« gliders were having to land in the streets under heavy fire »
This is the sentence that led Andy to Cholm and after several years of research and development, the LFT crew is happy to present our next historical module. For more information and / or feedback on this unique module, you may want to check this thread on Gamesquads Forum : http://forums.gamesquad.com/showthr... or yet this blog, much more detailed and complete :http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2011/12/19/countermix/#more-3574
A small teaser on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j20C1dtJkuQ
Contents
– Rules booklet
– Historical background booklet
– 15 scenarios
– 2 campaign games
– 1 x A4 overlay
– 3 x A4 players aid sheets
– 2 x A5 small player aid sheets
– 2 x A1 maps «Winter look»
– 2 x A1 maps «Summer look»
– One countersheet with 130 x 1/2" counters and 88 x 5/8" counters.
Scenarios
«Kampfgruppe Scherer: the Shield of Cholm» includes fifteen brand new scenarios.
| ID | Name | Turns | Date | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KGS 1 | Slayed | 6.5 | 01-18-1942 | winter |
| KGS 2 | Their Fate Sealed? | 13 | 01-23-1942 | winter |
| KGS 3 | Reclamation | 7.5 | 01-27-1942 | winter |
| KGS 4 | From Matilda with Love | 7 | 02-14-1942 | winter |
| KGS 5 | Red Army Day | 7 | 02-23-1942 | winter |
| KGS 6 | Biecker´s Bastion | 4.5 | 03-10-1942 | winter |
| KGS 7 | Contested Canisters | 6 | 03-11-1942 | winter |
| KGS 8 | The Battle in the Tunnel and Organ Gully | 5 | 03-25-1942 | winter |
| KGS 9 | Lost in a day | 7.5 | 04-10-1942 | summer |
| KGS 10 | Red Ruin Roulette | 5 | 05-01-1942 | summer |
| KGS 11 | Knock! Knock! | 5 | 05-01-1942 | summer |
| KGS 12 | May Day / East side | 8 | 05-01-1942 | summer |
| KGS 13 | May Day / West side | 7 | 05-01-1942 | summer |
| KGS 14 | Regained in a Day | 9 | 05-01-1942 | summer |
| KGS 15 | Fighting Over the Dead | 6 | 06-08/09-1942 | summer |
Campaign Games
Two campaign games are also included in «Kampfgruppe Scherer: the Shield of Cholm».
| ID | Name | Turns | Date | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KGS CG 1 | Red Army Day | 4 days | 02-23-1942 | winter |
| KGS CG 2 | Five days in May | 5 days | 05-01-1942 | summer |
Maps
Kampfgruppe Scherer comes with two maps, a winter map depicting the first months of the siege and a summer map with much destruction on the city. No need to put dozens of debris counters on the map...
Simply remove the zip extension and rename it with mdx.
Thanks to Txema (and Pete, aka "General Mayhem") :)
Two views of the same area, near the airstrip.
Shipping info
Documents
KGS MDX
(252.9 KiB)
Player aid (low res) for playing KGS CG
(1.7 MiB)
VASL KGS charts & player aid
(433.3 KiB)
VASL Summer map for KGS
(1.8 MiB)
VASL Winter map for KGS
(2.4 MiB)
VASL Winter map for KGS WITH OVERLAY
(2.4 MiB)
