’s a chance we might (re)start a campaign, though no specifics have been decieded upon yet.

We’ve done two mini campaigns so far; one in the Pacific and another in North Africa.

Each player has a piece that represents them (one for the Axis and one for the Allies); it has certain abilities and begins with a set rank. Once you gain enough VPs (through victories, destroying units, rallying troops, etc) you move up a rank which mat entitle you to more SAs/CAs, improved initiative, etc.

At the very least it gives some continuity between games instead of a series of unrelated events not everyone cares about; if you’ve invested time into your squad then you (usually) are much more interested in the games; and even if you technically lose, if your squad does well you can still count it as a win.

German Order of Battle:

Wehrmacht (Reinforced) Rifle Battalion
1 Company HQ
1 MG Company
1 Mortar Platoon
1 Sniper Section
4 Rifle Companies
1 Rifle Company (Understrength)

Veteran Rifle Company
Flampanzer Platoon
Assault Gun Platoon
Luftwaffe Bomber Wing

Red Army Order of Battle:

Red Army Rifle Battalion
1 Company HQ
1 Anti-Tank Platoon
1 Anti-Tank Rifle Platoon
1 MG Company
1 Mortar Platoon
3 Rifle Companies
1 SMG Company

Guards Company

First map of Stalingrad was drawn on black sheets; this is the second copy done up with tiles.

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The game starts this thursday.

They look pretty good, but apart from Der Leiter all my models are unpainted.

It’s still on - pieces should be set up tonight in preperation for tomorrow.

SWM or SSB?