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vicberg -> RE: Moscow or Bust - vicberg vs. jaimain (no jaimain) (12/20/2013 2:19:23 PM)
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Hey, you're not supposed to read this. [:)] No worries
MJ41 3rd Impulse Attacks
Leningrad fell with a monster 20 on the dice roll! This was a very risky attack. If I had rolled a 12, the entire Finish stack, including the HQ, would have been lost. If I had rolled low, I would have lost multiple units. Because it's only defended by a single unit, I needed a 13 or high to take the hex. I used HQ support and the unit defending was a reserve (disrupted, +2 to dice roll) so the pluses took away the minuses leaving +2 to the dice roll.
Leningrad is a swamp, double on defense, with a -3 dice roll modifier for a city and 2 factories. If defended by 2 white print and a div, it's a very tough nut to crack, especially if the div is a ski troop. In good weather, there's only a few hexes that can attack it. In Snow or Blizzard, the lake is frozen and the swamp is considered forest, so it's possible to get a multiple hex attack against Leningrad without the double defense.
Seems like a good attack in snow or blizzard, right? No. It's -3 for the city/factory. -2 for each white print corp defending in snow or blizzard and -1 if there's a ski division there. Throw in -4 for snow or -6 for blizzard Even if all unit in Leningrad are disrupted, it's still a very difficult hex to take. So I jumped at the chance to take on a single unit. A 13 or higher is much better than ANYTHING I'll see in the future. A 20 was quite nice as I didn't lose a Finn and now he's going to have to contend with a few Finish corp in the north. The Finns flip when entering the swamp hex, so they are done for the turn.
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