More players turned up, five became twelve, then three of them left after wining two rounds....or was it of the three that left; two won two rounds and the other lost both. Either way the extra players were very-very last minute registers.
I only won a single round (against Finns) and I believe I could've gone better if I didn't do some important mistakes: going for both objectives in a Surrounded scenario on a farmhouse-covered map divided by limited crossing point river (objectives placed on both extreme sides of the river). Parked my SU-85s in an concealed objective overwatch location (a forest, ten inches away) in a Breakthrough scenario with the said overwatched objective being in a field and next to another forest. Forgetting that all ground troops can capture objectives and generally wanted better dice-rolls.
Ayep, in that Breakthrough round I got the joy of seeing a rapid turn 2 win for my opponent for he'd rather rapidly moved up a interesting jeep team: deployed - recon moved - then at the double skirted around the back of a forest ending up within 4 inches of an objective at the end of doing that - end turn. My turn, left the SUs where they were and went off to play with my I-153 on his arty park and end turn. Bam! Game over! We then just decided to play a friendly as there was time and to see if I would've done better if I'd moved the SU-85's up.
It still ended in a loss for me and I got to see a thing I thought was a myth. The marvelous transforming jeep! Yes, that squad of jeeps was really a pack of M8A1s or M10s.
In all it was an experience, I somehow ended up with Best Army. I think that mainly come about due to the true winner leaving before award presentation and I may've been the next best or it was for other reasons. The special objectives weren't present for prize support.
While I was there a Bolt Action event was being run too, with about eight players. And boy did they get some prize support - boxes of BA squads, Army painter paint's and tools.
I only won a single round (against Finns) and I believe I could've gone better if I didn't do some important mistakes: going for both objectives in a Surrounded scenario on a farmhouse-covered map divided by limited crossing point river (objectives placed on both extreme sides of the river). Parked my SU-85s in an concealed objective overwatch location (a forest, ten inches away) in a Breakthrough scenario with the said overwatched objective being in a field and next to another forest. Forgetting that all ground troops can capture objectives and generally wanted better dice-rolls.
Ayep, in that Breakthrough round I got the joy of seeing a rapid turn 2 win for my opponent for he'd rather rapidly moved up a interesting jeep team: deployed - recon moved - then at the double skirted around the back of a forest ending up within 4 inches of an objective at the end of doing that - end turn. My turn, left the SUs where they were and went off to play with my I-153 on his arty park and end turn. Bam! Game over! We then just decided to play a friendly as there was time and to see if I would've done better if I'd moved the SU-85's up.
It still ended in a loss for me and I got to see a thing I thought was a myth. The marvelous transforming jeep! Yes, that squad of jeeps was really a pack of M8A1s or M10s.
In all it was an experience, I somehow ended up with Best Army. I think that mainly come about due to the true winner leaving before award presentation and I may've been the next best or it was for other reasons. The special objectives weren't present for prize support.
While I was there a Bolt Action event was being run too, with about eight players. And boy did they get some prize support - boxes of BA squads, Army painter paint's and tools.