 WaltOHara  | 02 Sep 2015 8:22 a.m. PST |
Some ponderings about the Battle of Taranto project in 1/1800 scale. It's all coming together rather nicely. LINK link Thanks for your interest, Walt |
| Random Die Roll | 02 Sep 2015 9:15 a.m. PST |
Please forgive my question---I do not mean to offend---- Can anyone give the reason that Italian ships were painted with the Red and White stripes? |
| JasonAfrika | 02 Sep 2015 9:19 a.m. PST |
Identification-so their own planes would not attack them. But it kinda backfired as they made nice targets for enemy planes. |
| WaltOHara | 02 Sep 2015 9:38 a.m. PST |
From a miniatures perspective, I think it adds a nice dash of color. I agree though, if I were in the Fleet Air Arm and looking for a target to shoot at, that fleet would be in for some trouble. |
| Frederick | 02 Sep 2015 9:40 a.m. PST |
It wasn't the Fleet Air Arm or the Regia Aeronautica they were worried about – it was the Luftwaffe! Nicely done ships |
| Dave Jackson | 02 Sep 2015 11:56 a.m. PST |
Bingo Frederick….ony time you need recognition insignia is when you have air superiority…while Italians didn't, Luftwaffe did during this period! |
| troopwo | 02 Sep 2015 12:01 p.m. PST |
Beautiful ships. 1/1800 scale?
What will you use for Swordfish? |
| WaltOHara | 02 Sep 2015 12:10 p.m. PST |
Troopwo.. they are all Pico Armor sized. I know, I know, that isn't remotely the same scale, but planes at 1/1800 are like pinpoint sized. I'm cheating it a little (you can see a picture of the ships and planes together in scale in the blog post) But I think the visual effect makes up for it nicely. Walt |
| Schogun | 03 Sep 2015 3:55 a.m. PST |
Like many raid-type games, the "raidee" potentially doesn't have much fun. The answer is for the gamers to play the raiders and the GM runs the defenders. For Taranto, players could run 3-plane squadrons with their own objective. |
| WaltOHara | 03 Sep 2015 7:40 a.m. PST |
That's exactly what I have in mind, Schogun. The Italian player is reduced to rolling anti-aircraft rolls and that isn't much fun, so I'll do that part. Even though the historical raid was 21 Swordfish I added 3 more so that I could run 8 players flying 3 planes each. For victory conditions, we just see how the team does-- how many ships either are sunk or put out of action for a long period of time.. and that gives us a range of outcomes. Walt |
| Royal Marine | 04 Sep 2015 2:07 p.m. PST |
Talking of Taranto and the Fleet Air Arm: link |
