Death of the 'Draw' Result ?

[vince hughes]

Boring draws tend to come from scenarios where AT START, you look at the scenario and either decide to 'Go' for the draw cos' a win looks too difficult or suicidal OR the draw just looks inevitable anyway.

On the other hand, Draws are fun when you drag out a 'draw' result from what was going to be a defeat position. I can think of 3 games where I managed that and they were certainly tight, tense, fun and exciting endings !

Classic Draws in my PG career have been:

AK 45 - Fort Capuzzo: My Italians dug a draw from retiring British content with victory when a snake eyes roll on the 7col X result then inflicted enough step losses against the British in the last turn

BSS 7 - Head On: 12th Hohenstaufen pull off a last turn exit having inflicted enough damage on British forces. The exits secured the draw.

WS 21 - Paratroopers Prevail: 277th Volksgrenadiers pull off an unlikely exit as an OBA strike demolishes open-topped US armour blocking the path with a 2X result hit in penultimate turn. The road was then open and off went the VG's.

NW 6 - Night of the Liberators: Defeat was on the cards for a force of StG's against US tanks until the over confident Yank tins missed what was thought to be a sitter of a shot. The surviving StG's replied and ripped out the US tanks to pull out an unexpected draw.

SAW 14 - Australia Will Be There: This is my favourite draw from the group "always looked like a draw from first reading". But boy ! Was this a good bloody slug-fest and plain simple fun PG.