liga3m: Memoir'44 Tournament: The Final

Here we are with the Memoir'44 Torunament final. The 4 players accessing the final are: Gianluca (with the best score, 5 wins in 6 matches) than Ponz, Liga and Saverio (taking the position of Jappo that was unable to attend the final).

We decided to play the 3 scenarios of the German invasion of Polland in 1939. In every scenario the player with the best score decided the side to use.

The scenarioso was all well balanced and for expert players so the decision was not easy.

The local game store, Games Accademy, decided to sponsorize the torunament giving an Air Pack expansion to the winner.

First Battle

The first scenario was Operation Fall Weiss: Axis armies has to beat the weak Polish defences taking either Kidno o Lodz.

Ponz decided to be Axis against Liga and Gianluca to be Polish against Saverio.

The Battle was good and in the end I was able to beat Ponz thanks to the point awarded mantining the control of Lodz and Kidno

here the end of the battle

Gianluca also beated Saverio. Probably we will had to use the suggested option to give Axis 5 cards instead of four ... anyway.

Second Battle

The second scenario was Destruction of the Polish Armies. The German has to pass over a weak but well settled polish army, saving enough tanks for the future battles.

Gianluca decided to use Polish again so I have to play Germans. I was able to play a really good start, killing most of Gianluca units without any significant losses

Gianluca was really worried this time since I was in a real good and strong position, with 5 full tanks units still ready in the back.

But Memoir'44 is good because the things could change quickly. I was blocked without cards in the cantral section and Gianluca was able to recover and get the 6 medals! A good win for him!

On the other battlefield Ponz decided to use Polish this time and was beaten easly by Saverio.

Third Battle

The last battle was between me and Saverio, Gianluca and Ponz. I decided to use Germans and Gianluca did the same in First Warasw Scenario.

The fight for Warsaw was good: in the beginning I was quite unluckly and Saverio's artillery made me a lot of losses, but than I was able to broke in my left side and finally taking Warsaw with a quick Infantry Assoult.

On the other battlefield Ponz was dominating the battle, letting me hope in a final victory in the tournament.

Gianluca again was able to recover a bad start and win the tournament. If only Ponz was able to destroy the last infantry clos to Wasaw the history will got a different end!