#1 A 1940 bomber escort with Br20s, escorted by CR42s and G50s defending against Gladiators, Fulmars and Buffalos (?!?) – somewhere in the Med
#2 A 1942 bomber escort with Sallys & Oscars vs Buffalos.
#1 used Air Force, 7 of the 9 BR20s were downed – mostly by the Fulmars either maknig an outright kill or adminstering the coup de grace to planes already riddled by the Gladiators. Two of the CR42s were destroyed as they attempted to perform manoeuvres forbidden to them by damage they had suffered, and all three G50s were destroyed.
Two of my trio of Gladiators sustained engine damage which forced them to leave the combat, and two of them exhausted their ammunition trying to knock down two Br20s
#2 used the Too Fat Lardies "Bag the Hun" system. Depsite the Japanese having an ace pilot in each of their two Oscar vics the Buffalos were able to carve up the Sallys good style, with the two surviving bombers at game being subject to fuel line hits and other critical damage. The Oscars had an early run of luck mixing it against the Buffs but this soon seemed to run out and they found ot very hard to shake them off the tail of the bombers once latched on.
My foursome of Buffalos managed to account for half the Sallys – aided by some very good dice rolling – 11 hits (5-6) from 17 d6 rolls is not exactly average performance…
Later today we plan to run more of the semi-fictional Med games, using Blue Skies, and some more of the Bag the Hun, plus (probably) some Wings of War WW1 missions.
Cheers
Phil.
ponders nirvana.