December 14th Game Day at Emerald Knights AAR

We had 8 members and a cameo from Matt Cicero for the December edition of our Los Angeles Game Day Emerald Knights.

Dave ‘Tex’ Reinking’s Brits fell to Eric ‘Vegas’ Visnowski’s Germans in “Frosty Morning”.

Dan Plachta’s Germans defeated Kevin Kiff’s Americans in “Another Damn Bridge”.

Our two late-arrivals, Dave ‘Nick’ Nicholas and Blair Bellamy paired up for the SK scenario “Not So Disposed”. They played it with the full rules set. In the end, Nick’s Italians defeated Blair’s American Rangers.

And Dave Rosner and I paired up for “Maximum” from the newest Friendly Fire pack. I had not previous played this scenario, but had heard good things about. Dave wanted to Germans, which obligated me to immediately begin complaining that it was unwinnable for the Russians (I had, at that point, not even read the VC’s.) Things went very badly for Dave for the 1st three turns, but he hung in there, and on turn 4 he got red hot with his dice. How red hot you ask? He had a buttoned up StuG, in Motion, that hit my infantry 4 hexes away in a stone building with back-to-back shots! Ok, he had a 9-2 AL, but still, we’re talking hot. The Russians get a 76LL Gun and a quad 12.7 ‘meatchopper’. I rolled ‘12’ on both crews the very first time either took a MC. Though I must say, it didn’t all go Dave’s way: he rolled a StuG into the victory building on the next to last turn, only to watch it fall into the cellar during the Bog roll. In the end my Russians were able to hold off Dave’s Germans for the win. It was fun and exciting game. Dave and I both thought this was worth playing again. (As almost all the Friendly Fire scenario are.)

We made our usual trip to Larry’s Hot Dogs for lunch, and the survivors enjoyed our usual (very) late dinner at Bob’s Big Boy. What a great day!