March 28th Game Day at JJ's in Chatsworth

[Jim Aikens]

We had six members, plus a cameo from Mike Soffa for our March Game Day at JJ’s Game Lounge in Chatsworth on Saturday.

Geoff Coward’s Americans fell to Eric Visnowski’s Germans in “Road to St. Lo”.

Dave Nicholas and Ed Esparza paired up for “Extracurricular Activity”. In the first playing Dave’s Russians defeated Ed’s Hungarians. They switched sides, and in the second playing Dave’s Hungarians squeezed out a down-to-the-last CC win over Ed’s Russians.

And Dave Rosner and I paired up for the Deluxe scenario “It Don’t Come Easy”, featuring Easy Company of Band of Brothers fame. This scenario has been on my play list for a long time, and it was one of the only scenarios on the WCM mini tournaments play list that I hadn’t played. Dave had not played it either, so we went with it. I took the Americans against Dave’s Germans. Dave’s attack came on strong for the first two turns, at it was 'sweaty palms' time for the Americans. But on American turn 2 Captain Speers arrived with two more platoons of paratroopers and two more bazookas and another much-needed .30 Cal. It was a hell of fight, but in the end, Dave just ran out of troops, and we called it an American victory. We both enjoyed this scenario greatly, and had a fun game. We both agreed we'd play it again as either side. This is officially one of my new favorites!

A new player, Dave Williams, joined us for most of the day, observing our games and getting a better handle on the rules, and it was a pleasure having him join us.

We had our usual excellent lunch at San Carlo Deli, and adjourned at 9:30 for dinner at The Habit. It was an excellent day all around!

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