One of my favorite tabletop wargame stories in playing a pretty detailed 6mm World War 2 game. I was set up as the Americans in a “supposed to lose” scenario where my platoon+mortar team+ a few bazooka teams+ 1 Sherman tank was defending against an assault with mechanized German infantry, scout cars, and multiple Panzers. Normally in the scenario the American player loses and is judged on how long they held out, or if they make it many turns in they get saved by air support.
I looked at the table layout and realized that between the German deployment zone and mine there was a spot with only one viable road forward, being flanked by hedgerows and other terrain. First turn I zoomed the Sherman tank up at max speed and parked it sideways on the road. The Sherman didn’t even get a shot off before it was destroyed.
German player had a good laugh at my thoughtless aggression. Until he realized my smoking Sherman hull was blocking the only viable road for his tanks. Even worse the scout cars and halftracks were in front of the tanks on the road, so the only vehicles heavy enough to push the Sherman (this game had weight rules for vehicles pushing each other) were the tanks stuck in the back of the traffic jam I’d created.
I spent the follow-up turns hitting the locked up vehicles with mortars and hidden bazooka teams. The German infantry dismounted to attack but they’d lost their massive advantage and had to fumble blindly through hedgerows into defending Americans waiting for them.
By the time the air support showed up they weren’t needed. The Germans were in a full rout.
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