Last Updated
Mon Nov 15 19:48:49 PST 1999
Voters = 16

WWII PLATOON VOTING RESULTS:
Voters, By Nation - United States of America


Voters, By State
state or provincepercentage
California13%
New Jersey13%
Georgia6%
Illinois6%
Indiana6%
Maine6%
Massachusetts6%
Minnesota6%
Missouri6%
Ohio6%
Texas6%
Vermont6%
Washington6%
West Virginia6%

Favorite Rules
rulespercentage
Command Decision81%
Spearhead13%
TAC: WWII6%

Rules Regularly Played
rules played regularlypercentage
Command Decision92%
Spearhead15%
Clash of Armor8%

Number of Rules Regularly Played
number of rules played regularlypercentage
1 rules played85%
2 rules played15%

Rules Tried
rules played at least oncepercentage
Command Decision100%
Spearhead60%
Clash of Armor47%
Combined Arms7%

Number of Rules Tried
number of rules playedpercentage
3 rules played40%
2 rules played33%
1 rules played27%

Voters, By Experience
level of experiencepercentage
Up To Twenty Years47%
Twenty Years or More33%
Novice7%
Two to Three Years7%
Up To Ten Years7%

Voters, By Setting
usual game settingpercentage
With a friend or two50%
At the local club31%
At the local game store19%

Number of Armies
number of armies owned or usedpercentage
7 army/armies23%
1 army/armies8%
11 army/armies8%
12 army/armies8%
15 army/armies8%
2 army/armies8%
3 army/armies8%
4 army/armies8%
6 army/armies8%
8 army/armies8%
9 army/armies8%

Armies Owned/Used
armies owned or usedpercentage
Germany100%
Britain69%
United States of America69%
Germany - Paratroops62%
Soviet Union62%
Britain - Paratroops46%
British Commonwealth46%
Italy46%
United States of America - Paratroops46%
Germany - S.S.38%
Japan31%
France23%
Soviet Union - Guards23%
Rumania15%
United States of America - Marines15%
Canada8%
Hungary8%

Periods Played
periodpercentage
1944 France87%
1944 Sigfried Line60%
1943 Russia53%
1942 North Africa47%
1941 Russia40%
1943 Mediterranean40%
1943-45 Italy40%
1944 Eastern Front40%
1941 North Africa33%
1942 Russia33%
1940 Blitzkrieg27%
1940 Africa20%
1942 South-West Pacific20%
1941-45 Burma13%
1945 Western Front13%
1941-44 Continuation War7%
1943 Pacific7%
1943 South-West Pacific7%
1944-45 Pacific7%
1945 Eastern Front7%
What-If/Fantasy7%

Number of Periods Played
number of genres/periods playedpercentage
7 periods20%
1 periods13%
3 periods13%
9 periods13%
11 periods7%
13 periods7%
2 periods7%
4 periods7%
6 periods7%
8 periods7%

Scales Used
figure scalepercentage
6mm (including 1:285 and 1:300 scales)63%
15mm38%
20mm31%

Number of Scales
number of figure scale(s) used
(per person)
percentage
1 figure scale(s) used75%
2 figure scale(s) used19%
3 figure scale(s) used6%

RECENT BATTLE REPORTS
David Koontz

A fantasy 6mm game set in a coastal eastern European city with 6 factions all fighting for control of the radio station, hospital, docks, etc. [1 Jun 1999]

Bob Slaughter

Our last game was Command Decision 2nd edition. We enjoyed the game and found the playing time to be very reasonable. [6 Apr 99]

chris Mikucki

Ran an early entry scenario of the German assault on the island of Leros, November 1943. The game was run using Command Decision, and was run for 8 players.

The Germans failed to affect an effective assault and the falschirmjagers took very heavy casualties. [31 Mar 99]

Glenn E. Kidd

Battle of Skirmonovo. It is German arour and mech vs Soviet armor and mech plus Soviet cavalry. [30 Mar 99]

Alex Kirk

Last night we played a real hum-dinger. Rommels attack at the 1st battle of El Alamein. Except that this time Rommel got enough gas to do the wide swing he wanted. Mass death & destruction never before seen by man. A good time was had by all! ;-) [28 Mar 99]

Matt Davidson

Command Decision 3. Parker's Crossroads scenerio(23rd Dec. 1944), during the Battle of the Bulge. Elements of 4 US Divisions make a stand at a Belgian Crossroads vs. elements of an SS Panzer Division. I refereed.

Command Decision 3. 1944 Philipines. USA vs Japan. US combined arms groups vs dug in and entrenched Japanese infantry with tank support. I played.

I have played Command Decision since CD 1 first came out. CD 2 was an improvement and CD 3 is the best yet. Playable and comprehensive. Morale and troop quality are key. Good speed of play with proper level of command handled by each player(1 or 2 battalions). I have played Spearhead as well. Although fun, quick to play and easy to learn(and teach), it makes many generalizations and has a very rigid system, making it, at times, more akin to Napoleonics in feel than WWII. Depending on what one is looking for a WWII set of rules, I would highly recomend either. [27 Mar 99]

Marc Raiff

As my group is learning CD3, I ran an adaptation of the battle of Kalmas on the Eastern Front in 1944. The players ran the Russians who were trying to cut off a German rearguard. The Germans were run by the referee to a scripted set of objectives and commands. This idea is based on Glenn Kidd's War College scenarios and is very helpful in teaching new players. [27 Mar 99]

Michael Mathews

I heavily modified an old "Panzerleader" scenario for a piece of Operation Goodwood. Five players, 6x9' table, completed in one night. Results were better than historic as the Germans had horrible dice. [26 Mar 99]

Mark Serafin

A couple of British infantry battalions and a tank regiment trying to take a hill from a regiment of Falschirmjagers and a pair of King Tigers. German Kampfgruppe coming up in support after a couple of turns.

One battalion of German paras came out of woods to take the crest line of a ridge, and were promptly chewed to pieces in the open by the Shermans. On the other flank, the British infantry played hide and seek through the woods with the Germans. The King Tigers held back, waiting for the Shermans to come to them.

When the German KG arrived, the Panthers fell victim to Fireflies, and the panzergrenadiers tried close assaulting the British tanks. They suffered the same fate at the paras that tried to engage armor in the open.

The Germans finally threw in the towl just as the British artillery was beginning to work over the positions of the second para battalion. Which is good, because as the British infantry commander I was not looking forward to trying to advance in the face of King Tigers. [26 Mar 99]

John W. Holtz

A convention game version of Arracourt, 1944. As German CO I watched, helplessly, as the fog lifted just as my subordinates executed a series of advances that found them flank on or at point blank range to a couple of Sherman and Stuart companies. Something like 5 platoons of Panthers and a company of PzGrens were eliminated in one turn. Needless to say, we reverted to a defensive posture for the rest of the game. [26 Mar 99]

Bill Baker DiGiulio

Played a scenario from the Spearhead scenario book (Blaze across the Sands). It was a german and italian attack against a British defensive position in 1941. The germans took the worst of it, but cost the Brits enough causialties that the Italians were able to carry the day. I did not have the exact type of minis the scenario called for so i doctored it a bit. The Brits had an extra tank brigade, and I gave the Germans 2 Stuka sorties. [26 Mar 99]

Paul Calvi

Trial scenario on CD list [6 Mar 99]

Alex Macris

I have been adapting Spearhead for modern play. My last play game was a recreation of the fighting at the Valley of Tears. [19 Feb 99]

Nick Murray

Last game was a recreation of the collapse of the Romanian Front in 1944. It dealt with a German Infantry Division that was defending a river line only to find it has been outflanked. The Germans were told to deploy to defend the river as they had secure flanks. They had to fight off a Soviet flank attack before having their orders changed by higher command. This then forced a withdrawal in the teeth of an enemy attack. [11 Feb 99]