Against All Odds Wargame
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Box Description With a shout the squad leaders of the German 1057th Grenadier Regiment led the onslaught across the causeway leading to the critical bridge at La Fiere. Panzers were out front, providing covering fire. When the lead tank approached to within forty yards of the bridge the two 'A' Company, 505th PIR bazooka teams got up and fired rockets from the edge of the road. After being hit, the lead tank fired its cannon at the Peterson / Heim team and snapped a concrete pole in front of them, sending flying chunks of concrete in the air. Peterson now ran 20 feet to get an unobstructed shot at the tanks with Helm beside him carrying a bag of extra rockets. The bazooka teams soon went to work on the second tank. Within 30 seconds it too was on fire. Peterson put another round into the tank's turret as it swung around to take a pot shot at him. As Peterson was running out of rockets he sent Marcus Heim over the other side of the bridge to get extra ammunition. Heim ran through a hail of enemy bullets, picked up a bag of rockets he found, and ran back to Peterson's side. They then hit the second tank seven more times. AGAINST ALL ODDS is a detailed new ATS system game that tells the story of the Battle of Normandy from the perspective of the 82nd Airborne soldiers tasked with defending the exits to Utah Beach on D-Day. Their assignment was critical—the survival of the beachhead at Utah depended on the tenacity of the airborne. Hitler’s Panzers must not get through. The bridge at La Fiere, spanning the Merderet River, was the path that counter-attacking German troops would necessarily have to cross to penetrate to Utah Beach. Their crossing would be challenged by the men of the 505th Parachute Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division. The ‘All American’ soldiers holding the bridge were armed with little more than a few bazookas, some Gammon grenades, and a lone 57mm anti-tank gun. What they lacked in armament would have to be made up in courage as Nazi soldiers began a series of attacks aimed at breaking the airborne hold on the bridge at La Fiere and crushing the beachhead at Utah Beach. Your investment in the Advanced Tobruk System (ATS) will be rewarded as an unprecedented library of new ATS Modules, each covering a different World War II battle, is published. The ATS depicts tactical-level warfare on numerous battlefields of World War II, including Finland, the Eastern Front, Normandy, the Pacific Theater and other. Each boxed ATS release is a complete game. There is nothing more to buy to immediately begin enjoying tactical-level wargaming like never before. To keep your investment fresh and exciting a Gamers Guide and new expansion packs are coming for Against All Odds. Against All Odds delivers breathtaking action and suspense at the scale and detail true tactical-level enthusiasts demand - individual squads, weapons and tanks. All the subtle nuances of tactical-level combat are provided by the system: gun duels; separate pivoting turrets; AFV indirect fire; coaxial machine-guns; melee; smoke; armor penetration; morale; AFV overruns; and more. And it is all accomplished using a detailed and intuitive system that models tanks using discrete armor values at turret, superstructure, lower hull and track aspects and front, side and rear facings and allows for the realistic use of High Explosive, Armor Piercing, APCR and HEAT ammunition. All this without the need for side notes or plotting moves and in a solitaire-friendly presentation. Begin play almost immediately using the provided basic game rules that take moments to read, and get your units down on the game map-board within minutes. Some of the units you can command in exciting and realistic ways: M4A1 'Sherman': The Sherman was the main battle tank of the US Army in World War II. The M4A1 model was the first to see action in North Africa and it was still in use during the Battle of Normandy. Despite its shortcomings, in the main a short, low-velocity 75mm gun, the Sherman in various marks saw action as a front-line MBT as late as 1967 when modified Shermans faced off against Egyptian T-34s and Syrian Pzkpfw IVs. Pzkpfw 35R 731(f): The Renault R35 was the main infantry tank of French fighting forces in 1940, issued to independent tank battalions to support infantry divisions. Following the French collapse, a large number were captured and pressed into German service. R35 model tanks issued to German units had the turret dome removed and a radio installed. Known as Pzkpfw 35R, they were issued to the reforming 100th Panzerbrigade of the 21st Panzer Division as well as scattered among infantry divisions garrisoned in France in 1943-44. Bazooka: Unlike European armies, the US Army had not adopted a light-weight anti-tank weapon for use by foot-soldiers until the 2.36 inch launcher was developed to take advantage of the ability of the hollow-charge to defeat enemy tanks with a low velocity missile. Dubbed the 'Bazooka', the shoulder-fired weapon came into service in 1942 in time for its use by US troops in North Africa. Buy Against All Odds Game |
