Danish threat

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Back again  :-D

The game between Ghostglider and Bjergmose that had to be postponed and finished yesterday ended with a small victory to Bjergmose. Unfortunately we had to reconstruct the game in our heads, as the room we play in had to be used for some other purpose during the week. After a lot of talking back-and-forth we agreed that it would most likely have ended with a minor victory in round 10 to Bjergmose.

Last night John smashed Ghostglider with his mighty axe(is)  :-o
The germans took Caucasus 2nd round and held it. 6 rounds and the allies were done.

Bjergmose played against the-god-of-dice´s secret son Brian  :-D
Brian played the allies securing a win in 8th round.
Normally I don´t cry because of bad luck with the dices…but yesterday people could follow me home…trail of tears  :cry:
Allies attack Berlin 4 inf 4 rt 3 ftr vs. 11 arm. 1st round 10 hits vs 3. D´oh.
Okay…no panic I can retake Berlin and hold it next round. And I still have a shot at Moscow held w/4 inf. All I need is to punch a hole in the russian perimeter.
Ftr vs. inf = no go
Bmb vs. arm = no go
Okay italians then
Arm vs. arm = no go
2 inf vs. arm = no go.
I could go on all day…crying over lost battles…nah, Brian deserved it. He attacked when possible, and never let up.  8-)

Ghostglider vs. Bjergmose  1-2  (10-10)
Bjergmose vs. Brian   0-3  (8-12)
John vs. Ghostglider  3-0  (14-6)

**Standings:  G-  P-(Score)    **  
Ghostglider.6   10  (42-38)
Bjergmose…4     7  (41-39)
Brian……6     7  (61-59)
John…3    6  (35-25)
Jens…3    3  (25-35)

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Quick log.

Training session thursday.

Brian played allies vs. John (GER/IT) and Bjergmose (JAP).

The japanese went all-in against the US 1st round having 4 trn w/8 ground units backed by 4 ftr´s on ac, but the US countered buying 2 ac and a ftr. The US now kept focus on the pacific but their threat slowly thinned out. This left the germans strong and the italians even stronger.  :-)
The germans brought down Moscow around round 6 securing the win.

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Back in business  :-D

After a looong time we managed to play another tournament game.
Last thursday we were 6 men present.

Jens ran over John in 3 short rounds annihilating the russians.

Bjergmose played a training game vs. Brian that wasn´t decided after 6 hrs.
No-one was willing to quit, so we might have to continue thursday.
Berlin was under pressure, but so was Moscow. We´ll see what the result will be.

Ghostglider teached newcomer Frank a lesson in Revised.

And now to something completely different.
On the 11th of october Ghostglider took his 2nd Danish Championship (Revised ed.)with John as runner-up. :-)
Luckily the wind now seems to be blowing in a new direction….AE50.

Jens vs. John  3-0  (17-3)

Standings:  G-  P-(Score)      
Ghostglider.6   10  (58-62)
Bjergmose…4     7  (41-39)
Brian……6     7  (61-59)
Jens…4    6  (42-38)
John…4    6  (38-42)

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New club-record…7 man present thursday. Soon we´ll need a bigger place :-)

1 tournament game. John ruled 1st round axis against Bjergmose leaving the allies fighting up-hill. The germans took Caucasus 2nd round, never giving it back. Bjergmose managed to hang on for 8 rounds but Moscow fell. The allies tried a desperate attack against Italy but was easily repulsed.

Ghostglider (GER/IT) and Allan (JAP) teamed up against Brian, who came prepared for everything…except the annoying thing that the axis didn´t move according to Brians scheme  :lol:

New guys Frank and Jakob battled it out in Revised…they hadn´t finished when I left.

John vs. Bjergmose  3-0 (12-8)

Standings:  G-  P-(Score)     
Ghostglider.6  10  (58-62)
John……5    9  (50-50)
Brian…6    7  (61-59)
Bjergmose…5    7  (49-51)
Jens…4    6  (42-38)

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Oh dices…why have you forsaken me.

Re-match against John…re-result against John. Re-1st round dice against John.
To avoid fainting…keep repeating…it´s just a game…it´just a game.
Bjergmose (yours truly) played axis and lost. Lost 2 subs and a ftr against the Hood.
Lost 1 inf and 2 arm against 2 russian inf (attacked w/1 inf 5 arm). Lost 5 zeros in the pacific leaving the Indian transport to bug me.  :x
Game was over when;G4 luftwaffe attack US ac w/2 ftr protecting 3 UK trn. A win would give the Germans 2 rounds without invasion. 3 ftr 1 bmb = 0 hits. 1 ac 2 ftr = 3 hits.
GAME OVER  :cry:

Brian played axis against AE-rookies Jakob and AE-rookie Frank upgrading 2 more players to AE. Maybe a 7-man tournament next year? Judging by Brians outburts he didn´t have any luck. If there is one thing I can´t stand it is a axis-player who cries over his dicerolls  :wink:
I ran home before they finished so result is coming next time.

Last weeks REvised Frank took Tokyo ´cos Jakob forgot to place units in his capitol  :?

Bjergmose vs. John  0-3 (5-15)

Standings:  G-  P-(Score)
John         6   12   (65-55)
Jacob       6    10  (58-62)
Brian        6     7   (61-59)
Bjergmose 6     7   (54-66)
Jens        4     6   (42-38)

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Top match at the club :-)
Ghostglider played John battling for 1st place.
Ghostglider reigned supreme securing an 8th round victory.

Meanwhile the revised table once again attracted Jakob and Frank in their
eternal struggle. Undecided when the papers went to the press :?

Allan played allied against Bjergmose and Brian literally killing us.
I´ve played faster opponents by e-mail.
I learned a new word from boardgamegeek…bean counters.
If anyone deserves that description it must be Allan.
And the worst part is that he won. The 2008 DM was played with a 5 min.
max/turn…at the time I found it overkill…but now I´m not so sure.

Ghostglider vs. John  3-0  (12-8)

Standings:  G-  P-(Score)
Jacob      7    13  (70-70)
John        7  12  (73-67)
Brian        6    7  (61-59)
Bjergmose 6    7  (54-66)
Jens        4    6  (42-38)

Now we just need Jens back in business…where you at Jens…Graf Z please report….

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Still no word from the elusive Graf Z  8-)

But the man with the longest win-win record is back….introducing the one-and-only
von Smedman. Yesterday he played against Frank and it looked like an Axis win when I left, leaving von Smedman undefeated since January…the fact that he hasn´t played a game in between is irrelevant :-D

Ghostglider once more conquered the world…this time steamrolling  “Fast-as-lightning” Allan.
4 rounds of allied fury and it was over.

Brian and the top-dawg (me) tried our first game of Guadalcanal…probably screwing up as we went along  :lol: I just read today that we were supposed to get double income…but hey, at least we got the same. All 6 rounds we had 3 islands each. The deciding factor was the US being able to build an airfield one round before emperor Brian. A last minute airfield attack only resulted in 1 hit securing my 1st Guadalcanal-win.

Now I am waiting, with evergrowing anxiety, for the arrival of my Pacific 40 game at the local game shop Fantask  :-)

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Last game(s) 2009.

29th of december 10 o´clock.
6 man present Graf Z, Jakob, Brian, Frank, Ghostglider and me… and 3 sparkling new Pacific 40  :-D fresh from old Santa himself.

When the dust had settled Ghostglider was on the top of the pile…again  :-P

4 games 4 victories to the main man.
Your man on the spot - Bjergmose - had 2 games 2 victories.
Graf Z was 2-1
Jakob 1-2
Frank 0 for 3
Brian  0 for 3

Japan won 5…allies 4.

The feeling about the new game was that everyone enjoyed it (maybe not Brian as much as the rest of us  :-)). Every game seemed different…can´t wait ´till Europe next year.

As for me the total score this year is;
Pacific ´40    2-0    100%
Guadalcanal  1-0    100%
Revised        0-1    can´t compute  :roll:
AE50          22-4-12  0.632
  axis        11-1-6  0.639
  allies        11-3-6  0.625

See you all next year  8-)

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So Graf Z is back. I had to work yesterday but Jens played against John and
Ghostglider teached Allan how the Pacific was won.

John vs. Jens  3-0  (12-8)

Standings:  G-  P-(Score)
John        8  15  (85-75)
Jacob      7    13  (70-70)
Brian        6    7  (61-59)
Bjergmose 6    7  (54-66)
Jens        5    6  (50-50)

Remaining games;
Axis vs. Allied
Bjergmose vs. Ghostglider
Bjergmose vs. Jens
Brian vs. Jens
Jens vs. Brian

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Last week work needed my attention.
There were 3 rookies present, so the club was crowded…8 players  8-)

Ghostglider (G/I) and Brian (J) won against John and Daniel.
In the other game Jakob and Svenning lost with the axis vs. Allan and Thomas.

This week it was time for me to shine securing a much needed win against Ghostglider.
By G2 the Royal Navy was annihilated and the Russians SBR´ed 16 down. End of story.
What…the japanese…oh…they kinda forgot to secure their Sumatra IC and ran into heavy fire in Manchuria destroying 4 Zeros thereby leaving the AC alone (and an easy australian-based US-bomber-target). I had him…buried…and then I give him the chance to come back :cry:
Allright…new plan…we´ll throw out Graf Z from the tournament ´cos he had to many no-shows. :|

Other games thursday;
John (axis) looked like he was beating Jakob.
Brian (G/I) and Frank (J) forced Allan to his knees 6th round (German and Japanese heavy bombers helped a lot) :-)

Bjergmose vs. Ghostglider  0-3 (5-15)

Final standings (without Jens-games)
Standings:  G-  P-(Score)
Ghostglider 6    13 
John          6    12   
Brian        6      7 
Bjergmose  6      4

So…playoffs;
Ghostglider (1) vs. Bjergmose (4)
John (2) vs. Brian (3)

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Semifinals thursday…ooops I did it again.
I had Ghostglider up against the wall, then I looked away for a second
and he was gone…Note to self…When ahead don´t hesitate.

Oh well…it´s just a game. Yeah right, didn´t sleep well thursday.

Semifinals;
Ghostglider vs. Bjergmose   3-0 (-5 bid)
John vs. Brian  3-0 (-4 bid)

So in the final “the Usual Suspects” John vs. Ghostglider.

Meanwhile Allan (Allies) annihilated Jakob and Frank who gave up after 3 rounds.
Next game they had their revenge in a re-match.

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Thursday 7 men present, including new-comer Emil.

2 games were played.

Ghostglider and Thomas (J) battled Allan and won after 7 rounds…give or take.

Bjergmose and Jakob (US) fought a long, hard game vs. Frank and Emil (J).
Japan developed long range and heavy bombers giving them supremacy over the entire pacific. But they were stopped outside Moscow, running out of ground troops.
Germany fought in a tight circle…too tight  :-D
US also had heavy bombers, but a costly 7th or 8th round attack almost let the axis back in the game. USA opted to bomb the last German armor in EPL but failed both tries. And when the SBR in both Germany and Italy ran into some serious flak USA had lost 3 Hbombers and hit nothing.
On the bright side Bjergmose had the privilege to buy a russian aircraft carrier w/2 ftr and a transport in the mediterranean. Once in a lifetime…but it wasn´t much use anyway.

Next week the finals… the old firm. Mano-a-mano. Last men standing.
Showdown in Valby. Rumble in the basement. This is it…the big one.
Ghostglider vs John.

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So yesterday…the finals.

Ghostglider vs. John

and fighting for bronze-medals…Bjergmose vs. Brian.

The top-spot is undecided. After 10 rounds and a new day on the horizon Fortress Europe was under pressure, but Japan had conquered everything from Tokyo to Stalingrad, sweeping Africa too. So next thursday we´ll all know much more…if 6 more hours is enough :-D

3rd prize…
Here is how it went *#¤#, ******** and then *¤%#"@.
Man, I was boiling inside. G1 Brian takes Karelia without any loss. Caucasus with 1 armor. UK1 goes after the Italian navy…nope. Germany keeps rolling. Rolling 1s and 2s that is.
I tried to disrupt the all-armor assault in Poland but Italy attacks with 2 inf vs 2 inf…winning without a loss off course. To add to the insult 2 italian inf threw the US inf and art out of algiers same round. Last grasp…RU3 trying to maintain a perimeter around Moscow with 3 armor vs. 2. When the smoke settled 1 german panzer brushed off the dust, and pointed towards Moscow. Game over.
Today after some thought, and a good nights sleep, it´s all good .  :-)
Brian always plays aggressive…he who dares gins…I mean wins. Hats of to a you Brian.

It only took an hour and a half to wipe the board with me (and my selfesteem), so we took a rematch. This time Brian tried the German navy option buying a trn and a carrier.
With a tech dice it left only 1 armor in Berlin. So when UK developed paratroopers it was an even shorter game…. 8-)

Allan and Frank (J) teamed up against Jakob in what looked like an axis victory when I left.

After next week we´ll start a new tournament…just have to figure out another cool name for it.

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So once again…Ghostglider takes the spotlight.
After 12 rounds John had to admit defeat. He said that only extreme luck could turn it around. So Scandinavian Cup winner Ghostglider (with a 6-0 record this year).

Now…once more into the breach.
This time it will be bigger…better…This time it will be European Cup :-D …European Cup 2010.

A few changes. A pre-bid dice throw will decide if;
1;The Dardanelles is closed.
2;Escorts and interceptors is allowed.
1-3 they are implemented, 4-6 no-go.
One dice/optional rule. Making the games a little different.

Cups or dice-towers every game.

So last night. 1st round.
I had the chance to avenge my beating last week playing the Axis vs. Brian.
He did seem tired, but it still counts as a win for me.
He managed to overlook the famous Italian sucker-punch, leaving Moscow German in 3rd round. It looked like he was able to bounce back, but the japanese sealed the deal giving the Axis a 6th round victory.

Allan looked like he was winning after 4 rounds of slow-paced mayhem  :-)
Frank played the axis, a -6 bid with Dardanelles closed.

European Cup 2010
Bjergmose vs. Brian    3-0 (14-6)
Frank vs. Allan          0-3 ?

Standings;  G  P
Bjergmose  1  3
Allan          1  3
Ghostglider  0  0
John          0  0
Jakob        0  0
Brian          1  0
Frank        1  0

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So. Last thursday (been sick…sorry) another round of AAAction.

I had the great luck to play against Ghostglider. I wasn´t really into the game, maybe  feeling sick, maybe the fact that he stomped me twice allready this year.
I tried to press the attack after a good G1 turn from Ghostglider, but it was to no avail.
4 rounds and Moscow was overrun. But at least the hardest game is over for me.

The 2 brothers Allan and John battled it out on the other table. After 7 rounds the Axis (Allan) had claimed bragging rights against his brother.

A visit from our long lost leader Kenneth provided a possibility to dust of the revised table.
Kenneth beat Frank twice  :-o

European cup 2010;
Ghostglider vs. Bjergmose  3-0  (16-4)
Allan vs. John                  3-0  (13-7)

Standings;  G  P
Allan           2  6
Ghostglider  1  3
Bjergmose   2  3
Jakob         0  0
John          1  0
Frank         1  0
Brian          1  0

And why do I insist on using cups or dicetowers?
Here´s why;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ufOkRoShk&feature=related

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10 danish axis players battled it out yesterday.
10  :-o Soon we´ll be fighting to get a chair not a victory :-D

I had the chance to beat John, but once more I played the allies to aggressive.
That combined with Johns huge amount of luck was my downfall.
My plan is to save up a little luck for the play-offs, but maybe I should focus
on getting there first  :-)

Ghostglider played the Axis vs. Frank, who is still in search of his first solo-win, but that
game got postponed ´cos Ghostglider had to go home and nurse his wife  :-(

Allan and Brian had not finished when I left, but Brian looked like he (especially the Russians) had the upper hand.

3 rookies showed up and along with Jakob (US) Dan played against Shawn (G) and Klaus.
Jakob couldn´t use his vast experience to triumph and the Shawn/Klaus axis started unbeaten.  :-)

European Cup 2010
John (-8) vs. Bjergmose   3-0   (15-5)
Frank (-5) vs. Ghostglider  
Allan (-7) vs. Brian 3-0

Standings;  G  P
Allan           3  9
Ghostglider  1  3
John          2  3
Bjergmose   3  3
Jakob         0  0
Frank         1  0
Brian          2  0

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Yesterday;

6 men…3 games.

Game1 John took out Frank in 4 rounds playing the axis with a -10 bid, but that didn´t stop him from ruling the world  :-)

Game2 the undefeated Allan (3-0) was up against the always undefeated Ghostglider (like a 1000-0). Ghostglider haven´t lost a game since the 17th of sept…something like a 20-game winning streak. And it continued yesterday. 8 or 9 rounds and Allan was gone.
Who will stop Ghostglider :?

Game3 a close game. Bjergmose prevailed in the end against Jakob…but only securing a small victory in the 10th round. 11 VC vs 7 VC. Germany took Moscow G3 after the italian-hole-tactic (that a US ftr would´ve stopped :roll:).Germany ended bottled up in Europe, but Japan managed to finish with 1 inf in Los Angeles. As always Bjergmose complained about his lack of luck  :cry:

Tuesday Ghostglider finished his game vs. Frank with a 10th round win. Frank almost took control of USA, but failed to secure Central US destroying Ghostglider, in what would have been a major upset. :-o
And VicePresident Jonas showed up for the first game of the year, playing PAC vs Jakob.
Jonas wasn´t updated on the sub/dd rules, giving him a BIG surprise. Jakob won after 4 rounds. 8-)

European cup 2010;
Frank vs. Ghostglider      0-3 (10-10) postponed game
Bjergmose (-7) vs. Jakob 2-1 (10-10)
Allan (-9) vs. Ghostglider 0-3 (8-12)
John (-10) vs. Frank      3-0 (16-4)

Standings;  G  P
Ghostglider  3  9
Allan          4  9
John          3  6
Bjergmose  4  5
Jakob        1  1
Brian          2  0
Frank        3  0

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Late update.
Had to wait…Brian forgot to write how his game went.
I assumed he´d lost since he didn´t reply…but no.

Brian played the allies against Jakob and won in the 9th round,
taking both Rome and Berlin  :-D

I played the allies against Ghostglider (G) and Frank (J).
And I had everything under control, looking for that elusive win
against the Ghostglider. But nooo. Emperor Frank decided to go all-tech…
1 dice = 1 tech = long range = wrecking up my game-plan in Europe.
So I lost  :x

But at least I got a win against Ghostglider at daak.de.
I beat him with the allies in their Anniversary-tournament.
Luckily we agreed that it should count in our club-records  8-)

European cup 2010;
Jakob vs. Brian  0-3  (9-11)

Standings;  G  P
Ghostglider  3  9
Allan          4  9
John          3  6
Bjergmose  4  5
Brian          3  3
Jakob        2  1
Frank        3  0

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Quick update.

Haven´t played all week but the guys still battled it out.
Tuesday and thursday.

Tuesday John beat Jakob in another close game.
A 10th round win secured 3 points to John.

An a sensation….Frank got a win by himself. 1st time in da club  :mrgreen:
He won against Brian (G) and Allan (J). Now the sky´s the limit for young mr.Frank 8-)

Thursday Jakob (Ax) was overrun by Allan (All). Yamato was sunk outside the Phillipines J1 and when US developed LRange 1st round the japanese was never seen again :cry:

Ghostglider got his confidence back after his daak.de defeat (by me if I forgot to mention it…even when I´m not playing I can still taunt…maybe I should retire…undefeated against Ghostglider since the 20th of march…some sort of trophy might be in order…oops ranting again :-o) and beat up Frank in a short game.

European cup 2010

John vs. Jakob   3-0  (10-10)
Jakob vs. Allan   0-3  (5-15)

Standings;  G  P
Allan           5  12
Ghostglider  3    9
John           4   9
Bjergmose   4    5
Brian          3    3
Jakob         4    1
Frank         3    0

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Long time no write…

Lotsa games last thursday (easter day-off).
And 3 games tuesday and possibly a couple of games yesterday (friday).

Non-tournament games;
John (G) and Bjergmose (J) vs. Allan…defeat Allan  8-)
Allan (-9) vs. Ghostglider Allan won after 10 rounds.
Jakob (-8) vs. Allan another Allan victory.
John (-8) vs. Allan…3 in a row for Allan  :-)
And Jakob beat Frank but I dunno which side prevailed.
That was last thursday.
Tuesday John played allied vs. Jonas (in 1 of his rare appearances) and Frank (G) and won.
Ghostglider beat the evil axis-Brian after 10 rounds.

European cup 2010
John vs. Ghostglider    0-3  (7-13)
Brian vs. Ghostglider   0-3   (6-14)
Ghostglider vs. Jakob  3-0   (13-7)
Allan vs. Bjergmose    2-1   (10-10)
Brian vs. John           0-3
Frank vs. Brian          0-3
Jakob vs. Frank         3-0   (14-6)

Standings;  G  P
Ghostglider  6   18
Allan           6  14
John           6  12
Bjergmose   5    6
Brian          6    6
Jakob         6    4
Frank         5    0

So 1 point vs. Frank will give me a play-off game vs. the top-dog Ghostglider…6 and 0.
Mr.Perfect…but any given thursday  :-D
The 2 brothers John and Allan will meet in the other semi-final.

We talked about changing the 10 rounds VC-count system and decided to opt for a
10 rounds (or 8 rounds) game and then it´ll be judged; is it a draw or a victory to either side. That will eliminate the weird final rounds in our current tournament when the focus is entirely on VC. But still a 13 VC win during the game and still a lost capitol equals defeat.