In the Jungle

Crossfire in the Pacific.  Japanese vs Marines.

Our first crossfire game was a nail biting affair.  This was far more pedestrian.  Both Rob and I discussed it, and we werent sure if it was the scenario or the jungle terrain.  Anyway, my Marines methodically destroyed Japanese units, and the poor Japanese had very little they could do

Both Japanese bunkers destroyed

The look of despair -- Rod had almost nothing left!!!

We then went and played a Wild West game using Rod's CV system.  It was very cinematic, but my outlaw gang was blown away quickly!!!!

The Town.  The 4Ground Wild West buildings are fantastic!!!

My Posse moves into town

Shooting starts

My Posse just before the dead bodies started to mound up!!!!

Crossfire at Rods

Rod introduced me to Crossfire.  I had heard about this a lot, but never actually played it.  And it was fun!  You really can feel the sweat dripping down your neck!  Do I order my troops across the road?  What if there is a MG in the building at the end of the lane?  Do I send one man across at a time -- or the whole platoon?

I had a platoon of US infantry attacking some hardened Germans somewhere in Tunisia.

I advanced up the right.

Hang on -- there are Germans in that wood!

And they have a panzerfaust!!!!

I advanced on the left, but was pinned down there as well.  My second sherman was destroyed on the left by another team with a panzerfaust.  Then I moved the heavy weapons up in the center.  They were pinned down, but there was some serious firepower from them.

The problem was the Germans in the white house on the lower right.  They had a fire lane covering the village.  With my second sherman destroyed, I couldnt take them out.  Especially as Rod was cunning and dropped smoke, and then ran his command team up to support them.  I tried to suppress them with my heavy machine guns, but eventually they lost the firefight.  At this point I conceded.

Overall, Crossfire is a winner.  There are rumors of Crossfire Version 2 -- if /when that appears I will pick up a copy.