Thanks to Brien (and Kevin Graves for the scenario list) for putting together another great Winter War.
As usual I some very good luck to get me past my worthy opponents.
- losing the side choice DR with Larry Zoet. C'est la guerre eh Larry?
- my 1 sniper attack against Don Holland picked out his 8-1 leader, who failed his wound check and caused his 666 squad to fail ELR. That was 25% of his force and his last leader in 1 shot!
- countless CC DR by Doug Kirk where he missed killing ambushed, CX, green squads by 1 multiple times. Great MC rolls for me as critical units pinned instead of breaking on 2MCs and 1MCs. Everytime Doug and I play the game is super close and this was no different. Great game, great opponent.
- Poor John Pires was probably the most harsly done by with my hot dice. 2 CC's massively in John's favor: John needed an 8 on the first one--- rolled a 9 and the CR was rendered null when I rolled snakes and generated a 7-0 leader. I killed a 447+80 back and held 2 more squads in melee. The next one was even more unbelievable... John needed a 10 to kill, 11 to CR and rolled 6,6. Since John's 9-2 was in this hex, withdrawing immediately was not that great because that 9-2 would see me whereever I could move. I opted to stay and attack his squad and 9-2 *hoping* to tie them up for a turn, and rolled ANOTHER SNAKES! John's a very good player and I hope to get the chance to play him again sometime.
- Randy Yeates must have rolled a record for 8s,9s and 10s on 8+2 & +3 fire attacks. It got to a point where I was just assuming his attack would fail--- probably 12 or 13 rolls of this level in a row. Randy played a solid game, but his inability to crack some of my leading units put him a bit behind the curve in the scenario. Another great guy I look forward to getting to play again.
Bob Holmstrom --- the master of the rout to victory,
, get your work done and come back next year.
Thanks again to all,
JT
