Howdy,
The Gumbinnen scenario (Scenario No. 2) from the Great War East -1914 scenario book was replayed last Saturday afternoon at Fall-In. I had run the game at Historicon previously. At Fall-IN, the game was bumped from its planned location in the Marietta Room, due to a scheduling conflict in convention program. "Ooops." Still we had eight players. I do wonder if some folks never found the game who might have been looking in the original, planned location.
Photo 1 – Glenn Kidd painted the base terrain mat for the game, and in my opinion it looked great. Here's a photo of Glenn setting up the mat.
Photo 2 – The German player in the north, ran a good attack, his divsion broke through to threaten the Russian line of communications. LOC's were a victory condition of the scenario.
Photo 3 – The Russian player in the south was very aggressive, he left his defensive positions and moved to attack the Germans. He attacked twice his weight, and the Germans kicked his ass, and snuck a brigade around his southern flank.
One of the recurring errors I see in folks running attacks for Great War Scenarios is the failure to mass. Players tend to spread their attack along a line, and the attack ends when a morale failure occurs, or ends when attrition beats down the lead elements.
Overall we had a very good group of players, and they seemed to have a good time. I'd call the game a success.
Thanks to Mike Murphy for the in-play game photos.
The game was played using Command Decision – Test of Battle with 15mm Peter Pig figures for the Russians and Minifigs for the Germans.
Ponder on,
JAS
