Episode 250:The Last Bid vs. Men of Steel

What better way to start episode #150 than with the witty lyrics of a new song by Dennis Donovan.  Then the studious Rich Spilky joins us and presents his amazing analysis of both, RB5: The Last Bid, and RO5: Men of Steel from Red October. Advanced Squad Leader at its finest. We are now going to attempt to post most of the episodes with more visuals on our website.  The video version of this episode can be found here.     In the What We've Played Lately segment Dave gives an after action report. He and Dave T have been playing scenario HS32: A Few Rounds More, from Multi-Man Publishing's Operation Veritable.  They played it on VASL. Go Them!   SHOWTIMES 0:02 Song "Under a Stun" 4:00 Banter 13:00 Analysis of The Last Bid and Men of Steel 45:00 What Have You Been Playing Lately? 1:01:55 Total Running Time       SHOW LINKS Wu Wei's write up of his game of HS32 on Boardgame Geek  Rich's Article is in this issue of Banzai 24.1      The 2 Half-Squads is brought to you by Ritterkrieg, Bounding Fire Productions, Broken Ground Design   and kind donations from listeners like you   Under A Stun  Concept & Lyrics:  Dennis Donovan Editing: Chris Gammon and Dave Wallick   Under a stun The crew, whose hatch wasn’t down Under a stun The crew who was hit by a sniper’s round Read Chapter D! For differences ‘tween Shock and Stun Woe is me, the crew got stung They’re under a stun   Under a stun The half-track crew, who had a bad day Under a stun The crew who can’t just drive away Blew their MC Sad it is They’re buttoned up ‘till next Movement Phase Seems to me For now they’re done They’re under a stun   Under a stun It’s a tank.. hit .by falling rubble Under a stun MG TK, number, equals TK Roll So please tell me, I know they’re stunned, are they broken too? Buttoned up, having no fun They’re under a stun It seems to me, ….oh yeah They’ll be back up in a turn or two Stun is flipped, when CC’s done they’re under +1 (plus one)   Under a STUN Those guys suffered a ‘K’ result Under a STUN, well This turn, they can do nothin’ else               Sniper got me, d’oh!  Commander’s dead! They’re buttoned up and they’re recalled too They exit, change has come   They’re under a STUN