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Division Alpha, third round:

Battle of the Kerch Peninsula:
Aller : Darth Ben (Allies) - Jeronimon (Axis) : 3-8 (13-27)
Retour : Darth Ben (Axis) - Jeronimon (Allies) : 8-7 (25-31)
Total : Darth Ben - Jeronimon: 1-3 pts, 11-15 med, 38-58 fig

Replays :

Replay 1
Big German offensive for the exit. All went well: cleared the ridge of pesky infantry and exchanged 1 armor unit for three inf. Then BELled it with an engineer for the exit reducing an armor unit to 1 figure on the way (so after that no replay). Followed up with an armor assault, that scored a 3/3 on the HQ flank. killed some more units to get to 8-3 victory.


Replay 2
Both armies going up their respective right flanks, but my brave Russians having air support that the Germans lacked gave me an early lead. made it up to 5-3 but then got to gready and lost some units. 5-5 Race for the HQ (and stole a card) for a 7-5 score, but my two tanks were destroyed by some wounded units (1 fig armor 2 fig inf) and the last man on the ridge did not see that artillery shell coming. 7-6 for Darth Ben. Killed a lonely infantry and had one die on a tank in the HQ on the baseline but missed. 7-7
Darth Ben then Belled it to the exit for a 8-7 win.


Capture of Gona :
Aller : Jeronimon (Axis) - Darth Ben (Allies): 2-6 (15-25)
Retour : Jeronimon (Allies) - Darth Ben (Axis) : 6-1 (26-11)
Total : Jeronimon - Darth Ben: 3-1 pts, 8-7 med, 41-36 fig

Replays :

Replay 3
Positioning, positioning, positioning, positioning, while the Artillery and sniper did their long distance thing. I then lost my patience and played an inf assaut in the middle and went forward. Got shot to pieces by a Firefight 1 unit dead other wounded. Countered that and got 1 unit in return. Darth Ben countered again and mopped up 2 more units. Could not resist the target on my left and went for it (knowing I had the Ambush and no more left cards, was hoping to get a left card from either normal or Ambush draw). Whiffed on the unit but got him with the Ambush, ambushing unit destroyed by Darth Ben. 4-2 the score in Darth Bens favor. me holding middle cards and an air power, played that got 4/4 but no kills because all full size units. Another unit killed on that flank and me left with the sniper on my right a full fig unit in Gona and two men in my left flank. played one mor ecard in the middle and then saw my 2 left men die for a 6-2 Darth Ben victory.

Replay 4
The Brits advanced slowly on the left and right. I Exchanged 1 British inf for two Japanese ones on my left 2-1 the score, but I need to keep him on that 1 medal for the points. Advanced on my left to lure some Japs that way and then retreated there. In the meantime going for the lonely Jap infantry on my right. Creeping up on it and reducing it to 2 fig. Darth Ben medicaid it to full health and gave my unit three flags and no hits. Moved in anther unit to go for it again and started a small offensive in the middle. The Sniper arrived and took a shot at mi artillery reducing it to 1 fig. Went for the lonely inf on my right again and kept shooting at the middle. Darth Ben having problems defending for lacj=k of centre cards so he played art Bombard and armor assault. Got a turn where I could go for 2 1 fig Jap inf got one, but lonely right guy survived (again ). Lonely right guy shot at me (2 flags again retreating) but got him with one die the next turn. Then went for an infantry in the middle again that was a tough nut to crack, in the end I managed it after 16 dice. And I got my last medal barraging a 2 fig unit on the left flank for a 6-1 victory.


Total over 4 games:
Darth Ben - Jeronimon: 2-6 pts, 18-23 med, 74-99 fig

Merci pour jouer.

J'espère de te vois a l'Open de France!

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This was my first time meeting Junior72. I knew that he is a strong player, and I've enjoyed his well designed scenarios. I had a 3-point advantage coming into this round, so I "just" needed to win one match, but it wouldn't be easy.

Battle of Kerch Peninsula

sam1812 (Axis) - Junior72 (Allies) 5-8 / 21-26
Dice 62-62
Against infantry 9/36 (25%%) vs 12/22 (55%%)
Against armor 12/26 (46%) vs 14/40 (35%)
Against artillery --- vs ---

sam1812 (Allies) - Junior72 (Axis) 8-5 / 34-26
Dice 72-72
Against infantry 23/40 (57%) vs 16/42 (38%)
Against armor 11/32 (34%) vs 10/29 (34%)
Against artillery --- vs ---

sam1812 - Junior72 ... 2-2 points / 13-13 / 55-52
Total 55/134 (41%) vs 52/134 (39%)


Game 1
https://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir44-online/en/battle/?id=7 7688796

An early Russian air strike on their right scored double hits against two of my sandbag infantries, and double-flagged the third. A few turns later, when two Russian tanks began to advance there, I retreated the two weakened infantries (now 1 figure each) into the woods, while my Panzer came out to try and defend. However, a Russian Assault Right obliterated my Panzer and one of the infantries, while also double-hitting another infantry. Soon after, a Russian Infantry Assault on that flank added two more kills against my defenseless flank. They led, 5-2. I finally managed to get another Panzer over to my left, and finished off three weakened units over a span of two turns. I followed with a Firefight, which rolled 12 dice, but only 1 hit. I couldn't prevent the Russians from taking the HQ and eliminating my Panzer. Allies gained 5 kills and the objective on their right flank.


Game 2
https://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir44-online/en/battle/?id=7 7689597

My Russians began with a Recon air strike on my left, scoring 4 hits. The Germans played 5 consecutive Center cards, which gave them two kills against units on my left. They followed that with Air Power, which dinged two of my tanks -- but I was lucky enough to be holding a Counter-Attack. The previous targets on my left hadn't moved, so I attacked four 2-figure units, killing two Panzers and an engineer, and reducing another Panzer to a single figure. Suddenly, I had gone from a bad position to a 4-2 lead. A couple of turns later, a 2-fig Panzer killed my leftmost tank, and threatened to exit, my artillery was lucky enough to eliminate it. I now led, 6-4, with DHQ under the chip and a chance to win the match. On the DHQ, my armor eliminated a 3-fig infantry in the sandbags, while my SF infantry scored two hits against the German engineer adjacent to the artillery. But the Germans responded with a TFH, and one of their two orders eliminated my 1-fig engineer in the center After that, though, my Artillery Bombard went for the 2-fig engineer, and scored two hits.

5-8, 8-5. Tied match. I scored a couple of extra hits, but they don't count in this tournament. (And notably, in this tournament, all six of my Kerch battles were won by the Russians.) In order to advance, I would need to win one game, or Junior would need to win both.


Capture of Gona

Junior72 (Axis) - sam1812 (Allies) 0-6 / 8-20
Dice 13 vs 30
Against infantry 8/13 (62%) vs 20/30 (67%)
Against artillery --- vs ---

Junior72 (Allies) - sam1812 (Axis) 5-6 / 26-25
Dice 71 vs 53
Against infantry 26/71 (37%) vs 23/46 (50%)
Against artillery --- vs 2/7 (2/7%)

sam1812 - Junior72 ... 4-0 points / 12-5 / 45-34
Total 45/83 (54%) vs 34/84 (40%)


GRAND TOTAL: sam1812 - Junior72 ... 6-2 points / 25-18 medals / 100-86 figures
100/217 (46%) vs. 86/218 (39%)


Game 3
https://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir44-online/en/battle/?id=7 7690709

This battle was simply unfair. His Japanese came out aggressively, and I hardly missed in defending against them. I Ambush-killed a 2-figure infantry on Axis's second turn, and then killed four more units with DHQ (which was my second one), a Close Assault, and a 1-1-1. On their fifth turn, the Japanese played BEL, occupying the bunker adjacent to Gona. But the medal hex behind it was vacant, and I had just drawn a lucky Counter-Attack, so I took the objective. The dice were very lopsided. I was hitting with almost everything, and half of my misses were "extra" dice against units I killed. In his 5 turns, Junior was able to roll only 13 dice, and 8 of them came on one turn.

This win clinched my advancement to the next round.


Game 4
https://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir44-online/en/battle/?id=7 7691132

We traded kills over our first 10 turns, leading to a score of 4-4 after my 10th turn, except that Junior's Brits had also killed my sniper early, on an Infantry Assault, and I Countered a Barrage to kill the already-damaged British artillery. On their 13th turn, when they were leading 5-4, the Brits fatefully rolled 0/5 against my full-strength IJA on their far right. I rolled 2 hits against a 3-fig infantry in the jungle, and advanced my other remaining unit to the Gona bunker. Next turn, the Brits rolled 3/5 against that IJA on their right, but left him standing, and they rolled a hit against my unit in the bunker. I played Move Out, finishing off the unit on the British right, and charging out to reduce an infantry in the center jungle to 1 figure. Two British units attacked my 1-fig IJA on their right, but fatefully again, they rolled 0/4 against it. That should have been a winning attack, but instead it was 3/14 against that stubborn IJA in a span of 3 turns. I Close Assaulted, and finished off the 1-fig in the center. An unexpected and lucky win, due to horrifically unlucky British dice at the moments when they needed hits.

It was a pleasure to meet Junior72, after seeing his name for so long. I was lucky at the right times, and he was unlucky at inopportune times, but he was a good sport about it, and I know that on a different day, he would have delivered the same damage to me. I hope to meet him again in this tournament next year.

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