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Firepower – The Desert Rescue (Part 2)

brad September 27, 2014 Avalon Hill / Firepower2 Comments

Okay, before we get rolling on this playthrough of Firepower, let me set the scene here and describe the background. First off, I decided to try and make a mission that had the same flavor of a cheesy ’80s action movie where a special elite force of bad-asses takes on …

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Firepower – The Desert Rescue (Part 1)

brad September 23, 2014 libya / FirepowerLeave a comment

1986.  Somewhere in the Libyan desert… McCreary shielded his eyes from the unflinching midday heat of the desert sun as the ramp of the C-130 fell down in front of him.  “Alright, let’s get this piece a’ shit off-loaded!” he yelled above the sound of the big transport plane’s engines. …

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Firepower: WW3 – First Probe

brad October 10, 2012 After Action Report / WW3 / Soviets / Avalon Hill / Firepower14 Comments

I’ve been playing quite a bit of Firepower lately (and badly, I might add – I still don’t have a great grasp of the advanced rules) and it’s been a lot of fun.  After my first few forays into the game with the Soviet-Sino border clashes, I decided to have …

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Firepower: Sino-Soviet Border Clashes Part III

brad October 5, 2012 After Action Report / Soviets / Firepower / Chinese2 Comments

In the last couple of posts, I set up a scenario featuring a Soviet and Chinese squad going toe-to-toe on either side of a river.  Just to see what vehicles can do in the game, I threw in a Chinese APC for fun.  Here’s the rest of the write-up: In …

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Firepower – Sino-Soviet Border Clashes Part II

brad October 2, 2012 After Action Report / Soviets / Firepower / Chinese2 Comments

This AAR is a playthrough of my homebrew scenario about which I posted the other day.  Here we go: We’ve got a river dividing the Soviet and Chinese borders.  There are two bridges over the river. The banks on either side are 4 height (about 30 feet) down to the …

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Firepower: Sino-Soviet Border Wars 1969 – Part II

brad September 30, 2012 Soviets / Firepower / Homebrew / Chinese6 Comments

Tonight, I was playing around a bit more with Firepower and I started to realize how massive the system gets after you add in vehicles and all the other optional rules.  So I set up a little scenario, again based on the Sino-Soviet border clashes in 1969.  This time, I …

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Firepower – Sino-Soviet Border War, 1969 – The Lost Patrol

brad September 24, 2012 After Action Report / Avalon Hill / Firepower7 Comments

I’ve been learning the Basic and Advanced rules of Firepower lately, which is no small feat.  The Basic rules are pretty straightforward but when you move into the Advanced and Optional rules, things get pretty heavy going.  I made a little scenario based on the Sino-Soviet border clashes that happened …

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