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We had six members for the March edition of our SoCalASL Game Day at All Ways Gaming:
Dave Nicholas' French defeated John Leggat's Germans in “Audacity!”.
Mike Soffa's Germans defeated Sal Pelaez' Americans in “Niederburg Farmhouse”. And because their game got over quickly, they took a rematch in “An Estonian Interlude”, with Mike's Estonians defeating Sal's Russians. After two games, Mike still had some fight left in him. So he and Nick paired up for another playing of “Niederburg Farmhouse”, with Nick's Germans defeating Mike's Americans. Mike's three complete games in one day ties the Club's Game Day record.
Eric Visnowski wants to do a Chinese-Japanese mini-tournament for next year's WCM and wanted to try “Shanghai Shuffle” to see if it would work. I'd played it twice before, with Mike Soffa and again with Kyle Li. My game with Mike was fucked up because we had the north arrow wrong, but my game with Kyle was close and fun. EV took the defending Chinese against my Japanese.
This is a Schwerepunkt scenario by Mike Augustine. It recreates the docks of Shanghai using the VotG boards and turning the north arrow 90 degrees counter-clockwise. The Japanese are elite, but outnumbered, and are supported by a couple of AC's and four tanks. They also have a 120 NOBA. The Chinese are also elite, and get three tanks and an 82mm MTR in support. The Japanese have to clear all the docks, and capture 12 stone buildings/rubble, all in 4.5 turns.
I split my attack between the Chinese center and dock areas and brought my attack in hard and fast. I sent the AC's in support of the Docks attack, and the tanks went up the middle. Eric's Chinese fought heroically and inflicted heavy casualties. Luckily my NOBA came down continuously and accurately throughout the game. It hammered Eric's rear area troops and kept me in the game. As in most Chinese-Japanese scenarios, the casualties on both sides were horrific, with tons of CC. In the end my Japanese just barely pulled out a win, but this one could easily have gone the other way. Eric and I had great fun with this scenario, and I'd happily play it again as either side.
We enjoyed our usual excellent lunch on the patio at San Carlo Italian Deli. The survivors adjourned for our usual late dinner at The Habit. It was another great day of ASL!
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