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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Well, I went through the next several turns of my first game of “The Third World War: Battle for Germany”. I made lots of rules mistakes and played through them as best as I could, gradually picking up the system until I had a fairly good grip on it. Three …
Well, here we are coming to the end of turn 1 but there are two very important impulses to go through before things start to really wind down. NATO gets two consecutive movement and combat impulses now, each with a regrouping phase at the end of it that lets you …
Continuing with my posts on my first game of “The Third World War” here and I’ll try to provide a bit more detail here about what’s happening. If you’re new to the game, it sort of flows in this basic sequence: 1. Air Phase 2. Warsaw Pact move and attack …
Okay, it’s time for the Warsaw Pact to get this party started on the ground. The first echelon impulse begins and we start with some jostling around the intra German border, hoping to hit at nearby NATO units and push hard past them. The Intra German border at the start …
This is just a series of short posts dealing with my attempts to play through a turn of “The Third World War” in order to learn the basics of the game. If you haven’t tried it before, hopefully this will give you some insight into how it plays – providing …
