A Kyte's eye view. Doncaster '15

Day one.

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The Ace of Aces Trophy previously won by Nightbomber.


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Ares donated very generous prizes (thanks Roberto) together with Keith's prize tickets for Aerodrome Products.


Game one.


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Commodore Hedeby leads his Squadron into action.


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The two Squadrons close.


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Cutting the French Line.

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Woops! we are entangled. Let's board.


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Bad news the next ship in our line has run aboard the leader.


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Now my ship joins the queue.
That Hurts! Nearly 50% damage in one collision.

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At last we get some serious fire into the Frenchies,
but with all the hull damage, too little too late.


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Finally breaking free of the logjam, I rund straight into my Flagship which has come about.
That almost finishes me, and one broadside from the French takes me out of the game.


First round over.
And the winners from the games are!............



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Some shots from the other games.

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Ace of Aces Game.
Covered far better by other people elsewhere.
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My superb Gift from the membership.
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Day two.


Operation Pedestal.


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The Convoy approaches the choke point.


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Italian dive bombers close in.


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The Carrier responds.



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Good shooting by the Fleet AA gunners.



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Near misses.



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A merchantman cops it, and becomes dead in the water.



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More attacks.


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The first Merchantman goes down.


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Several ships start to get a bashing.


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More defenders get off the Carrier.



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Stringbags move in.


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More attackers go down, before night descends.

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Great game thanks Neil.
P.S. All the merchant ships I brought to the game were made by Neil.


Final Game.

Complete with film and soundtrack,
The battle of Britain Commemorative game.

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The Armada of German aircraft approaches the coast.
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The R.A.F. respond.
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The closing units open fire.
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Dog fights break out all over the sky.
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At the 11th hour Leigh-Mallory-Kyte's Big Wing arrives (late as usual) just in time to turn the tide of battle.
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And thus ended an absolutely spiffing weekend.
Thanks to all concerned in the organization and supply of Stotties, sarnies etc.
You know who you are.:thankyou:

Kyte.

Superb pics Rob. What I missed you certainly got.

Great photos. Looks like great fun

Great stuff here, Rob! Always good to see the 'same view' from a different perspective...

Those were some massive games you had there - the Operation Pedestal and Battle of Britain games pics are certainly impressive. Glad you had a lovely time:)

All the best,
Matt

There were some epic scaled games there. Thanks for sharing!

Fantastic photos Sir ... The Battle of Britain game looks enormous! We missed that on the Sunday but you have caught this very well on camera. Thanks for posting :)

The only problem was that because I was engaged in a game all the time this year, I inevitably missed some of the action on other tables. Because of involvement in Pedestal, i did not see any of the Frigate race for instance.
So thanks very much for the rest of you chaps for filling in the gaps.
Rob.

great pictures thanks for sharing :thumbsup:

Great photographs, Rob! :thumbsup:

Very nice photos WingCo!
Thanks for sharing.

Excellent pics, Rob. Always good to see a different view.
Karl

Excellent set of pics Wing Co. I really enjoyed the huge BoB fur ball, although disappointed I had to leave before the end.

At last some shots of the BoB game I missed. Looks absolutly top notch. :envy: Got to be there or the final half on Sunday next year.
Happy memories of a reat couple of days. :clap::clap:

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There were some epic scaled games there. Thanks for sharing!

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Epic is certainly the word. :thumbsup: Thanks for sharing the pics!

Don't panic Peter. We may have a couple of changes in store for next year.;)
Rob.

Great photos from a great weekend Rob, thank you

BoB games this year were absolutely special. Paul AKA tikkifriend (my very best friend) devised a brainburning scenario with Ju 52 flying a secret mission with changing goals we enjoyed so much! Well done Paul (cough, cough, I won a gold Spitfire badge;), cough, cough) ; what are you preparing for Doncaster 2016?

Really wish we had been able to see the BoB games for real - that Junkers Ju-52 scenario would have been very interesting to play.

Have admitted on another thread that it wasn't actually early start / medication that stopped us from coming back on Sunday but what's turned out to be a bad outbreak of gout in my hands / wrists. This is a side-effect of my medication & has happened before - but what awful timing on this occasion!

Have been thinking back to three ideas I had as to potential Donny games but I can't find the thread I wrote about them in. But I have found the 'Study Your Adversary' scenario scribbled and mapped out in my diary - with notes made after the WingCo suggested ways in which this could be broadened out and spiced up into a suitable game - thank you Sir. It says here it played very nicely with the Wife flying a Beaufighter ...

Thank goodness for notebooks! :)

That just looks epic. I'm green with envy here!

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BoB games this year were absolutely special. Paul AKA tikkifriend (my very best friend) devised a brainburning scenario with Ju 52 flying a secret mission with changing goals we enjoyed so much! Well done Paul (cough, cough, I won a gold Spitfire badge;), cough, cough) ; what are you preparing for Doncaster 2016?

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That sounds very interesting, any chance Paul could post the scenario?

:thumbsup::clap::clap::clap: Great photos Rob & no doubt Doncaster was an outstanding Success!:D
Well Done to everyone involved.:salute::medal::thumbsup:

:clap::clap: Great set of photos Rob. I thought you said you played? I don't see any British planes on fire in any of the photos? ;)

great pics! looks like a lot of fun!

"...having been some days in preparation, a splendid time was guaranteed for all .
And tonight Mister Kyte is topping the bill ..." *
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Great pics, Rob

* with apologies to Messrs. Lennon and McCartney ;)

Some great pics there WingCo - looks like some hectic gaming :D

Can anyone tell me about the box (game?) labeled "7" and looking like it's bearing Polish and USAAC colors? Thanks!

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Can anyone tell me about the box (game?) labeled "7" and looking like it's bearing Polish and USAAC colors? Thanks!

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Look here http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sho...h-Air-Wargames

Even better, here http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sho...highlight=lwow

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Originally Posted by Flying Helmut

Look here http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sho...h-Air-Wargames

Even better, here http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sho...highlight=lwow

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Perfect! Thanks, Tim. :)

More great photos of a great event!

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Originally Posted by Nightbomber

BoB games this year were absolutely special. Paul AKA tikkifriend (my very best friend) devised a brainburning scenario with Ju 52 flying a secret mission with changing goals we enjoyed so much! Well done Paul (cough, cough, I won a gold Spitfire badge;), cough, cough) ; what are you preparing for Doncaster 2016?

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Not Sails

Thats for Chris (Boney 10)

Might try a WW1 late game with Snipes and DRVII s

When we get a date for the meet that is. :pray: