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Category: WW3

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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The Third World War: The Reset

brad April 28, 2014 WW3 / Third World War / GDW / tww10 Comments

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 …

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The Third World War: The Battle for Germany – NATO Counterattack!

brad April 13, 2014 After Action Report / WW3 / GDW3 Comments

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 …

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Third World War: The Ground War – Part 2

brad April 12, 2014 After Action Report / WW3 / Third World War / GDW2 Comments

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 …

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The Third World War: Battle for Germany – The Ground War

brad April 10, 2014 After Action Report / WW3 / Third World War / GDW8 Comments

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 …

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The Third World War: The Air War – Turn 1

brad April 8, 2014 After Action Report / WW3 / Third World War / GDW2 Comments

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 …

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