Weekly War Blog 18th Feb 2012

Salutations my human friends! It's me .... Pengy... safely in my bunker at HQ.

No moths have been allowed to hide in the folds of the flags.
Both Union Jack and Stars and Stripes have been run up the flag pole over the last 7 days play.
The top ten players so far ...
1. jules44 UK
2. hammerdjh USA
3. Anton USA
4. Clamking USA
5. morelli UK
6. WorldB USA
7. paper_aeroplane UK
8. markswood UK
9. j2cp2 USA
10. dippo UK
5 Americans & 5 UK & Co!
This is nailbiting stuff. You can't get more closely fought than that. And every single one but Anton a Fearsome Invincible. I say ... he's rather good isn't he.
But how goes it on the rest of the Challenge battlefield? After 2 weeks of daily skirmishing the combatants have bunched into groups. For safety I suppose ... no one wants to be ambushed or caught behind enemy lines. Ah .. but I can see with my telescope that a few poor souls have been trapped amongst the foe and are bravely battling their own private war. Or .. it could be they're courageous mavericks who're tackling the foe head on?
Pengy Call to Arms!
Reinforcements needed for
Martin cube who's valiantly chasing suep ... but with Schoonie101 .. timmacg .. Qmel and shadowzep snapping at his heels will he trounced or taken out by cunning sniper fire!
Good to see you there shadowzep ... the USA needs you ... like it's never needed it brave fighters before.
Argh! I've just spotted a potential casualty to come! Almost a dead cert. Pengy always sides with the underdog so johnsnow ... you've just become my fave player!
Quick ... someone help him. My little heart just skipped a beat surveying his dangerous postion in the trenches. There's a posse of UK infront of him ... and there's a posse of UK behind him as well. He'll need nerves of galvanized steel to survive that lot.
rockgirl USA is giving a good account of herself ... well done there! Whilst fending off trooper2196 and polaris she's catching tisonlyme UK ... part of small posse led by miffy42. This is what I love about these battles ... everyone is so spirited and I hope Mr Obama and Mr Cameron truly appreciate your patriotism as much as I do. Rivals but friends. Less of the sentimentality ... back to the war, there's no place for sentimentality in war ... where I see the more cunningly tactical of you are working in pairs. Astralspace and shadow have trampled over onebraincelluk .. stay down onebraincell, don't get up out of the mud ... it'd be pointless as poppop4 and gracie are storming your way and will only leave tread marks imprinted on your back!
But have no fear ... the medics, correction, the sole medic, that's me .. will be along with bandages and restorative nibbles filched from the smorgasbord.
Qmel will probably donate a Big Mac as she's a kind hearted generous soul ... or martin cube has spare ribs on the menu. Ah .. I think the spare ribs please ... they might come in really handy for a pulverized player.
Aside from the tantalizing smells wafting from the Pit there is also the whiff of fear in the air on the Survivor.
Flopsy romped in first yesterday! Pengy is cheering you! Well done there and to Maggie and LauraMcC for making it a UK hat-trick ... and well done to all from both sides who avoid jules and Clamkings trampling footsteps as they fight to grab most daily wins.
No one gets eliminated now in the new Geneva Convention War Rules but the fight will get tougher ... as I notch up the difficulty level of the questions. Anyone yet abandoned the field or become a casualty of war? Ah ... five or six. But my admiring beady eye is on shadowzep. Only played for 12 days ... and claimed victory on one them .. and is still thick in the midst of the fight. This is a sign of true grit.
My flipper has just wavered over the difficulty settings ... Pengy Alert!
It's time for the questions to get gruelling and brain numbing!