Great to hear all your adventures!
Barry's Bren sounded awesome below us when we put in an attack on the Kat - brrrr, brrrr, brrrrr. "KNOCK OUT THAT F*****G MACHINE GUN"
Love the way Anne politely calls out 'Sorry' when she kills someone! My pistol attack on Mia was nearly foiled by her, luckily I had an element of surprise. Note to self - don't try to come to a dead stop when running and you are hit, gravel hurts.
Barry and IED crew - the Katusha was next to the woodpile you were occupying, you could have picked it up and legged it (and had the best and the worst of the Third Reich hot on your heels!).
When I was captured Saturday night my plaintive calls for help met with repeated pistol butting and savage buggering by my captor Boris the Bastard. Loved it, so carried on shouting 
. Help came too soon 
The convoy "ambushes" were really intense after a bit of a wait, then short and sharp action followed by a bit of mopping up - just like you imagine it would be. (Note to Che - I'm not really that unfit - I wasn't puffed out just hyperventilating due to the excitement!)
to be fair if i had as many k98s pointed at me as you did i would be more than hyperventilating . its the first time ive used it on a hot day .boy wat a difference i almost hit everyone i aimed at . most unsual for me 
(and for the record i am that unfit )
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Great to hear all your adventures!
Barry's Bren sounded awesome below us when we put in an attack on the Kat - brrrr, brrrr, brrrrr. "KNOCK OUT THAT F*****G MACHINE GUN"
Love the way Anne politely calls out 'Sorry' when she kills someone! My pistol attack on Mia was nearly foiled by her, luckily I had an element of surprise. Note to self - don't try to come to a dead stop when running and you are hit, gravel hurts.Barry and IED crew - the Katusha was next to the woodpile you were occupying, you could have picked it up and legged it (and had the best and the worst of the Third Reich hot on your heels!).
When I was captured Saturday night my plaintive calls for help met with repeated pistol butting and savage buggering by my captor Boris the Bastard. Loved it, so carried on shouting
well if we had known that we would not have been in such a rush to save you. stien erm jenny hates sloppy seconds
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I'd like to concur with everyone else on a having a brilliant weekend. As Che said the game was that good that nobody actually cared who won! The scenarios were well thought out and worked brilliantly. The terrain was truely knackering (I lost count of how many times I fell over or went sliddign down the hillside)but that justed added to the game and it really was the ideal setting for the game.
I don't really know what else I can add to that other than my personal highlights:
I thought the the convoy amushing was fantastic, my favourite would have to be when we took out the returning landy patrol; took them total unawares and wiped them out in about 15 seconds.
I'm also proud of getting the furthest in the Russian charge, even as the last the left I still managed to make it a fair way before being hit by about 10 BBs all at once and having to dive int the bank to stop. Chommley then decided to finish me off with another burst just to make sure. 
It was just a shame Comrade Commisar Digga was also hit so couldn't shoot the cowardly facist simpatisers that refused to join the charge. 
I loved the single shot game despite the fact that I don't think I hit anyone. I was just gutted when Chomley got away, I wanted my revenge. I got him on Sunday though.
All the sniper duels were great , some excellent shooting. I'm not sure I like being on the recieving end of K98 fire though especially in that weather ;those things were really flying 
!!
Thanks again to the CIA team + Digga for setting up such a great event and to IED for the fantastic site and helping us poor partisans out . Not forgetting a thanks to Pete for the loan of the leather jacket and also being so good humoured about the Clown gags.
Great game, great site and great social as ever. 
Oh I forgot to add for the benefit of my fellow CiA Feldgendarmerie, I was on duty on Saturday night - thought I was going to have to put Kavster in the lockup (em well leave him with '58 bag under a tarp).
We should have had a fire protection officer on hand, once the circus got going with the fire act
Was armed with Luger, Torch and Traffic wand(built by Che and his toolbox) 
Oh I forgot to add for the benefit of my fellow CiA Feldgendarmerie, I was on duty on Saturday night - thought I was going to have to put Kavster in the lockup (em well leave him with '58 bag under a tarp).
We should have had a fire protection officer on hand, once the circus got going with the fire act
Was armed with Luger, Torch and Traffic wand(built by Che and his toolbox)
Some cracking after action reports, the best i have read i think on the forum yet.
Only adds to my disappointment of not being able to be there. Oh well next time.
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almost forgot about the fire breathing show saturday night. I think im going to be able to claim the best wound badge for this game though. I'll post the xray shortly
but did you take the boot off or cut it off
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What an event!
From Guy (inadvertently) "helping" me to conquer my fear of towing trailers (long story, involves a Rangie on a trailer, tyres blowing out, then seeing all the lanes on one side of the M25 several times in quick succession) to the ambush on the German motorized recce element (utterly fooked in 10 seconds), to the shits 'n giggles of saturday night, it has been one helluva good 'un from my POV!
The most memorable parts of the weekend for me were the patrol and engagement of the enemy after getting decimated on the vehicle recce (well done guys, that really gave the Commie scum something to think about). Kudos to Kav for two awesome K98 shots - which kind of made up for a certain earlier indiscretion on a supposedly "silent" patrol (tip - dont put Pyro in pockets )
Giving Guy the good news with the '42 (well, you didn't think i was going to lug it half way up the country to then not use it, did you?) was in some weird way rather satisfying. Long-range machine gun duel with Barrie on top of the woodpile was great fun.
Cheers to all the players, IED crew and my fellow CiA organisers for a pretty bonkers weekend. Apologies to my passengers for the weekend. Hope none of you get a case of the chalfont's from being thrown all over the place...
Oh, and a last thought - we *really* ought to increase the engagement ranges for K98's in hot weather
When we were a Kingdom it was run by a King
When we were an Empire it was run by an Empress
Now we're a country we're run by a..........
Fantastic reports all, I'm officially truely gutted I wasn't there but it does mean Mrs Rhys and Miss Headshot will have to attend again 
say Italy 1943 ladies ? 
jess said she'd love to come again for the social aspect
just not the anti social side
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she didnt make a comment that the ravers and kavsters snoring inspired her to murder
Ah a kindred spirit, its normally me moaning about the noisy sleepers ... does that mean though kav didn't spew all night instead though
yes the ravers did make me want to arrange a hunting party
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we voiced the idea at 6am che but chomley said we were all miserable buggers and to leave em alone heh
Excellent weekend!
Hard work and great fun.
Most of the battle details have been noted already so wont repeat.
I got shot by Lardass on the last battle (He purposely aimed low as not to damage my hansom looks and shot me in the leg). I think this is the first time I have been shot with a K98 (Normaly when Che or I get new weapons we like to test them out on each other at close range to see what they feel like but we never got round to testing our K98s for some reason 
) and yes, it does sting a bit doesn't it!
Cheers to the CIA organisers for a cracking game and the IED guys for letting us use their cracking site.
we voiced the idea at 6am che but chomley said we were all miserable buggers and to leave em alone heh
Aye, yah miseable, mardy, grumpy buggers.
Ravers having a good time miles away from anyone, not their fault thirty five adults who should really be tucked up in their comfy duvets in their comfy houses had decided to act like 10 years olds and play at soldiers in the woods!
I woke up at 4am for a call of nature, had a half-hearted walk up to see what was going on but decided sleep was a better option only to be woken up by Headshot at 5.30am complaining loudly about the noise then roaring off in the landy to investigate on the pretext of checking on the cars (parked in the opposite direction!). No point going back to sleep so chatted to all the other disturbed players over a cup of tea and waited for all the snorers to get up!
What an absolutely cracking few days.
The weather was fantastic, the gameplay was great and as usual with CiA games, the people and level play were both excellent.
The foot patrols were awesome, especially the first bump where we pretty much cleared out all the Partisans with lightning speed, only to have them annihilate the next 2 convoys that went past, although the East Front Massive got their revenge with a bit of sneaky beaky work and a drive by.
Watching Guy and the partisans then charge down the hill to retrieve the ammo we'd escaped with was a laugh (probably not for those that had to hike back up that damned hill to the regen, only to do it again a second time) and the firefight/assault that occurred aftewards was excellent, with both sides using the terrain to their advantage (the Russians attacking from on high, the Germans using various ridgelines for cover).
The evening game was a laugh from what I saw, despite Guy yelling a number of times to Ranj 'Did you check ALL this forest' and 'Are you SURE you checked all of this forest' while looking for the ammo box. As I've said, some very good play from both sides, especially Che (I think) who got 6 or 7 'bang' kills by the end of play.
I dare not comment on the social side of things on Saturday night, other than it was a good laugh and there was a fair amount of drink present
Sunday was pretty much a copy of Saturday, with the Germans putting out some excellent foot and vehicle patrols, and doing some excellent work securing the Katusha in what must've been record time for anything that had been done up until that point. The Katusha was very good, and I've got some superb shots of it in action.
I took 395 pictures this weekend, and I'm working my way through them now, so give me a bit and I'll put them up.
Once again, thanks to the IED lads for letting us use the site and for being a good OpFor, to the rest of the players for being a laugh as usual and to the CiA crew for putting on another excellent event.
Roll on Husky!
yes that was a record amount of bang kills for me five ie more than just one
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