Watch “Sicily '43 Solo Playthrough - Episode 4: The Hits | Assault Games | World War 2 Tactical Wargame,” a gameplay video on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Zilla Blitz on YouTube:
We take a deep dive look at combat in Sicily '43, Assault Games' wargame (historical conflict simulation) on World War 2 Tactical (squad level) Combat on the West Front in 1943, between US and German forces. Game is a two-player wargame, but works well solitaire. In this episode, both the German and US forces suffer casualties as fire becomes more deadly.
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Known Errors:
- 16:51 - I mistakenly applied a suppression combat result, and had the German rifle squad fall back. This should not have happened, as the suppression result should not have counted. You only count the single strongest result on two-result die rolls when the firing squad is a reduced squad. To be fair, the fall back probably benefited the Germans more than the US.
- I omitted a scenario rule that should have increased the German pressure by 1 level starting on Turn 5. This would have made it more likely that the Germans would have withdrawn from the battle.
- Not an error, but in some cases, the digital images I have for the cards are different than the older prototype version of the cards that I am playing with. I've noted that the first time it comes up in the video. I'm using the data from the cards I have.
Assault Games Red Horizon '41 Webpage:
https://www.assault-games.com/produkt/assault-game-system-red-horizon-41/
This first look produced by Zilla Blitz.
The game in this video is a review prototype copy provided by Assault Games.
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Italian Army
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Sicily '43 Solo Playthrough - Episode 4: The Hits | Assault Games | World War 2 Tactical Wargame
Mainly playthroughs. Assault: Sicily '43 – Gela Beachhead is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 5 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 24 recorded sessions, 6 unboxings, and 9 other videos.
2 - 4 players
60 - 180 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
About Assault: Sicily '43 – Gela Beachhead, from BoardGameGeek:
Mediterranean sea, southwest coast of Sicily island. It was the early morning of 10 July 1943 when the first landing craft dropped their ramps at Gela and the first units of US Rangers set their boots on Italian soil. Together with the British and Canadian units that had landed further east, the Western Allies launched an unprecedented landing operation to push open the gate to Fortress Europe. The night before, on 9 July, American and British airborne troops had already dropped into enemy territory behind the planned beach landing zones to occupy important positions. This was to prevent or delay timely counterattacks by Italian and German troops on the day of the landing. This operation, called Husky, was the beginning of the end of the Italian army as an ally of the German Wehrmacht. It was the additional front, long demanded by Stalin, and thus brought the necessary relief of the Eastern Front.
Assault Sicily 43 is the second volume in a planned series of tactical level wargames in which players lead historical units into battle during the landing and airborne operations around Gela Beachhead in July 1943. Americans, Italians and Germans fight bitterly for the backdoor Sicily as a launchpad for the invasion of the continent.
Game Scale: Squad and team level infantry units, individual vehicles and artillery
Turn time: 5-20 minutes
Game time: 1 hour – 3+ hours, scenario dependent
Complexity: 4 -6 out of 10 (medium)
Optional rules that ease the entry into the game system
Replay value: 10 out of 10
This game can be combined with the Eastern Front module: Assault Red Horizon 41
Designers
Wolfgang Klein, Erich Rankl
Artists
Michael Grillenberger, Ingrid Grillenberger, Marc von Martial
