Straight Ahead George

The other day I got to thinking about the old days when I was stationed at Nellis. When I was at a place on the corner of Flamingo and Valley View. A great place called Triple J's Hobbies or to us regulars "Joe's Place". On this particular night we were playing a game of Gear Krieg. This game is different variation of WWII. Most of the vehicles are the same just some of the tanks are now walkers. That's about as simple a description as I can get.

Anyhow there were five of us and The Great Joe was being the game master (the guy who manages the rules if things should get out of hand). So three of us Frank, George and myself are on the Allied side. Using American and British troops while the other two handled the German forces.

Before we started, decided on the strategy and tactics to be used. I have left flank, Frank had the Right and George was straight down the middle. Knowing our roles in this George then asked for some of our (Frank and Mine) troops, whatever we could spare. Now the thing about games like this, is that each person or side has a set amount of points to spend on troops/vehicles. "Purchase what you like/can, what you do with it is on you. We ask Joe if it's cool what we're doing and he said "As long as we kept it all on the same side" So Joe had no problem with it. Frank and I give George what we thought we could manage without. Hopefully pulling off a win.

The game starts with us going first and George taking everything he has as far up as he can. straight at ravenous maw of the German line. They in turn start to whittle down on his troops. My turn comes up. I move my troops more collectively know what we are heading into. Germans then take more damage to George since I wasn't that attractive of a target. Frank is more of the in between of George and I moving vehicles to near max but pushing infantry as much as he can.

After a few turns Georges' troops have holed up in or near burned out buildings and has done some damage to the main elements of enemy line. While Frank and I have now engaged the flanks of the German line. Five grueling rounds and a few lucky shots from all of us we take out the German positions and the game. We look around to see what pieces we have left. I had both walkers heavily damaged and one of three infantry left, Frank had damaged one walker and all of his infantry. George. Well George started off with one tank, four walkers, and six to eight pieces of infantry. he got out of there with two infantry pieces.

Sounds awful but that's how George played. Straight ahead in in your face. Keep them looking at you while your allies could come around and flank them. Everyone knew how he played, he never changed his tactic. Some days it worked, others it would blow up in his face.

We were all the regulars at Joe's place and I acquired a new found respect for an old war veteran named George who would come in with his walker and and oxygen tank. I miss that place at Flamingo and Vegas Valley. Too many good times and memories and most of all I miss the people there.