I played several scenarios at The Hallowed Ground Tournament the prior weekend. Two Open Games and then 4 for the tourney.
My first opponent was Gary Bartlett in That Damn Bridge, AP103. I had the Americans and while I was shot up pretty good the first three turns, the long range mortar fire began to find the mark and I was able to get over the hill and into the victory buildings for the W. Gary may have defended a little too far forward on his left and was unable to get back to the VC buildings in sufficient force.
My second game was against Paul Sidhu in a game of WO27, Checking Out. I had the hated SS and came up a bit short in an entertaining game. I had to shift the axis of attack three times as Paul kept shifting in front of me to block my advances. The last shift back had a chance to get me where I wanted to go, but the last gasp attack was an abject failure.
The next game was the first tourney game of the weekend against host John Dober III. We played Hart Attack, J167. I had the defending Germans and proceeded to box out my 40LL on his first shot at a Lee. Fortunately, I had a MMG from hell. After a Street Fighting attack by another stack failed, I went for a kill attempt at one hex range into the rear of a Lee who was angling to sleaze freeze me. I needed a hull hit come back with a 2 or 3 TK to get anywhere, but his infantry had all moved and this MMG was all dressed up with no where to go. Result, hull hit, snake eyes kill, no crew survived on a high CS DR. Sweet. His kill stack of a 9-2 and three elite squads then pulled in ADJACENT in the same stone building as the squad with his MMG. A 20+3 rolled a 3, the whole stack went down and I was in the process of surrounding them in movement when John tossed it in.
The next game was J189, Buckley's Block against Ken Mioduski (SP big time). I had the Japanese and ran up the left flank, straight into Ken's 37LL. The 37LL then proceeding to defecate upon the sheets and wipe itself with the curtains. No Canister and while we're here, let's miss with the HE too. It was overrun and captured giving me some nice VC points. In the end, I was able to get over the 20 combo CVP/EVP I needed. Good game.
The following round was AP100, Coal In Their Stocking against Randy Rossi. Neither of us came away too enamored with this scenario. I won with the defending Germans, being able to gun up Randy's infantry sufficiently to get the win. An aborted try to get off the board with the JadgPZIV ended in disaster for me, but by then, Super Puma had destroyed two AFV's and broke a key stack. With said stack down, I was able to counterattack to retake a key building late in the game and also bag a platoon of infantry for FTR. That put the scenario out of reach for Randy.
The final was against Ron Duenskie in a playing of J32, Panzer Graveyard. This is a moldy oldie, but fun. In a very tense game, Ron's main attack came up the middle. I had my Churchill in a building and he was able to get a -1 leader and squad in on it in CC. They gacked the ambush and then the CC Roll. The counterattack next turn took them out and as Ron only had three leaders and the 9-1 was the best of the lot, that hurt. He would later create a -1 leader, but it would be too little too late. The ATG extracted a pound of flesh, destroying four AFV's by game end. I had a Sherman go off on a 4 shot rate tear and shoot up his right flank late. This allowed a piat toting crew to run around the flank and grab a building and draw off German attention after himself. Ron pursued and took him out and going into my last turn had 21 of the needed 20 buildings. My counterattack was able to find some seams though and take back two buildings for a 1 building win. I would strongly recommend this scenario to new players who have never had a chance to play through some of the old "classics".
So total for the weekend was 5-1, with a 4-0 in the tourney. John and his significant other Christina were wonderful hosts, along with Chris his roommate. A very nice tournament and you can't beat Gettysburg for locale.