A Great End to a Fine Year

In the end, 2012 worked out pretty darned well.

I ended up playing 36 games in total, one more than I had thought. I may have only won 7 and finished the year off with three losses in 24 hours but I played a hwole bunch of people I hadn't played before and for once played more Live VASL games than PBeM.

I picked up two Grails: King of the Hill and Journal 3, caught up on 95% of the releases from ASLOK XXVI and XXVII, plus finished the scenarios of Journal 7, most of Journal 8 and even started on Journal 10.

All this and taking two mental health breaks totalling 7 months away from gaming.

And as the header pic may show, I'm enjoying the opportunity to not take wargaming too seriously, thanks to Scott Holst for introducing me, via the Cleavinator, to Girls Und Panzer. I foresee a new catchphrase being used when trolling for opponents on Gamesquad: "Anyone up for some Tankery?"

Plus I just love the whole Over the Top concept despite not being a huge Animé fan at heart.

I hope you all had a good 2012 ASLwise and look forward to meeting you across either the virtual mapboard or Face to Face at ASLOK XXVIII where I may even have a few 1/100th scale models of the tanks from Girls Und Panzer to show off and give away.

Pete

The Bell is Yet to Sound

With three days to go before the end of what, in retrospect, has been a very good year for me in terms of ASL, I couldn't resist the opportunity to squeeze in two more games.

For me, it's a huge positive in that I went looking for Live VASL games as opposed to PBeM. And it felt comfortable. The only diownside is that I had more takers than opportunities, so for those great people who offered to play me as a default, my heartfelt thanks. I see some more dice purchases in my future, even if I have been told I do not need any more dice.

So I'm playing Damon Norko in FrF40 Sporck's Eleven and Chuck Hammond in ESG38 Choke Point. With these two probably finished by Sunday evening, along with the near to completion of J111 Prussia In Flames, I should get to 35 completed games for 2012 with a day to spare.

I've  just finished ESG38, and I liked it. Chuck handed me my head in this one, but i take some solace that he would roll 3s and 4s on low FP attacks, but I would compound the damage by rolling 9s, 10s and the useful 12s in response. Don't let my tale of woe or that it uses the same board configuration as FrF30 Biderman's Escape dissuade you from playing it. It is quite different in terms of approach routes and defensive setup.

On my playlist for ASLOK.