That Bridge Again! MTO (id:#63560)
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Ponte Grande Bridge, Sicily 1943-07-10 ()
53: A High Price to Pay (ASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition))
DASL A08: Gruppo Mobile (AH:ASL Annual `91)
J52: Dress Rehearsal (ASL Journal # 3)
KURSK Mini-CG: Broadway to Prokhorovka (ASL Journal # 3)
J94: Kempf at Melikhovo (ASL Journal # 6)
T09: The Niscemi-Biscari Highway (AH:The General # 28.1)
S09: Ambitious Assault (ASL Starter Kit #2)
S11: A Long Way To Go (ASL Starter Kit #2)
HB CG 3: Hell's Bridgehead CG 3 (Critical Hit # 6.4)
CH 18: Raging Furnace (Critical Hit # 2)
HB 1: Psel River Line / Last Line Before Oboyan (Hell's Bridgehead)
HB CG 1: Hell's Bridgehead CG 1 (Hell's Bridgehead)
Buck01: Welcome to the Jungle (Buckeyes!)
: Apenas Nos Hablamos (Lider)
WP 1: First Blood (Winpak #1)
O73.2: Mission Accomplished (On All Fronts # 73)
O104.2: Send More Pigeons (On All Fronts #104)
ON06: Kempf at Melikhovo (On Top Scenarios)
SP12: Piano Lupo (Schwerpunkt # 1)
MT 5: SI1 version 1.0 (ASL Digest # 7.08)
S22: Another Summer's Day (ASL Starter Kit #3)
26: Diabolical Shrapnel (Dezign Pak 3)
S31: Going to New York! (Operations Special Issue #1)
ASSKB2: Hill Sweet Blues (Battles Magazine #2)
Ponyri #12: Little Katy (Kursk - Devil's Domain)
S47: Not So Disposed (ASL Starter Kit Expansion Pack #1 1st Edition)
BFP-97: Renewed Pressure (BFP 4: Crucible of Steel)
HB3 #1: Last Line Before Oboyan (Hell's Bridgehead 3)
VV 76: X-Men (Vae Victis # 101)
Ponyri #12: Little Katy (Devil's Domain : Metalgods of Ponyri)
24: Pressured and Pinned (Devil's Domain Upgrade Kit)
#10: Big Trouble in Little Stalingrad (Major Upham Battle Pack)
CH 18: Raging Furnace (Critical Hit Retro Magazine 2)
WO18: A Quick Strike (Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2016)
WO19: Through the Dragon's Teeth (Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2016)
178: The Niscemi-Biscari Highway (ASL 3a - Yanks (2nd Edition))
MM 37: Ninety Night (March Madness 2017 Hollis Partisans Pack)
FT240: Commando Beach 1 (Franc-Tireur#14)
FT241: Commando Beach 2 (Franc-Tireur#14)
FT243: Send More Pigeons II (Franc-Tireur#14)
ASL GCA 2: Tra Le Spighe Dorate (A25.6 Issue 1)
BR1: Ponte Drillo Taking (Biazza Ridge)
BR2: Gorham Assault (Biazza Ridge)
BR3: Hunting the Wolf (Biazza Ridge)
BR CG: Biazza Ridge (Biazza Ridge)
SF-Rng2c: Special Forces-Ranger Beach (Internet: Steven Swann)
S47: Not So Disposed (ASL Starter Kit Expansion Pack #1 2nd Edition)
53: A High Price to Pay (ASL 7a - Hollow Legions (3rd Edition))
PRK1: 10 July (PROKHOROVKA!)
CH 18: Raging Furnace (Critical Hit #2 2022 reprint)
GD25: Berezovka Storehouse (Großdeutschland Pack 3: High Tide at Kursk)
BR11: Fields of Golden Wheat (ECZ Tournament Director's Pack)
53: A High Price To Pay (ASL 7 - Hollow Legions (1st Edition))
S96: Good, Lucky, or Both (ASL Starter Kit Expansion Pack #3)
Designer: Steve Swann
Starter kit scenario?:    Deluxe scenario?:
 
Balance:
ItalianBritish
27.586206896552%

Overview:

Under the codename Operation Ladbroke, the British 1st Airlanding Brigade was to capture the Ponte Grande bridge spanning the Anapo River in eastern Sicily to allow for a quick march on Syracuse by the 5th Infantry Division. 144 gliders set off from Kairouan but only 54 actually landed in Sicily; the rest got lost or were shot down. A reduced force attacked the bridge before midnight and captured it. They removed the demolitions and prepared for the inevitable counterattack.
Attacker: Italian (Elements of 385th Coastal Battalion and 1st Battalion, 75th Napoli Infantry Regiment)
Defender: British (Elements of Glider 133 Platoon of the 1st Air Landing Brigade)  
6 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: Italian     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:19.0 D:8.5
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0
Mortaio da 45 Brixia
D:0
OML 2-in. Mortar Airborne

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: No hills. Variable OB both sides
Overlays: NONE
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2022-07-08(A) David Garvin vs Doug Bush British winWarm up game for Human Wave 2022
2020-11-30(A) Tuomo Lukkari vs Sauli Jyväsjärvi British win
2020-09-29(D) Martí Cabré vs Andy Beaton British winI put the pillboxes one on each end of the bridge but both covering the southern approach, only some units on the south and the rest of them on the north, using the stone house and the foxholes for cover. The Italian OBA was quite ineffective vs pillbox and foxholes and each Italian squad that got in LOS was hailed with fire and most of them broke. My reinforcements chose the southern approach and they attacked the Italian MTR from behind. On Turn 4 the Italians conceded as they could not get close to the bridge nor break the defenders.
2020-09-28(A) Andy Beaton vs Martí Cabré British winItalians tried to mass north of the river, but no matter what they tried, could not break any more than a single British squad. The OBA was ineffective against dug in Brits, and the deaths of most of the Italian leaders meant that squads didn't come back from breaking. A very solid British defence that I came nowhere close to cracking.
2020-09-24(D) Indy Lagu vs Rob Oler British winBritish paras are in a tight knot around a bridge with Italians coming from
three sides...

Well, two sides in our match. Rob attacked from the NE and SW. He had
a bit of trouble getting his OBA down (due to poor accuracy). An SSR allows
for the first chit to be black.

I upgraded my 9-1 to a 9-2 instead of holding a squad and leader off as reinforcements.

It was a close game and came down to the very last Defensive Fire Phase in Italian 6.

This is a point defence for the Brits and quite a contrast in quality versus quantity. The
Italians have to try an amoeba attack, as their squads are not fabulous one on one versus
the paras. The Italians have 18 squads with 10 being the useful 447 variety. The rest are
the 346, which seem more like HS to me. The Brits counter with 2.5 648 and 6 458 non-
cowering Red Devils. The Italians also get an 80mm HE module (with a first chit being black
by SSR).

Highlights: Two British leaders became heroic, with the 9-2 becoming a 10-2. One other
hero was generated. The Italians had two squads go berserk (we both laughed as surrender/
disruption seems more likely).

The Brits need to hunker down in foxholes (they get 5) once the OBA starts to rain down.
The Italians need to keep together and look for opportunities to overwhelm the Brits somewhere.
With only eight squads on defence, a couple of breaks might help to collapse part of the defence.

Try it... we enjoyed it. We will likely play it again with me as the Italians next time.
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Hutch Modified the Attacker's Guns2024-08-23 00:20:12
Hutch Modified the Defender's Guns2024-08-23 00:20:12
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Estimated Play time: 4.3 hours
Recorded Games: 11
Archive recorded plays:
Italian2
British9
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of today)
That Bridge Again [Confirmed]
[A] Italian 6
[D] British 12
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