September 1st Game Day at Gameology, AAR

[Jim Aikens]

We had six members in attendance for the Labor Day weekend edition of our ASL Game Day at Gameology.

Dan Plachta and Blair Bellamy paired up for “Coriano”, with Dan’s Brits defeating Blair’s Germans.

In a day long slug-fest Chip Wertenberger’s Americans bested Eric Visnowski’s Germans in the WO pack scenario “Hell for the Holidays”.

And Dave Nicholas and I paired up for the early war Schwerepunkt scenario “Beaufort’s Feast”. I know I played this one when it first came out, but I really didn’t remember much about it except that it was a good scenario. It proved to be a good choice. It’s a meeting engagement between a company strength German force backed by a mixed bag of five panzers facing a larger, well-led French force backed by six H-35’s.

The French have the armor advantage in this one, and as the French player I concentrated on killing off the German armor while my infantry slogged forward. It was a fun and exciting fight, with an interesting armor battle. Dave’s Germans had the upper hand in the mid-game, with one of his panzer III’s squirting into the French backfield and hosing down a stack of French squads. I rolled 3 boxcars in a row on the MC’s, and what started as three 1st line squads (2 broken and one good order) ended up as one broken green HS. BTW; the odds of rolling 3 boxcars (or snakes) in a row is over 46,000 to 1. In the end, the weight of the French numerical advantage combined with armor superiority prevailed, and I walked away with a hard won victory. Dave, as always, played a great game and we had a lot of fun.

We made our usual trek to The Hat for lunch, and that was enjoyable as always.

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