Date | Reporter | | Opponent | Bal. | Result | Comments |
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2024-03-08 | (D) Andy Bagley | vs | Mark Blackmore | | British win | This time played "for real" against a very skilled opponent, and a really tough - and very enjoyable - game. I managed to take out a couple of the British tanks but couldn't touch his crocodiles, and my losses began to mount when accurate OBA fire concentrated on and around my AT gun positions. The British never managed to cross the bridge, but I ran out of defenders to stop him sweeping round to the north and grabbing victory buildings in the German rear to seal the win. |
2024-03-06 | (A) Andy Bagley | vs | Matt Ellis | | British win | "Rehearsal" for tournament playing of this scenario. And needed, as we both forgot that German AT Guns are too big to set up in buildings. By the time we were reminded, the British attack had made good progress anyway, so my opponent conceded. |
2023-04-30 | (D) Douglas Leslie | vs | Sebastiano Caltabiano | | German win | Played in the VASL League. The British were making good progress until a PF shot at two hex range against a moving Crocodile set it ablaze. The 9-2 leader held out in the centre of the village with a platoon and the German MGs. They were torched by the other Crocodile but narrowly avoided encirclement thanks to the cover provided by the German OBA Smoke. They then rallied and took out two squads and a leader in CC to lead to a British concession on turn six. The dice in general didn’t favour the Brits and I feel fortunate to have won. The loss of the Crocodile (needing a DR of 4 to hit) was a killer blow. On the plus side, I learned some new Italian swear words! Thanks to Sebastiano for an enjoyable game. |
2022-12-29 | (A) Dwayne Duval | vs | Kevin Duval | | German win | |
2022-11-22 | (D) Kevin Duval | vs | Dwayne Duval | | German win | Played it very sneaky ... HIP unit in NW corner to re-take building VP after attackers swept past. Avoided as much contact as possible while withdrawing toward the bridge. Had two HS gaining control of buildings on other side of canal. Reinforcements slaughtered Brits in advance units. All over by Turn 6, did not even need the HIP counter stroke. |
2021-06-06 | (A) Richard Jenulis | vs | Richard King | | German win | |
2021-05-23 | (A) X von Marwitz | vs | Michael Koch | | German win | This scenario is one of the 'grand classics'. I have played it once before ages past hardly remembering anything about it, so I jumped at the chance to give it another go when my opponent proposed it.
Played the attacking British in this one. A full AAR can be found at GameSquad forum under the follwing link.
http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/index.php?threads/a25-cold-crocodiles-aar.161801/ |
2021-04-22 | (A) Will Willow | vs | Hetzer | | German win | Called after turn 5, Ersatz Vasl 2nd line league round 2. |
2021-04-21 | (A) Asad Rustum | vs | Jacob Elmqvist | | British win | |
2021-04-21 | (D) Jacob Elmqvist | vs | Asad Rustum | | British win | |
2021-01-23 | (A) patrick palma | vs | Paul Schaeffer | | German win | |
2021-01-09 | (A) Stephen dedier | vs | Gene Patterson | | German win | As the Britishi I decided to push up the right flank and mostly bottle the Germans up on the left using the OBA to assist both.
Very see-saw battle with a lot of critical hits.
Germans managed to get the 3 needed TH on the tank with the armor leader PF and toasted them
British managed a CH on a 50mm mortar to a building and KIA a squad
Moving Jagd CH hits a dashing infantry unit and K/3 them
Also Brits lose a tank to mechanical reliability
German guns did damage to the infantry and mostly kept the AFV at bay by not knowing where the 2nd one was and thus being too carful when i could have used a bit more support on the right.
Brits got one Jagd as it tried to enter the fray but got too bold and lost a tank to the other on turn 8.
Overall my strategy was good but poorly executed.
Still it ended with the British 17CVP Germans 25 CVP and the British holding 2 buildings more than the Germans so we tied on VP giving the victory to the Germans. Can't get much closer.
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2020-10-13 | (D) Vilis Pavulans | vs | Kalle Widell | | German win | Managed to keep one hidden HS who stayed behind enemy lines after the initial assault. It tied up troops later in the game and impeded the british assault. A PaK guarding the right german flank got both Crocodiles when they tried to get over the small bridge and go around the german defences and later another AFV as well. Most british AFVs got eliminated which caused a good amount of CVPs and the assault lost momentum. Not enough buildings taken by the british. |
2020-09-10 | (A) Mike Grogan | vs | Tim Wiegmann | | British win | British grind out win mostly with infantry,tanks and OBA not very effective. |
2020-09-09 | (D) Tim Wiegmann | vs | Mike Grogan | | British win | Germans did very poorly in anticipating the British set-up, and the HIP guns never managed to enter play. |
2020-09-03 | (A) Raoul Duke | vs | CH | | German win | One of the best scenarios ever. Well deserved reputation. |
2020-07-17 | (A) David Ramsey | vs | Martin Barker | | British win | British rolled up the Germans after a lucky (and as it turned out, illegal!) OBA drifting FFE revealed the HIP AT gun. More misery for the Germans, who promptly rolled a double-six on a PF to hit, wiping out a HS, and another box-cars on a crew MC. |
2020-05-15 | (A) Eben Johnson | vs | German | | German win | Played the Brits. Tough one. One smoke placement from a mortar in turn 3 (mortars start dismantled), only two smoke-capable AFVs immediately depleted, and never gained battery access (immediately 2 red cards).
As bad as my rolls were, his were good enough with, for example, immediate hits against hulldowns AFVs and hits with intensive fire vs. moving AFVs.
Couple tactical errors, and I've never before played a flame-throwing AFV. Got to use the tools better. Example: later in the game, move near by, use smoke mortar, then flame.
A hit from the 88ATs is just about a 100% blaze.
Overall, plan was good, but not able to rally anything, not able to hit anything, not able to win 2:1 CCs, not able to place smoke, no OBA - tough one.
Great opponent, great scenario. |
2020-01-24 | (A) Andy Goldin | vs | Scott Holst | | German win | My initial excitement at playing a classic scenario was extinguished as my attacking moves were effectively countered by Scott's flexing defense. One of my tanks failed to start (Red MP, rolled a 12), effectively putting it out of the game. I lost two tanks to unexpected LOS from his 88s. My artillery and Scott's continuing failure of NMCs kept me in the game. Although my remaining tank-killing tank kept his SP ATGs from crossing the canal, they did get a KIA against my MMG kill stack thereby neutering any further effort on that board. In the south, my artillery failed to suppress his remaining 88, which then knocked out my last Crocodile as it made a run for the town. In light of my losses I no longer had enough combat power to take much of anything, so it was game over by turn 6. |
2019-05-01 | (A) Dan Best | vs | Dave Mareske | | German win | |
2019-05-01 | (D) Dave Mareske | vs | Dan Best | | German win | Couple of good shots early on against Dan's British crawlers found me on the way to victory. I think the British player needs to be very liberal with the SMOKE and stay away from the fausts. |
2019-03-08 | (D) Ian Morris | vs | Stephano Cucurullo | | German win | |
2018-04-28 | (A) Jonathan Kapleau | vs | Duenskie, Ron | | German win | |
2017-11-12 | (D) jon smith | vs | british | | German win | brits pushed the west flank through the woods and into the 'valley' area... germans in there were doomed and were captured. But while attacking the british lost 2 tanks, the crocodiles came on and aided the attack before both malfunctioning the flamethrowers.
On the other side another british tank was taken out by 88mm and after rallying from OBA the germans counterattacked and retook the large buildings initially lost...
the jpanzer charged across the canal and 1 took out the final british Cromwell while other looped around the map and came up behind the valley crocs....
in the end germans had 74vp and british 62... this was despite germans forgetting to use 2 of the 5 4 8 mmc and an 88mm which was not placed on table.
OBA was devastating and the crocs too, but they are too slow to aid in the main attack into key buildings outside of the 'valley' meaning the brits just cannot make the ground up. |
2016-11-04 | (D) Paul Legg | vs | Joe Arthur | | British win | |
2016-03-08 | (A) patrick palma | vs | Miguel Molina | | British win | |
2016-02-23 | (D) David Yllanes | vs | Michael A | | British win | |
2016-01-17 | (A) Colin Emerson | vs | Michael Dorosh | | German win | Interesting scenario, but I had it put on me. Everything destroyed.
Hidden 88's, Hidden squad stack. Overly effective. JagdPz entry on canal board leads to rear entry probing. |
2016-01-17 | (D) Michael Dorosh | vs | Colin Emerson | | German win | Complete beat-down, 65 VP to 23 VP. British attacked piecemeal, divided and destroyed in detail. |
2015-12-27 | (D) Paolo Cariolato | vs | andrea pagni | | British win | It's a classic, unfortunately the crocs are a very iffy and powerful asset. They single handed ripped my defences apart. Nice game btw. |
2014-08-10 | (D) Gordon Jupp | vs | Jeremy Shields | | German win | Both AT guns managed kills with their first shots but then succumbed to OBA and close assault. But both Crocodiles were destroyed and sufficient delays maent the Brits couldn't achieve enough points. Good game and worth a replay! |
2013-03-10 | (D) mark watson | vs | Richard Carter | | German win | Germans won by less than 10 points, but all that was left of them was a couple of broken squads and the TDs. One Crocodile was all that remained of the British AFV. Super cool scenario. The British OBA is devastating as are their tanks. The infantry have a hard time, though. |
2013-03-10 | (A) Richard Carter | vs | Mark Watson | | German win | |
2013-02-02 | (D) Ian Morris | vs | Mike Parsons | | German win | |
2012-01-15 | (A) Steve Bowen | vs | AK | | British win | Defender tried for a frontal defense rather than falling back ahead of the slow moving Crocodiles. He got roasted and toasted for his efforts and resigned early. |
2011-05-17 | (D) Andy Beaton | vs | Jeff Wasserman | | British win | Conceded after my infantry was slaughtered, but may have conceded too soon. The point spread was closer than I thought. |
2009-11-10 | (D) Martin Sabais | vs | Tosh | | German win | |
2009-10-07 | (D) Jeff Waldon | vs | Wes Vaughn | | British win | ASLOK-Ass whuppin received. AT Gun placement was poor. |
2009-09-21 | (A) Scott Fischbein | vs | Bryant Henley | | British win | Great scenario! |
2009-07-31 | (A) Dan Best | vs | Shawn Ettleman | | British win | St. Louis ASL Tournament 2009. |
2009-06-11 | (A) Eric Partizan Eric | vs | Michel Bongiovanni | | British win | |
2008-12-31 | (D) nathan wegener | vs | Albert W | | German win | Lives up to the reputation. A fun play. |
2007-08-21 | (D) David Ramsey | vs | Martin Barker | | German win | |
2007-04-01 | (D) fabrizio da pra | vs | Nicola Marangon | | British win | |
2007-02-03 | (A) Paolo Cariolato | vs | Stefano Giombini | | British win | |
2006-11-09 | (D) Fernando Garcia-Maniega | vs | Alex L. Serrano | | British win | |
2006-08-13 | (A) David Reenstra | vs | Dave Perham | | British win | |
2003-01-26 | (D) Steffen Knippel | vs | Gerry Proudfoot | | British win | |
2002-03-16 | (D) Thomas Lynch | vs | Sean Finnerty | | German win | |
2001-01-26 | (A) Bill Brodie | vs | Dave Wilson | | German win | |
2000-12-13 | (A) Jeff T | vs | JVan | | British win | HOB hero turned defeat into victory in this classic. Must play. |
1998-07-01 | (A) David Ramsey | vs | David Otway | | German win | My first ever game of ASL :) |
1998-01-16 | (A) Jason Wert | vs | Derrick Beckner | | German win | |
1995-11-03 | (A) Aaron Sibley | vs | Nick Brown | | British win | |
1995-09-17 | (D) Rich Weiley | vs | Eric Topp | | German win | |