Lanzerath Ridge Playthrough - 2 | DVG Dan Verssen Games | Wargame Historical Game
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- Опубликовано: 30 янв 2025
- We defend against the second wave of German attackers in Lanzerath Ridge, the new solo (solitaire) wargame (historical conflict simulation) from DVG (Dan Verssen Games) and designed by David Thompson and Nils Johansson. In this episode, we fight the second wave of the assault.
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Known Errors:
1 - In round 4, I pull an assault card for a left flank attacker, but place him in the right flank instead. I catch the error in a subsequent round and correct for the mistake. The error probably cost us our booby trap on the right flank.
United States Germany
Battle of the Bulge
World War 2 Games
DVG Games
Dan Verssen Games
David Thompson
Nils Johansson
Tutorial, Instructional
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Lanzerath Ridge Playthrough - 2 | DVG Dan Verssen Games | Wargame Historical Game | David Thompson & Nils Johansson
I bought the game right after viewing your great playthrough ! You put so much vitality into it, it was almost like i was watching a movie 😊. Great job @ZillaBlitz and thanks for such well done videos ! This will kill my bank account but anyway 😅
Thanks so much for the kind words! I'm glad you liked the video and hope you enjoy the game! :)
Congrats ! The story telling is perfect ! And your comments about the mechanism of the game are very useful ! Thanx a lot !
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it, this was a lot of fun to make and December is a great time to play this game. :)
Wasn't sure I would enjoy watching someone play a wargame board game...but, you did an excellent job of ramping up the excitement in the play-by-play commentary. Well done. Looking forward to the 3rd wave.
Thanks, Blaine! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Blind. Fun playthrough. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks, Kirk! Yeah, I think I'm pretty much decided to play blind, too. :)
Excellent job, my friend! Absolutely loving this. (And please keep playing blind!)
Thanks, David! I was leaning toward playing blind, and it seems to be the people's will too, so that's what we'll do. Hoping to start shooting in a few minutes. :)
man this is exciting stuff,really feel the next round should be blind,carnt wait,another great vid my friend
Thanks, nick! And blind it will be, for sure. I feel like even though it'll be blind that we're in decent shape because we've taken out 3 of the German machine guns, have a good bit of machine gun ammo left, and still have most of our booby traps in place.
Commenting to say I really enjoy your play throughs. Excellent videos. And for what its worth, I vote blind too
Thanks, James! Thanks for the kind words and glad you're enjoying the videos. :) And yep, it'll be blind, too. :)
All going well so far. Play the next round blind as you'll not another. Excellent entertainment as always. Thank you.
That's my thinking as well, only one chance to play blind, ever. So we'll definitely do it that way. And thank you, coyi, glad you liked it. :)
I think you have already decided, but I will add 'Blind' to the list. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks, yes, I was 80% there already before asking, but it's good to hear the chorus of confirmations. I hope to film Episode 3 tonight, publish this weekend if all goes well.
Excellent game even though I am not in a lot of the action, the way you narrate it made me imagine I am really there, I feel the excitement lol 😂 cheers 🍻
Yes, I wish there were something I could do to balance things out a bit, but some roles are lesser and more supportive than others, for sure. But glad you are enjoying it! :)
It's exciting watching this
Thanks, Rick! I'm glad you're enjoying it. :)
Loving the playthrough. “Super P” is a crack shot will all them kills. Knew he would be super. 😀 (play the next wave blind, will make it much harder).
Thanks! SuperP, nice shooting! And get ready for the next wave, quick bit to eat and we're back at it! Into the breach!
Another great episode and watching this on mums TV while having my Sunday Breakfast so double bonus for me! Really enjoying this series and I reckon go blind. Oh I was wondering if I was actually given a gun lol or was it just those inspiring pom poms 😂 good to see I do have one.
Glad you liked it! And yeah, some soldiers have very specific roles in the game. The inspiration ability is so powerful, and only works if you're rested and fresh, so it really makes the most sense to give you pom poms and off you go! Thank you for your service! :)
I did a thing, yaaay! This is very fun to watch! I think you should do the next round blind. That will add to the drama. I know it's very likely to lose the game that way, but I would be excited for a fail, too!
Yes, I think that makes the most sense. Even though it's blind, I think we're coming through the first two waves in good shape, so it'll be interesting to see how Wave 3 plays out.
What a great game, Zilla! Five kills for me and another Purple Heart, so far. A couple more wounds and I’ll need a blood transfusion. As for the question at the end, I say play blind. Don’t analyze the deck, just react to whatever comes up.
Nice work, for sure! Medal of Honor level stuff, with the kills and the wounds! Yep, seems like the early vote is going blind as well, and that's my inclination. I think it might make for our last wave, but it'll be an interesting attempt! :)
Definitely play blind! Though you probably have already decided. :) Great runthrough.
Thanks, David! Yep, we've gone ahead blind. :)
I just found your play through yesterday, and finished part 0 and part 1. Currently in the middle of part 2. Excellent, excellent work! You have a gift for explaining rules. So good.
Question - when we fire on the incoming lines of assaulting enemies, can we only ever fire at the enemy closest to our defensive line, or can we fire at any enemy in the row? So, if we want to take out a leader further back in the row are we able to do that? It looks like the defense would just be higher, so harder to hit. And it will leave a hole in the enemy line. All I have seen you ever do is fire at the closest unit in the line to your defense, instead of trying to take out a leader or unit further back in the line.
I don't have the rules handy and it's been a while since I created this, but iirc yes, you can shoot out soldiers farther back in line, it's just a harder shot. :) ~ And I'm glad you are enjoying the playthrough, it was great fun to make. Good luck with your game! :)
Thank you for the response. Yeah, the rules don't really specify if you can do it or not.
This fantastic playthrough inspired me to buy the game. I'm playing my first game, and the rules state that no defenders can begin the second attack period in positions 2, 3, and 1 on the left flank. I see you have defenders from the previous phase remaining in those spots; do the rules apply to moving new defenders into those positions?
Hi Tray - Thanks and happy to help! The shapes + numbers is a distinction on that rule. The 2 and 3 are circled numbers, and the 1 is the pentagon, so those positions aren't on the left flank, but are behind the US lines, up by where the jeeps are. Hope this helps. :)
@@ZillaBlitz d'oh! Thanks. I was also gifted By Stealth and Sea, and I've enjoyed it immensely
That's another really fun one. One of my favorites of the year. :)
Glad I did not let the team down. I would say go blind it makes much more of nail biter that way.
Yep, looks like blind is the favorite too. It'll get a lot more interesting, for sure. :)
Blind for me, really enjoying your playthrough, just ordered the game 😀
Quick question though, in your opinion, does knowing the cards per attack wave, mean that there is limited replayability, or are you having just as much fun with the insider knowledge, thanks
Thanks, Keith, and that's a really good question, one I've been thinking a lot about as I've been playing. I think the final answer to the question is a bit complicated, and may involve the next level of gameplay, which is the addition of the Tactics cards.
Thanks for another episode!
I was wondering: how do you keep track of game state between sessions? Do you take a photo with your phone and then re-build the previous state, or do you keep the game set up until the next session?
It's fun to make, R P, you're welcome. :)
I just leave everything set up, but I usually take a photo of everything if I know I can't play for a while, just in case something gets bumped around. At times I've had to look back at previous videos, though, when I didn't have a picture and I know something got messed up. Usually the previous episode will show enough. :)
@@ZillaBlitz ah yes, that makes sense.
Thanks!
Everyone was shooting well, glad to see I managed a kill. I say let's go blind and roll the dice. It will definitely ratchet up the difficulty.
Yes, we missed on a good bit of our long odds shots, but the ones we would expect to make we pretty much made all of them, which was fortunate. It would have been nice for our artillery to hit, and for their mortars to miss our jeeps, but oh well, can't have all the luck. :)
Definitely interesting. 👍My wallet is twitching .... 😉
Haha! 😀
Seems like the Germans are only targets and have no support other than the MG?
The US seems to be able to easily shift from position to position to meet any threat.
Also the US only suffers wounds which seem easy to rectify.
Lastly did I mistakenly here you say "her" when you were talking about one of the US soldiers? I was unaware of any front line US female personal in WW 2.
Please note I watched most of the video but may have missed something.
Hi John! - If the Germans reach the US positions, they will attack the soldiers there, and the mortars can mess us up pretty good too. Historically, the US only had 1 KIA yet pretty much everyone wounded in the battle, so the game model seems to reflect this pretty well.
I feel like we did pretty well in this wave. The shuffling of Parkera, with his Inspiration rating, made a huge difference in us being able to hit things. That idea seemed to work pretty well. Also, since this was the second time through I knew where everyone is attacking, which makes a big difference. I suspect the addition of the Tactics cards to gameplay (optional rule) will bring back some of the uncertainty to the attacks once you've played through things one time.
We've substituted channel viewers who watch the channel for the real US names. Two are female. :)
Thanks for stopping in!
37:25 you can simply increase the possibility to hit the machine gun if you would like to increase the bigger pressure on it especially when you cannot use inspiration. Just us 2 ammunition round even 3 at once (over 3 the MG can be overheated and its a risk) but to use 2xD12 or 3xD12 during one major action is always a huge chance to eliminate the MG-42. Many players are not using this advantage how the US MGs´ can shoot and it is very good explained at 17th Page of Rules-see game example especially under the explanation of rules No. 3 and also No. 4. It think that you have plenty of MG ammo which was so far conserved very good so why not to use the advantage from rules if there are any? I would do just right now. So at least 2 ammo chips for one major action would be great in this situation. Also it would be fruitful to use the above-mention action in the situation 39:58 (2 rounds=2xD10 dices and 1xD10 from inspiration by the leader, total=3xD10) & 42:26, too.
Great points, thanks for sharing your thoughts! :)
Definitely enjoying this Play-Through, and have sent the link to my son, so that he can share with my 13yo grandson, for whom I have just purchased this as his first "real wargame." The only thing I don't appreciate is all your "intel" comments of the enemy's potential everywhere and your god-like knowledge of what is coming - that's just too gamey for me and kind of spoils the narrative of gameplay. Otherwise, really well-made example of play!
Thanks! Glad you've been enjoying the replay. And thanks for the feedback. :)
To bad you know exactly how many and were, the enemies go to.
The gameplay does shift a good bit after you've played a wave the first time. I played a game before this one where I got to the end of the second wave. The next wave I have not played previously and won't be looking, so outside of a few hints from the battle description and rules, I'll know a lot less next episode. :)
Cool
Play blind... adding spice to your game lol
Thanks, blind it was! Next episode is up. :)