Our shortest scenario yet....

Today Doug and I sat down to play The Taking of Takrouna. It was the next in our goal to play all the published modules in order. We looked it over and ROAR showed it slightly favoring the Italians. Usually I'll take the under-dog, but since we played at my place and I could do the Italian defensive set up, Doug agreed to be the attacking New Zealanders (Maori's).

The scenario revolves around the Maori attack on an observation post in a small village surrounded by cliffs. The X1 overlay works great for this and the desert board 25 really makes this an exercise in LOS, adv vs difficult terrain, and abrupt elevation/double crest line movement.

Briefly, Doug split his force in two, 1/2 sweeping around the far side to clear the hills of my mortars and then swing back around. The other 1/2 planned on moving straight at the cliffed village via the wadis that cut through the hills. Seemed reasonable, except my mmg and 9-1 leader in the village along with three squads didn't like that plan. They caught his primary stack in the open and proceeded to roll snakes, then another very low roll etc. That, along with a failed wound check on the leader and then missed LLMC's.....

By the time the rout phase game around, we realized there was no place for the broken Maori's to rout, and since they were within 6 hexes of the brits and in open ground with no legal rout paths, the remaining 1/2 of the NZ force on that side of the board was eliminated for failure to rout.

With literally half his force eliminated on turn 1, and the rest of his force on the other side of the board, he resigned. We set it back up and played again. I still pulled off a win, but this time it went to the end.

Shortest one I ever played. Oh yeah, I called the first snake eyes ; ) That was what made it so funny - we were both laughing at how terribly diced Doug was getting. It was just too incredible to believe.