I am back from Florida - I had a great time playing Memoir '44 with Richard Borg and his game development crew on Saturday.  We played 3 games of the Overlord 8-player variant.  It was an unreleased but very interesting early war scenario involving the Russians and Japanese.  What is amazing about the game is that we arrived at Sci-Fi City Games when it opened at 1000, played 3 games (including adding in some new players who had never played before), picked everything up and had a late lunch at 1500.  Given what is involved and the number of players and pieces - that is an amazing experience.