Hi All, back from Canada and feeling good. However, going to be out of the office for a while yet as something else has cropped up requiring a possible second trip abroad. Shall catch up with everything as soon as I can :) :pint:
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Hi All, back from Canada and feeling good. However, going to be out of the office for a while yet as something else has cropped up requiring a possible second trip abroad. Shall catch up with everything as soon as I can :) :pint:
Understood, Mike, keep in touch buddy.
Will post the April mission sometime tomorrow.
Things got behind with visitors from Canada :D
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Jasta 18 D.VII could not survive a fire
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Berthold got Boomed!
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10yr old grandson, Max enjoyed our co-op encounter; he was Bishop (appropriate since he's Canadian, eh?) while I flew McCudden (and came to within 1 of being downed thanks to fire)
[We used my 'Excelerized' version of Flash's D8 charts for the German moves]
Hope the charts gave you a good game, Pete, looks like your grandson had their measure ! :guns:
look forward to seeing the scenario when it comes. ;)
Well played guys - looks like fun had by all :)
PS So far so good with my sister in law, whose op went wrong. She's not yet out of the woods but the immediate crisis seems to have blown over. Still don't know when we shall go to Holland to see her, but not in the next couple of weeks a least - I think!
Looking forward to seeing mission 3 Pete :)
I am not a participant in these campaign, but I find the AARs interesting reading.
Will next year's campaign feature the Gallant Young Men and the year following Heroic Young Men? I have no idea what to use for the year after that.
Incredible? Idiotic? Insufferable? :p
Irascible ; Insane; Insatiable; Infamous - a lot of possibilities there :)
Incontinent … like when your guns are jammed and MvR is right on your six :embarrass:
Ingenuous!
Kyte.
I reckon I just aged another ten years. OTT FYM Mission 3 is up and running. I've only managed three turns so far, after playing some yesterday and all afternoon today - and I'm already knackered ;) But it is looking surprisingly in the balance already :)
That said, fewer than 13 aircraft and just one mission, not two (or so it seems to me) on the table at once next time would be appreciated, no matter how interesting this one is :sAprvd:
Not your fault I'm getting old, Pete :) :pint:
Intrepid, Incontinent, Incoherent, Inferm, Inane, Insubordinate, and Ironic Young Men might cover it. :surrender:
I was trying to add one for Mike and Inferm was as close as I could get. ;) The scenarios do seem to be getting a little more complex, which is both a good and bad thing but as Mike is May I'm expecting something daring and elegantly simple with a twist of complexity thrown in for good measure.;)
Cheers
I would have prefered indefatigable, until today that is ;) However, Mission 3 is definitely taking it out of the old chap (or perhaps that should read older chap :) )Quote:
I was trying to add one for Mike and Infirm was as close as I could get.
Have a great trip, John, wherever you are heading off to on this occassion :) The May Mission will await your return with malice aforethought ;)
Sorry if my April mission is a 'biggun' , guys, but I thought Bloody April needed more than just a simple dogfight.
Mine is set up to play this afternoon (or should I say "start to play" :takecover:)
I suppose I am lucky that I have lots of room to both play and track the combatants.
Mine's done. Hope to get it posted in the next few days.
14* planes on the table :eek: so it took a while.
:erk:
* yeah I gave the Brits two groups of 4 (a lot of rookies)
look forward to the AAR, Pete.
That's ok Pete, its an interesting one, and although tiring it was a lot of fun - a very close run thing that could have gone either way on several occassions. I've finished playing it now and at times it was like playing two different missions at once, which took a load of concentration. I probably made any amount of mistakes, but hey ho, it is now what it is! Took me three and a bit days, on and off. Haven't a clue when I'll get around to writing the AAR - may be a while with Grandad duties coming up :) Anyway, thanks, Pete. It was a very fitting mission for the latter part of "Bloody April". I've got the end of that month, with Mission 4 and I'm aiming to have 50 aircraft on the table at once, assuming the play testing goes alright :) Oops, did I say 50. I meant seven :)Quote:
Sorry if my April mission is a 'biggun'
Just 50 ? I did 62 a few years back.. ;)
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:cool::hatsoff::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: Brilliant. And I thought I was just being silly again :)Quote:
Just 50 ? I did 62 a few years back.
You can do it Mike but I would have the Paracetamol to hand :dazed: or this wall.:brickwal:
Rob.:D
Didn't get to Mission 3 today, quite... Well I started the set up, then realised I needed to charge up the camera that was expended at flight Club last weekend. Still it gave me some time to mull things over. Rather than being pedantic with 'this is group 1 this is group 2' I ended up rolling for what aircraft I'd have to use then sorted them into two groups. As luck would have it I rolled up a brace of BE2c & FE2b so put them together, flown by unknowns, as the returning party. The outgoing party is manned by my chaps, ended up with a N.17, a SPADVII, a RE8 and swapped the F2a for a FK8 just to ring the changes.
All set up now and camera charged, so hopefully I'll get a start on it tomorrow, unless I get tagged for granddad duties again. :dazed:
(I did also manage to mow the lawn, fix & clean a Dyson hoover in between times)
Interesting choice of aircraft, Dave. Looking forward to seeing how they get on :)
So am I, Mike, the FE's might be OK with their wider arc of fire as we saw at Flight Club but if MvR gets on their tail... it may be a different story ! :guns: :crashB:
I have also selected Kurt Wolff for MvR's wingman - 16 kills at this point - so will have to sort some skills out for him. He actually scored one more than Manfred in April so no slouch, including 4 in a day on the 13th ! :erk:
Good luck with that mission!!! It may not be the Fokker Scourge but it looks like shaping up to be a real Bloody April. :surrender:
I don't know if I set the game up incorrectly - I certainly hope not 'cos I'm not going to play it again :eek:, but in my mission, MvR and his wing man flew straight towards the BE2c and its escort, fired one shot then kept on going straight past them. That would have taken MvR off the table immediately and out of the picture, if I hadn't deliberately changed his move to keep him on. I did that to try and keep within the spirit of the mission. What happened then will have to wait until I've written the AAR :)Quote:
but if MvR gets on their tail.
Similar to mine: Fe.2b and BE.2c flown by unknown rookies in the returning group, RE.8s (one with rookies as I only had one Brit crew available) escorted by Sopwith Tripes.
I decided not to name MvR's wingman and give him skills thinking the poor rookies would have enough on their hands :surrender:
Day 1 done, got a couple of sessions in, I don't think it's going well for the Eagles, or Manfred for that matter ! :erk:
That seems to sum it up admirably, Peter, they got absolutely rinsed. The inbound team swatted MvR & co away, combination of bad cards and being a tad outnumbered.
The outbound team blew through the Eagles but didn't get it all their own way, it just felt like it. This maybe because I moved the start point for the Eagles to the other side of the table but again bad cards played their part as did it being a four v four match up. Long game, a lot of effort but still fun, just an unexpected result.
Like yours, my game went very badly for the Eagles and both MvR and his wingman Voss were downed along with half the regular staffel. However the Bulldogs lost all the two-seaters. Surprisingly the game took a lot less time than I thought it would even with 13 planes on the table. Must have been all the boom cards. With double decks available there were a lot to go round. Write up will have to wait until next week.
Talking of Bulldogs Dave, did any of them complete all missions in your last campaign who have never achieved that distinction before?
Rob.
Good grief....this doesn't bode well, I'm on a ferry next Tuesday and have mission 2 and 3 to play before then and I realised that I still need to paint my balloons for mission 3 plus come up with some form of barrier to match Mikes brilliant interpretation. Then knock out Pete's mission without pausing for breath so that I can go away with them both under my belt. Write them up while we're away and hopefully find some bar to post the resultant mess in.
Mrs V doesn't seem to understand my predicament. :clap: :clap: :clap: