X-Wing Gone Wild!

A massive X-Wing battle with the big ships!!!

1.  Big ships are super cool
2.  Too many big ships really crowd the table!

Ships provided by Daniel.  Nick, Lowell, and myself as resistance.  Heath, Daniel, and someone whose name I have forgotten as Imperial.

The resistance was destroyed.  To paraphrase Admiral Akbar -- It was a trap!!!

Dogs of War 2016 -- Day 2

After being crushed twice on Day 1 of the Dogs tournament, I came back with two wins to finish in the middle of the pack.

Game 3 was against Rusty.  It was Hasty Attack.  I managed to kill all of his advancing forces for a 5:2 victory.  Rusty was terribly unlucky, but this was a fantastic gentleman's game.  

Game 4 was against Smithy.  He had German infantry in a 'Dust Up'.  Smithy should have won -- he was incredibly unlucky with my aircraft coming on repeatedly, whereas his planes almost never showed up.  And I managed to make my morale checks when I needed them.

Final result was:

1st Place - Leigh, with a perfect score.

2nd Place - Griggsy

3rd Place - Pat and Smithy

Ben rolling for victory

Smithy vs Lowell.  This was going to be a 6-1 one way or the other.  Smithy managed to gain the victory, but it was actually close.

Pat deep in thought

My game vs Rusty.

A tense game -- Rob vs Pat.  Lots of spectators.

Can Rob gain the victory?  It was close, but Pat managed to pull out the win,

Dogs of War 2016 - Day 1

Crushed I was -- absolutely crushed!!!!!

My first game against Griggsy.  It was close, but he managed to get his rangers to an objective.

Pat wasnt going to play -- but at the last minute managed to get free.  Which was great, because Jim had to drop out.

Leigh's horde of RV South Africans vs Rod.

Lowell's army -- 4 Tiger I's

My round 2 battle against Leigh.  I misplayed, and Leigh played perfectly.  I just couldnt get to grips with 16 25pounder guns!!!!

Americans in flames

Smithy dropped in from Army Reserve training to play a game.

Lowell's tigers just couldnt make it against Pat's Grenadiers (with pioneers and Stuka's)

Tie fighter horde

X-Wing at the club tonight.  Daniel showed us some tricks, given he has several years experience.

We had 100 points each in a 2 vs 2 game.  Me and Rob as the good guys, while Daniel and Lowell were those scum resistance folks that keep blowing up our ships.

At first the empire was doing well, when we shot down Bobba Fett (who was a mercenary for hire for the resistance).

But then the resistance got close.  They had autoblasters, and their close in firepower was destroying a ship or two a turn.  We just couldnt stand against them!!!

The battle was actually close.  If we had rolled a bit better, and taken out the resistance B-Wing, we could have kept our distance from the resistance and blasted them at long range!