Tretten in Flames ETO (id:#56436)
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Designer: Philippe Naud
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Balance:
GermanBritish
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Overview:

The first Allied land operations conducted in April 1940 to stop the German invasion of Norway had been a complete failure. Indeed, the fighting in the valley of the Gudsbransdal River had demonstrated the might and elan of the invaders in the face of the ill-equipped, ill-led, and poorly coordinated Anglo-Norwegian troops. The Allies suffered defeat upon defeat. Nonetheless, at Tretten, on 23 April, they made one last attempt to stem the advance of General Pellenghar's soldiers. The battle quickly turned into a disaster. German infantry, supported by ski troops, tanks and artillery, surrounded the forward positions of the British 148th Brigade. Still, the Norwegians managed to retreat. In Tretten, Colonel German, CO of the 115th Leicesters, tried to assemble his brigade's last units in order to resist.
Attacker: German (196th Infanterie Division/138th Gebirgsjäger Regiment/PanzerAbteilung Zbv40)
Defender: British (1/5th Leicesters, Headquarters Company of the 1/8th Sherwood Foresters and 148th Brigade Headquarters)  
5.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:13.5 D:9.0
AFVs: A:1
PzKpfw IIA

AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:1
15cm sIG 33
5cm leGrW 36
D:0
Boys ATR

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: DS (E3.73), GS (E3.72), Alpine Hills (B10.211). A: Skis (E4.21)
Overlays: NONE
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DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2025-03-24(A) Jobbo Fett vs Rob W. German winThe Germans aggressively pursued a line of attack into the town while the ski troops used their mobility to head around the southern end of the hill. Some careful defence by Rob meant that the Brits always had concealment and some potentially nasty shots to dole out - but I was mostly bailed out by lucky morale rolls when things got dicey. The Artillery on the hill didn't provide much of anything, despite some great rolls, due to distance + concealment bonus.

First Fire lockouts meant that the ski force was able to swing behind the defenders and secure 4 separate building hexes in a powerful coup that upset the balance of the forces remaining on board. Couple with my 50mm mortar getting a critical hit on a wooden building, and a subsequent original 3... Disaster struck on the stack of 2 squads + the hero, and the game was called there. This scenario feels like it requires the Brits to be aggressive and risk being shelled by the INF gun once or twice. The Blaze can swing things if the wind picks up or gust breaks down a building. Care should be taken so that the Blazes don't take away too many building victory points away from the Germans.
2024-02-01(D) Rob Tyson vs Peter Dunn British winInteresting little scenario. I was pretty convinced early on that I was going to lose as the Brits as I wasn't overly happy with my defending setup, but the German ART and AFV ended up being non entities, with the ART doing no damage, and the AVF being taken out by the ATR.
2023-08-05(A) Kevin Duval vs Dwayne DuvalD German winAs the Germans I completely diced my opponent without question. 118 rolls of the dice with 6.5 average says enough.
2023-07-05(D) Dwayne Duval vs Kevin DuvalD German win
2023-05-20(A) Tuomo Lukkari vs Olli-Pekka Kiukkonen German win[Imported from ROAR]
2022-11-25(A) Dmitry Klyuykov vs Herbert German win

(VASL Log)		Germans put part of the Tretten townhall ablaze with prebombardment, and rushed towards it under the cover of 150mm gun smoke. After the several bloody CCs Germans were able to clear the townhall and nearby buildings at the middle of the game, but already lost 7 CVP (of 12 allowed) while doing that.

Gebirgsjäger skiers had some swift snow hill ride to get to the British rear, surrounding the defenders and threatening several free buildings.

German PzII (5 CVP!) came to support the infantry with MGs firepower, but foolishly run right into the Street Fighting ambush. Gott mit uns, British squad didn't pass PAATC, so crew realized the danger and moved forward to link up with the rest of German panzer spearhead somewhere to the north.

Big caliber of the supporting gun allowed to achieve several important hits with ATT, so the Germans tooks 22 buildings at the end of Turn 5, still hanging at dangerous CVP mark but breaking enough defenders to prevent the possible counterattack in advance.

Another great game with Herbert. Thank you for the game!
2022-04-11(D) David Garvin vs Nick Faryna British winBrits won on CVP count.
2021-11-09(A) rene cote vs mrosberg German win
2020-12-10(A) Rob MacGinley vs Jason Nichols German winThe Game was about the slow grind forward for the Germans and the need for good rolls in a very wintery environment
My thrill was my ski troops gliding down the edge edge in two turns to attack at the back of the board which helps upset all plans of the Brits
2020-12-10(D) Jason Nichols vs Rob MacGinley German winWell played by Rob. Even though his gun malfunctioned and didn't play much of a roll he was able to push through the scattered British defenders and capture the required number of building hexes.
2020-05-18(D) Andy Bagley vs David Murray German winI started well as the Brits, particularly as the German 150mm gun malf'ed on its first shot. But unfortunately he managed to repair it, and it then started killing eveything it hit (it's very powerful even with area fire). I tried to keep out of it's LOS as much as possible, and the split-level building in 15G5-H5 is very useful for this, but not enough on its own. I needed to stop the Germans advancing through the buildings along the river bank, and tried to do this by supporting CC with my hero. His performance was distinctly non-heroic however, and I simply ran out of troops in the end.
2019-08-17(A) Shane Pask vs German winEnjoyable even though the Poms put up no resistance. Ski troops went around the back of the hill to surround the Poms while the main force assaulted up the guts. Big gun interdicted buildings along the road to discourage British occupancy but did no damage and the crew was broken by the sniper on the last Pom turn (the only activation of the British sniper all scenario). Germans captured 24 building hexes and Poms managed only 3 CVP when ski troops stupidly attacked the large building in the saddle on turn 5 which was still untouched at game end.
2019-07-05(A) Dave Mareske vs Paul Works British winBrits killed my tank with a LMG and pushed me over the CVP cap, otherwise it was a likely German win.
2019-07-05(D) Paul Works vs Dave Mareske British win
2019-04-20(A) Vic Lauterbach vs ML German winNot bad, but not very exciting. German 150* never missed and the LMOR chipped in by breaking British units that fell back. The British did kill the PzIIA in CC, but fell one short of the CVP cap!
2013-08-21(D) mark watson vs Andy Beaton German winVery neat scenario, between the skis, the snow, and the fire. Brits did very little damage but held strong for the first-half, but the INF gun methodically blew-up everyone it could possibly hit. The decimated Brits were unable to hold-out so I gave up on my turn 5. Good fun!
2013-08-21(A) Andy Beaton vs Mark Watson German win
2013-02-25(D) Luke Sineath vs John Bock British winThe German choice in Flame placement is very important!
2012-11-11(A) Martí Cabré vs Santiago López German winI put the blaze in the big building most close to the German departure line. Then I started popping smoke with the gun and sending most of the units forward covered by the smokes. Wind started blowing and this generated more drifting smoke that helped me. The skiers went straight to the first building on the hill. The gun blasted it and the skiers took it.

Then I put a killer stack up on the building that is resting on the hill and poured fire on every Brit in sight. The Brits had to slowly retreat, pursued by the German machineguns and the gun. The AFV entered and traded some shots.

I kept the broken British DM every turn and tried to inflict casualties to open a way to the big buildings necessary for victory. Finally I got to the crucial point where I had to risk it. I used the skiers to offer some shots to the British strong point, and rushed some squads forward. Some of them did it, and I left other squads to cover the taken building hexes so the British were not able to retake them. With one turn to go, the British conceded. German victory!
2011-08-27(A) John Van Natta vs Jeff T British winThe German gun malfunctioned on it's first shot of the game and was never a factor. The Germans started strong but as they pushed into the village the British defense, led by the hero, coalesced to slow them down. The pivotal moment in the scenario was when the British 9-1 and his squad survived a 3MC and prevented my flanking force from rolling up the Brits left flank and taking several buildings. An ill-conceived close combat in which I overcommitted my force in hopes of an overwhelming and quick CC victory turned in to a melee that lasted the remainder of the game and left me with too few squads to take that final building hex on the last turn. I ended up with 19 of the 20 required hexes.
2011-08-27(D) Jeff T vs JVan British winRead JVan's account. Close battle that probably should have been a German win but the dice gods favored the Brits late as they had just enough to hold onto 1 extra building. The British Hero was effective throughout and stopped two German mid-right thrusts almost single handed. Fun scenario but with the German gun malfing on the first shot and then breaking, it seemed it wasn't meant to be for the Krauts.
2008-09-09(A) David Ramsey vs Simon Taylor German winPretty average scenario, German is hard pushed to do everything (20 Building hexes in 5.5 turns) but the British have poor troop quality and can get flanked fairly easily
2004-10-01(A) Richard Jenulis vs Mark Walz German winASLOK 2004 [exact date unknown]
2004-02-07(D) Steffen Knippel vs Darren Kovacs German win
2002-04-13(A) Fred Ingram vs Steve Etzelmeuller British win
2002-03-19(A) Fred Ingram vs Dave McLee German win
2002-01-26(D) Rich Weiley vs Steven Linton German winCANCON 2002 - Round two.
2002-01-11(D) Richard Jenulis vs Bruce Kelley British winWinter Offensive 2002 [exact date unknown]
2001-10-16(D) Bill Brodie vs Stephen Mugford German winAdding old ROAR records
2001-07-08(A) John Garlic vs Damon Norko German win[Imported from ROAR]
2001-07-05(A) Rich Weiley vs Dave Longworth British win
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