Per L'Onore Di Roma ETO (id:#63541)
Yasna Poliana, Russia
1941-08-12 (6 others)
Designer: George Kelln
Starter kit scenario?: Deluxe scenario?:
Balance:
ItalianRussian
Overview:
With the Russians in full retreat, the 9 Divisione Fanteria “Pasubio” was ordered to advance to the Bug River and cut off the retreating Russians. The leading battalions of the 80° Fanteria “Roma” arrived at a village and found the Russians setting up a blocking position. The Reggimento Commandant, Colonnello Epifanio Chiaramonti, ordered an immediate attack, hoping to ctahc the Russians before they had a chance to fortify the village. Per l’Onore di Roma (For the Honour of Rome), 3a Compagnia under command of Lieutenant Mori assaulted the village, forcing the Russians back, while Lieutenant Carbonari’s 2a Compagnia outflanked the Russians, managing to not only prevent them from retreating, but also stopping reinforcements from getting into the village. After several more hours of hard fighting, the village fell to the Italians shortly before 20.00 hours.Attacker: Italian (80° Reggimento Fanteria "Roma")
Defender: Russian (469th Strelkovy Regiment)
6 turns
Players: 2 OBA: None Night: NoUnit Counts: |
Squads: A:15.5 D:10.0 |
AFVs: A:0 |
AFVs: D:0 |
Guns: A:0 Mortaio da 45 Brixia x 3 D:0 50mm RM obr. 40 x 2 |
Misc Rules: | ELRs for both sides may never be less than 2 |
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Publication | Board |
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ASL Action Pack #10 | 70 |
Overlays: | NONE |
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Date | Reporter | Opponent | Bal. | Result | Comments | |
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2023-10-08 | (A) Eric Partizan Eric | vs | Russian win | |||
2023-05-06 | (D) Paolo Cariolato | vs | Alessandro Demichelis | Italian win | one MMG broke at the first roll, and the italians had a flank secure instead of a 2FL, his"BIG" stack passed not one, not two but three 1MC and broke my stoned defender. Un uphill game, I kept on playing till the very end, but in reality I had lost this one from the very first turn. Anyway my opponent played really well, it's not easy to attack with first line italians. | |
2023-05-03 | (A) Paolo Cariolato | vs | Federico Corso | Russian win | I thought I have this one bagged but a couple of bad rolls at critical point and wise use of reinforcements by my opponent reversed the outcome. well played Fred. Anyway attacking with 1st line italians is a tough core. | |
2022-10-08 | (D) Will Willow | vs | John Haas | Italian win | ASLOK 2022. Went 6 turns | |
2022-06-15 | (A) JP Laurio | vs | Ron | Russian win | ||
2022-04-01 | (A) Tom Kearney | vs | Sam Tyson | Russian win | This went down to the final CC DR. The Italians managed to capture three stone buildings and applied heavy pressure on the fourth. This fourth building was occupied by only a conscript HS with a MMG but they made a heroic stand! Russians reserves arrived in the nick of time and managed to wrest control of a stone building at bayonet point due to some horribly inaccurate Italian shooting. | |
2021-12-27 | (D) fabrizio da pra | vs | Federico Mazzucchelli | Russian win | ||
2021-11-07 | (A) O Ramaille | vs | Doba Serge | Russian win | The Russian setup at the border of the village with MMG and mortars ready to welcome the Italians. The Italians advanced in two groups. One progressed quite unharmed through the woods in the Norh and the other thourgh the grain fields. Quickly the superior firepower of the Russians spoke by itself. The Italians began to broke and were neither able to advance nor return efficient fire. The North group was more succesful and reached the cover of isolated buildings. Despite the protection of the wooden buildings, as soon as an Italian appeared a shot broke him. It seemed like the buildings were made of paper walls. The reinforcements flanked the Russians from the South and took two stone buildings. They were however unable to hold them and even take other buildings. Too much accurate fire from the Russians. Even the sniper participated. A last desperate assault ended also badly. The setup of my opponent was very solid. With the available firepower of the Russians and average DR, I cannot see how the Italians can win this one. I am in wonder to see this scenario quite balanced in the roar. | |
2021-11-07 | (D) Doba Serge | vs | Totilhus | Russian win | Dernier tour, 4 bâtiments détenus | |
2021-10-08 | (A) Eric Partizan Eric | vs | Russian win | |||
2021-07-15 | (A) manzoli andrea | vs | davide galloni | Italian win | ||
2021-07-13 | (D) davide galloni | vs | Andrea Manzoli | Italian win | ||
2021-06-27 | (A) Paul Legg | vs | Stuart Brant | Russian win | Double One 2021 round 3 | |
2021-06-07 | (A) manzoli andrea | vs | Galletto | Italian win | ||
2020-11-14 | (D) Stephen Stewart | vs | Wynn Polnicky | Russian win (VASL Log) | Strange scenario. VASL LOG included. Also available on YouTube- search Vasling with Stew. Massive Italian force coming on. Flanking force that will stop the Russians from reinforcing has 2 turns of movement to get into position and lay down serious FP on the entering Russians. SO, the Russians need to slow the Italian MOB coming on and on TURN 2 need to move 5-8 hexes away to prepare for the flank attack. (dissuading this attack forces the Italians to all come from one directions and allows your force to increase by about 40% on Turn 4) Setup: ONE of my squads setup in a building, ONE is woods...everyone else is in the Grainfields. Frontal defense to fall back if necessary. Lay down firelanes up in his FACE to funnel his attack then slink back to the town...laying down firelanes as we go. Never reached that point. The firelanes were too much for them. Italian force eradicated on Turn 1. One ragtag force made it through a 2fp-2, but was isolated from the pack. Challenging scenario on both sides... | |
2020-09-22 | (D) Lawrence Spangler | vs | Diane Spangler | Italian win | ||
2020-08-10 | (A) Dave Mareske | vs | Dennis Dowd | Italian win | The Italian wave caught the Russian defenders on the center and right flank. The Italians made a couple of crucial morale checks but otherwise broke, dramatically failing their ELR. The Italians were able to capture three stone buildings before the Russian reinforcements were able to enter and made it difficult for them to advance on the village. A great scenario that can go either way. | |
2020-08-03 | (A) Richard Jenulis | vs | Mark Pandori | Italian win | VASL: Cascadia 2020 Summer Offensive (R1). The Italians pushed hard on the right. The Italian reinforcements set up a perimeter to interdict the Russian reinforcements from lifting the siege. The Russians made a game of it until the end. This was my first game with Mark. Mark has good rules knowledge, pace and made tactically sound decisions. This was a fun scenario and I look forward to playing Mark again. | |
2020-06-26 | (D) Bob Davis | vs | Steven Miller | Russian win | ||
2020-06-04 | (D) Pascal Boileau | vs | Jean-Carlo Debolle | Russian win | An unusual but very fun scenario. The Russians are pretty statics and are well protected by the building TEM against the low FP of the Italians. The issue of game was decided in the very last turn. The Italians must be aggressive in planning their attack (but not too much to avoid many broken units disseminated all over the map). Russian reinforcements were welcome since I have only two MMC in GO holding the victory buildings at the time they arrived. A tight game and surely other DR results will switch the victory side... | |
2020-05-05 | (D) X von Marwitz | vs | Miguel Guerrero | Italian win | This is a scenario from Lone Canuck's "Quick 6" pack set in June 1941 in Russia setting up a small Russian infantry force with a single 9-1 leader, 2x 127 Crew, 2x MMG, and 2x 50mm MTRs to defend village from an Italian infantry attack. The attacking Italians need to take most of the Stone Buildings in the village and their initial force has roughly double the number of squad-equivalents than the Russian, a 9-1 and 8-0 leader, 2x126 Crews, 2x LMG, 2x (dm)MMG, 2x 45mm MTR. The Italians receive reinforcements in their Turn 3 in the form of yet another 4.5 squad equivalents, 2x126 crews, an 8-1 Leader, 2x(dm)MMG, and another 45mm MTR. The Russians receive reinforcements in their Turn 4 consisting of 4.5 squad equivalents, an 8-0, and a MMG. The problem for the Italians is that they are brittle, their advantage is numbers and that they will be able to flank the Russians with their reinforcements. The Russian advatage is the better TEM in the village, their drawback that they cannot afford losses and must stop as many Italians as possible of the initial force so that they don't get overwhelmed by sheer numbers. I played the defending Russians in this game. I think my defensive setup was basically sound, though there's not too much complicated stuff to think about. The Italians moved very cautiously for their first two turns, striving to avoid losses. They didn't need to worry, though. This was one of those games, where you don't believe what the dice are doing to you. My DR average for the first 2.5 turns was above 7.5. I truly kept shooting but could do no damage even to Italians. My problem was, that most of the time I coul not even generate Morale Checks which is usually not the hardest part against attacking Italians - 32 shots with an DR average of more than 7.7! I have to state, though, that the DRs of my opponent were not brilliant either. We both simply could not harm each other during this part of the game. The bad thing for the Russian, though, was that the Italians were closing in and that their number of GO units was not diminishing. I think until the start of Italian Turn 3, all the effects I managed were 2 Pins, 1 Break (by Sniper), and a single 1KIA vs. an Italian HS with those 32 shots (not counting the MTR's TH rolls...). My Russian force was not reduced in number at all but I had a broken squad without leader someplace. Our second session started basically with Italian Turn 3 and the entry of his reinforcements. As the initial Italian force was now very close and basically at full strength, my defending Russians had more than enough to do dealing with these. Furthermore, 'the Italians in being' did prevent me from moving. Yet, I had to fall back with some of my small force to prevent the Italians just waltzing in from behind. Given the situation, this was impossible, so the Italian reinforcements could move into postion that allowed them to encircle virtually all defending Russians and to set themselves up for pot shots against my reinforcements. I thought, my DRs could not get worse compared to our first session - and I was right. This time, the Russian's overall DR average was better: 7.58. My 23 IFT DRs were averaging 7.52 so the Italians mostly never needed to roll any of the dreaded MCs. My 6 MC's were averaging 8... The TH average was 8.75 for my MTRs. It wasn't exactly fun, but it was funny. Since the start of this scenario, I couldn't harm a thing turning the Italian attack in to a literal walk-over. This began to tell, as everything that I had which did break had to surrender thereafter. While losing only a single HS due to Italian fire, I lost 2 squad equivalents, a 127 crew, and my only leader as PoWs and another 447 to CC. The Italian losses to show for it were ridiculously low: He had killed one 126 himself by boxcars on a Rally attempt, one 136 was taken out by my Sniper a second 136 eliminated by a K/2, a third one in CC an one 346 because I had to declare No Quarter to prevent becoming a Guard when Italians were waiting to advance into CC. The game was so full of hairraising frustrations that it was unbelievable. One of the most eminent ones was the following: After two Italians squads got Pinned by a FL and were stuck together in a hex with another 126+MTR in OG, my 50mm MTR opened up on that stack, needing a 7, 8, and 9 to hit (we used a 3rd die for determining ROF). I kept ROF three times piling up Acquisition, but rolled 10, 10, 11, not even hitting these sons of bit**** much less harming them... So after 56 IFT rolls averaging 7.64 and managing to kill but two Italian HS, completely surrounded without a leader, I conceded before the entry of my reinforcements at the end of Turn 3. I think I made the best out of the situation, but sometimes it is not to be. I wonder how this scenario would play if both sides have something like average DRs. Surely more Italians would break and likely not come back within the scope of the game, but this might have also applied to the Russians sometimes which can less afford losses due to their small number initially. What is quite interesting in this Infantry-only setting is the large number of SW and (vehicular) Crews provided to man them. | |
2020-04-25 | (A) Eric Topp | vs | Neil MacPherson | Russian win | Italian FP couldn't shake the resolve of the Russian defenders in building J5. The Russian leader rolled snakes twice on MC to Battle Harden (!) then become a Hero (!!). When the Russian reinforcements arrived to surround the F4 VC building, it was all over for the boys from Roma. | |
2020-03-10 | (A) Daniel McGuire | vs | Curtis Marvin | Russian win | Italian morale could not hold up against squads and MGs. Italians grabbed three building by turn 4. but the Russia reinforcements drove them back. Played to the last turn, when a desperate Italian charge was crushed. | |
2019-11-08 | (D) Simon Staniforth | vs | Russian win | |||
2019-11-08 | (A) Dan Best | vs | Dmitri Garlic | Italian win | North Texas ASL Tournament 2019. Pick up game. | |
2019-08-31 | (D) Dan Best | vs | Jeff Kouba | Russian win | Sioux City ASL Tournament 2019. | |
2019-07-20 | (D) David Garvin | vs | Armando Signore | Russian win | Came to the end, and wow, a sniper attack by the Italians hit the objective hex but one of two defending squads avoided getting hurt. In the end, I was able to surround the objective hex with enough residual to ensure the victory. | |
2019-03-22 | (D) David Garvin | vs | Steve Pleva | Italian win | Went to the final turn! | |
2019-03-22 | (D) Jonathan Kapleau | vs | Markham, Joe | Italian win | ||
2019-03-20 | (A) Michael Rodgers | vs | Carl Nogueira | Russian win | Lost to an up-front Russian defence. | |
2019-03-15 | (D) Dave Mareske | vs | Rick Reinesch | Italian win | ||
2018-11-17 | (A) Allen Evenson | vs | Richard Jenulis | Italian win | Rich's Commissar led squad made a valiant attempt to take back key building needed to deny Italian victory, surviving massive fire in the street and closing needing a 3 to win in CC after failing ambush. Italians held out for the win. | |
2018-11-17 | (D) Richard Jenulis | vs | Allen Evenson | Italian win |
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