The Great Goon War, Slight Return (Super-sized tabletop wargaming)

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The Sandman: Jun 23, 2013; Okay!

So, I've, like, designed a really sweet attack plan that I'm calling Attack Plan Ded Moroz, like "Deadmau5!"

WUB!

Germans. We'll be in Paris by Christmas!

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 16:12

The Sandman: Jun 23, 2013; Okay!

So, I've, like, designed a really sweet attack plan that I'm calling Attack Plan Ded Moroz, like "Deadmau5!"

WUB!

Well, that was fun.

For the record, the reason for my swing from extreme pessimism to a degree of optimism was finding out that we no longer had to worry about the loss limit. With that still in place, we'd have been attritioned to defeat by any major French attack, or so I assumed.

Also, wow. Those failed morale rolls on our part at the beginning really were devastating; I didn't appreciate quite how badly we hurt the French during that exchange.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2017 23:43

The Sandman: Jun 23, 2013; Okay!

So, I've, like, designed a really sweet attack plan that I'm calling Attack Plan Ded Moroz, like "Deadmau5!"

WUB!

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Parisians Celebrating Flags (On the Same Day as the Battle of St. Croissant)

I suppose they're saving the German ones for 1915.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2017 23:44

The Sandman: Jun 23, 2013; Okay!

So, I've, like, designed a really sweet attack plan that I'm calling Attack Plan Ded Moroz, like "Deadmau5!"

WUB!

I think the "don't stop marching" thing was to avoid something like what I did with my cavalry at Croissants in the opening turns: a single company forcing the entire advance to stop dead in its tracks.

We just didn't word our orders as "run past small forces but pay attention to large ones".

Also, we probably should have sent a brigade to Baguende, with the idea of turning it into a fortified zone. At the start of the game, we didn't really need to have a single line, we just needed to have our guys close enough to support each other; we could have had one brigade of the 19th head to Baguende and another to roughly the eastern Bois de Baguette without needing them to touch at their final positions.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 00:07

The Sandman: Jun 23, 2013; Okay!

So, I've, like, designed a really sweet attack plan that I'm calling Attack Plan Ded Moroz, like "Deadmau5!"

WUB!

Hunt11 posted:

I have been meaning to ask this. What was the German teams obsession about moving around in box formations?

In my case, trying to keep firepower concentrated.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 00:32

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 16:12

The Sandman: Jun 23, 2013; Okay!

So, I've, like, designed a really sweet attack plan that I'm calling Attack Plan Ded Moroz, like "Deadmau5!"

WUB!

I can reveal one thing: the name of Tigre Bois was originally a joke on the German Roll20 map that didn't transfer to the final one. See, the original name of the town of Clemenceau was Clemenceau Country Club. Thus, Tigre Bois was both a reference to Clemenceau's nickname and a reference to the name of a certain golfer.

Also, Toilettes-champs was originally named W.C. Fields.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 08:54

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