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Warriors and Poets - Big Game weekend

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A great weekend of gaming was enjoyed at Richard P's The Unit, in Stone this weekend. AAR's elsewhere will doubtless cover the weekends events with more detail, my twopenn'orth will cover my own corner of the battlefield. This was the first real crack at CWC2 that I've had and we all seemed to have lots of questions over the weekend. Doubtless some clarifications and House Rules will smooth over some issues, but with the size of the forces involved and good gaming attitudes all round, both tables seemed to crack on through a decent number of turns without too much of the endless waiting for mega-forces being inched forwards.  In general, I was quite pleased with the Irish Brigade's performance - their attached French armour suffered at the hands of a number of T55 battalions on the Saturday and after a ridge line became a line of flaming wrecks, the steadfast survivors trundled up, took up firing positions and went the same way as their Fréres in Arms. A