PBEM / MBX Wargaming

Rough Wake Up Rough Wake Up This scenario is another written by Arrigio Velicogna found in an earlier Line of Fire, and again within the Compendium. It can play linked to another of his scenarios – The Bridge at Passau - and possibly a third scenario, depending upon the outcomes of the first two. The West Germans set up with 3/1 Aufk forward, using the wooded hills to screen the width of the map with the HQ and LeoII in the center, and the two Luchs platoons on the wings. The Infantry of 4/1 Aufk set up as the backstop, nestled into the towns of Hugelsdorf and Grunental, with the TPZ1’s toward the rear in hide positions. As mentioned earlier today, t…

Anyone interested in playing the Kola strike scenario from High Tide?

Defenders of the Fatherland This is a solitaire battle report of Arrigo Velicogna's scenario Defenders of the Fatherland from the Battles Within Battles expansion. The scenario takes place in the upper right most corner of the Blood & Bridges map. A West German reserve M-48 tank company, and a light infantry grunts with milan ATGM, company are tasked with buying time for reqard units to prepare to halt the Soviets at the Rhine. The T-80's, BMP-2's and assorted cats and dogs of the Soviet 93rd Reconaissance Battalion is tasked with getting to the Rhine by exiting at least 6 units of the west map edge with six turns and control a cross road at Hex AA7. Both …

Pursuant to Brad's new MBX proposal, my current gaming plate is full: Gulf Strike Scenario 2 will be winding down over the next few weeks with my weeking gaming gang. Stephen's Mach2 Vampires is beginning to get interesting. Currently leading a flight of IDF Phantom II on an October 1973 airfield bombing run, being escorted by a pair of Mirage III's in a pbem involving 4-5 guys and the Clash of Arms Airpower rules. The defense is a handful of MiG-21's (I believe - haven't spotted the enemy yet and I'm only at 1000') and some hidden AAA assets. Not to mention, my personal gaming interests, currently a homebrewed quick modern land rules set, and LocknLoad'…

From the never ending battles over Thorpe Bridge, the following report is of a short skirmish using the GDW Assault (circa 1983) rules (as I describe as a manual TacOps). For those not familiar, the overall scenario was derived from a USMC Tacical Decision Game "problem found in the Marine Corps Gazette. The actual problem can still be found on the MCA's website. MCA TDG 99-4. Thorpe Bridge can be located on the center right of the TDG map. My hand drawn map of the environs around Thorpe Bridge is here. Hexes are 250m each. The bridge is centermass but partially obscured by flash on scotch tape..., damn scotch. Since Assault was US Army-NATO centric M…

MY first post at this forum. Been playing H4 for 3 months now...solo. Absolutely love the game, but would like to have a live opponent. Does anybody know if there are any PBeM games to join? thanks

Despite small and off the top of my head after a few hours, this one is for Brains. It was a rough dipiction of the first mission flown by the author of Angles of Attack as a part of VA-145 on the first night of Desert Storm. I prepared 2x A-6E TRAM to attack the docks in Umm Qasr. They were both armed with a BAP-100 x6 Cluster Bomb under stations 1,5. An AGM-88 HARM and an AJM-C under stations 2,4. Here the weather was pleasant as opposed to the IR defeating nighttime mist/precipitation thesy faced. For this run through, the port facility was protected by a FCR directed KS-19 battery. There was an EWR-A further back inland. The 2x A-6E came in at T-Level…

Surge Into the Barents Fourms are open. Hmm, one of our heroes here was sunk?

Flew Scenario S-1 Border Clash in a USMC F-4S versus a WP MiG23MF. It was guns only and the MiG used the Evasive Movement Table...to no avail. On Turn 6, I was able to dive onto him ending up on his 0 degree line point blank firing a 2 second burst from my external SUU-23 Vulcan 20mm gun pod scoring a cripple result thus 16 points. Always a good feeling getting your first "kill".

First of all - No disrespect to the belligerents and/or victims of this current war between Georgia and Russia. Just using the situation to frame a viable scenario. Georgian Su-25 responding to ground units observing a Russian armored column advancing on their defensive positions. Russian armored column of 2x tank platoons and a mechanized infantry platoon. At a rearward position, covering a bridge crossing, is a solitary SA-11 launch vehicle. Su-25 enters the south edge of the map at T Level and moves up along the eastern side of the map. Turns 3-4, Su-25 effectively jams the SA-11 TTR with its AJM-A EW Pod. Turn 5 it is not jammed and the SA-11 lock…

Does anyone know any good PBEM sites?

Gentlemen, An Umpired PBEM Harpoon game is being offered to anyone that is interested. The scenario being played is a slightly modified version of Surge into the Barents published in High Tide page 59. If you’ve had enough with the computer stuff, tired of a burning retina, and bug fixes, and want a real mental exercise than playing Harpoon4 in way it’s designed to be played is for you. The requirements to play is: one must have a copy of either Harpoon4 or 4.1 Rules, graph paper – that’s right, I said graph paper, you’re going to do your own plotting men. Protractor, ruler, calculator, and pencil with an eraser are also required. No, there is no fancy graphics, bu…

Decisive Action Decisive Action is a modern Division and Corps level simulation that depicts combat with maneuver brigades and battalions along with supporting artillery, airstrikes, electronic warfare, engineer, helicopters, and even pysops units. Units are depicted with official NATO symbology, and US Army official map control measures delineate the battlefield. New life may have been blown into the languishing gem with the very recent release of v2.7. The sim is available from HPS Sims. I have had an on again off again love affair with this sim. The civilian version is a deviation from a product used at the US Army Command and Staff College. It suffers fro…

Hello Two players are required for a small PBEM game using the CIC warfare plotter. Cheers Jon.

There are some retreat parameters in DA, and the Maximum Loss is 30%. Now I want to let my unit don't retreat or retreat until Max Loss is more than 30%, Does anyone tell me how to do that?

Greetings My name is Angel "Silver_Dragon" Francisco, I live in Spain, Barcelona. I was one of the Dual Luckers in the former Global Thunder MBX campaign, and a participant in the campaign no begun by Bill Jennings War in 2012, I would like to contact the creators of MBX, to advise me in the creation of Small MBX or MBX participation in other ongoing projects as a referee or assistant of the management team to increase my experience and support the Communities. I have about five years of experience in the construction of scenarios and battles Harpoon 4.1 and subsequent extensions. I do not usually participate much in the English-speaking forums, but I can ojeo the of…

Anyone interested in trying some of the GCS scenarios from the Falklands War?

With my once weekly merry band of wargamers we started VG 3rd Fleet's World War III in the North Pacific...or something like that. Day 1 (three distinct turns), weather rolled as heavy storms right through, horizontally, the center of the map. Worse yet, that encompassed 95% of our collective surface and air assets. Surface ships limited to one hex movement in the wx zone, no planes can launch from airbases or carrier in wx zone, subs uneffected (planes launched elsewehre could fly over wx effected zones. Turn 2, weather clears but random event rolled caused a soviet (us) command failure. Zones randlomly effected encompass all of our coastal areas, thus again o…

A quiet saturday morning led me up into the attic to inventory my board wargames. Other than determining that I have a problem, so says my wife, here is what I found. ATO Into the Bear Trap Avalanche Press Battle of the Bulge Afrika Korps Desert War East Front (2nd Ed.) Heroes of the Soviet Union Avalon Hill Tactics II MBT/IDF (could not put my hands on IDF but I know its here somewhere) B-17 Flight Leader Blitzkrieg The Guns of August TacAir Fortress Europe Russian Front Panzer Blitz (couldn't put my hands on it but I know that Arab Israeli Wars is here somewhere) Squad Leader SL Creshendo of Doom SL Cross of Iron ASL (couldn't put hands o…

I received my long awaited Solo Ranger from Omega Games, updated and re-released for its 25th Anniversary. It is not a typical hex and counter, or even area movement wargame. It comes with laminated maps, a military-type protractor, dice, and a gazillion mission cards. There is a paragraph based Tactical Events book that guides you through your mission. My first and only game so far was a squad reconnaissance patrol to scope out a enemy rocket site. You plan various aspects of the mission, how much ammo, what other ordnance or gee-whiz gear is carried and by who. Amongst personal weapons, we carried an AT-4, bino's, AN-PVS-7's, extra 5.56mm, extra 7.62mm, safety …