AAR: Ohio Open Tournament - The Soldiery - 8-7-2011 - Part Three: Round Two

[The Cowman]

Subtitle: The Cowman gets shredded into Hamburger - The Final Chapter

...and so we come to the final round of our tournament and the final part of this AAR. IF you missed parts one and two you can find them here:

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?5971-AAR-Ohio-Open-Tournament-The-Soldiery-8-7-2011-Part-One-DoW-Pickup-Game (http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?5971-AAR-Ohio-Open-Tournament-The-Soldiery-8-7-2011-Part-One-DoW-Pickup-Game)

and here:

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?5972-AAR-Ohio-Open-Tournament-The-Soldiery-8-7-2011-Part-Two-Round-One (http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?5972-AAR-Ohio-Open-Tournament-The-Soldiery-8-7-2011-Part-Two-Round-One)

After a few refreshments, and some shopping, our pilots regroup and remount their flying steeds for some Free-For-All-Furball Action:

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From Left to Right: ToddWF, Jim, and Mark! (Hopefully I can drag Jim and Mark onto the forums so I can add them to the flight roster as well!)

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From Left to Right: Mark, Jager and The Cowman (me). The odd colored substance in the Mt. Dew bottle is Diet Coke... no... really... I swear on a stack of Superman Comic Books!

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Again from Left to Right: TommyZ, ToddWF, and Jim. Taking the last three pictures, but forgetting to take one of himself would be our Squadron leader CappyTom.

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For Round 2 we played on a smaller map set, and played with all damage cards shown openly... here you can see the pounding my DR.I has taken, but thanks to Zeros and Ones I am still up... (for now)

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I manage to get my DR.I too close to Jager's SE5.A to get in a shot... but not far enough away from CappyTom to avoid taking a few shots down my left side...

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Meanwhile, my prey, the infamous World War Flying Ace Snoopy in his custom Sopwith Camel, is managing to pull away and elude my chase!!! AAAARRRGGHHH!!!

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[The Cowman]

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Jager and Mark (Snoopy) have managed to take a little bit of damage so far in this round...

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...meanwhile Jim's Albatross has been seriously shot to pieces...

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ToddWF's DR.I is looking a little worse for wear as well!

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TommyZ and CappyTom have both taken light damage so far...

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ToddWF just misses an opportunity at the Bonus Recon Objective, but manages to pour hot lead into TommyZ's SE5A. So hot, in fact, that his plane bursts into flames! Tommy gets in a beautiful shot on Jim's Albatross at the same time, and then notices that things are heating up quickly in his own cockpit... ;)

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[The Cowman]

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ToddWF gets in a long range shot on CappyTom and reduces his kite to flaming bits. It was reported that a small ghostly pilot with angel wings was seen floating away from the area... Oh wait...that was a fly...Never mind!

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Jager manages to put TommyZ into the ground, with Jim getting in an assist from behind as well...

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Snoopy (Mark) gets in his second kill of the round on ToddWF...

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Jager demonstrates some incredible bullet dodging... 10 cards, but only 9 points of damage and no serious special damage.

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CappyTom turns TommyZ's SE5A into a cloud of flames and ash...

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After having been shot down four times so far in the day (six times if you count the DoW pickup game before the tournament) The Cowman finally scores a kill, and watches Jim's Albatross auger in...

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[The Cowman]

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...meanwhile during the same turn, smoke pours from ToddWF's DR.I as he tangles with CappyTom!

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A high altitude view of Round 2, Turn 10.

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The Cowman, Jager, and Snoopy close for a final encounter in the second round. A little birdy was telling me that I was no going to survive the encounter... I should have listened to the little birdy...

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TommyZ shows off some incredible luck of his own when it comes to the cards...

Once again the ringing of the final alarm brings the round and the tournament to the end... Seven worthy warriors went in, and six came out... with some ground beef on hand for a handy snack!

In the end, the overall standings for both rounds came down to this:

Champion - Mark: with 3 Kills, 2 assists, 1 Escape, 4 Objectives and No Demises for a total of 29 pts.
2nd place - Jager (Karl): with 4 Kills, 1 Objective, and 1 Demise for a total of 12 pts.
3rd place - CappyTom (Tom): with 3 Kills, 2 Objectives, and 2 Demises for a total of 9 pts.
4th place - Jim: with 1 Kill, 3 objectives and 2 Demises for a total of 8 pts.
5th place - ToddWF (Todd): with 3 Kills, 1 Objective, and 3 Demises for a total of 3 pts.
6th place - TommyZ (Tommy): with 1 Objective and 4 Demises for a total of (-15) pts.
Dead Last - The Cowman (me): 1 Kill and 5 Demises for a humbling total of (-22) pts.

As I mentioned in the second part of this AAR, a total of $125 in gift certificates went out to all six players in the tournament. Our Champion, Mark, also received a very appropriately decorated "Master of the Ohio Skies" framed certificate, and I am now the owner of my very own cheeky Bullseye award. I will hang it in my Hobby room with pride!

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Here we have the whole crew -
Back Row from Left to Right: Jim, ToddWF (Todd), The Cowman (me), and Jager (Karl)
Front Row from Left to Right: TommyZ (Tommy), Mark, and CappyTom (Tom)

No minis or small furry animals were harmed during the production of this After Action Report...All pictures were taken and posted with the express verbal permission of the staff and management of The Soldiery. Many Thanks to The Soldiery for hosting this tournament and our prior and upcoming Columbus area events.

Thus ends this lengthy AAR!

Note from the Cowman: During this particular Sunday I was shot down a somewhat embarrassing seven times. Should this streak happen to continue, I will be petitioning Herr Oberst to change my user-name to "Ground Beef"... HOWEVER I would like to say that I had an absolute BLAST! I was among fantastic company, and fun was had by all! I have said it before and I will say it again: "I love this game and I could not be prouder to be a part of this Aerodrome!"

[Flying Officer Kyte]

Brilliant Ken. I found it most absorbing and entertaining. Thanks for the great AAR.:salute:
Rob.

[Tommy Z]

I also had a great time playing even though I scored ZERO kills & kept drawing the BOOM card! It seemed I would do the initial damage & someone else would claim the kill :serious:

Thanks Ken for your hard work & running a great event!:medal:

[Jager]

It was a great day, and I'm glad I could make it.
Hope to play with you all soon.
Karl

[flyingryno]

there,s that age thing again. No yutts. Hxxx who needs them.

[grumpybear]

Very cool , to bad you were beaten but will overcome next time. Looks like a blast. To all great game.:thumbsup::salute::drinks:

[CappyTom]

Great day had by all. Thanks everyone for making it a fun day. Hope to play with you all again soon.

Tom

[Archidamus]

:clap: Great AAR, and great pics too, Ken. Just one question - how did you survive to reach the rank of Major given the number of times you crashed and burned?

[Attila57]

Great AAR, great pics, great report, nice flames! Well done, Ken! Well done, all!

:thumbsup:

Attilio

[The Cowman]

:clap: Great AAR, and great pics too, Ken. Just one question - how did you survive to reach the rank of Major given the number of times you crashed and burned?

Flame resistant Bubble wrap.