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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

Is the defender able to scramble ftr to counter the recon?

Do you use ftr and/or bmb to recon?

If you recon can your airplanes still perform combat moves?

Would like to play…but not exactly in the neighbourhood :-)

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

How are the rules?

Can you see a neighbouring territory? Can planes fly scouting missions?

I sure would like to try it.

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

Attack Finland. Then you can take Norway 2nd round with 1 inf and the rest (if any) can try to retake Karelia. Or hold Finland. When in doubt…attack. 8-)

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.

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.

We have a club in Copenhagen, Denmark.
We play every thursday. Normally between 4-8 players.

http://www.aaclubdk.dk

You are welcome in our club, but write first.
It would be a shame if you came all that way and we weren´t there  :-)

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.

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)

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

1. Yes (5 if on an airbase)
2. No. 1 inf and 1 other (mech/arm/aa-gun)
3. No
4. Yes.

5. You can make your own house-rule if it seems logical to you.
    If you control the kamikaze-islands there might not be any ships to hit,
    and when you don´t it´ll be to late.

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-)

If your non combat and collect income phase are over and you have not declared any ships or subs “on station”, then you cannot go back and say they were later when it’s your opponents turn.

I think it is written in the rules that it is everbodys responsibility to check disrupted zones when you are collecting income.

But is convoy disruption mandatory or can you choose not to disrupt?

Or do you only disrupt after you go to war?

I am asking because if you have to disrupt, then it will limit your pre-declaration-of-war movement.

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  :-)

If you are lucky and the gods of dice are with you 2-3 hours.

In average I would say between 4 and 5 hours.

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….