A few changes were put into effect this year which altered the game significantly . First , a new point system was put into place with double points for mission success and additional points for mission denials . And second , as if it wasn ’ t large enough , the scope of the field was expanded , adding an additional half-acre to the massive game .
But some things stayed the same . The Allies , as always , attempted this year to breach the beach , creating a hole in the onslaught of paint and push through the Axis line into the woods . As has been
inch into the woods . But the Allied army managed to outlast the Axis in paint and air supply , and through a literal battle of attrition , they pushed the Horde back into the small town of Caen . In a heroic display , laying the final knockdown punch , Allied player Tyler Martineau marched into the town armed with only a radio and wirepull paint grenade . As the small contingent of Allied players followed him , Martineau bobbed and weaved his way to the middle of the town and launched the case nearly every year , the attempt was bold but unsuccessful this year . So , after an hour and half of consent gunfighting , the Allied insertion into the woods was opened , and another mayleigh began .
Outside of the small city of Caen , the Axis had shifted their forces and set up a line of battle stretching from their insert to the far tape line of the field . For 40 minutes , they gave a nonstop hammering to the Allied army that again and again threw themselves into an onslaught of paint , pushing inch by the banger to the far corner of the town , clearing out the remaining stragglers of the Axis army , and opening the door to the notorious Pegasus Bridge , granting access to the back fields .
And that was only the beginning .
As mentioned , this year Skirmish reactivated a portion of the field which had been considered out-of-bounds for the first time in more than a decade . The Air Field , which is complete with multiple airplane
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