This weekend was pretty impresive ASL wise: I went through approximately 6 PBeM logs, including 4 for AP42 which is a fairly involved PBeM experience early on as the German player develops his attack through probing recce and manoeuvre.
John Knowles and I took advantage of simultaneous VASL time to get cracking on AP13, to the point we finished the game, and it finished really close, as John still had both Factories but ran out of troops to take and hold enough victory locations. If I hadn't held up his backfield squad in Melee, he would have grabbed that last location he needed, as I had almost nothing left myself.
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| AP13 Shielding Moscow at Game End, German Turn 6 |
Then this morning I finshed off a playtest with Adam Lunney of a design he's submitting to MMP. The scemnario is set during the Italain Camapign, features Board 60 and has enough meat to offer the attacker several options but the defender can arrange things to put a world of hurt on the advancing Brits. Board 60 has a bit of a bad rep already, but it's so different from the usual hill terrain that it may take some time for people to learn how to meet the cahllenge of assualting urban heights terrain.The game came down to the last CC phase where I had an even chance of grabbing enough VC locations to eke out a win but it was not to be.
So moving forward, this next week I'll be satring a PbeM/live VASl game of WO2 Failure to Communicate vs John K, I will shortly be looking at helping Ian Percy with some more playtesting, this time of another 6 turner tourney type scenario set in Crete, again for submission to MMP, and I've got ASL set up for Friday evening at Aaron's and Saturday at the Paddington Bearz.
I still have to go tghrough and sort out all my ASL gear as the last clean up in the study has resulted in me not being able to find a lot of the more recent ASL purchases I made at ASLOK last year. This becomes importantv as CrUcible of Steel is probably arriving sometime this week so I want to make sure all my BFP stuff is in the same place and not scattered to the four winds *.
(I don't think I'll ever get over the loss of almost all of my KE/ToT, early HOB and CH scenarios from the late 90s to someone who never returned it and droppped out of the NZ ASL community shortly afterwards)
"(I don't think I'll ever get over the loss of almost all of my KE/ToT, early HOB and CH scenarios from the late 90s to someone who never returned it and droppped out of the NZ ASL community shortly afterwards)"
ReplyDeleteI dunno. If you look hard enough, you may find him (and your missing ASL kit) hiding under some warm rock in Oz. Isn't that where Kiwis head when Windy Welly becomes too much? ;)