"First Game of Combat Patrol" Topic

Continuing the saga of Captain Moon's platoon of US Marine grunts, I played my first game of Combat Patrol this past weekend. To catch everyone up, Captain Moon was a Motor-Transport Officer in the Philippines when the Japanese invasion occurred. He grabbed all the Marines he could find (cooks, bakers, and candlestick makers) and formed a rifle platoon. They fought it out with the Japanese as long as they could, then made their way south to the Dutch East Indies. There they were brought up to strength and shipped off to Palembang on Sumatra, and all was well until Japanese paratroopers began to descend on and around the airfield! Captain Moon immediately led his Marines into the breach.

The Marine M-1917 water-cooled machine gun (bottom center) lays down fire on the objective (top center) as Captain Moon leads 3rd Squad forward (top left). To hear the tale of how Sergeant Thomas won the Navy Cross, please check the blog at:
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Please note, this is fight number six in the DEI campaign. Here are the rest:

1. US Marine fighters intercept Japanese reconnaissance aircraft:
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2. Following a bombing raid, US Army P-40s clash with Japanese Zeroes:
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3. US Marine fighters clash with a Japanese fighter sweep:
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4. The naval battle of Balikpapan:
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5. US Marine fighters intercept incoming Japanese bombers:
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Enjoy, and more to follow! If you have comments or questions, please post them on my blog as I cannot respond here on TMP.

Fascinating report, Wolfhag! Fun to read, and the table and minis look smashing: I especially like your rocket, flams and explosion markers. That's an awfully nice mat. Is it Cigar Box?

Thank you for sharing!

Nicely done!

My post seems to have disappeared.

Thanks for posting the detailed battle report. I'm glad you seem to have enjoyed the rules. If you have questions about the rules, you can post them to the yahoo group for Combat Patrol or send me Emails at surdu@acm.org.

When a leader is killed, the unit is pinned. I think that you were playing the pinned rules correctly.

Give the activation system a couple of games before you try to modify it. You probably want to invoke some of the optional rules to reduce friction if it is too much for your tastes.

There is a FREE South Pacific supplement on the rules page which has different morale results for Japanese units.

Buck Surdu

Also, if you send me your mailing address I have some things I like to send folks who post battle reports.

Buck

The South Pacific supplement is awesome. I even use it for my Combat Patrol games for retro scifi, where I use the Japanese decks for units of Warbots and Space Phraints. Here are a couple of examples of this:

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The downloads are free, all you need is to buy the Japanese decks. Well worth it.

And your AAR was nice to read – thanks for sharing it.

To be clear, the South Pacific supplement, as well as many other supplements are available for free on the rules' Web page: link

You do not NEED the Japanese Action Decks to use the South Pacific supplement. All of the Combat Patrol Action cards have a serial number. The free supplement has a table that you can use to cross index the card serial number to get a Japanese-specific morale result. The cards are much more convenient, but you don't strictly need them.

You DO need the basic (Set A or Set B) sets of cards from DriveThruCards or Sally 4th to play Combat Patrol.