Thanks for the responses!
LilRed wrote:
It's possible tho pretty hard. Makes the victory all the more meaningful. Anyways dunno if you checked this part of the errata if you haven't it might help:
Q: In the Hellfire Pass scenario, can the British tanks only set
up on the full road hex directly bordering the edge of the board?
A: No. The British Tanks can set up (and reinforce) on any
orange shaded road hex (even one not adjacent to the board
edge).
We did that. Didn't make a difference -- maybe we were just rolling insanely well on our AT rolls but figure this:
13 attack dice per AT, 5s & 6s hit. That's 4.3 hits scored on average with each roll.
The Crusaders, with 3 Armor will block 1 of those on average. 3 hits = Heavy damage (Immobile and out of range for attacking the german positions)
The Matildes, with 5 Armor will block 1.7 on average. 2.6 damage(4.3 - 1.7) is on the wrong side of rounding -- another Heavy damage most of the time.
Sure there's some variance there but the brits have to get very lucky indeed to get off more than a shot or 2 with their tanks.
I also disagree that the victory would be more meaningful. A win here just means I got freakishly lucky -- not because I did anything right.
@JonJacob: Being entrenched would have only helped the germans and (maybe we missed something major), the AT guns not only can't be targeted but they can't even be affected by area fire.