Aces High A Blood Red Skies Plog by CommodoreRob
The test of the Game
One of the aspects of doing the carriers was to put on a game at the NWS naval war game weekend.
So I have been putting together a scenario , and this weekend I finally got to test it.
The first Sortie the US side decides to defend and were attacked by a group of Torpedo Bombers, the out come was two of the Japanese Torpedo planes were shot down. With no successful hits on the USS Yorktown.
Next was an attack on the Hiryu, by a group of US dive bombers. Again not to much success and the US were driven off.
The final scenario of the day , was a conflict over the Island of midway a flight of Japanese Torpedo bombers were intercepted by a couple of squadrons of planes from the US containing F4F wildcat's and some Dive bombers.Lessons learned.
Generally the campaign rules work, but I do have to tweak a couple of things.
1. The way missions are allocated – I had to fudge things somewhat to get the games in.
2. The scout planes were too powerful so I will be tweaking their stats
3. The size of the playing surface was too big. I will be starting the planes at least 12 inches into the board ( as it should be.
Fabulous work on your project’s model’s @commodorerob congratulations on getting the gold button for the quality of the work that you’ve done on the project 👌👍
Epic work @commodorerob!