| Date | Reporter | | Opponent | Bal. | Result | Time | Comments |
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| 2024-10-06 | (D) Kevin Duval | vs | Dwayne Duval | A | Finnish win | | Finns had last Russian squad & leader surrounded in Turn 6, a desperate FPF broke the remaining defenders. |
| 2024-10-06 | (A) Dwayne Duval | vs | Kevin Duval | A | Finnish win | | |
| 2024-10-01 | (D) Eric Partizan Eric | vs | Douglas Leslie | | Finnish win | | |
| 2024-09-30 | (A) Douglas Leslie | vs | Eric Partizan Eric | | Finnish win | | Took the Finns in this fun little scenario from Hakka Paalle. They have the advantage of range and high morale but it is not easy to break every Russian unit. After a couple of turns of ineffective fire, the Russian defenders finally started to break under fire. The key moment was when my lone surviving BT tank passed its movement TC to "bypass freeze" two 628s with a leader. This resulted in the worst possible outcome in the CCPh when the tank was immobilized and thus held the defenders in melee while the Finnish infantry moved in for the kill. Better still, in the next turn it managed to hit the defenders with its MA and break them. This allowed the Finns to storm the "Alamo building" which was defended by a lone 527 with an ATR. In the end it came down to a CC battle at odds of 1 to 1 in which the Finns eventually prevailed by reducing the Russians to a HS in the first CC before finishing them off in the final turn. This could very easily have gone the other way and it is easy to see why the results are do close in previous playings. |
| 2024-08-01 | (D) David Garvin | vs | Len Kay | | Finnish win | | Played in a prelim round at Tussle in the Tundra. |
| 2024-04-04 | (D) Tuomo Lukkari | vs | Olli-Pekka Kiukkonen | | Russian win | | [Imported from ROAR] |
| 2023-02-01 | (A) Lawrence Spangler | vs | Diane Spangler | D | Finnish win | | |
| 2023-02-01 | (D) Diane Spangler | vs | Lawrence Spangler | D | Finnish win | | |
| 2022-06-19 | (A) John Garlic | vs | Sam Tyson | | Russian win | | [Imported from ROAR] |
| 2022-06-06 | (D) Neal Ulen | vs | Scott | | Finnish win | | A back and forth battle that came down to the last Russian MPh, and a 1MC. If I made it, the last unbroken Russian squad would have made it. Alas...I failed and the Finns squeaked out a victory. I fully suspected the BT42s to be absolute junk (so did Scott), between mechanical reliability and the chance of mounting low ammo and MA breakdown chance. None of that happened and their 20 FP ITT proved to be a major pain. I was able to take one out with a rear ATR shot near the end, but by then it didn't really matter.
Fun scenario, but the Finns are always tough to go up against. Once Russian lines begin to fall, it becomes pretty hairy for them. |
| 2022-01-15 | (D) Andy Bagley | vs | Ray Porter | | Finnish win | | I set up a fairly up-front defence, with just the 9-1 leader, 6-2-8 squad + DC back in CC8. The Finns attacked this aggressively, taking some casualties but catching two of my squads in CC and making it hard for others to retreat. So the Russian "withdrawal" was quite shambolic (I should probably have avoided setting up in foxholes), with voluntary breaks and units enduring interdiction, but somehow I managed to get a few units back to defend the eastern buildings. It wasn't enough though, and the Finns sealed it with a 114mm shot into a melee, which broke my last units and gave them the win.
This looks a dicey scenario, with SANs of 5 and 6 respectively, but neither of us got a successful sniper shot in the entire game! A couple of other DRs could have been game-changers had they gone the other way though. Despite losing, I still rate this a fun little scenario. |
| 2021-11-03 | (A) Ian Morris | vs | Steve | | Finnish win | | Quick-playing. Some hairy moments in the final two turns, but a crucial break on a 2 up 1 attack decided the match, with all the remaining Russian MMC dying for failure to rout. |
| 2021-07-26 | (D) Jason Nichols | vs | Eric Topp | | Finnish win | | A fast playing scenario. The Russians managed to destroy one BT42 and to hold up the Finns but were eventually surrounded and all squads were broken on last turn. |
| 2021-04-25 | (A) Ron Garcia | vs | Darryl M. | | Russian win | | |
| 2021-02-13 | (D) Simon Staniforth | vs | | | Russian win | | Russian dice very hot the first 2 units to move on board are KIA. Tanks eliminated T3 CC as they Sleaze Freeze. With only about half the Finnish infantry remaining and the Russians still with their full force in tact opponent conceded |
| 2021-02-13 | (A) Simon Staniforth | vs | | | Russian win | | A good close game down to final turn. The much vaunted Finnish moral had proved weak through the game but they got the final GO Russian squad into CC only for a brokie to Self Rally on a 3 and hold up against what firepower could be brought against it for a Russian win. Fun scenario playable in a few hours |
| 2020-06-20 | (D) Dave Mareske | vs | James Treu | | Russian win | | One tank disabled its MA and was recalled, the other could not move independently made it hard for the Finnish to get the win. A lone 5-2-7 and a conscript were left to get the win. |
| 2020-03-25 | (A) rene cote | vs | Mrosberg | | Finnish win | | Both AFVs died at hand of ATR but massive Russian MC failures in an upfront defence made withdrawal impossible. |
| 2019-10-12 | (D) Andy Beaton | vs | Eric Givler | | Finnish win | | ASLOK 2019. Crazy fun small scenario. |
| 2018-09-05 | (D) Lionel Colin | vs | Phil Duchon | | Russian win | | Dicey but fun ! |
| 2018-09-01 | (A) Steve Blickens | vs | Jake | | In progress | | To turn 4. Lost one assault gun (atr), Russians defensive fire very effective. Had to end it with Jake judged to be nominally ahead. Entertaining action. |
| 2018-08-24 | (D) Peter Palmer | vs | John Knowles | | Russian win | | [Imported from ROAR] |
| 2018-07-14 | (A) Raoul Duke | vs | CB | | Russian win | | A very dicey scenario. A lot rides on the Finns having workable assault guns and cooperation from their sniper. I had neither. Today's lesson: Finns cannot self rally out of KIA results.
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| 2018-06-07 | (D) Martí Cabré | vs | Sebastiano Caltabiano | | Russian win | | I split my defens north and south of the railroad. My plan was to hold a couple of turns and then fall back to the southeast hill building. The Finn infantry closed up fast but the assault guns instead of getting a good shooting position quickly freezed one of my squads... the one with the DC, which in DF threw it and blew up one vehicle. That started a fire that in two turns burned all the central woods. Meanwhile the high SAN had been devastating on the Russians, killing the 9-1 leader on the first turn and breaking a couple of squads. The north flank held well and both squads retreated to the building north of the railroad, no need to fall back more, and another squad held in melee for a couple of turns. Another squad was in the last Alamo position. Finally on Turn 5 of 6 a Finn assault on the north position was broken with high morale rolls and they conceded.
It's a cool scenario to plan a fighting withdrawal with almost no space to go but the high SAN of 5 and 6 can create excessive sweeps. Also the BT-42 seem great but they are not, with a in armor that can be destroyed by MG fire. |
| 2018-01-19 | (A) Steve Blickens | vs | Jake | | Russian win | | Went down to last turn.Game had wild swings of fortune and we enjoyed the situation. Lost both assault guns but still came very close to a win. |
| 2017-12-17 | (A) B-E Karlsson | vs | Russian | | Finnish win | | |
| 2017-08-14 | (D) Jeff B | vs | Magnus Rimvall | | Finnish win | 1.5 hrs | An absolute shellacking. I played a strong upfront defense that did a good job cracking the Finnish infantry but, once the tanks came on, my men were bookended with nowhere to rout (and they broke en masse on Turn 2). By the end of the turn I had one unbroken squad left, and he was tied up in an overmatched melee. I would definitely want to be the Finns in this one. |
| 2017-07-07 | (D) X von Marwitz | vs | Michael Koch | | Russian win | | I played the Russian in this one. Plan was to defend at the front for a turn and then to fall back before it would become impossible. A small force guarded the flank on the "other side" of the Railroad.
During the first Finnish MPh I managed to break a Finnish stack of the leader and 2.5 squads. This might have decided the game very early. Instead of falling back I actually reinforced the flank to put pressure on the Schwerpunkt of the Finns using my advantage in GO units to fend off some infantry reinforcements coming in from the flank and seeking CC of which I was able to win one despatching a Finnish squad due to numerical superiority. The Finns fired into another, rolling boxcars for Fate, CR'ing and ELRing to a HS while the Russian squad broke and ELR'ed. The flanking Russians had meanwhile fallen back to the second defensive line south of the RR.
With the Russians firmly lodged in the front wood, around 3 Finnish squads broken and 1.5 dead, the Finnish obliged to push forward hard into PB defensive fire, and the tanks not yet able to bring their guns effectively to bear the Finns conceded after turn 3 because it appeared highly unlikey that they would manage to break all Russian MMC in time.
The scenario appeared somewhat dicey to me for several reasons: Very high SAN numbers (5 & 6), the capricious nature of the tanks paired with few leaders and few units. Some few instances can swing the game either way significantly. If this happens evenly distributed to both sides, then the scenario might play very tense and exciting. If one side benefits more than the other, the scales are likely shifted to give a strong advantage to the given side. |
| 2017-01-27 | (A) Peter Palmer | vs | Jamie Westlake | | Russian win | | |
| 2017-01-12 | (D) Russell Dewhurst | vs | Martin K | | Finnish win | | |
| 2016-11-06 | (A) Richard Jenulis | vs | Darren Kovac | | Finnish win | | West Coast Rumble 2015 |
| 2016-05-20 | (A) Tuomo Lukkari | vs | Timo Kärnä | | Finnish win | | [Imported from ROAR] |
| 2016-01-20 | (A) Jesus Pie | vs | Txema | | Russian win | | |
| 2015-12-15 | (D) James Rimmer | vs | Jean-Francois Fortin | | Finnish win | | [Imported from ROAR] |
| 2015-12-06 | (D) Andrew Highley | vs | Jackson Keddell | | Draw | | Set this up as a quick game at a social event, but unfortunately ran out of time before finishing. Was looking like as win for Finns as the Russians lost ATR very early and were very much on the back-foot. Finnish kill-stack made mistake of getting caught on a railway embankment, and were broken by a lucky 2-flat shot, possibly giving the Russians respite for a turn or two. However BT-42s were incredibly effective - with several KIAs from the big guns (and unfortunately no malfunctions). Definitely need to brush up ahead of time on embankment rules for this scenario, as rules lookups definitely slowed this scenario down for us. |
| 2015-11-07 | (D) Paul Legg | vs | Gary Norman | | Finnish win | | Intensive Fire 2015 |
| 2015-07-26 | (A) Michael Rodgers | vs | Craig Walters | | Finnish win | | My round 5 finished pretty early at Saint Louis, so I was able to have a pick-up game with Craig Walters, a local player who did not need to rush out. We picked 170 11th COMPANY COUNTERATTACK. I think I bid F0 and he bid R0, but we might have diced; not sure. He had two defence lines of entrenchments in woods, all on the Russian left of the railway. I attacked the first one with most of my troops, except the leader and two squads that moved to the Finn left of the railway. The first defence line was all 628 units. The one with an LMG put a serious hurt on my attack, but later 628 beserkers helped offset that. The BT-42 tanks moved in by the railway and positioned so one tank could attack one unit in each line. The second defence line had the ATR and came close to killing a BT-42. The tank fire and infantry fire cleared the first line and moved closer to the second line. A couple of Russian units retreated to the rear hill. The ATR unit broke, which allowed me to send one tank along the rails to threaten those rear units while my infantry caught up. It got luck, breaking one of the two units there. When the Finnish infantry caught up, they found that the other concealed unit was an SMC. I had one turn to make sure it could not rally; I was successful. |
| 2015-05-31 | (A) Dan Best | vs | Greg Sackett | | Russian win | | |
| 2015-05-16 | (A) Will Willow | vs | Fred Schwarz | | Russian win | | ASL OPEN |
| 2015-04-30 | (A) Jeff Waldon | vs | Mika Harviala | | Finnish win | | FtF - Bitter Ender |
| 2015-04-05 | (A) Eric Partizan Eric | vs | | | Finnish win | | |
| 2015-03-30 | (A) Rich Weiley | vs | Dave Longworth | | Russian win | | |
| 2015-03-14 | (D) Richard Jenulis | vs | Devin Henie | | Russian win | | |
| 2015-02-15 | (A) Dan Best | vs | Keven Adams | | Russian win | | |
