Yet again - we just had to play the scenario again - mind you the victory conditions were at best cloudy - being unclear even about that - the clouds. The only thing we managed to get right was the bomber morale last time, but hey!
This time Bart brought his tiny Hurricane Polish squadron, it had less effect on the outcome that in real history, but we all learn. Some spitfires were from Tim, and I supplied Bf 109Gs and 3 He111s as yet again in fear of the better stats, I wasn't allowed to field my FW190. That has to wait until the British have better planes, as we cannot have scenarios not in favour of the Brits.
So Bart, Tim and Peter played for the British and Alisdair, me and Mike for the Reich. Alisdair and Bart had an ace in their tiny squadron. I took the bombers and Mike the rest of the Messerschmidts.
We should win if my bombers destroyed the TWO (Oil tank objective???). Apart from nobody knowing what and how exactly that should have played in the rules the British fighters outnumbered us in actual machines and points. But hey at least they agreed to fight us.
So we just started through and mike dived into 2 squadrons and did his best before they shot him down and he had to return with the rest.
Alisdair did a very large flank advance, but eventually arrived until he too was shot down and had to return to base with the rest of the krauts.
I was just lucky enough to do cloud jumping with my bombers and actually did not get a hit on any of my machines until the very end of it. Only one of my bombers though made it into the 6" range of one target and then missed. One got shot down, but my squadron morale was still intact. i don't think with only two bombers two objectives are possible but otherwise they wouldn't have dared to come against me I guess, hahar!
We had again tremendously fun ... until next time! We certainly do it again.
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| My HE 111 start cloud hopping |
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| Alisdair does a detour to buy some snickers ... |
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| 12 British fighter arrive before us and the objectives... |
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| Barts beautiful desert squadron lost on the English coast ... |
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| Tims fighters close in ... |
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| My bombers free of the clouds ... no hits ... |
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| Winning dog fights is tooo distracting ... |
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| And my bombers can shoot too ... |
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| ... some little village (unkown) ... |
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| The TWO objectives ... unfair ... |
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| My best bomber at the front ... |
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| and another about to get down ... peasant pawn ... |
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| In between the dog fights ... |
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| ... my bombers were spotted ... |
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| Going in and out of the clouds ... |
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| Finally one had to go down ...12 vs one ... |
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| Last and only chance to drop the bombs ... a miss! |
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| And then we had to stop the time ran out again, because Peter is always so slow. :) |
