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Attack on the Solace Monorail - a Club Night game in 15mm 

Second and Third Turns The Waldheims did more damage to the Solace regulars using main guns, anti-tank guns and missile swarms, forcing them to take a morale test by the end of the turn. The result of that test is that some ran leaving just one infantry TU and the Command Vehicle (with the Colonel in it) left behind. Meanwhile the Militia burned out the barrels on a calliope by rapid firing it at lighter Waldheim targets. They kept suppression on one of the towed anti-tank weapons, knocked out the other one and took the support weapon from an APC, all with calliope fire backed up with infantry fire using power guns. Colonel Priamedes, now with no effective force to command, lent his command points to the Militia and Freedom fighters where he could and - in return - the Militia sent in an air car to extract his remaining infantry squad.

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Fourth and Fifth Turns The Militia started taking casualties (especially the calliopes). Using some of the extra command points from the Colonel helped and they flew one of their air cars to the top of a building, picked up a calliope, moved it and then redeployed it and put it to use against the lighter Waldheim forces (though without much effect). In the last (fifth) turn, as the Dragoons approached the station with what remained of their infantry to occupy the building, the Freedom fighters jumped out and swarmed them with buzz-bomb attacks (rapid fired and with concentrated fire rules applied) and then close combated the vehicles and deployed infantry where they could with Molotov cocktails, assault rifles and shotguns. Conclusion The Waldheim Dragoons lost more infantry and vehicles and were down to heavy tanks and one pair of infantry squads. While the tanks could have sat there and pulverized the train station eventually reducing it to rubble, what they could not do was occupy it with what they had left. While they would have undoubtedly taken out more Solace Freedom Fighters and Militia, they may well have lost one or two more vehicles in the process to Molotov and Satchel charge attacks. The Waldheims called it a day!