Club Night - Memoir 44

 Having attended the local wargame club twice last summer, I did not return. This was due at first to my wife's work life making Thursday nights really difficult. Then there was the summer break where I was just busy the entire time, more of my wife's work into the autumn, then it just sort of felt awkward that I would show up after so long and hope that they were nice? So ridiculous and neutoric. 

In the end someone new messaged about wanting to play Memoir 44 and I took that as a way in. My wife has also changed her job which makes Thursday nights much less stressful and full on. So I went and when I arrived there were two guys playing it already. So I sat with them and we hot steated around the table. It was pretty cool. I have had Memoir 44 since 2012 I think, but had only played it 6 times in 12 years. It is 2 player so it didn't really get to the table much.

This was Omaha - the first game as I watched. US attacker gained 2 medals while the Germans defended and got their 6 medals. The game is meant that you play each scenario twice but the players switch sides. This scenario is very difficult for the allies to win. 

When I played as the Germans I defended well and the Allies only gained one medal, managing to kill one of my infantry squads.

When I played as the Allies I lost, but I actually managed to get 5 medals and was one away from victory. It was pretty cool, but does come somewhat down to the luck of the dice and the card draws. I managed to get a few nice cards that allowed me to advance large amounts of units up the beach which helped. 

After this we played the liberation of Paris scenario which was really hard to win as Germans. That was pretty fun.