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The Way of the Warrior - a Slammer's Scenario

The Slammers initially did well but I lost control of Slick on turn two which made him an obvious liability. He plowed forward and managed to - though a lucky shot - take the main gun off of Broglie's tank destroyer (or perhaps Broglie blew it himself by trying to rapid fire his main weapon) but the net result was that Broglie parked his vehicle and hid behind a building and Slick rushed ever onwards. The Sincanmo started launching barrages of missile attacks using their snipers as spotters although, one was quickly spotted and killed by close assault by Broglie's infantry. Coming the other way the rest of Broglie's tank destroyers adopted a hull down position behind a ridge making them very difficult to hit and rapid fired their main guns for all they were worth, taking out blower tanks - immobilising one and destroying another - plus a combat car or two. The Thunderbolts on the other wing pushed forwards along a road and plastered Slammers tanks with ATGWs which they mostly deal with using tribarrel fire in much the same way that Broglie's Calliopes were doing on the other flank. As the game progressed, Slick was attacked numerous times and used his two luck rolls (yes - I bowled a '2' for luck points: pretty miserable…) to avoid penetrations from tank destroyer main guns and a buzzbomb. Finally, however, his luck - literally - ran out: two units of Broglies infantry deployed up a rocky outcrop his tank was sheltering behind and pumped a brace of buzzbombs into his top deck over the angle of his anti-buzzbomb strip mines: one got through and the tank blew: Slick breather no more!

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