Blood Red Skies it was after a long time, with mine and Tims collection, we decided to just play a pick up game with the aircraft cards and two theatre/doctrine cards each. Tim and Alisdair were defending the white cliffs with 3 Spitfires, 3 Hurricanes and and 2 mosquito against me and Peter with 6 Messerschmidt 109s and 3 Junkers Ju 88.
The setup / and planning was easy, kill for a thrill. I was so mean and diverted only one Ju 88 to Peter and head on attacked Tim with a mighty force of evil. I got shot OK but after we came to dogfight distance it was clear that Tim's squadron would bleed badly. After Tim discovered how bad his dice rolling was today, it was a nearly clear sky over that part of Britain. His remaining squadron (1 Hurricane) had to retreat. You couldn't time it better, overpowering plus very bad (abysmally bad) dice rolling of the defender equals disaster. At least for a while it looked like a victory.
Not until Alisdair the sneaky pincer mover came to harass Peter in his, even though he had the better ME109s, and Peter insisted on say Napoleonic tactics, the victory was snatched from us and turned into a draw.
We had a lot of fun, and I can only recommend this ruleset.
P.S. Apologies on behalf of Tim, he still didn't came around to apply his British national decals ... ;)
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| Initial set up ... ze Germans |
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| Initial set up ... ze Tommys |
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| My squardons clash with Tims ... |
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| Peter tried to fight ... |
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| My Ju88 kill Hurricanes ... |
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| While Peter ... |
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| The Ju88 were more sturdy than ever ... |
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| At the end only one mosquito could "help" Alisdair ... |
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| But Peters Squadron had to leave too... |
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