More solo Board Wargaming

Another week with no miniatures game (couple planned for weekend) so another couple of solo sessions with some cardboard/wooden warriors.

First up I had a short game of WW2 Barbarossa To Berlin (one of my top ten games), short due to Germans failing abjectly to doing anything meaningful in Russia which will usually lead to disaster as game progresses.

Then it was another COIN title this time Andean Abyss with Government and FARC neck and neck throughout but Cartels and AUC languishing well of the race.

Always struggle to be effective with AUC in this game but usually Cartels very strong.

Would love to obtain Chinas War and the latest South American Guerilla Wars titles but hard to justify the cost of boardgames at present.

Such a colourful game

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And then in a real blast from the past I had a go with Squad Leader and the famed 'The Guards Counterattack' scenario (might this be the most famous/played single board wargame scenario ever ?).

Strange to use the venerable teeny weeney counters which were of course standard size back in the day and not used to such stacking, but still a great game in this its most basic pared down form.

Played this to death in early gaming days but not seen any action in decades.

Colourful and eye-catching as well especially for a game from 1977

Retro with Squad Leader

Briefly tried out Retro rules with Squad Leader (although Retro looks to based around ASL) with old scenario 7 'Bucholz Station'.
Retro certainly quick playing as it drops several phases and Morale testing.
Seems to have quite a bloody CRT (I think I will use the optional 'softer' CRT version).
Quite solo friendly with Hestitation and Defensive fire systems.
Not sure it improves greatly on such a basic SL scenario but suspect it will make my ASL stuff see the light of day once more. 
Strangely I found the counters and hexes small and somewhat fiddly after being used with larger version in Combat Commander.
A sure sign of old age !!??