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promotion.
Clad in a dark suit bulging
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Report from the Huntington PBM League

. . . A new league Judge has been
chosen. Terry Zuber, 9197 Creekwood
Dr., Mentor, Ohio 44060. Please use
him to the best possibility.
Our Games and Rules Committee
has adopted several
regulations
for
absent minded players.
I shall mention
only a few due to space and number.
Any unit located in a zone of control
without attacking will be retreated
one
square by the Defender.
Naturely if
the unit is surrounded it will be remoV'"ed from play. If the Defender fails to
enclose a dated stock listing, it is the
Attackers
option to consult the listings
in his own paper and correct the results if discrepancies
exist. He must
furnish proof, of course.
If the date
given by the attacker is given on a day
when nO transactions
take place, the
Defender will use the next day daily
listings are available.

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Members:
Those of you desiring to
keep your same number, be sure to send
in your dues this month. If you want to
try to climb up in seniority send your
dues in December.
Please enclose a
list of games which you own.
Want to join? Send an index card
with your name, address,
zip code,
list of AH games you own and the game
and side preference for your first game.
League address:
6413 Austinburg Rd. ,
Ashtabula 44006 ... Bruce D. Mathews,
Correspondence
Secretary.
Play-by-Mail
League Survey
The HUNTINGTON PLAY - BY- MAIL
LEAGUE, an organization
that is attempting to provide suitable opponents
for certain AVALON HILL garnes, is,
through the Rules Committee,
making
an appeal to any and all players of A-H
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NOVEM8ER 1965

8)

TV Network to
Feature Avalon Hill
The National Education Television
Network will soon feature filmed highlights of the making of an Avalon Hill
game. Growing public awareness
of
Avalon Hill's place in education triggered the production of this program.
It will be shown across the country on
more than 100 member stations.
The NETN consists of a large group
of stations pertaining to education, only. The story on Avalon Hill will be
viewed sometime early in December on
a program entitled "At Issue" in conjunction with their series concerning
leisure time activities.
The entire show, filmed at Avalon
Hill last October,
takes the viewer
from prototype testing stage through
final printing
stage. In between,
a
running commentary
tells the viewer
the entire Avalon Hill story from soup
to "nuts" (no offense intended. )
Where will you be able to see this
program?
Not on a regular TV channel. So we suggest that you call your
local TV station for information regarding the close st educational channel
in your locale. Or, write to the National
Television
Network,
WETA-TV.
Channel 26, Washington, D. C.

Our Apologies ...

... for the lateness in shipping Blitzkrieg to you subscribers.
Nevertheless, you were the ones who received
it fir st, ahead of the normal directmail business.
Apparently
many of
you were bugging your dealers immediately after the first of October.
Well,
sir, they didn't even know about the
game because our usual promotional
literature
was still in transit.
But it
was great of you to have bugged them
so because On October 20, the day fir st
copies came off the assembly line, we
already had orders in hand from many
retail outlets.
The delay in shipping
was due largely to a production problem.
We have overcome this problem and are now only two weeks behind
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delay.

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THE GENERAL

~he 1VAtON *HILt

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...
a bi-monthly magazine mailed pretty
close to the first day of January, March, May,
July, September and November.
The Avalon Hill General is edited and published by the Avalon Hill Company, Baltimore,
Maryland.
Copyright 1964 T. A. H. C.
Baltimore, Maryland.
Printed in U. S.A.

AREA NEWS ...

The purpose of this column is to acquaint you with what's going on in the
different sections of the country.
We
sugge st that news of intere st regarding
club activities,
tournaments,
league
play and other tid-bits of information
be submitted directly to the respective
area editors.
Here are your editors ..
use them ...

East
Laurence Plumb
126 Washington Highway
Amherst, New York 14226
EDITOR - covering Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode
Island, Connecticut,
New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Europe.

Attack & Expectations

by Stanley Hoffman for Laurence

Plumb

Expectation
may be defined as the
predicted average, ie. the result that
you may expect with average luck. It
is found by multiplying the probability
of the re sult by the amount of gain or
loss of that result.
(For example, the
result of a 1-4 battle may be computed
thusly: the probability for no units lost
(p(b))
equals 1/2. P(l) equals
1/2.
1/ 2(0) plus 1/ 2(1) equal s I / 2. In fa ctors, with four factors committed, the
equation would be 1/2(0) plus 1/2(4)
equals 2. This may be extended to a
series
of attacks in a game such as
Stalingrad such as: 3-14, 5-14, 7-14,
14-14, 35-7, 42-14, 21-3. The expected German (attacker) losses would
be, using the PBM table, .7(3) plus
.3(5) plus. 5(7) plus. 5(14) plus. 0(7)
plus. 3(14) plus. 0(3) equals 18.3 factors.
The Russian loss would be .2(7)
plus .4(7) plus .7(7) plus .6(7) plus
1. (3) equals 16.3 factors and. 2 plus
.4 plus. 7 plus .6 plus 1. or 2.9 units.
This analysis can be applied to soakoffs
vs. doubled 5-7-4's.
A three at 1-5
losses. 7(3) or 2.1 factors while a 5 at

1-3 losses
.3(5) or 1. 5 factors.
The
German
commander
must
decide
whether he can affo1:"d the higher maximum loss in the 1-3. A series of 1-2
battles vs. doubled units (5-7-4's
for
the sake of argument) can be shown to
be fatal to the German.
10 1-2's yield
the following results:
35 German factors lost, 2 Russian dead, the Russian
line broken in two places.
If the Russians' succeed in wiping out the Germans that moved across, or if the German units remain on the river line for
scwme reason, and are destroyed,
the
Germans lose 49 factors. Even assuming the Russian loses two units in the
counterattack,
a repetition of this strategy would leave the Russians with eight
dead beyond normal
losses and the
German with 100 factors
destroyed
above normal losses.
This strategy of
1-2's has lead'to
the rapid defeat of
every opponent who used it against the
MITWGS.
Obviously this method of analysis
is applicable to any set of attacks or
attack strategy
in any game with any
form of combat results table. For instance it can be used in D-Day to demonstrate
that a defense that allows 3
2-1 attacks will allow 3(2(.4) plus 1(.3
equals 3.3 units ashore.
The number
of places that the allies get ashore is
3(.7) or 2.1 places.
This technique can be combined with
the technique of probability
to determine the probability of wor se (or better)
results
and whether
they can be
tolerated.
For instance, it might be useful to
compare
the expected results
of 42
factors
attacking
doubled 5-7-4's
in
various manners.

German
factors lost
Russian factors
(1.lost
2) (units)
1.2
17.5
Rusl3ian
17.5
positions broken
G. factors/
Russian killed

1-2

1-1

2-1

21

21

12.6 14.2

13-1

1.
6.3
8.4
14.
12.
.7
1.
052)
6.
23.3
17.5
8.4 14.4
4.9
.9
(.9)
(1.

G. factors/
Russian
position broken
It can be seen quite easily that the
3-1 is by far the most effective of the
attacks.
It must be remembered
in
this analysis
that in games there are
some positions that must be broken in
One turn if possible.
In cases such as
this one must take the best attack one
can muster.
Please
direct
any comments
or
criticisms
at Stanley D. Hoffman, Apt.
307, 50 MassachusettsAve.,
Cambridge,
Mas s. 02139.

Southeast
Marc Nicholson
2425 Meadow Road
Louisville 5, Kentucky

r
J,

r
EDITOR - covering Delaware, Maryland
D. C., Virginia, West Virginia, North
Carolina,
South Carolina,
Georgia,
Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,
Mississippi.

"Perfect" Plans ...

by Marc Nicholson
Many people who write to me claim
to have a perfect plan for Stalingrad or
Bulge or any number of other games.
All of these plans have one thing in common; when they work, they are dull for
the person using them. When I realized
this I decided to pass on some of my
other thoughts about perfect plans.
For me, tl~e main object in an AH
game is the enjoyment derived, win or
lose. Of course, it is nicer to win but
I would rather lose on my own than win
with the Perfect
Plan of some other
armchair general.
Tournament play is
an exception.
Another thing, perfect
plans are dull. The user moves his
counter s into their de signated po sitions
and watches his opponent lose the game.
After all of the above preaching, what
am I going to do? I am going to present
a perfect plan.
First though, I am reversing
my
stand on the Bulge; it is evenly balanced
if all of the rule s are used. However,
each side has an ace in the hole. First
the Americans.
The Americans have two very good
chances of winning the game;' one on
offense and one on defense, take your
pick. On offense, the Americans
can
attack the base of the Bulge with their
eleventh-hour
reinforcements
in the
hope of cutting German supply lines. An
attack from the South is the best if
enough troops
can be massed.
Of
course, adequate defense must be provided in the centre. On the defense, the
Americans
should hold Spa. It has a
natural defense barrier around it and is
hard to isolate.
The Americans
can
give up the rest of the mapboar,d and
still win the game if they hold Spa. All
reinforcements
from the North must be
directed to the Spa area. Enough troops
come from the North t~ make capture of
Spa by the Germans almost impossible.
The rest of the board cannot be defended; i. e. the Germans will reach the
Meuse. (Unrealistic?
Most
perfect
plans are but if victory is your only
goal. .. )

THE GENERAL

.::

For the Germans, the sure -fire plan

starts on the first move. The German
infantry should attack any American unit
it can reach at 1 to I in the hope of rolling an "engaged".
A spot for "breakthrough" should be picked and all of the
Panzers directed toward it. (The road
from St. Vith to Houffalize is a good
spot.) With a little luck the Germans
will have Bastogne on the third turn and
be behind most of the American units
except for the reinforcements.
The
first wave of Panzers should push on to
the Meuse which will take about four
turns if all goe s well. The second wave
of Panzers should be directed
toward
Spa through St. Vith to take the se two
citie s in case they have not already
fallen to the infantry.
The game should
be over in about ten moves.
What's that? You don't like my perfec t plans? No fun you say? I re st my
case! (I can no longer accept play-bymail games and must discontinue
the
ones that I am already in because my
local paper no longer prints sales in
hundreds.)
Comments, anyone ..

Midwest
Myron R. Brundage
2437 W. Sunnyside
Apt. 3
Chicago, Illinois 60625
EDITOR - covering Ohio, Indiana, illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, Missouri,
Arkansas,
Louisiana.

Gettysburg: tactics '5&' 64

Myron Brundage's Editorial Staff
It crossed my mind as of late that
there hadn't been an article on Gettysburg in a heck of a long time, so I decided to contact some of my staff and
wri te one.
As all Civil War buffs and players of
Gettysburg know: Gettysburg is a game
in which the task of the offense belongs
to the Confederates,
while the burden
of the defense to the Union. Therefore,
it immediately
becomes apparent what
the Strategies and Objectives are.
The Objectives
The CSA objectives
in order are:
Wolf Hill -- Cemetery Hill -- Cemetery
Ridge - - & The Round Tops Line. The
Yanks must block the capture of these
strategical
points early in the game or
all is lost for them. Therefore,
the
main objective becomes Cemetery Hill
overlooking the town of Gettysburg.
It
becomes a ma.tter as Nathan B. Forrest
said, "To git thar fustest
with the
rnostest men."
The Tac tic s
The appearances
are that both sides
will be directing their attentions towards
capturing this objective and preventing

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its capture by the enemy. Heth, who

comes in down the Chambersburg
Pike,
will have to reach Gettysburg
and
Cemetery Hill before Reynolds comes
all the way down the Emmitsburg Road.
The smart Union player will attempt to
delay Heth along the Chambersburg Pike
by placing his two cavalry units as far
up the pike as possible and off to the
left-hand side of the road where their
odds double; one behind in support of
the other. In doing this the Union player may give himself enough time to have
Reynolds reach Cemetery Hill with his
ar tille ry a.nd fo r tify.
The Union player whose cavalry delays Heth" long enough to get Reynolds
situated on Cemetery Hill should then
form a center of gravity about Cemetery Ridge with a supporting strike around the left flank. With any luck the
Rebs can be pushed back to Seminary
Ridge and those units with the rabbit
feet can begin cutting the Southern Army
in two, which will lead eventually to
the end.
However, if the Confederate
player
has good luck and Heth manages to
reach Cemetery Hill before the I st
Corps arrives on the ridge, he should
bring his artillery to bear against Reynolds. If the Rebs are successful in
this they will force the Union player to
take to the Round Tops. The taking of
Powers Hill at this point with an artillery
piece will cut off the Baltimore
Pike
and a source of supply for the Union.
The Union player, meanwhile, should
watch his flanks and not leave them up
in the air where the Rebs would be sure
to at"tack. At the same time, however,
the Union player should be watching for
same on the Confederates'
flanks so
that he can hit them. Also, beware of
Johnny Reb when Slocum arrives on the
Baltimore Pike because there he will
be in open ground and subject to enfilades which will wipe him out.
After this point the Confederate player should then begin to fall back and prepare for Billy's 6 am Reinforcements
on the hills and ridges that he has won.
At this point the Union has the initiative; if it is not used to the best advantage the Confederate
player can in a
few moves begin a great pincer movement towards
the Round Tops line
cutting supply and retreats
which will
surely give the Rebels Meades' sword.
Side Note s on Artillery
For a long time Gettysburg fans have
been disputing what the proper range is
for artillery
in Gettysburg.
My staff
researched
it and came up with following facts: I) Artillery fire in the actual
battle was exchanged between Cemetery
Ridge and Seminary Ridge. Which on
A. H. I S Gettysburg board is a distance
of 3". II) Union artillery
was a mixed
artillery
in battery
set-up.
With a

ratio of 2/3 Napoleon (short range) guns

to 1/3 rifle (long range) cannon. A) A
Napoleon cannon had an accuracy of 1"
in comparison
to the board, while B)
rifle cannon had an accuracy
of 3".
III) Confederate
artillery was a little
stronger in force as compared to Union,
but overall had less rifle cannon than
the Union, because they did not have
mixed batteries.
Therefore,
since the
smallest
unit counter is of battalion
size it matter s little who had more
long range guns.
The conclusion we came too was that
A. H. must have taken a happy medium
by assigning a 2 range factor to the
Gettysburg
artillery.
We suggest to
make your artillery
historically
more
accurate give it a range up to 3" with
the odds of effectiveness
beyond 2"s
halved, since the rifle cannon with the
effective range of 3" was only a 1/3
of the artillery force.
If you wish to investigate further,
I
suggest you check with" The Sounds of
the Guns" a standard artillery
reference.
For fans who like artillery in their
game we suggest you use the old '58
artillery
set up in the '64 version.
My thanks to my staff: Mr. John
Rockholz for the major CSA Tactics,
to Pfc. John Batty for Union Tactics,
& to Mr. Hal Frank for his historical
note s on artillery.

VVest
Stan Wolcott
P. O. Box 381
Hastings, Nebraska
EDITOR - covering North Dakota, South
Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas,
Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Canada.
Stan Wolcott's "West" column does not
appear in this issue ... school activities
precluded him from devoting full attention to news from his area.

Southwest
Tom A. Bosseler
5423 Fallbrook Avenue
Woodland Hills, California
EDITOR - covering Oklahoma,
Texas,
New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Hawaii, Far East.
Attention!
If you are intere sted in
obtaining the up-to-date AH rules used
by the California
Club send a selfaddressed
stamped envelope to me,

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THE GENERAL

Torn Bosseler.
Our club is busily organizing a football tournament!
If you live wi thin
creeping, walking, or driving distance
of the West Fernando Valley write in
for information.
If you have any questions or ideas
on strategy and tactics write in! but
make sure your addres s is on the letter
itself. I have an incurable
habit of
ripping off the left end of envelope s.

Defensive Reserves
by George Phelps
The use of a reserve on defense is
twofold. One, it allows the defender to
meet each of his opponent's
thrusts
with concentrated
strength and two, it
allows him to converge easily for a
counter-attack.
I am not saying that
this form of defense is infallible but it
will enable the defender to hold out a
lot longer after a heavy defeat than with
the orthodox "cordon" line; the extra
time perhaps meaning victory.
In theory, the defensive reserve can
best be described by the following cHagram:
L

I L'

repre sents the line while I R I

represents
the reserve.
Wherever the
attacker
breaks through, the re serve
will be ready to counter it.
Imagine for a minute the re serve has
disappeared.
Now if the attacker cracks
the line, what will stop him?
So the reader can follow more closely the ideas of this defense, let us take
an example.
Below is the set-up for a hypothetical
ga'ffie of D-Day. All present '65 rules
are being used.
15th Army
84-AA18
271-Y18
17LW-X19
711-W19
343-W19
7th Army
275 -N17
276-N18
148-L17
157-L17

19th Army
244-V18
712-T18
708-S18
189-R18
18LW-R18
Neth
158-K17
346-Jl 7
319-116
277-G13

1st Army
3Air. -Q18
326-P17
344-017

Added to the line portion of the defenses are the Armored Forces, these
being under an independent command.
Lehr-X16
3SS-P15
2-R14
9SS-U16
12SS-N14
25SS-R16
17SS-S16
49SS-M15
2SS-K15
The general situation is as follows.
The Allies landed in Brittany and were
severely bottled up. At the 9th week
however they hit again at Calais.
They

completely shattered the German army

forcing the ramnants to flee to the East.
It is now the 18th week. The overall
strategy of the German is to hold out
for time.
There are three possible Allied attacks.
1) An air attack and land attack on the front line will still leave the
reserve intact which can then take the
important positions.
2) An air attack
on the re serve will still leave the front
line. 3) Or, the Allie s can hit the
front line with a land attack and the
reserve with the air power. Here, however, the remnants of each line should
be able to keep the Allie s in check.
From this set-up one can see that
at least 3 Panzer divisions can be concentrated at each important point. Note
the importance of the 2nd Panzer. This
division is ready to replace any lost
division and generally
function as a
plug. To aid the defense against air
attack few units are "doubled".
This
will force the Allied player to waste
each "bomb" on one target.

Tactics & Strategy

to capture positions behind enemy lines

and/or assist
in dividing the enemy
front into two segments by joining up
with the penetrating armored and motorized units.
An example of penetration is given
in the D-Day diagrams.

--

Part 3

by David Whiskeyman
This is the third in the serie s of
articles
dealing with offensive -and defensive maneuvers.
(Part 1 in May,
Part 2 in July). While still on the offense, the present maneuver concerned

is ...

PENETRATION----In
conventional
modern warfare of the last half century,
if not through the entire history of
organized warfare, penetration has been
a key to early victory and rapid destruction of the opposition.
Though not
always the best choice of maneuver, it
comes into its own, as do flank attacks
and envelopments,
where appropriate.
(An attempt at penetration strike s more
directly at the enemy strength; therefore,
slightly higher losses are in
order.)
Sometimes penetration may be
the only alternative;
however, if the
enemy is weak or overextended,
the
choice to penetrate will probably be the
best possible.
As in nearly all offensives, the attacking army should be divided into
three main parts: the main attack, the
secondary
attack,
and the reserve.
Dependant upon terrain,
either armor
or infantry will lead the breakthrough,
or main attack.
A secondary attack,
if possible, is made to draw off enemy
reserves.
The principal
effort of a
secondary attack in a true penetration
most often lies adjacent on either or
both sides of the main effort.
The reserve for this type of offensive move
consists of armored and motorized infantry so that their speed and strength
might exploit the breakthrough.
Airborne forces, if available, may be used

DIAGj{jJ.~ A

Diagram A shows the German defensive line and its one fatal flaw. (Either
a unit or units of sufficient
strength
should have been placed On "X" or both
the 9th and 1st SS armored units should
have been placed one sector to their
respective rears. )

1d

I
DI;"CrtiUri b

Diagram B shows the same area of

France after allied movement and resolved combat.
{NOTE: Allied armor
is also shown here spread out behind
the front line infantry.
This tactic allows the armor to mass with sufficient

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THE GENERAL

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strength at almost any point on the line

--as well as protection
armor from
counter attack. ) The German lines have
very deftly been cut in two with an acceptable casualty rate to the allies.
And though this does not permanently
sever the German front, it makes the
Boch very susceptable to allied attack
for the next several turns, no matter
what course of action is taken. (Strategic air power, though perhaps nece ssitating
repositioning
of some allied
troops, could, at this point, bring the
German front to almost total collapse,
if not disa ster. )
Although most AH wargames
offer
possibilities
for penetration,
D-Day,
Afrika Korps, and the Bulge have the
greatest potential.
In D-Day, one penetration will most likely not be decisive enough to crush the enemy, but
will move the campaign rapidly ahead.
(The effect of the D-Day '65 rules upon
this statement
is presently
unknown
and unevaluated.
This is most regrettable. )
In Afrika Korps, Rommel may have
a good deal of trouble penetrating the
forces under a capable British commander (and vice versa),
but if the
enemy line s are penetrated, it will deal
a very heavy blow to the penetrated
force and more often than not will be a
decisive maneuver.
The Battle of the Bulge offers repeated opportunities
for penetration.
And one successful penetration
can, if
properly exploited, crush the Americans. In fact, the German campaign
should be one of continuous effort to
penetrate the American lines, thereby
assuring an easy and early victory.
The reason why penetration is much
more successful
in the Bulge is very
simple.
Holding attacks,
even if at
one-to-two at worse, can and do perform their task of holding front line
units to their positions (and at times
drawing critical re serves),
thus preventing the delicate switching maneuver s
which can often mean the difference between a strong line and a weak, penetrable line.
Though not fool- proof or infalible,
one possible way for the Germans to
seriously cripple the Americans,
is to
attack at only 1-2, I-I, 2-1 and 8-l.
This way, the Germans suffer no losses
except if counter-attacked.
(Of course,
there are draw-backs! )... David Whiskeyman, 112 S. Broad St., Lititz, Penna.
17543.

Tactics for U-Boat

by Ken Hoffman
U- BOA T could be called another of
the "forgotten" AHwar games.Articles,
to date, have been nonexistant about it.
It seems as though many people are

r~-

quite dissatisfied with this game. I feel,

however, that there is a great deal of
promise in a game where it is truly on'e
player's mind against another's.
One major rules change should be
made. That is that it should take 2
hits to sink either the DE or UB in sur-=face combat. I think it's a bit foolish,
considering that a DE isn't too small,
that 1 single hit from a 3" or even 5"
naval gun would sink it. As to the UB,
the 1st hit would no doubt hurt it, but
a lucky hit indeed it would be to sink it.
Coin siding with this rule is the movement rate reduction.
The 1st hit On the
DE incurs a 1 square penalty; allowing
it to move only 3 squares maximum per
turn. The UB, when hit, can only move
for the remainder of the game.
Tactics

for the U-Boat

The UB should play up his greatest

advantage - that of maneuverability.
When the DE comes charging in - just
start twisting and turning to evade him.
Of course, the choice of squares is all
up to you when under depth charge 'attack; but make notes on where he goes.
This will ultimately
reveal; if not a
subconscious
pattern, at least
some
sort of favorite attack.
When the DE
664 if- 664
DD4l
774
She does,
- TT3levery turn
gets behind you,
you make should include a 90 degree
turn. This will put you on a 45 degree
course for the Convoy Zone. As for
torpedoes.
This depends
on what type
"- -U4l
(1)-025
(2)
- the
N24
(2)
M22
"
Statics:
(3)-Il6
(3)
(3)-Jl7
443
V40
343
S L2l
32skipper
of commander
DE
If
Q34is.
(2) - R29
he is the bold type, it'll take too many
"fish" to cover all possible
squares.
Wait for him to get close. If you're
playing the timid type - put out one torpedo at the beginning.
This will get
him scared, and allow you to move 2 On
the surface for an extra turn or two.
200 feet is the best depth. There you
can go up 100' and fire fish, or go down
100' when under depth charge attack.
Tactics

for the Destroyer

the UB to see the DE come charging

down on him every 2nd or 3rd turn!
Keep notes on where the UB hides
when under DC attack.
This will come
in quite handy. Don't fall into a pattern!
This is fatal.
The UB will also keep
notes and thus will elude you every
time. At all costs be in range when
and if you force the UB to the surface.
If you got a hit on him before, here is
your chance to make good On it. Good
Hunting!
Any comments will be most gladly
received
at my home address:
Ken
Hoffman, 266 Carroll St., New Bedford,
Mass. 02740.

Stop the

~~i~he
Beaches

by Don Drewek
The following is a D-Day setup designed to prevent any successful Allied
landing:
Reserve Armor:
9SS, 49SS, 5lSS - D5
3SS, l5SS, 25SS - C5
106
- C4

Airborne:
5 - FF4l (333)
3 - RR25 (553)
6/2 - 023 (113)

33
27
26- SS 444
27 Infantry:
554
,.- V36
TT29
L20
P
Q
Armor,554Armored
774 - N 21

U4l
V39
" 343
---V40
"---ObW
--LL4l
AA4l
R30
P26
V43
SS32
Gll
-X4l
SS3l
S30
V38
S28
Q25
(2)
(3)
(1)
- -14-X38
-H14
G13
M23
U42
025 Headquarters:
Infantry:
R29
7
19
BB40
15
X40
G
B
Neth
- I443
1
343 - V39
S
SS3l
34
443

Escort

The first thing to remember

is to
get into gun range of the UB while he's
On the surface. Torpedoes should mean
little in these critical opening moves.
You must dash in and try to at least get
an opening hit on him. Should you score
a hit, this will come in extremely handy
at the end when, and if, you have forced him to the surface.
Needless to say
try and get into po sition to ram- - -but
with any kind of competant UB skipper
this is an extremely hard maneuver.
After the UB has submerged, get behind him. This makes all depth charge
attacks much easier.
The strate gem
used here is demonstrated
in the movie,
"The Enemy Below".
The DE comes
around,
attacks
with depth charges
from the rear, and vears off to either
port or starboard
to come around and
attack again. It's most infuriating
to

This setup is designed to effectively

stop an Allied landing on any beach. It
should be used only in the basic game,
since the local reserves
On which it
depends could be rendered ineffective,
or could be destroyed by strategic airpower.
The most successful
German
setup in the Tournament
game would
be to guard the North Sea-to Le Havre
heavily, and put enough units near the
Seine so that the Seine can be held.
I have used it for over a year with
devastating' effect. I must admit, it is
crackable.
With sufficient
luck and
skill, a landing can be made. I have
found it a most dangerous setup, how-

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PAGE 6

ever, and the necessary

combination
of luck and skill has rarely come up
against it. It defies the rules of war but it works. Dan Drewek, 311 West
Lexington Blvd., Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53217.

A New German Approach

to Afrika Korps
by Jared Johnson
Every Afrika Korps player has his
own ideas, but in my opinion, all surefire plans for capturing TobruChbefore
the first Allied reinforcements
arrive,
are ridiculous.
The German
player
can only rely on phenomenal luck or a
collossal blunder on the Allied player's
part. A new approach is needed.
This
article is concerned with one objective:
Getting onto the strategic
escarpment
squares
around Mechili or between
P-22 and S-29, without having to fight
for them. This way, you will save a
supply unit, and avoid the chance of a
costly exchange in a 3-1 or 4-1 battle.
This can only be done by clever maneuvering and by a tactic called "herding".
"Herding" is the act of partly or totally
surrounding a smaller and less powerful army, forcing it to pull back its
forces and set up defenses in a smaller
area, just like you would herd cattle
into a small area.
Once this is accomplished, you can start on the secondobjective: Boxing up the Allied units in
and around Tobruch, to prevent small
1-1-6's from endangering your supply
lines.
From there the German can
proceed to El Alamein or take Tobruch
safely, at his leisure.
Here is the
first German move: (Rommel moves
to W- 8 with the Bologna and Trenta
unit, giving them both two extra squares.
Then he move s to S-ll with the r emaining units, giving them all two extra
squares. )
Ariete
R-17
Savena
W-3
T-22
Trenta
J-3
21/3
N-17
21/104
Bologna
L-7
N-17
Rommel
R-15
21/5
Pavia
R-15
Supply #1 Q-17
Brescia
R-15
Notice the strategic positions that
each unit is moved to. The Trenta and
Bologna units will guard against any
attempts by the 7/7S. G. to endanger
supply lines.
The 21/104 or the 21/5
can make it around Mechili, with Rommel's help, to F-17, G-18, or H-18.
The key position is N-19. The fir st
time you use this strategy, it is likely
that your opponent will not place a unit
there.
By controlling this square you
can move freely from the escarpment
squares P-22 through S-29 to the Escarpment squares around Mechili.
On
your second turn,
if possible,
you
should move your Ariete unit to N-19,
or with Rommel's help, to N- 20. Be-

cause you will be able to shift your

positions so quickly, the Allied player
will be hard put to defend the entire
line of escarpments.
He will be forced
to withdraw or let himself be attacked
when he isn't doubled. Suppose the
Allie s do get a hold of N- 19. Then
what? First Allied Move:
L-12
7/7S.G.
Supply # 1 Tobruch
F-17
Salum
22/Gds
7A/l
H-16
Salum
9A/20
7A/2
K-18
2/3
J-62
41/5
7/31 Motor N-19
J-62
41/7
Ki- 62
POL
J-62
41/11
Second German move:
Savena
W- 3
*Ariete
Trenta
C-IO
21/3
Bologna P-ll
*21/104
Rommel T-21
*21/5
*Brescia
T-21
*Pavia
T-21
Supply # 1
*two square bonus with Rommel

R-23
S-29
S-25
P-22
T-25

Second Allied move:

7/7S.G.
N-19
22/Gds
F-17
9A/20
M-22
2/3
N-25
7/31 Motor K-18
POL
J-62

Supply # 1 Tobruch
Supply #2 J-62
P-28
7A/1
P-28
7A/2
M-22
41/5
P-.31
41/7
M-22
41/11
The Allies had two problems on this
turn. They had to make sure that the
Trenta unit didn't get past Tmimi on
the coast road, and they had to make
sure that the German 2- 2-12 couldn't
get to the coast road in the first place.
The rest of the units were placed so as
to delay the German advance OnTobruch
from the southwest escarpment squares.
On the third German turn, the 15th
division should be moved up past Msus.
This threatens
the escarpment squares
to the west of Tobruch again. They
should be moved in approximately
the
same way as the 21 st division was
moved, so that they can move all the
way around Mechili, and still make it
back to the escarpment
squares P-22
through S-29 if necessary.
The 21/3
unit should be moved around to the
southeast of Tobruch, somewhere between Sidi' Omar and Bir el Gubi. From
this position he threatens
the coast
road, and can also aid in attacks from
the rear, by cutting off retreat routes.
By now, any sensible Allied player
should be ready to retreat to the e scarpment squares around Tobruch, where
the German player can easily box him
in. Address comments to Jared Johnson, 1548 Rochelle Drive, Chamblee,
Georgia 30005.

Before the Bulge

by James F. Dunnigan
The Army Group the Germans gathered for their 1944 Ardennes offensive

(which included 40% of all their armor)

was indeed an impressively
equipped
force. It was not, however, an adequately equipped force.
Shortages in
such vital areas as communications,
transportation,
bridging equipment and
training all but condemned the attack to
failure before it started.
Regarding the deterioration
of the
German ground force s up to 1944, the
typical infantry division would be a good
case in point. By 1944 the "VolksGrenadier" division had 7 battalions of
infantry (vs the US 9) and only 12 antitank guns, 12 anti-aircraft
guns (20mm)
and 17 assault guns. This corresponds
to the US 36 AT guns, 32AA guns (40
mm, used mainly for ground defense)
and 54 medium tanks. The German
regiment (3 per div) had 1868 men, the
US 3200. The German rifle company
had 143 men, the US 197. Artillery
was comparable
although the US guns
were motorized
while the Germans
were largely horse drawn. It should be
noted that the US infantry division could
be motorized whenever the need arose
while the German infantry division was
almost always walking (especially during the "Bulge". )
There were exceptions, of course,
to this German "type".
The two parachute divisions were organized on the
old (like the US) model. The 26VG was
also a "big" division (17, 000 men). Of
the 13 infantry divisions that participated in the initial assault, 10 were. at
between 80-100% of their 10,000 man
strength
(326, 246, 277, 12, 18, 62,
352, 276, 560, and 212 VolksGrenadier)
while 3 (3, 5 Para 26VG) were between
13-17,000 strong.
The Panzer divisions had undergone
fewer modifications
thruout the war,
There were now two types, regular and
SS. The regular had 4 grenadier battalions (in two regiments)
and three
panzer battalions (one of assault guns)
in a single panzer regiment.
There
were de screpancie s in equipment.
The
1st SS had about 50 each of Mk IV's and
V's plus 42 Mk VI's. It was by far the
strongest panzer division the Germans
had. The SS divisions had two more
grenadier
battalions
than the regular
panzer units in addition to 12 more
105mm SP guns, (The regular units
had 24 105's and 18 150's.) The first
assault
wave had 500 medium tanks
in it plus 470 assault guns.
The allies had 4 2/3 divisions "in
harms way" on December 16 (99;2;106;
28; CCA,
9Arm.; 12 Rgt, 4 Div). In
addition to these where two Armored
Cavalry regiments,
(the 14th east of
Loshiem, the 102nd in Monschau). This
force consistea of 242 medium tanks,
182 tank destroyers (either SP or towed)
and 394 pieces of artillery (over 200 of
which were concentrated in 19 battalions
of non-divisional
artillery,
1 supporting

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THE GENERAL

99 Division, 10 supporting the 2 Division and 8 supporting the 106 Division).

The Germans had 1900 pieces of artillery, about 1000 were in the divisions,
another 440 were Nebelwerfers
(in 5
brigades) and another 470 or so in 7
Yolks Artillery Corps.
Many of these
guns were unable to displace forward
.until the 19th because of a lack of
prime movers, a poor road net and a
delay in getting bridges across
the
Our river (tanks didn't move across
until nightfall of the 16th).
The one US armored division in the
area, the 9th, was in three different
places.
CCB was just north of Elsenborn, supporting the V Corps 2nd division. CCR was 9 kilometers
northwest
of Clerf while CCA was in the line along
the Our river just south of DieKirch.
US armored divisions at this time had
3 battalions of infantry and 3 of tanks
(186 medium tanks) plus 36 SP tank
destroyers,
32 40mm AA guns and the
usual tail. Two US armored divisions
(2&.3)were still organized on an old
model, with more infantry
and 232
tanks. US units were almost all at full
strength, with a few falling as low as
90%.

The Bulge offensive has been aptly

called,
"the Indian Summer
of the
German army."
There is a lot of truth
in that statement.
If the Germans had
possessed
the resources,
they might
have won. They had neither the resource s nor the will. Field Mar shall
Model, a month before the attack,
stated that, " . the only result will be
a bulge in the line." His basis for such
a glum prophecy; a lack of sufficient
resources.
Such perception was wasted
on everyone but the allies.
Comments
should be addressed
to James F. Dunnigan, 8512 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

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CONTEST NO. 10

accomplished
both be happier

simultaneously.
for it.

Contest #9 Winners
Information
regarding
the September
contest winners was not received until
after the publishing deadline.
Winners
names will thus appear in the following
issue.

ENTRY

A
AVALON
HILL
FACTS
GAMEISI
Mulsanne
Stadium
Bli
Crimea
tzAlmand
Boulevard
Defense.
Glen
TFV
Yard
B
St.
Sedan
Damascus
7-4
FlU
101st
Nazaire
1942
Airborne
June
Faroe
Lake
December
1815
Frederick
sCavalry
1944
Long
Free
Belt
French
Brigade
Automatic
Major
Grant
Cemetery
Slipstream
Northampton
Cooper
Strategic
Convoy
Bl
Knightsbridge
Birmingham
Operation
ue
Capitol
Albert
Zone
Air
Ridge
Overbrook
Victory
GoldleaJ
Power
u"

"Foul", claim
many
contestants
Our River
Southe
rn Bug
every time we feature a contest built
around a game they don't possess.
Therefore,
this month we are going to
feature all of them. This will also give
those of you who are really Avalon Hill
fanatic s an advantage for once.
We have listed on the ENTRY sheet
names of facts which pertain to individual games. For instance; "Our River"
pertains to Battle of the Bulge so you
would write in "Bulge" under the Avalon
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warning: most of the facts apply to
only one game; but several apply to more
than one in which case you must list
every game to which they apply.
SUBMIT NAME OF YOUR DEALER
This contest has a two-fold purpose;
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Naturally, only one
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THE GENERAL

Home Brewed Games

The typical Avalon Hill game aficionado (game nut) is an inventive one.,
So much so that we began listing those
(July issue) who have designed their
own. Continuing this feature, we find
another World War II game played on
a gigantic 7' x 14' mapboard.
Designer
Donald Greenwood, 128 Warren
St.,
Sayre, Pa., includes all the nations of

Report from PBM League

(Continued from
PAGE 1)
games. At present,
the winner of a
league game is awarded three points;
the loser one point. After enough games
are played, matches will be arranged
between players with similar scores.
The basis of the Rules Committee's
appeal is this: How adequate is the
present rating system?
Will the best
player usually win, or will the victor
usually be the person who chose, or
was as signed, a particular
side? A
survey may help answer these questions
and assist the Rules Committee in evaluating the present system.
Specifically, the committee needs as
much information as possible from as
many A-H players as possible.
This
request is not addressed only to Buntington P. B. M. LEAGUERS, or to those
who play-by-mail,
but to any and all
who play A. H. games.
The desired information is: 1. Name
of individual battle game played; 2.
Winning side; 3. The specific turn in
which the game ended; 4. What optional
rules were used, if any. A sample format is shown below.
Turn victory
achieved by
player who moved
1"; r st I Second

Game
Afrika Korps, Orig.
Modified Eng.
placement,
supply table
Bulge, Basic
Tournament
D-Day, Original
65 Basic
65 Tourlliiment
Gettysburg

64

the world except South America.

The
game contains over 3,500
counters
representing
armies, navies and air
forces.
Madrid, a game of the Spanish Civil
War 1936-39, is the brainchild of Roger
B. White, 16470 S. Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio.
John Schaelfer,
2709 Norbert Street,
Flint,
Michigan,
possesses
a Coral
Sea game based on Avalon Hill's Midway system of naval combat and air
action. He also has a Grand Tactics
game, a World War II invasion game,
featuring 2 types of invasion transport,
naval attack points, air-ground contact,
a "hairy" game board, and in his own
words, "hairier rules."
Along these lines in a Tactics III
model by The Centurions,
an Avalon
Hill Club presided
over by David L.
Arneson, 1496 Hartford Ave., St. Paul,
Minnesota. It comprises four countries,
army, navy, air forces, special tables
for naval gun duels, destruction
of industry plus all sorts of maneuvers over
a huge 4' x 2' map for land operations
and another same size mapboard for

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naval operations.
Their club also has
a World War II game, World War I
game, a Korean game, plus several
others built on the Avalon Hill format.
Compiled
from
actual
historical
records of the Civil War. The game of
LEWISBERR Y is similar
to original
Gettysburg by means of play. LEWISBERR Y was a skirmish that occurred
just before the great battle of Gettysburg, as the Penna. State Milita tried
to defend their capital at Harrisburg
from capture by the Confederate Army.
You command the actual forces that
fought just seven miles south west of
the capital of Harrisburg,
in this realistic, all skill game. For free information about this game of LEWISBERR Y, feel free to write to JIM JAY
BIRNIE, 7 CLEMSON DRIVE, CAMP
HILL, PENNA. 17011.

Wizardry

at Waterloo

by Bernard

W. Bopp

I hope that fans of the PAAwho used

my "Quandary at Quatre Bras" strategy
were successful.
However,
being a
fair-minded
person, and not wishing to
destroy play-balance,
I am obligated to
submit my plans for crushing the ultimate (?) defense detailed in the las
issue (Sept. '65).
The French player is faced with six
main attack areas.
I list them below,
with the advantages and disadvantages
of each:
1. Braine Ie Comte road area: Ad:
vantages:
a) Difficult for PAA reinforcements to get to. b) Once the river
has been breached,
the area is open,
affording no defensive position to the
PAA Disadvantages:
a) Remoteness;
IC and IIC need at least two additiona
turns to get there. b) "Arriving" units
often come up the road; these units
could easily form a tough river defense.
II. Nivelles:
Advantages:
a) Once
Nivelles is taken, the PAA defensive
lines must be greatly extended.
Also,
Quatre Bras position is flanked. b)
Roads out of Nivelles increase French
mobility.
Disadvantages:
a) Easily
defended funnel formed by woods. b)
Remoteness;
also,
French
command
can be reinforced only with difficulty
III. Woods between Nivelles and QB
Advantages:
a) Splits PAA command
in two, endangers communications.
b)
Flanks Nivelles and QB positions.
Dis
advantages:
a) Mobility is drastically
reduced, making attack more difficult
b) Unless the French player is careful
he can be easily surrounded
by PAA
units from QB.
IV. Quatre Bras hill: Advantages
a) Hits the bulk of the enemy; if successful, cracks a vital defensive position. b) Once the QB hill falls, the
PAA are left without adequate defensive

THE GENERAL

position. Disadvantage s: a) Fortified

position; "exchange" could be crippling.
b) Difficult to get 3-1; extremely risky
at lower odds.
V. Area between QB and Bor s de
Mez: Advantages: a) Easily reinforced.
b) Attack, if successful,
flanks QB
hill position.
Disadvantages:
a) Terrain poor; funnel formed by woods and
QB hill. b) PAA reinforcements
readily
available, meaning considerable
time
may be lost in attacking.
VI. Tilly: Advantages:
a) French
reinforcements
readily available; PAA
position can be reinforced
only with
great difficulty.
b) PAA collapse, if
achieved, will be final; it is highly improbable that another PAA stand can be
made short of the LaLasne River. Disadvantages:
a) Terrain
poor; area is
constricted by rivers and forests.
b)
Area is remote from Waterloo, with no
good roads to aid movement.
I would reject area I for the reasons
given: it is too remote and Anglo-Allied
reinforcements
coming up the road can
easily hack up a corps or two. I also
reject area III for the reasons given;
in the games I have played, I have never
seen a successful forest attack.
Area
IV is risky, and even if successful,
the
attack usually boils down to a war of
attrition,
neither
side gaining much
territory.
The remaining areas, then,
are the ones to receive the attack.
Because of their proximity to the
area, IC and IIC should be used to attack Nivelles.
The IIC cavalry can be
sent out in advance of the main column
to eliminate any PAA cavalry resistance. It should be expected that nearly
all available Anglo-Allied units will be
used in defense of Nivelles. The French
commander should expect victory, but
not before morning of June 17. If possible, send along an extra three cavalry
divisions for soak-off use.
The second attack should be directed
toward area V. This is intended purely
as a holding action, since this area is
stoutly defended (at least four infantry
divisions at anyone time.) I generally
use the third and fourth corps, reinforced with some cavalry, in the attack.
The fifth corps functions as a strategic
re serve and should be placed in front
of the QB hill. In this position, it serves
to prevent PAA withdrawal
from the
heights.
But it is at Tilly that the French have
the greate st chance of succe s s. Granted, Tilly is a long way from Mont St.
Jean, but a French column coming down
the Thil-Dyle river corridor forces the
PAA to retreat no matter what the situation at QB or Nivelles.
Perhaps more
important, the French open up a second
front along the LaLasne River.
It has
been the case in all. too many games
that the PAA retreat to Mont St. Jean
and form a line, the French follow and

PAGE 9

form a line, casualties are traded, and

finally the Prussian
IVC arrives
and
carries the field. A second front would
spread the weakened PAA much thinner,
making a breakthrough that much easier.
However, since Tilly is so far from
the final objective, time is of the essence. The PAA forces must be destroyed quickly. If the Prus sians at
Tilly are positioned the way I detailed
last month, they can be hit from four
squares.
Assuming two soak-offs are
needed, 56 French attack factor scan
still be mas sed against the position.
This is more than sufficient for three
3-1 attacks against the 6-4' s. The hard
part is juggling the factor s so that three
separate battles are possible; it's difficult, but it can be done. Several 5-4's
are required,
so the third and fourth
corps must be temporarily
dispatched
to Tilly. In conjunction with this, send
3 or 4 heavy cavalry units on a wide
sweep to the east, landing on square
Y- 13. On the next turn, crack the eastern river line by moving to X-14. This
will widen the Prussian front considerably, and use up his delaying units that
much faster.
Assuming average luck,
two Prussian
infantry divisions will be
destroyed (one exchange, one elimination). On the next turn the imperial
guard and the remaining cavalry will
drive down and attempt to finish the job.
The imperial
guard should reach
the LaLasne River area well in advance
of the Prussian IVC, and, because of
its position, will prevent it from linking
up with the weakened PAA troops in the
Mont St. Jean area. If the French command shows sufficient speed and decisiveness
in this plan the odds are on
their side. Good luck ... Bernard
W.
Bopp, 2117 Bogart Ave., New York,
N. Y. 10462.

Definite Edge to the Japs

Victorio

Gervol

To anyone who has played Midway a

few times it soon becomes evident that
the Japanese have a definite edge. Th(s
does not, however, mean that the Jap~
anese cannot lose, on the contrary if
they make one mistake
it may cost
them the game. Therefore,
the Japanese must make full use of their ships
and aircraft.
In my opinion the Japanese should
not bring on any aircraft carriers until
0500 June 4th. The main reason being
the Japanese submit themselves
to two
extra B-17 raids and also lack the cover
in the face of a normal air raid.
They
should bring on the Light Cruiser Nagara
and possible Tone so as to be able to
call out search zones, however.
When
the Japane se do come on at 0500, their
fleet should be grouped as follows: Car-

riers
Akagi and Kaga, Battleships
Haruna, Kirishima,
Kongo, and Hiei,
Cruisers Mikuma, Mogami, Chickuma,
Chokai. Myoko. and Haguro. With this
fleet a B-17 raid will sink a carrier 1
out of 6 time s and a normal air raid
does little darnage even with average
luck. With this fleet the Japanese
should hunt the Americans
if they
haven't yet been found by the scout
cruiser s. Once the Americans
have
been spotted Soryu, Hairyu and Zuiho
should be brought on behind a cruiser
screen of Kumano, Suzuya and Yura.
Note: these carriers
should be brought
on each in a different area so as to Ie s~
sen the effect of Americans
spotting of
all of them. Atago should be brought on
alone or at night to lessen the chance
of a B -17 raid or an American air raid
during the day.
A few hints On air raids
When launching an air raid the Japanese should split up their attack by
hitting every American ship on sides
plus one dive bomber squadron On top.
Note the Americans
have 11 ships and
can therefore
screen only 11 sides or
tops of ships. The American
ships
have 44 sides so you can see what an
attack by many single T's can do and
with the dive bombers coming in on top
--the American fleet is badly shot up.
Example: Average Japanese attack on
main American
fleet with 31T's and
28D'S plus fighter cover.
AMERICAN FORMATION

Variation:
Strip off
1Tfrom
North H.
Astoria
Portlan

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thro~
carrlers at

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T-l sents
Total T's 31

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1 North Hamp
2 Astoria
3 New Orleans
4 Atlanta
D-6 on top of
each carrier
D-l on every
cruiser

5
6
7
8

@.

Vincenne s
Minneapolis
Portland
Pensacola

Note with this

attack bad luck
insures 50% sunk
good luck 80%
average 60%

D- 2 on 2nd wave
against AH. Cruiser
or Carrier of
your choice
Other comments:
on the turn before
night the Japanese,
if they have even
the fainte st notion of an imminent

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THE GENERAL

American attack, they should keep their

fighters on CAP and the remainder
of
their aircraft out just flying, so as to
prevent the Americans
from getting a
"free" air raid.
Hosho and Zuiho aircraft can now be
used either
to eliminate
remaining
Americans or soften up Midway.
There is a certain amount of risk in
the above plan but I believe if the Japane se player is tactful and deceiving
he can win nine out of ten games.
I wish to point out that the Avalon
Hill Midway game lacks one more Japanese ship the light cruiser Jintsu which
should come on at 0500 on June 4. AlsoIwould like to say that in the interest
of realism and fair play B-17 attacks
on Atago should be prohibited as in the
real battle there were 15 Japanese
transports and I doubt whether one B- 17
raid could sink them all.
I would urge all Avalon Hill war
gamers to read the book "The End of
The Imperial Japanese Navy" by Masanori Ito, a detailed account of the JapaneseNavy
in WW II. It also has a
detailed
account on all major naval
engagements
from the Japane se point
of view. Good luck and Bansail ....
Victor J. Gervol,
Jr.,
5131 Juniota
St. , Duluth, Minn.

I nvitation to Disaster
by William Creamer
After reading "Best Stalin grad Defense Ever" by Ron Bullis, in the July
is sue of The General, I decided to set
it up and see if it was as good as Mr.
Bullis claimed it was. After setting it
up I checked his locations three more
times 'and experimented with it for two
hour s before writing this article.
His so called "best defense" gives
the German player an opportunity
to
win the campaign on the first move.
The positions of the Russian
troops
south of the Pripyat Marshes and on the
Finland Front are very good indeed.
In both these areas it would be highly
difficult for the German player to mount
a successful offensive. These positions
are useless however, when the German
closely studies the Russian displacements north of the Pripyat Marshes.
On this front at first glance the Russian seems very strong but there are
two subtle faults in Rus sian displacements that can give the German the key
to victory.
On the Nemunas River line
there are two Rus sian units which are
very poorly placed. I refer to the 5-7-4
one west of Vilnius and the 2- 3- 6 three
southwest of Kaunas. By massing the
German panzer forces (8-8-6, 8-8-6,
8-8-6 and 8-8-6, 7-7-6, 7-7-6 against
the 5-7-4; 6-6-6, 6-6-6, 6-6-6 against
the 2-3-6) two 3-1 can be obtained.
By
properly guarding the flanks of this at-

tack from a counter - stroke by the strong

Russian
forces in the Brest-Litovsk
area, the German player is thus able
to breach the Nemunas line on the fir st
move as well as block the Brest- LitovskMinsk railway.
This opening move coupled with
moderately strong demonstrations
both
in Finland and south of the Pripyat
Marshes will make the Nemunas front
untenable for the Russians consequently
forcing them to withdraw to the Divina
River line. By doing this the Russian
forces south of the Pripyat Marshes are
in danger of being encircled by a German thrust directed from Minsk toward
Kiev. A threat of this kind should force
these Russian forces to withdraw at
least to the Southern Bug if not to the
Dnepr.
In this way the Wehrmacht is at the
gates of Smolensk by July, 1941. If
this city falls, the "dry route" to Moscow is open with two sure months of
good campaigning weather ahead. The
future of the USSR can be measured in
days! William Creamer,
2212 Avenue
B Southwest, Winter Haven, Florida.

"The Perfect Russian

Placement" Criticized
by Raymond Utz
I am moved to comment briefly on
Scott Geller's Perfect Russian Placement. In the fir st place I am inordinately suspicious of "perfect" defenses
and attacks.
In the second place there
are several blatant weaknesses in this
set-up which offer nO reasonable hope
of adequate compensation.
Fir st, we can ob serve the following
general weaknesses. The Finnish Front
has an artificial,
contrived look to it
that indicates
an uncomfortable
compromise.
It is too strong for a purely
defensive role and yet lacks the punch
for a quick, decisive liquidation.
The two heavy infantry units (3 and
28) are tied down with work that a pair
of 5-7-4's
could do just as well and,
therefore,
can be considered as wasted
for practical
purposes.
Both of the
above errors violate the principles of
concentration and economy of force.
The failure to occupy squares jj-12
and gg-ll or gg-12 is inexplicable,
and
make s the south central
front much
weaker than it would have to be. This
failure is tantamount
to surrendering
the Carpathians without a struggle.
It
is all the wor se for the fact that the
error cannot be rectified.
Square s-18 is too weak permitting
the Nemunas River Line to be cracked
on the first move. Presumably,
the
hope here is that the German will be
sufficiently
self-destructive
to cross
the river with a stack of heavy units,

permitting himself to be mousetrapped.

As usual, however, it is a questionable
tactic to rely upon your opponent for
mistakes.
Similarly,
nn-14 also falls
on the fir st move without even the
necessity of committing heavy units to
the attacks.
While the Prut Line is
hardly indispensable,
it seems pointless to yield it so easily and so early.
Moreover, the terrain of the Prut Bend
precludes any effective counterattack,
so that this deployment cannot even be
considered an obvious trap.
Brest-Litovsk
is too weak. It falls
on turn one as well, flanking the Bug
River line, and exposing z-18, 19 almost immediately.
The German can
be, and should be delayed at BrestLitovsk at least one more turn. In any
case, he should not be permitted,
as
he is in the text set-up, to concentrate
eight pieces on Brest-Litovsk
on the
fir st turn.
Summarizing,
this defensive set-up
gives the Germans too much too early,
and at too little risk.
All things considered,
this defense
is probably
playable.
The Russians
have considerable
staying power, if
handled properly.
Nonetheless,
better
defense s have been beaten.
In the interests
of brevity, the details of a German first move will be
left as an exercise
for the reader ...
Raymond Utz, 208-1 NW Rockledge
Place, Huntsville, Alabama.

You Can Defend All Areas

by Brenton Ver Ploeg
Upon reading an "impregnable
defense" for Stalingrad in the General, I
thought that I would at least offer a
unique defense for D-Day. While I
cannot assure total and complete victory, nor can I claim to be infallible
myself, I offer the following ...
While I find no real fault with the
retiring
type of defense in D-Day, I
per sonally feel that a different system
can be utilized to great effect. Briefly,
I advocate the defense of all areas.
Playing under the new set -Of rules,
this would exclude South France.
The
basic purpose of such an aggressive
defense is a repulsion of the first invasion, and at worst the use of Strategic Air Attacks far from the borders of
Germany.
The defense is as follows:
Static di vi sion s (1-2-2) on:
P-26
F-13
S-32
L-2l
G-14
Q-27
L-2l
S-32
L-2l
V-38
G-14
Q-28
M-22
AA-4l
Q-28
G-14
1-16
M-22
FF-4l
R-29
1- 16
M-23
HH-42
R-29
1- 16
N-24
R-30
H-15
0-25
R-30
S-32
L-20
0-25

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THE GENERAL

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X-38, AA-41, LL-44, G-13, F-IO,
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Murphy, Jr. at 22 Millay Place. Mill
Valley, California.
Stanley
Hoffman,
we've extended a very special invitation
(or challenge,
if you want to call it
that) to you and your friends.
The staff
of "The Imperial"
is also on our list.
Will play Tactics
II, Afrika
Korps.
Bulge and Blitzkrieg
(either
side on
each) by mail.
Also any AH war game
in per son with anyone in Springfield
area.
Would also like to join club in
area. Have 6 years experience
in A. H.
games.
Write - Scott
Fisher,
1012
South Livingston,
Springfield,
Ill.
S. M, E. R. S. H. calls to all freedomlovers.
SPECTRE
must be crushed.
All those interested
in joining write to
Thomas Fancher, 26 River Street, Sidney. New York.
Attention:
Anyone within a reasonable
distance
of Fairfield,
Connecticut
is
wanted dead or alive to play any wargame, especially
Blitzkrieg,
and I have
a car to make any trip within reason.
Phone: 259-6026, or write Jim Langenfeld, 343 Old Hickory Rd., Fairfield,
Conn. 06431.

to full-year suband limited to SO

to re-word
your
is allowed. Ads

Q-27

OPPONENTS

5- 5-4 units on:

8-34, V-36
WANTED

Opponents for Battle of the Bulge wanted by Mike Martin, 221 Penn. Ave.,
Lebanon, Tennessee.
Wanted--Adult
opponents to play almost
any A-H game in face-to-face
combat
(no PBM) in West Chicagoland
area or
for an occasional
game in South Bend,
Ind. or Milwaukee,
Wis. (my travel
area).
Have played several games by
mail would now like to play more games
in person.
Write or call: George Wullaert,
3813 Butterfield
Rd . Bellwood,
Ill., phone: 544-8442.
Desire opponent in Battle of Bulge by
mail or otherwise.
Either side. Philip
Pomerentz,
1931 Spruce
St., Phila.,
Penna.
19103
Expert
defensive
strategist
seeking
capable
offensive
general.
Will play
D-Day, Stalingrad,
Waterloo, or Battle
of the Bulge.
Write: Robert J. Beyma,
701 N. Hope St., Phoebus,
Va. 23363.
Americans:
organize
the world under
1 banner by joining Spectre.
This fantastic organization
now has members in
over 15 states and Canada.
Anyone interested
should
contact
their
state
commander
or send a self-addressed
envelope to Director
of Personnel,
Spectre,
P;O. Box 246, Oakton, Va.
Since the Confederation
of the West has
split
into several
parts, we of San
Francisco
and the Peninsula hereby declare our neutrality
in all PBM Wars.
But, in Nov. or Dec. the Purple
Clod
and his East Bay rebellion will face our
hordes.
The peninsularian
Empire.
670 Darrell
Rd., Hillsborough,
Calif.
94010: JOINl - Jack Greene, Jr.
Arise there is still hope; a club formed
in the Bay Area of California
rises to
crush the entwining tentacles of Spectre.
The Infantile Peasants will be taken by
surprise.
Other clubs unite us. The
Mad Count of Concord - Brian Bahcock,
3914 Pridmore
Court, Concord, Calif.
94521.
Why Wait for
1984?
Kampfgruppe
Oceania
is preparing
to strike l Able
commanders
are needed from every
state in the union for divisional
and
state
commands.
Will
incorporate
smaller groups and accept individuals.
Contact Now about Kampfgruppe Oceania
and M.A.R. S. (Mission for Attack and
Revenge
against
SPECTRUM).
Send
name, address,
age, and experience
to Cedric Denny, 3714 Sourwood Court.
Louisville,
Ky. 40220.
Anyone
interested
in helping
bring
about the downfall of "Spectre"
read
the following:
all individuals
and
fledgling
clubs that wislJ to join, the
2nd largest club in the U. S. and Spectre's leading rival, contact Ken Thurman, 186 Price
Way, Folsom,
Calif.
You could very well be the head of our
own state's
branch.
(Only those west
of the Miss. apply).
HELP!
I am an inexperienced
player
who needs Play-by-Mail
opponents.
I
will play all--experts
who want an easy
win--amateurs
who want to play someone at their own level.
If interested,
contact Ken Just, 1535 Ronan Avenue,
Wilmington,
California
90744.
The
AAAO Triumvirate
Challenges
YOU! The AAAO (anything, anytime,
anywhere,
bar none) has finally made
itself known. We challenge
all members of SPECTRE (and other such scum
to any AH WWII game. Surrender
terms are easy Unconditional.
We
are waiting for you. Note we take no
prisoners.
No reply will be considered
an admission of Defeat. Banzai! !AAAO
Triumvirate
,c / oGene r ali s simo Vie tor io
Gerval, Jr.,
5131 Juniata
St., Duluth
Minne sota 55804.
Inexperienced
American General wishes
amateur German Field Marshall
to engage him in a lively battle for possession of the land eastof the Meuse. preier to play live, but I will also gladly
play-by-mail.
Contact: Bill Robinson,
633 Magnolia St., Neptune Beach, Fla.
32050, phone: 249-5046.
Nevadan Wargame Staff; News is challenging anybody to any AH play- by-mail
war game using 2nd edition battle resuIts table.
You name side and optional rules.
- Send to Neal Parsons,l901
Pineridge Dr., Reno, Nev. 89502.
I am interested
in contacting adult-type
players
in this area.
Omar DeWitt,
99 Tompkins St. Apt. 3, Cortland, New
York.
Phone: 753-3922.

7-7-4 units on:

0-25, HH-42

OPPONENTS

WANTED

Wanted: Opponent to play-by-mail

or
in person "Afrika Korps".
I prefer the
British side but will accept the German
command.
Contact
Richard
Locke,
2232 Wesley Avenue, Evanston,
nlinois
60201. Phone: 869-0035.
Attention Ithaca! Anyone in the Cornell
University-Ithaca
area
interested
in
either forming a club or just playing a
game or two. please contact Warren J.
Sass.
1121 University
Halls, Cornell
University,
Ithaca, N. Y.
Is anyone wondering why The MIT War
Games Society no longer publicizes its
150-0 record.
Well, it's because
the
Third Army of Pa., Spectre has defeated them in both Waterloo and D-Day.
Come on over to the winning side. Join
the III Army now. We have no dreams
of world conquest,
we merely want to
promote
A. H. war gaming and defend
the honor of our state.
Write Donald
Greenwood,
128 Warren
St Sayre,
Penna.
Washingtonians
l Unite!
I propose
a
loose confederation
of all Wash. wargamers
to solve threats
posed by outof-state
organizations.
It will have a
round_tahle
type of leadership.
Comm.
center
temporarily
will be through
Henry VIII Kelley, 67526th Ave., N. W.
Seattle, Wash. 98107. SU 3-5447.
Will anyone in the N. Y. area interested
in participation
in actual model warfare
using HO scale vehicles
on realistic
terrain
or has a collection
as such,
please contact John Greer at 342 Cheves
Ave., Staten Island, N. Y. 10314.
Wanted: AH opponents in Milton-Janesville area.
Must be college
student.
No PBM. Contact Jeff Perren,
Twining
Hall, Milton,
Wisc. I am 18 and a
freshman.
I own every AH wargame
except
Nieuchess
and I win 95% of
games played.
My speciality
is the
"ultimate
in wargaming"
with scale
models of the Napoleonic era.
Will any AH club or player
in the
Raleigh, N. C. area please contact me
either by mail or phone. I have 7 AH
games and several years of experience,
but very few opponents.
Interested
in
meeting anyone with any amount of experience.
Ed Turner,
2725 Van Dyke
Ave.,
Raleigh,
N. C. 27607. Phone:
832-8104.
Will play (in person) either side in DDay,
Waterloo,
Stalingrad,
Afrika
Korps, Midway, Bulge with any moder_
ate to excellent player in San Francisco.
Must not object to drinking as I am on
W. C. Fields'
special diet for sanity.
Frank Defiey, Apt. 32, 4096 18th St.,
San Francisco,
California.
Our president,
Jack Greene, Jr., has
stressed
the urgency of this request.
Our isolated organization
means no offense to outsiders
yet the hordes
of
Oakland make many aggressive
moves.
Experience
or not, we need you. My
sector is from San Francisco
to Redwood City. Steve Scott, 3341 Los Prados #3, San Mateo, Calif.
To all
southern
aggressors
- Sean
(004) Donohue wishes
to destroy
the
armi~s of the south in Gettyshurg
'64.
Send acceptance.
Also I would like a
Stalingrad opponent and Tactics II opponent _ either side.
Send first turn,
acceptance
or set-up to: Sean Donohue,
1209 Blue Jay Dr., Pittshurgh,
Pa.
Texans!!
9th Corps, Texas Confederate Army of Central Pennsylvania,
has
opening for two divisional commanders.
If you want to help rid the Great State of
the Spectre
scourge,
join now! Stand
up and be counted!
Experienced
commanders,
write:
E.A. Mohrmann,
209
S. Bishop St. #2, San Angelo, Texas.
To: All Ohioans
From:
World Con_
quest, Inc. Subject: W. C. I. Ohio Army
World Conquest, Inc. is forming
an
Army of Ohio, and we need men now!
If you want to have a crack at taking
Spectre down a few pegs, then let me
know. David Gruenbaum,
Military Governor of Ohio, 605 W. 5th St., Marysville, Ohio 43040.
Will anyone who has made a new game
based on various subjects, please write
either Bill Barilka,
1509 St. Clarks,
Lakewood, Ohio 44107 or Jack Greene,
Jr., 670 Darrell
Rd., Hillsborough,
Calif. 94010. We are forming an organization for information
on new game
tactics and ideas.

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the same ad, or new ads, for each succeeding is sue. Ads received
after the 15th of the month
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Units on:
0-24, D-lO, Q-25, N-2l, T-34,
U-32, S-28, HH-40
Paratroop units on:
6- 6-4 units on:
(1-1-3): H-14
Q-28, S-33
(3-3-3): F-13
(5-5-3): J-17
Reserve Units on:
X-14, N-9
(5-5-4~X-14,
(2-2-4): N-9
~6-6-4): C-5
(3-3-4's):
D-5, D-5
You will note that invasions can be
repulsed
in all invasion areas
save
Brittany within five moves or so, with
average luck. An invasion in Brittany
can be bottled up for some time before
a breakthrough
is achieved.
In either
case, the object is to spot the German
approximately
ten moves head start.
With flagrant use of the eight strategic
air attacks, it is possible
that the
Allies will be able to stay ashore, but
most of them will be required for such
an effort, and they cannot be used when
the German lines ar.e less flexible.
But what of the areas close to Germany? Are not those underdefended by
such placement?
Indeed, a successful
invasion here finds the great majority
of the German Army far distant, but
exactly what are the chances of a successful invasion?
Let us initially conceed that these three areas are NOT
"impregnable."
My point is that they
needn't be. Here I must take issue with
the Avalon Hill statement to that effect.
The chances must merely be made
highly inlikely, for who wants to risk
their game on the one in six or seven
chances that he will be sufficiently succes sful to guarantee victory?
The defense is thus a combination of military
lines and psychological warfare.
Even
at that, only two 2-1' s can be achieved
along the entire coast line from the
North Sea to Le Havre, inclusive.
5050 odds are not condusive to success.
In actuality, there is only a 30% chance
of tactical success with 1-1 odds in assaulting a beach head.
No time has been devoted to South
Fr'ance, but a 4-4- 3 can be transferred
from F-IO to TT-40 to guard against a
force of Allies seizing the inland ports
in the Bay of Biscay.
In any case, if the first invasion can
be repulsed, full re serve s can be rushed to the second, in addition to the ten
move advantage garnered
from such.
All this is not to deny that lines of defense closer to Germany, already elaborated upon in the General, are not excellent and cannot be utilized. It seems
to me that this type of aggressive
defense here outlined does not replace,
but rather
supplements,
these lines.
Any comments should be addressed
to Brenton Ver Ploeg; 307 l'st Avenue
East, Oskaloosa, Iowa 52577.

Question Box

BULGE:
Q: Suppose the lSS attacks and defeats
a Unit on RR 7... he then move s onto
the square. vacated by that Unit. But
the Units in RR6 and RR8 are engaged
thus the Americans
don't do anything
in that sector.
Can the 1SS back out of
that square on his next Turn.
A: Absolutely not ... pulling back would
mean moving through enemy zone s of
control.
Thus the ISS has unwittingly
committed itself to battle by advancing
after combat on the previous turn.
Q: After an engaged has been rolled,
can the attacker bring up reinforcements
if the defender does not exercise his
option to do so.
A: Yes.
U-BOAT:
Q: Are two or more DE's allowed to
attack 1 Sub at the same time while the
Sub is submerged?
A: Yes.

Kampf
Now available,
on a commercial
basis, is a series of ten (10) monographs about specific topics, not only
battles,
but on military
history
in
general.
"Kampf" is the name of this
series of 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 16 to 24 page
series of pamphlets.
These pamphlets
contain well documented
information
compiled from bibliography found in the
second largest library in the country.
Information contained therein will enable you to fully under stand and appraise any military situation. For complete
information,
write
to either:
Victor Madeja, 287 Bedford Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York or Jim Dunnigan,
8512 - 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.

New Cards for LeMans

A complete new set of Specification
Cards have been printed for the LeMans
Racing Game. These new cards antiquated the original set and incorporate
the very late st car s being run in the
classic
tracks.
New cards
include:
Ford GT, Ferrari
330 P2, Corvette,
Cobra. GT, Jaguar XK-E, BRM, Alfa
Romeo GTZ, Mercedes 230SL, Porsche
911, Triumph TR-4A,
Elva Courier
and the Elan. All gear speeds have
been revised accordingly.
You may order complete
sets for
. 30~ plus a self addressed
return envelope stamped with first class postage.
The usual $1. 00 minimum charge is
waived for subscriber s. Mark your
order, "NEW Spec Cards."

Blue and Gray Book List

Catton, Bruce
AMERICA GOES TO WAR.
Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University
Press,
1958.
"Based on a series of lectures given
by the author at Wesleyan University.
Mr. Catton ranges informally but authoritatively
through such Civil War
related topics as the impact of the new
weapons introduced
in the conflict on
tactics,
the employment
of political
generals in the North, the psychology
of the citizen soldier, the repression of
civil liberties
in wartime, and the career of U. S. Grant as presid!,nt."
Cochran, Hamilton
BLOCKADE RUNNERS OF THE
CONFEDERACY.
Indianapolis,
Bobbs-Merrill,
1958.
"Hamilton Cochran is concerned with
personalities
and adventures
of those
who flouted the Federal blockade rather
than the strategic
picture or the naval
problem."
General matters
such as
effects of blockade on living conditions
in the South are also discussed.
"Civil
War buffs who want a glamorous survey
of personalities
and adventures will find
this volume readable and exciting. "

Out of Stock Items ...

The following items are now obsolete
and can no longer be obtained from
Avalon Hill:
1. Troop Counters for Gettysburg
hexagonal- grid game.
2. Troop Counters and Order
of
Appearance
Cards for Gettysburg '58
copyright game. (However these items
have been updated and the original
square-grid
Gettysburg
game can be
refurnished
by ordering
'64 troop
counters, Battle Manual, Time Record
Card and Order of Appearance
Cards.
$1. 50 total cost.)
3. Volume 1, Nos. 1 (May '64) and
4 (Nov. '64) for the "General."
Please take note that Troop Counters
must be ordered in complete sets ... individual Units cannot be sent. Also
available are sets of 169 blank Counters, Waterloo
size, that contain no
printing
or colors.
These all-white
counters cost. 50 per set.
Plain mapsheets
for "do-it-yourselfers"
are available for $1. 00 each.
These.sheets are unmounted white cardboard containing only the hexagons.
Theyare sent to you rolled up in a mailing tube to prevent creasing of the 22" x
28" sheet. No other sizes are available.
For current Replacement Parts List,
send a self-addressed
envelope containing one 5 stamp ... 8 for airmail.