Old School Tactical East Front Turn 1

It has begun. After setting up the forces, I have actually started playing the game. Since this is my first actual play through, I decided to keep the rule book handy. I really wanted to play the game as close to the rules as possible and make sure to share the page and rule section I'm looking at as I play. This of course led to a much slower game than I'm sure is intended, but as with most games. once you learn it, the game will play quicker.

I did find mistakes as I played, but I did try to correct myself as I played and I think I caught most mistakes. The first big mistake I made is that vehicles do not do group movement. I even read over that the other day as I brushed up on fire groups and still made that mistake. Also, learning how to properly apply the combat modifiers when using the combat charts will still take some time. It's not overly complicated, but sometimes rules interpretation may lead to mistakes.

I'm hoping that for those that watch the video in whole will also learn something from my mistakes. I actually feel a much better understanding now for the basics now that I have started playing and I'm seeing how the pieces all fit together. I'm enjoying the impulse system and look forward to seeing how much of an impact on the game it has as the turns continue. I also enjoy the combat results table as it is much easier to read then to figure out odds ratios. I even like that more because I don't have to spend time figuring out how to make a kill stack to optimize those odds.

For just one turn, I am really enjoying how this is playing out and look forward to my next turn. I anticipate the videos for each turn will get shorter as well as I figure things out. As always, thanks for watching.

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