Man Battlestations Forum
Community => Find a Game! => Topic started by: Ruckdog on January 27, 2013, 04:54:50 pm
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It is coming up this weekend! I know that MadDrB, Maj McNicol, and myself will be there on Saturday afternoon for some DW. Anyone else coming out?
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As you said, I'll be there! Looking forward to it.
$25 to get in at the door, I think.
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$25 is for the entire weekend, twenty just for Saturday.
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Can't wait to meet up with you guys tomorrow! I might be a little bit late, though. I'll let you know for sure tomorrow morning.
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It was a really fun time! I'll throw some pictures on my blog soon and I look forward to the X-Cam write up here!
And maybe a more indepth battle report and pictures, even...?
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I just downloaded a couple hundred pictures to my computer, and at least a few dozen are of our DW games. I'll post more when I have time to write descriptive battle reports, etc.
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Looking forward to it, Mad Doc!
Here is a link to a blog post - including pictures from the two games - I just put up:
http://andygomez.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/dystopian-wars-at-the-williamsburg-muster/
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That table never fails to impress. Sounds like you all had a good time--hope you had someone to take my place at the bottom of the barrel!
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Hee hee, that was kind of a tie between Aaron and a new player we had with us, Jase. Ian and I beat up on them pretty good!
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Thanks regarding the table! It has now had 4 games played on it and I am still very satisfied with its durability. Maybe I should get around to either making another ocean section or two, or figuring out a way to do dry land on the back of it...
The combination of Russian ablative armor and close range gunnery, with the French heat lances and longer ranged weapons really put the hurt on the Japanese. But, playing only a few turns might not give the most accurate final count. When we called the game we had just closed in on the main EotBS naval forces, which would certainly put the hurt on us.
That said, by focusing such a huge amount of attention on my Borodino Battleship (gotta love that ablative armor!), it left the rest of my fleet (and Andy's) pretty much unscathed. Not to say it's not a viable strategy - indeed, the battleship packs a serious amount of firepower all by itself - but that's a tough situation to be in.
Another thing that might have changed later in the game was the RC aft vulnerability. Once the fleets mixed a little, the EotBS would have had targeting advantage.
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That table looked great on Saturday afternoon, and at our position at the entrance to the main gaming hall we drew a lot of attention.
MajorMcNicol has some great pictures posted, and I have mine up on a general blog post I did for the weekend:
https://fancywars.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/williamsburg-muster/ (https://fancywars.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/williamsburg-muster/)
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I finally got my pictures posted on the blog as well:
http://www.manbattlestations.com/blog/2013/02/17/checking-in/