Episode 250:The Last Bid vs. Men of Steel

What better way to start episode #150 than with the witty lyrics of a new song by Dennis Donovan.  Then the studious Rich Spilky joins us and presents his amazing analysis of both, RB5: The Last Bid, and RO5: Men of Steel from Red October. Advanced Squad Leader at its finest.

We are now going to attempt to post most of the episodes with more visuals on our website. 

The video version of this episode can be found here.

 

 

In the What We've Played Lately segment Dave gives an after action report. He and Dave T have been playing scenario HS32: A Few Rounds More, from Multi-Man Publishing's Operation Veritable.  They played it on VASL.

Go Them!

 

SHOWTIMES

0:02 Song "Under a Stun"

4:00 Banter

13:00 Analysis of The Last Bid and Men of Steel

45:00 What Have You Been Playing Lately?

1:01:55 Total Running Time

 

 

 

SHOW LINKS

Wu Wei's write up of his game of HS32 on Boardgame Geek 

Rich's Article is in this issue of Banzai 24.1 

 

 

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Under A Stun 

Concept & Lyrics:  Dennis Donovan

Editing: Chris Gammon and Dave Wallick

 

Under a stun

The crew, whose hatch wasn’t down

Under a stun

The crew who was hit by a sniper’s round

Read Chapter D!

For differences ‘tween Shock and Stun

Woe is me, the crew got stung

They’re under a stun

 

Under a stun

The half-track crew, who had a bad day

Under a stun

The crew who can’t just drive away

Blew their MC

Sad it is

They’re buttoned up ‘till next Movement Phase

Seems to me

For now they’re done

They’re under a stun

 

Under a stun

It’s a tank.. hit .by falling rubble

Under a stun

MG TK, number, equals TK Roll

So please tell me,

I know they’re stunned, are they broken too?

Buttoned up, having no fun

They’re under a stun

It seems to me, ….oh yeah

They’ll be back up in a turn or two

Stun is flipped, when CC’s done

they’re under +1 (plus one)

 

Under a STUN

Those guys suffered a ‘K’ result

Under a STUN, well

This turn, they can do nothin’ else              

Sniper got me, d’oh!  Commander’s dead!

They’re buttoned up

and they’re recalled too

They exit,

change has come

 

They’re under a STUN