Western NY Game Day July 28, 2012: AK-47

I played another crazy game of AK-47. This was my third time playing. It was a 3 on 3 board. I had the Cubans.

As you can see, the board was big although not as big as what I have played on previously.

I started on the left flank. AK-47 is such a random game. You don't start with all your troops. I was very lucky with the die rolls in this game. I managed to get my reserve tanks on the board and also called in two(!!) airstrikes. Both actually hit something too.

Cubans move into position.

There were objectives on all sides of the board. For some reason 3 objectives were in my sector. My plan was to take and hold. There was also a Truck of French Miners moving through that I could capture.

Mining Truck is mine.

I got my tanks into a good position. Shielded on the left. My opponent spent a lot of time washing his trucks and tanks in the river. I could have taken better pictures. 

Tank reserves make it on the board!

The objectives were the town, the bridge and the small patch of jungle on the bottom, right. I drove the mining truck to the edge of the table.

Owen clears the river!

I didn't take a picture of the last turn, but this is the second to last turn. I control all the objectives. My tanks have blasted Owen's jeeps. I called in a successful airstrike on the jeeps/general. I took out a stand of infantry.

Meanwhile, on the other sides of the board, there were a lot of machete attacks on tanks. Successfully! Ultimately we won because of the objective control. I did not loose any stands. 

I think I would like to try this game on a smaller board. I was slow going with 6 people playing. I would like to try a smaller board with a 2 on 2 or 1 on 1. More troops in a smaller area where the random stuff could really cause a lot of chaos. I'm going to build a modern US force. 

15mm WWII Using AK-47 Rules

I got together with a group of guys last night to play a 15mm WWII game. We used a modified version of the AK-47 rules. I really liked the rule set. Very simple. Move, shoot, morale check. I snapped a couple of photos. It was teams of two, Americans as the aggressor. Germans defending. It was objective based. As the attacker, the Americans could pick the objectives. My partner and I chose the 3 bridges.

One bridge was in the middle of the town. I liked that you could pick what table corner you came in on. In the picture, you can see the Americans chose to come in on one side of the river. This proved decisive. If you double-click the picture, you will see 3 German Tigers stuck in the village. Several really bad die rolls had them visiting the bier tent in the town. They refused to come out!

This let the American forces advance. You can see my line of tank destroyers and Shermans advancing to position themselves to take on the Tigers when they decided to pop out and/or the Mark IVs and StuGs.