Reading back that sentence in isolation - really sounds bad!!! Should I be on some sort of register?!
Anyway - the rest of the Tournament:
Next day on Sunday, 4th Game had me facing a Grenadier Company in Hasty Assault, his force included PaK40s, Marder III, Captured KV-1 and an Assault Platoon with Warrior that gave them Morale on 3+ and Assault on 2+, along with other stuff to 9 Platoons!!
Again I was the Attacker and decided to attack down one side with both the 10 strong Matildas and the KV-85s moving through a Wood, predictably I bog 2 tanks straight away but start firing on the Assault Platoon on the other side of the wood and killed a Team with lucky '6' with Machine Gun.
He sends his 2iC round the flank but I manage to defensive fire and kill him.
My turn I need to move forward more to get his Assault Platoon fully within 6" and succeed in bogging another 2 Matildas, the German player decides to take advantage of this and tries to assault with PanzerKnacker from Infantry platoon but fails Tank Terror, so in goes the Assault Platoon which succeeds losing 1 team to defensive fire, he kills a Matilda with the PanzerKnacker from CiC, I then roll double '1' to counter attack and have to pull back, now under half strength I roll for Morale and get double '2'!!!
CiC and Matildas gone and leaving 6 destroyed tanks.
Its all upto the KV-85s who push into the woods and bog 1, I kill off the Assault Platoon but the German CiC and the remains of the Infantry Platoon assault and kills a KV-85, I then fail my Motivation to counter assault - falling back I bog the KV-85 pulling out the wood, so destroyed by CiC putting me under half strength with no CiC
Lost 14-7 not as bad as it could of been as I managed to kill 3 Platoons.
5th Game - as we had all played each of the other side, we had to now play the top two Russians against each other.
Graham Willmotts Tankovy had 2 T-34 platoons (8 & 7 with 3 57mm guns in each so AT11), 5
BA-64 Recce and a Rota Rezvedki Platoon in M3 Half Tracks playing Dust Up.
So knowing neither side wanted to get too close to each other, my Matildas fodder for his T-34, while he could not face off against my KV-85s; we resorted to hunting down each others reserves. He got my
BA-10s as they tried to double away (did make him expose himself to return fire from the KVs), while I killed his
BA-64 after chasing them round a wood for 3 turns. Next my small Matilda platoon tried to hide in a Wood but finally succumbed to the mass of T-34 fire.
Grahams Rezvedki tried to swim for it across a stream to the safety of the ruining town but got cut down by massed MG fire, but still 3 teams passed their Morale and him in the Church.
Meanwhile the KVs went hunting down the T-34 platoons as with the casualties he had been taking (I had been knocking off a Tank every turn), he ran back towards his quarter but could not escape me - the larger T-34 platoon ran away with the CiC.
Now all I had to do was kill 1 more platoon to break him; I then made a silly mistake of moving within 4" of the objective trying to get 'line of sight' on his other T-34 platoon, i missed and Graham moved out of the way (not trying to even contest the objective) giving me the win in my next turn saving himself a Victory Point for me not breaking him...whoops I should have seen that coming.
Win 13-8
End of Weekend putting me on 3 wins and 61 victory points, giving me 2nd place in the Eastern Front behind Mike Klaka's Panther Company on 97n (he only lost a single platoon all weekend!)
The best thing of the whole weekend is that I actually won the 'Best Sportsman' award - seems weveryone enjoyed their games against me (normally you expect the award to go to the guy who got thumped in every game).
I'm very proud of that - I'm finally learning to be a friendly player!
Cheers,
PhilP