"What game/battle were the most outnumbered/overpowered?" Topic

One game I played (where I lost badly) was a huge (twenty players) game at a con recreating the British attack to recapture Tobruk in 15mm scale with beautiful scenery. I got given a small company of Italian Infantry and a small number of Italian tanks on a hill outside Tobruk without fortifications or trenches. The British armor attacked in large numbers and wiped my units out. BLAM!

The title should be, "What game or battle were you the most outnumbered or overpowered?"

Around 1980 at a convention micro-armor game. I had a US Mech company with a cross attached armor platoon and an ATGM platoon. The Soviets had an armored division with another division (mechanized?) behind. The table was empty, with my troops on the map. Other NATO players on my side were moving up from different directions. If the Soviets would have blitzed me, they would have had little problem. But smiles and laughter from NATO and they scouted the likely ambush points. By the time they moved out, they ran into the reinforcements. At the end, they popped off a Tac-nuke and hit…almost nothing.

Hmmmm – well, from bitter experience enthusiastic Celts are unlikely to successfully dig out a Roman legion entrenched on hills with artillery support

Most mismatched was when a small desert battle when I had a platoon of Fiat M-14s versus a Matilda II – on open ground; we had to advance, so the Italians ground forward, getting shot to pieces with the only real chance we had was to get behind the blasted thing – needless to say, a one-sided slaughter

Back in the mid 70's in a wargames class(!), me and a classmate were put up against another kid in a WW2 boardgame of the war in New Guinea. He had the Allies, we had the Japanese. We were only supposed to hold Buna & Gona against the Allies, but we dropped two Japanese paratrooper units behind his lines. He threw EVERYTHING at them (not all at once of course), and lost! When the teacher saw that we'd taken Port Moresby, he wasn't too happy (because we weren't supposed to do that! LOL)

Call of Duty, I regularly take out 50-100 bad guys at a time. I guess the ability to shrug off bullet wounds by hiding behind a shrub helps.

Anybody play Custer's Last Stand (on the US side) or the Fall of Berlin (German side)?

I played a Babylin 5 game where the opponent out-ranged me and was faster. So I cut across the front of my allies and attacked some other enemy ships on the other side of the table. Much fake alien-swearing ensued.

Try playing the Texans at the Alamo. It's more fun that you might think.

Another fun one is playing the French at Auerstedt against a Prussian player who knows what he is doing. Ouch!

Not exactly sure what the OP is looking for, but I've always wanted to game the Brit Airborne at Arnhem.

I remember back in aught-two, there was ten of us codgery old wargamers … big, rotund fellas, ex-military, wit' nar'ly four-hunnret years of 'sperience betwixt us. Well, we come up against one wiry little, 4'2" – 90 pound wife who wanted her husband t'come home RIGHT NOW! … we didn't stand a chance.

Besides that, I like playing either side for Camarón (though you still have to root for the FFL, either way) and the Masada. Never liked playing the monsters in a Cthulu game – not much challenge.

In the 1980s we fought a club campaign set in Lebanon. I drew the short straw and got the PLO. In the first game I was hit by half the Israeli Air Force followed by an assault by the entire Israeli air mobile capability. The only plus was that it was so ineptly handled by the Israeli players my elimination from the campaign was very costly.

Our club has one of those gamers who fields Guards, and gets upset if he has a depleted force, not a book strength one. Volunteering to play him is sometime called "babysitting"

I played some 17th/18th century game he had, where my troops could move OR fire 6". His could move AND fire 9".

A company of Shermans vs. a company of T-34/76s.

Many moons ago on a distant planet in the 41st millenium, Myself and another Imperial Guard commander were tasked with holding a defensive position with two companies of Guard infantry (roughly 3000 points in 40k back then) against a veritable horde of Aliens and Genetically Enhanced Super Humans (totalling, at a conservative estimate some 18000 points worth of troops) which attacked us on three fronts for 8 hours straight.

And they didnt breach our perimeter. Not even a little bit.

And the best bit: the game was run by GW staff and scenario was fixed from the off, the poor guard had been picked to be the whipping boy for a new Space Mehrine release and the odds againt us got continually higher throughout the day (Our opponents had started with 8-9k points, but it became quickly apparent that they needed help!) but we werent simply going to lie down and take it…

The Guard dies, it does not surrender! ROFLAO