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Category: Corps Command

Dawn’s Early Light – Video Playthrough – Day Four Report

brad May 11, 2014 WW3 / Lock ‘n Load / Corps Command / Dawn's Early Light4 Comments

It’s the final day of the battle as Pact and NATO forces slug it out to see who wins control of the Eisenbach Gap.  The shattered remnants of the 1st Panzer Division and the West German Territorials try desperately to hang on and keep Stahlhammer Air Force Base as an …

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Dawn’s Early Light – Video Playthrough – Day Three Report

brad May 10, 2014 WW3 / Lock ‘n Load / Corps Command / Dawn's Early LightLeave a comment

Corps Command:  Dawn’s Early Light continues on!  The Soviets have made some impressive gains in the last couple of game days.  With the road almost open to Stahlhammer AFB and the West Germans rapidly falling to the onslaught of the 1st Guards Tank Division, it seems that the Soviets have …

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Dawn’s Early Light – Video Playthrough – Day Two Report

brad May 9, 2014 WW3 / Lock ‘n Load / Corps Command / Dawn's Early LightLeave a comment

For those of you following my current video playthrough of Dawn’s Early Light, here’s the report from Day 2.   The first day of the war started with the Soviets pushing towards Eisenbach and Eben and things got very tense as NATO braced itself for the onslaught of the Warsaw …

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Dawn’s Early Light – Video Playthrough – Day One Report

brad May 8, 2014 WW3 / Lock ‘n Load / Corps Command / Dawn's Early LightLeave a comment

Continuing on with my video report of my recent playthrough of Corps Command:  Dawn’s Early Light, here’s the report from Day 1.  During the game, I stopped playing at the end of each impulse and gave a brief overview of what happened.  I’ll be posting the rest of the videos …

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Dawn’s Early Light – Video Playthrough: Setup & Intro

brad May 7, 2014 WW3 / Lock ‘n Load / Corps Command / Dawn's Early Light4 Comments

Sometimes it’s hard to document everything you want through a still camera, especially in games where there’s a heck of a lot happening at once.  At best you can end up with a pretty basic description of what happened on your table while missing out on some interesting details and …

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Dawn’s Early Light: Random Events Table

brad August 5, 2012 Corps Command / Dawn's Early LightLeave a comment

I really love LnL’s “Dawn’s Early Light”, an operational level game involving NATO and the Soviets slugging it out over a series of scenarios depicting WW3. One thing that I think the game could use to spice things up a bit would be some more random elements to represent the …

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Corps Command: Dawn’s Early Light – NATO Fire and Movement

brad April 7, 2012 Lock ‘n Load Publishing / Corps Command / Dawn's Early Light / StrategyLeave a comment

This is (probably) my final article dealing with strategy in LnL’s Corps Command:  Dawn’s Early Light.  As I mentioned in my previous post, the key to Soviet victory is finding a NATO weak spot while maneuvering your other units around the other defenders to either prevent NATO reinforcement or to …

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Corps Command: Dawn’s Early Light – Soviet Movement and Fire

brad April 4, 2012 Corps Command / Dawn's Early Light / Opinion2 Comments

Last week, I talked about some fairly basic principles behind LnL’s Corps Command:  Dawn’s Early Light and I urged the Soviet player to consider moving rather than fighting as the best course of action most of the time.  Today I’m going to go into this a little deeper and talk …

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Dawn’s Early Light: Day by Day

brad March 17, 2012 After Action Report / Corps Command / Dawn's Early LightLeave a comment

Today, I’m going to post a short playthrough of Dawn’s Early Light, which is part of LnL’s Corps Command system.  This is a more operational level wargame that takes place in the World at War universe in which the Soviets invade West Germany in 1985.  In contrast to the playthrough …

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