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 I ran the Soviet Airborne invasion of Ireland (1982) four times at Little Wars in Chicago last weekend, and made the mistake of running back to back games on Friday and Saturday.  My voice gave out during Saturday's afternoon game.  I tweaked the scenario, and removed the Scorpion tank, and further limited the ammunition for the anti tank gun (Gustav 84mm) and the Panhard AML 90.  The Irish still prevailed on Friday and the Soviet players decided that they would not be able to get to their objective in time.  However, on Saturday things turned out differently.  The Irish player's Gustav rolled poorly and failed to knock out the BPM-1.  Although the Gustav would fire again, it eventually ran out of ammo, and the Irish had to rely on the AML90 until the Army Ranger Wing appeared on turn four with two four man fire teams in Land Rovers armed with Laws rockets.  The Russians received a heavy weapons section (a MMG and a Grenade Launcher teams carried...