Ther Shermans can be seen moving down the rails to try and catch that Stug that put paid to their rampaging pal!

While the Canadian left did not move much throughout much of the game, there was an explosion of activity near the end as Dave pushed to bypass Joe's forward defences and take the railhead.

The German engine can be seen in the distance - it never did succeed in doing the magic switch.

At this point, after a bit more than 4 hours of play, the game was called.

Only 8 points of repairs had been done to the damaged rails.

All players agreed that World Crossfire Day was a great experience.

We all felt the rail line repairs were either too slow or too much (in points). As I've mentioned at the beginning under Scenario Rules, 5,6 would have been a more realistic goal, but these things are hard to predict in scenario design. The whole switch business was silly too, we thought, but nonetheless, it was great fun, for once, having the trains actually doing something in our games instead of just sitting there looking pretty.

We've always found that three company a side games are usually long playing. For some reason, even just two company size games seem to play much faster in our experience. The length of game was a concern, because not a huge number of initiatives were played - maybe 20 or so, and I got the impression that Lloyd, the coordinator, had hoped it would go faster.

Dave felt the German players made a mistake with their forward defence. His approach would have been to defend inside the town, with serious firepower concentrated around the rail workers. He felt that that breakthrough he and Pete achieved, which was a "typical" result in Crossfire, was something that could have been seriously blunted if there had been significant defences nearer the workers.