Tim Niesen
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We started the next game today. Steve was late as usual. Only 20 minutes. I went back to bed as Steve and Uncle Bill set up the Romanian defense. When I awoke at 1245PM, Steve announced that he had to go at 1PM. Don has introuced his own variation of this campaign game. He argues that the Soviet forces had very limited knowledge of where the forces of the Romanian defense were positioned. So only the first 16 hexes were visible and this would be advanced to 32 hexes after our units were positioned on the Southern edge of the large map board. We put our 180 naval OBA between the road and the stream, anticipating that Steve and Bill would recognize that defending the beaches was their best option. Wow. Nothing was on board within sixteen hexes of the edge at all. Our Naval OBA fell upon nothing, starting five flames and one shellhole. Uncle Bill's experience as a Special Forces officer in Vietnam gave him the insight that shellholes do not remove woods entirely. Till next week. Tim