Olympica Big Board
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Played two games with AW at his place on his custom, homebuilt edition. His counters are nominally 1" square, and mounted on ~3/8" wood or particle backing. (I need to ask about this.) The map was pieced together from scrap book paper and mounted on semi-stiff backing which could be rolled up. I'm thinking this would be a nice piece of work for a fully mounted folding map board from Print and Play Productions.
In any case, it was great playing on his copy.
Game 1
First game with AW. He set up Web forces very tightly, and my UN forces were able to smash through very quickly for a win. I dropped all my forces on the initial turn, and used the Light Infantry second movement phase to occupy the web generator. I believe I had the web generator occupied at the end of Turn 2 (maybe Turn 1, can't recall exactly, but it was very early in the game).
The UN was never able to recover.
Game 2
I took the Web this time around, and was able to hold off the UN forces until the end of Turn 3, finally losing on Turn 4 as AW dropped in the Light Infantry. I needed 3 lucky rolls in a row, didn't make the first two, conceded at the top of Turn 4.
One bungle we made on this was DUSTing the Web strong points, but strong points are supposed to be N/E on DUST results. This may have cost me the game as the Web player.
AAR
Olympica does feel slightly unbalanced as the UN has won pretty easily all 3 games I've played. This is in part due to not having mastered the rules, for sure, but it still feels like new players would benefit from an extra Web infantry or two.