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Mathieu Lemire
Canada
Ottawa/Hull
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I was so happy to receive my copy of the Campaign Book Volume 2 back in December. I looked through the book on many occasions but only decided to play yesterday. Every campaign looks marvelous and I had to decided on one that I could play in one evening. That is why I decided to play the 'Fall of Poland'.
Please note that I played this campaign with a solo version of my own. I did not play with any of the 'what if' nor the air rules (but will next time).
And what was the final result? I greatly enjoy playing any Memoir '44 scenarios but playing the 'Fall of Poland' campaign is the most fun 5 hours that I have had in a while. The campaign was tight, tense and terribly fun with all the campaign rules, victory rolls and reserve tokens.
So here are the results:
Tuchola Forrest: Axis 5 - Allies 4
Bzura River: Axis 5 - Allies 2
Battle of Warsaw: Axis 2 - Allies 6
Tomaszow Lubelski: Axis 6 - Allies 5
Battle of Kock: Axis 4 - Allies 5
Total medals: Axis 22 - Allies 22
Objective points: Axis no objective so -1 Allies no objective so 0
Final total: Axis 21 - Allies 22 !!!!!!!!!!
Comments:
- All of Tuchola Forrest, Tomaszow Lubelski and Battle of Kock were increadibly equal. It could seriously have gone either way.
- I am in love with the Polish Dragoons units. Very powerful
- Allies had increadible cards in the Battle of Warsaw which could explain the score for that scenario.
- The Tomaszow Lubelski scenario features a heroic leader token on one of the Polish Dragoons unit. It was a very powerful unit. The unit that supported the leader died but the leader survived and was passed to the closest infantry unit. Unfortunately, the new unit supporting the hero died and this time, the leader did not survived.
- Both Allies and Axis used all their tokens and the reserves made a notable difference in a few scenarios.
- If I were to play a campaign with someone else this would definitively be the one that I would choose. That or another campaign (not grand campaign) from Volume 1 or Volume 2
- Amazing new scenarios for that campaign. Many thanks to Brad 'Talespinner' Bell for creating such a nice and fun campaign.
Final thoughts:
I suspect that the final score that I obtained is not necessary what is likely to normally happen. That is the problem with solo play. But it was still pretty amazing. Playing this campaign with a real opponent of a similar caliber as me and doing the 'what if' roll at the beginning of the campaign would be incredible.
Matt.
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Andrzej Sieradzki
Poland
Opole
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Nice review. I just started the campaign playing as Axis with my gaming buddy playing Poland and our Tuchola Forrest result was exactly as yours.
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Mathieu Lemire
Canada
Ottawa/Hull
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Nice to read that. It is a great scenario where anything can happen really.
Matt.
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Andrzej Sieradzki
Poland
Opole
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The point was we both rolled for reinforcements before Tuchola scenario hoping to get an edge and he got tanks on the baseline and I got infantry.
 . Without those tanks he would have been in a worse position, I think. The armoured unit help him a lot.
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Andrzej Sieradzki
Poland
Opole
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We have just finished two campaigns 1939.
The results:
I: Me (Germans): 22 - My opponent Darek (Poles): 18
II: Me (Poles): 21 - My opponent Darek (Germans): 20.
Close matches, but I was the happy winner of both of them.The hardest scenarios for the Germans was "Warsaw". Allies won in both games (6:2, 6:4).
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Mathieu Lemire
Canada
Ottawa/Hull
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Very interesting to read Andrzej. Thank you for sharing that with us. Your final scores were pretty close too. Campaigns are great and sooo interesting.
Matt.
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Posted Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:20 pm
