After having the words "no shared plays" stare me in the face on my home page, I realized that I should probably document my main face-to-face experience with Panzer Grenadier, back in 2003 at Christmastime. For Christmas 2002 I had gotten a friend of mine Airborne, and he said "but I like tanks!", so the following Christmas I got him Battle of the Bulge, and we played my favorite scenario from that box, Marvie. He took the presence of the smoke rules to mean he could use them whenever he wanted, even though they strictly speaking should only have been used by special scenario rule (at that point in time, at least; I think 4th Ed. changes this to allow a little smoke in any scenario with mortars/artillery). Anyway, he smoked his way as the Germans right up to the edge of the town, depriving me of my chance to whittle his forces down on the approach, and ran away with the scenario. So yeah, I let him get away with one, but to my chagrin he was acting a little too proud of his mad general skillz!

Now it occurs to me that I must have played an Airborne scenario with him back in Dec. 2002, but I'll be darned if I can remember a thing about it. Time for the Wayback Machine...