Bogged Down Again

Aargh rivers again!

Why is it I choose to cross rivers when playing FOW when there's a perfectly good bridge normally causing my tanks to get bogged down. Well for two reasons actually.

The first is that although bridges are quicker they also form a natural bottleneck making it easy for the enemy to ambush you. Secondly crossing the river itself means that more armour is available and in some circumstances makes the hull down. Of course the risk you run is each tank becomes bogged down on a roll of 1 on the dice thus making it useless and a bit of a sitting duck (pardon the pun) until the next turn.

Yesterday my brave panzers nearly made it across but no forsaken by the dice gods yet again. When they did make it out they were ambushed by a platoon of Allied M10 tank destroyers and massacred. Still it was a risk worth taking and if it had paid off would have lead to a brilliant flanking manouvre.

Unfortutunately I had to leave early leaving my German collegue in sole command of our forces. He was having better luck on the other flank with his Tiger tanks and no river. Hopefully he sent the Brits packing back to old Blighty with their cucumber sandwiches and lashings of ginger beer.