The Axis forces were well dug in behind sandbags, in towns and bunkers upon or behind a bluff and rows of wire and anti-tank hedgehogs.
My turn as the Axis forces first and even though from my point of view there seemed to be a great many Allied infantry and armour units, I had no great difficulty in holding them off from my defensive vantage points. Artillery gave me range and bunkers ensured that for the most part the Allies were only rolling one dice. At one point I did roll six "tank" symbols in a row when I was firing at infantry but in the end I took very little damage while gaining my six flags.
Crabro did manage to penetrate beyond the bluff and briefly occupy a town to take its flag but forced to move and give it back I believe it ended 6-1 although Crabro remembers it as 6-2 which would be nice as that is exactly the result when the roles were reversed and I had to try and get my men out of the sea and off the beach. It was a very challenging scenario and for that reason fun and satisfying to play.
After lunch we attacked a new Martin Wallace another favourite designer, particuarly of Crabro's. The game was "A Few Acres of Snow" and the setting the battle for control of North America between the French and the British redcoats.
It took a while to understand the large number of different actions available to each of us and get used to the different make up of the card decks available but it quickly began to flow and was a big hit with both of us. We are looking forward to playing it again.
Despite the board and pieces at first suggesting a standard two player wargame it actually has a Dominion-like deck-building mechanism at its heart which made it very interesting to us. Although this was essentially a learning game we did score it at the end and at first thought that Crabro had one by a single point. We then noticed that we had not taken into account the village I had captured in a raid and adjusted the scores making me the winner by a single point.
A very close day, pretty much an honourable draw across the board and very enjoyable indeed. Roll on a return to both these games.
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