Hedgerow Tourney Archive - for tactical study

RESULT JUST IN
(Game 4/14)

POS v Cargol
Winner: Cargol, minor vic 62%: 38%
Tank losses- POS 2/3: Cargol 3/9

Endgame screenshot:- wavy lines are final front lines; X's mark tank wrecks: white dotted arrows show main tank thrusts.
As usual, the Gers are hard pressed to contain the Brits..

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CURRENT LEADER BOARD
(colour indicates side)

1st- Jonny: score plus 26 (minor vic to Jonny, 63%: 37%)
2nd- Cargol: score plus 24 (minor vic to Cargol 62%: 38%)
3rd- Ratzki: score plus 22 (minor vic to Ratzki, 61%: 39%)
4th- Rico: score minus 2 (draw, Rico 49%: POS 51%)
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RESULT JUST IN
(Game 5/14)

POS v Nathangun
Draw, POS 54%; Nathangun 46%
Tank losses- POS 3/3: Nathangun 3/9

Endgame screenshot:- wavy lines are final front lines; X's mark tank wrecks: white dotted arrows show main tank thrusts.
I concentrated my 3 panzers at the bottom edge but they were little more than speed bumps as Nathanguns Brit juggernaut swatted them, but I was able to maintain some beat-up German infantry remnants near some of the flags to keep them neutral and scrape a draw..

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CURRENT LEADER BOARD
(colour indicates side)

1st- Jonny: score plus 26 (minor vic to Jonny, 63%: 37%)
2nd- Cargol: score plus 24 (minor vic to Cargol 62%: 38%)
3rd- Ratzki: score plus 22 (minor vic to Ratzki, 61%: 39%)
4th- Rico: score minus 2 (Draw, Rico 49%: POS 51%)
5th- Nathangun : score minus 8 (Draw, Nathangun 46%: POS 54%)
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RESULT JUST IN
(Game 6/14)

POS v Nort
Major vic to Nort, 78%: 22%
Tank losses- POS 3/3: Nort 1/9

Endgame screenshot:- wavy lines are final front lines; X's mark tank wrecks: white arrows show main tank thrusts.
My Germans were completely swept away by Nort's bulldozer advance across the full frontage of the map, squeezing them into small pockets and forcing their auto-surrender.
This is my 6th Hedgerow game and I haven't won one yet (gulp)..

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The defeat has a knock-on effect back in the Fuhrerbunker-
Hitler- "Eva, the war is lost, will you do two last things for me?"
Eva- "Yes of course bunnykins, just name them!"
Hitler- "First we get married"
Eva- "Oh yes, yes!"
Hitler- "And then we blow our brains out"
Eva- "Er..can't we have a long engagement and honeymoon first?"

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CURRENT LEADER BOARD
(colour indicates side- Green Brits, Blue Gers)

1st- Nort: score plus 56 (major vic to Nort, 78%: 22%)
2nd- Jonny: score plus 26 (minor vic to Jonny, 63%: 37%)
3rd- Cargol: score plus 24 (minor vic to Cargol 62%: 38%)
4th- Ratzki: score plus 22 (minor vic to Ratzki, 61%: 39%)
5th- Rico: score minus 2 (draw, Rico 49%: POS 51%)
6th- Nathangun : score minus 8 (draw, Nathangun 46%: POS 54%)
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I badly overestimated the German strength when designing the scenario, they needed at least another 8x HMG's and a few more schrecks.
I thought their fausts would be enough, but they usually never got a chance to use them before the Brits were taking them by surprise, bursting through the hedges right on top of them, think 'shock and awe'.
I should also have made it an Assault game instead of Attack because the Gers would have got loads of free foxholes to use as empty decoys to confuse the Brits. As it was, the instant the Brits saw foxholes, they'd area-fire them to kingdom come, knowing there was almost certainly somebody in them.
 
It doesn't have to be an assault to give you fallback foxholes. You just set it in the editor to "defender is: dug in with fallbacks"
 
This is my 'Panzer-Pak tandem', a tank and gun sited close together that I hoped would mercilessly clobber anything coming down the street. However, Wardog's Churchill appears and quickly puts a shot clean through the panzers turret, oh well back to the drawing board..
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My Churchills and supporting infantry cautiously peer through the hedge looking for trouble and find it as Enven's PzIVH knocks out 2 Churchills in quick succession (x'd)..
The surviving Churchill on the left then returned fire and wrecked the panzer, but 2 tanks for 1 was a heavy price to pay..

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A field too far...
Flushed with success after capturing the flags behind them, my Churchill and supporting infantry continue their advance but are finally brought to a halt by ACSpectre's German squad that fausts the tank and cuts down the infantry..

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Owl's heavy metal (4 Churchills) come bursting out of his smokescreen along the green arrow, knocking out my panzer before it had time to react and stretching my left flank to breaking point.
My schreck guy knocks out one of the Churchills in a desperate attempt to blunt the British drive, note the backblast and dust kicked up by the discharge of the projectile..

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1- My German defensive setup against USS Wyoming is looking good, I've put a panzer-pak tandem (yellow ring) guarding the central road, and 2 more panzers (blue rings) on either flank, what could possibly go wrong?
Suddenly quad-flak commander Obergefreiter Balaban begins desperately engaging an incoming Hurricane and earns himself the nickname "Ballistic Balaban", but it's too late as rockets are already arcing down..

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2- And the pak is reduced to scrap metal while the panzer becomes a lame duck..

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RESULT JUST IN
(Game 7/11)

POS v ACSpectre
Minor vic to POS, 57%: 43%
Tank losses- POS 3/3: ACSpectre 3/9

Endgame screenshot:- wavy lines are final front lines; X's mark tank wrecks: white arrows show main tank thrusts.
I sent 7x Churchills down my left flank (top) but it was slow going. Elsewhere ACSpectre stopped my detachment of 2x Churchills in its tracks..

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CURRENT LEADER BOARD
Green=chose to be Brits. Blue=chose to be Gers


1st- Nort: score plus 56 (major vic to Nort, 78%: 22%)
2nd- Jonny: score plus 26 (minor vic to Jonny, 63%: 37%)
3rd- Cargol: score plus 24 (minor vic to Cargol 62%: 38%)
4th- Ratzki: score plus 22 (minor vic to Ratzki, 61%: 39%)
5th- Rico: score minus 2 (draw, Rico 49%: POS 51%)
6th- Nathangun : score minus 8 (draw, Nathangun 46%: POS 54%)
7th- ACSpectre : score minus 14 (minor vic to POS, 57%: 43%)
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ONGOING
USS Wyoming
Wardog
Owl
Enven
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Tourney ends midnight Feb 28th.
All finishers will get a Hedgerow Tourney Participation Ribbon, and the winner will get the trophy
 
RESULT JUST IN
(Game 8/11)

POS v USS Wyoming
Minor vic to POS, 59%: 41%
Tank losses- POS 1/3: USS Wyoming 1/9

Endgame screenshot:- wavy lines are final front lines; X's mark tank wrecks: white arrows show main tank thrusts.
The game ended early on turn 20 just as USS Wyoming was about to launch his big push..

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CURRENT LEADER BOARD
Green=chose to be Brits. Blue=chose to be Gers

1st- Nort: score plus 56 (major vic to Nort, 78%: 22%)
2nd- Jonny: score plus 26 (minor vic to Jonny, 63%: 37%)
3rd- Cargol: score plus 24 (minor vic to Cargol 62%: 38%)
4th- Ratzki: score plus 22 (minor vic to Ratzki, 61%: 39%)
5th- Rico: score minus 2 (draw, Rico 49%: POS 51%)
6th- Nathangun : score minus 8 (draw, Nathangun 46%: POS 54%)
7th- ACSpectre : score minus 14 (minor vic to POS, 57%: 43%)
8th- USS Wyoming : score minus 18 (minor vic to POS, 59%: 41%)
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ONGOING
Wardog
Owl
Enven
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Tourney ends midnight Feb 28th.
All finishers will get a Hedgerow Tourney Participation Ribbon, and the winner will get the trophy
 
RESULT JUST IN
(Game 9/11)

POS v Owl
Tac vic to Owl, 66%: 34%
Tank losses- POS 2/3: Owl 2/9

Endgame screenshot:- wavy lines are final front lines; X's mark tank wrecks: white arrows show main tank thrusts.
Owls Brits ground me down in a battle of attrition..

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CURRENT LEADER BOARD
Green=chose to be Brits. Blue=chose to be Gers

1st- Nort: score plus 56 (major vic to Nort, 78%: 22%)
2nd- Owl: score plus 32 (tactical vic to Owl, 66%: 34%)
3rd- Jonny: score plus 26 (minor vic to Jonny, 63%: 37%)
4th- Cargol: score plus 24 (minor vic to Cargol 62%: 38%)
5th- Ratzki: score plus 22 (minor vic to Ratzki, 61%: 39%)
6th- Rico: score minus 2 (draw, Rico 49%: POS 51%)
7th- Nathangun : score minus 8 (draw, Nathangun 46%: POS 54%)
8th- ACSpectre : score minus 14 (minor vic to POS, 57%: 43%)
9th- USS Wyoming : score minus 18 (minor vic to POS, 59%: 41%)
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ONGOING
Wardog
Enven
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Tourney ends midnight Feb 28th.
All finishers will get a Hedgerow Tourney Participation Ribbon, and the winner will get the trophy
 
ACSpectre said:
Any extra credit for completing the game from both sides? :)
Click to expand...

Just the honour of knowing you completed two games in difficult bocage terrain in less than a month mate, here's a little cybertoken to mark your achievement-

To ACSpectre-
"One of the Fastest Players in the World Medal"

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"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way"
-John Paul Jones
 
RESULT JUST IN
(Game 10/10)

POS v Wardog
Tot vic to POS, 88%: 12%
Tank losses- POS 2/3: Wardog 9/9

Endgame screenshot:- wavy lines are final front lines; X's mark tank wrecks: white arrows show main tank thrusts.
I learnt a lot about bocage defensive tactics from previous games in this tourney and was able to put them to good use, Wardog simply had the bad luck to meet me at my strongest. He was fighting to the last man and the last bullet but the interfering computer stepped in like a boxing referee to stop the fight and automatically surrendered him because of his heavy losses, it does that sometimes..

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CURRENT LEADER BOARD
Green=chose to be Brits. Blue=chose to be Gers

1st- Nort: score plus 56 (major vic to Nort, 78%: 22%)
2nd- Owl: score plus 32 (tactical vic to Owl, 66%: 34%)
3rd- Jonny: score plus 26 (minor vic to Jonny, 63%: 37%)
4th- Cargol: score plus 24 (minor vic to Cargol 62%: 38%)
5th- Ratzki: score plus 22 (minor vic to Ratzki, 61%: 39%)
6th- Rico: score minus 2 (draw, Rico 49%: POS 51%)
7th- Nathangun : score minus 8 (draw, Nathangun 46%: POS 54%)
8th- ACSpectre : score minus 14 (minor vic to POS, 57%: 43%)
9th- USS Wyoming : score minus 18 (minor vic to POS, 59%: 41%)
10th- Wardog : score minus 76 (tot vic to POS, 88%: 12%)
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Tourney ends midnight Feb 28th.
All finishers will get a Hedgerow Tourney Participation Ribbon, and the winner will get the trophy
 
NORT WINS THE TOURNEY!

(He chose an inscribed tankard instead of a cup, it'll be sent to his home address
He and everybody else will get a Hedgerow cyber-ribbon and this thread will be moved to the FGM Academy for students of bocage warfare)..:)

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FINAL STANDINGS

Green=chose to be Brits. Blue=chose to be Gers

1st- Nort: score plus 56 (major vic to Nort, 78%: 22%)
2nd- Owl: score plus 32 (tactical vic to Owl, 66%: 34%)
3rd- Jonny: score plus 26 (minor vic to Jonny, 63%: 37%)
4th- Cargol: score plus 24 (minor vic to Cargol 62%: 38%)
5th- Ratzki: score plus 22 (minor vic to Ratzki, 61%: 39%)
6th- Rico: score minus 2 (draw, Rico 49%: POS 51%)
7th- Nathangun : score minus 8 (draw, Nathangun 46%: POS 54%)
8th- ACSpectre : score minus 14 (minor vic to POS, 57%: 43%)
9th- USS Wyoming : score minus 18 (minor vic to POS, 59%: 41%)
10th- Wardog : score minus 76 (tot vic to POS, 88%: 12%)
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HOW NORT WON IT
Major vic to Nort, 78%: 22%
Tank losses- POS 3/3: Nort 1/9
Endgame map- My Germans were completely swept away by his bulldozer advance across the full frontage of the map, squeezing them into small pockets and forcing their auto-surrender.
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Combat footage from earlier-
Nort's central Churchill group stand ready to move off the start line to punch down the road.
Waiting for them is a well dug in Waffen-SS veteran battlegroup..
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Nort's Brits press relentlessly forward; his Churchills trashed the PzIVH at top right, and now they dish out the same treatment to its mate on the left..
Both German tanks fired back but missed, they had their chance..
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Fortunes of war (sigh).... my last PzIVH hunts down 3 of Nort's Churchills for a perfect side shot but it ricochets and the Churchills quickly blow away the mosquito that stung them (inset), it had its chance..
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Friendly fire incident-Nort's Hurricane rockets his Churchills but they all kept rolling on..

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I only won 3 of the 10 games (sniffle)

"I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain;
I will lay me down to bleed a while.
Then I'll rise and fight again"
- John Dryden, poet, 1631-1700

Medic! Medic!
 
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