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k9mike wrote:picked up 2 battles from Joncorcuera...

GAME STARTED -- SWORD: Joncorcuera (Allies) vs K9mike (Germans)
GAME STARTED -- SWORD: K9mike (Allies) vs Joncorcuera (Germans)

Strongly advise treat JC with respect, Mike. First time I've played him and he's working me over hard!
Good luck both...

Guys, Are you using PC, Mac or iPad?

Have been looking at our battle maps, and for some games the VP flag text stays perfect throughout, for other games it's unreadable. Our scenario files are identical, so I can't for the life of me figure this out, and I'm beginning to wonder if it's a system thing.

Please would everyone let me know what system you're playing on? PC, Mac or iPad?
And if the text under your VP flags is clear or broken?

THANKS!

Example of Broken VP Flag Text (should say Barracks in the top left, and Bunkers in the top centre)


Example of Clear VP Flag Text (Bunkers text remains perfectly clear)

Leci - iPad 2 - come back to you about the flags

leci wrote:Leci - iPad 2 - come back to you about the flags

Thanks Leci! Pls let me know who you're playing, when you tell me if your VP text is clear or not, so I can match up which systems work/don't work together...

k9mike wrote:Grabbed 2 from Leci..

GAME STARTED -- SWORD: Leci (Allies) vs K9mike (Germans)
GAME STARTED -- SWORD: Leci (Germans) vs K9mike (Allies)

GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: Leci (Allies) vs GottaLove88s (Germans) - German win
GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: GottaLove88s (Allies) vs Leci (Germans) - Allied win
GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: Johntindall (Allies) vs GottaLove88s (Germans) - German win
GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: Joncorcuera (Allies) vs GottaLove88s (Germans) - German win

3x win ratio for the Germans, so far... Sword looks like a tough challenge for attackers to crack...

Guys, We received a PM from Santa (nick=arcticpost!),
He'd like to join us and claims to be a newbie but he'll probably kick our butts, lol.

I've asked him to download our Sword Tourney and put up a few challenges. Please play him if you have some time. If you're nice, he might bring you better presents?
You don't have to be in the tourney to play, anyone can download and pick up his challenges.

If Arcticpost is good, we could bring him into the Tourney for the next battle, Hillman...

arcticpost wrote:Hey,

Sorry to bother you but I didn't want to interrupt a tournament with my question. What's the general consensus on newbies joining tournaments? I really need to improve my gameplay (I have some glaring, well many glaring, weaknesses) and tournaments in the same scenario against multiple opponents strikes me as a really good way of doing so. I'm just afraid that while it'd be great for me it might be too frustrating for my opponents.

What's your feeling?

Thank you for your time.

PS. How's it going out there? Anyone broken the German defences yet?

Al is caning me as Brits after wiping out both of my 88s on first turn, and pretty much killing me as Germans too, with sneaky raids on foolishly exposed Fireflies' derrieres... Joncorcuera is holding me down to a desperate lastminute flag grab... And with Johntindall and K9mike, it's proving a real two-way slugfest... Although John seems to have gone into hiding? Sucking me deep into a nasty ambush for sure...

Given that I am using the tourney as a 'Jedi home study' programme, I have set up two Sword games with Arctic - password via PM.

Gilles aka Leci

GottaLove88s wrote:

k9mike wrote:picked up 2 battles from Joncorcuera...

GAME STARTED -- SWORD: Joncorcuera (Allies) vs K9mike (Germans)
GAME STARTED -- SWORD: K9mike (Allies) vs Joncorcuera (Germans)

Strongly advise treat JC with respect, Mike. First time I've played him and he's working me over hard!
Good luck both...

Jon, won one by Axis...still going with the Allied one, but not looking great...lol Maybe if the Allies got to drop that Naval Arty with no delay...Maybe that would get the Germans Attention.
Mike

Thanks. I look forward to my butt getting kicked up and down the beach.

Both games with Leci accepted.

Game Started - Sword: arcticpost(Allies) vs Leci (Germans)
Game Started - Sword: arcticpost(Germans) vs Leci (Allies)

GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: Joncorcuera (Germans) vs GottaLove88s (Allies) - German win -- Brilliant played Jon. Couldn't quite bag the 3rd one. Needed that M5, sigh!
GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: Morge4 (Allies) vs GottaLove88s (Germans) - German win -- Lucky break with a 251/flamethrower combo for the back flag... Great game tho! Huge swings both ways throughout... Thanks Al.

But the wins don't really tell the story... The KIAs do... Total devastation... 30 units killed (leaving 2) vs 27 units killed (leaving 5)... Astonishing swings of fortune!!

Congratulations for the victories to Jon and Mike i got severely my ass kicked in both cases, a pity that i left to unexposed my flag against Mike, i was preparing a nice counterattack with the tanks but i must recognize my infantes were already destroyed.
3 wins vs Jon (gottolove88s), Leci and Morge4 as Germán.
Special thanks to Jon for the increíbles lessons and for the game as allies that as you see the report of the battle was crazy, constant swifts of victory ods until the lást turn. And the forest ended covered of the death bodys of brave soldiers that fighted until theire lást breath.
Looking for the next battle against you and trying to repeal Mike's effective attack and the resistance of morge and Leci.
Artíc i am going to créate 2 Games password skull. See you in the field, am i missing Anyone else?

2 moré Games posted with skull as password John tindal.

joncorcuera wrote:Congratulations for the victories to Jon and Mike i got severely my ass kicked in both cases, a pity that i left to unexposed my flag against Mike, i was preparing a nice counterattack with the tanks but i must recognize my infantes were already destroyed.
3 wins vs Jon (gottolove88s), Leci and Morge4 as Germán.
Special thanks to Jon for the increíbles lessons and for the game as allies that as you see the report of the battle was crazy, constant swifts of victory ods until the lást turn. And the forest ended covered of the death bodys of brave soldiers that fighted until theire lást breath.
Looking for the next battle against you and trying to repeal Mike's effective attack and the resistance of morge and Leci.
Artíc i am going to créate 2 Games password skull. See you in the field, am i missing Anyone else?

Hey Jon,
Just to double check, are you declaring these?
GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: Joncorcuera (Germans) vs Leci (Allies) - German win
GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: Joncorcuera (Germans) vs Morge4 (Allies) - German win
Who was playing which side in your game vs Mike that Mike won?
Thanks for some great games. You're certainly no newbie!!

joncorcuera wrote:2 moré Games posted with skull as password John tindal.

GAME STARTED -- SWORD: Joncorcuera (Allies) vs Johntindall (Germans)
GAME STARTED -- SWORD: Johntindall (Allies) vs Joncorcuera (Germans)
Good luck gentlemen!

GottaLove88s wrote:

joncorcuera wrote:Congratulations for the victories to Jon and Mike i got severely my ass kicked in both cases, a pity that i left to unexposed my flag against Mike, i was preparing a nice counterattack with the tanks but i must recognize my infantes were already destroyed.
3 wins vs Jon (gottolove88s), Leci and Morge4 as Germán.
Special thanks to Jon for the increíbles lessons and for the game as allies that as you see the report of the battle was crazy, constant swifts of victory ods until the lást turn. And the forest ended covered of the death bodys of brave soldiers that fighted until theire lást breath.
Looking for the next battle against you and trying to repeal Mike's effective attack and the resistance of morge and Leci.
Artíc i am going to créate 2 Games password skull. See you in the field, am i missing Anyone else?

Hey Jon,
Just to double check, are you declaring these?
GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: Joncorcuera (Germans) vs Leci (Allies) - German win
GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: Joncorcuera (Germans) vs Morge4 (Allies) - German win
Who was playing which side in your game vs Mike that Mike won?
Thanks for some great games. You're certainly no newbie!!

Jon, I won the battle as Germans against Joncorcuera...our other battle where I am Allies is still on going...but, will more then likely be a loss for me...lol
I had started/played against...You, Leci, an Joncorcuera...only finish the one so far.

Thanks Mike,

Got that now...
GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: K9mike (Germans) vs Jonconcuera (Allies) - German win
Congrats!

Will wait on further declarations...

GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: Joncorcuera (Germans) vs Leci (Allies) - German win
GAME FINISHED -- SWORD: Joncorcuera (Germans) vs Morge4 (Allies) - German win.
Sorry is been a while not wrighting in english and that mixed with the autocorrect from the iPad made me express uncorrectly.
Mike, as Germán, won the battle to me as allies, conpletly confirmed that he kicked my ass badly, hopefuly i Will return him the favor.
So i am play in 3 Games at this point:
With Mike allies vs joncorcuera germans(from now on Jc bye the grace of Jon, gotolove88s).
morge4 germans vs jc allies
Leci germans vs jc allies.
I hope i didnt confuse moré... Bye the way cant contact John tindal. Is he On?