An Epic Victory

Drove to the Lab yesterday and wrote two more policy papers. Did the Death Machine in the morning and an arm workout plus 45 minute walk/run in the evening.

Weighed in today. Still losing steadily but very slowly, which is disturbing. Can't imagine working any harder at it.

Peter came over and we played Combat Commander: Pacific--a scenario in the Gilbert Islands. I played the Japs on defense. Strange battle. I had only a handful of units on the board at start, and as he approached my defense, I struggled to inflict casualties. Meanwhile, first my main machinegun broke, and then my battalion gun, leaving me with nothing to fire with, except my treetop sniper, who wasn't doing too well. I figured I was going to lose the fight.

Then things started turning around. First, I infiltrated a fire team behind his advancing lines and retook one of the objectives. This had the effect of forcing him to deploy his flamethrower unit to chase me. They eventually wiped out my infiltrator, but it wasted time. Next, I infiltrated reinforced squad against his attackers, jumping one of his squads and destroying it in hand-to-hand combat. Soon thereafter, I infiltrated a heavy machine gun unit that popped up and ambushed one of his moving units. His guys dashed for cover, but my reinforced squad kept pouncing on his squads and forcing them into hand-to-hand combat.

Meanwhile, his Marines managed to bull their way through my lines on the other side of the battlefield. They captured Objective 4 and then escaped off the board, garnering a lot of points. At game end, it turned out that he had a secret objective, which he had taken for extra points. Still, I managed to eek out a 2 point victory. Great fun.

Still not sure if I'm going to the Pentagon today, but it doesn't look like it.