Midway

[fox]

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voila c'est fait , it's done
Another happy Nervian mess
Thanks to our forum guest Philippe for the gift of the planes, I've seen some of his zincs in paper up close, it's impressive.
Another great day
[Balance[/b]: Anthony wins the bet with 13 pts followed closely by Phil from Belgium with 12 pts.
Anthony 13pts
Philippe from Belgium: 12pts
Pierre:8pts
In the pack with 6 pts: José,Jean-Luc,Philippe D
Phiphi -4pts
at the back of the pack (the DCA had a field day :lol:):
JC-57 pts
Dominique -58pts
The huge difference lies in risk-taking and the leniency (or lack of it in this case) of the DCA.

On the main part:
[22 aircraft lost in total, 37 bombs dropped.
3 Japanese aircraft carriers, 1 cruiser, 2 destroyers sunk.
1 aircraft carrier, 2 cruisers, 2 destroyers damaged.
We're not far from history, with one heavily damaged surviving aircraft carrier (normally the Hiryu, but in our game it was the Kaga), which was later scuttled.

A few photos, no CR, I didn't really have time to take notes with this bunch of weirdos.:-)
But all in all, to my great surprise, not a single Nervian took on water, not a single one crashed into a ship. Will they become skilled pilots?
the bombs were correctly launched and the frank denunciation of our comrades leads me to believe that not one of them committed a crime in this respect (it should be noted that the Nervian is quick to denounce his comrades.... lol)
A few highlights:
A Spanish pilot sunning himself like an eagle, lying in wait for a large part of the battle, while his comrades suffered Japanese flak ... Some would say he was more of a chicken than an eagle, but everyone is free to his own opinions.

A US pilot who took an explosion counter on his first moves, another who criticized (12) to finish off an aircraft carrier etc...
In short, an eventful game

 

[The morning game, bombardment of Midway
We got the hang of it pretty quickly, but ran out of time to do the “torpedo” training.

The big game

We didn't have time to do the Yorktown mission after .

Edited November 24 by fox

[fox]

[fox]

Trophy for the pilots

[Teaticket]

1 hour ago, fox said:

 

Great looking games Fox. Amazing the outcome was so close to history. Well done!

[Flying Officer Kyte]

Looks like a game after my own heart. Lots of Carriers and lots of ships.

Rob.

[mikeemagnus]

Enjoyed that AAR Fox, thanks for sharing. I guess one side or the other had a big hand to help them by pointing to the correct target Nice trophies for the pilots. Definitely agree with Rob. Lots of carriers and ships to bomb and torpedo. Not as easy as it looks

[Stumptonian]

Really nice looking AAR, fox.

The carriers look great.

Are those 'Fighters of the Pacific' Wildcats on the ground? Also looks like you may have used the carrier from FotP when your base overlapped too(?).

I bought that game to use the carriers and ships for Wings games as well.

[fox]

Thank you all.

yes, the wildcats like the zeros come from  figther of the pacific, i used them to make an easy to manage air cover.

They move at the same time (half a ruler) as the players and move towards the nearest plane. At a distance of half a ruler, the player takes A damage. He can attempt to destroy the fighter on a 5+ and win 5 points in the process.

For the first game (Midway Island), there was air cover at low altitude 1/2(blue side of the counter) and high altitude 3/4 (white side of the counter). The counters were never turned over and remained at their starting altitude. For the game with the aircraft carriers, coverage was only at low altitude (historical). A hit by a dauntless on the front of an aircraft carrier removes an “air cover” counter from the game.

As my aircraft carriers are a little smaller than those of pacific figther i printed paper bases but it can be done very well with those of Fighters of the pacific

 

[Flying Helmut]

Super stuff, Fox!

I love to see Pacific Early War action! 👍

[BodeGier]

Great game.