After playing a game or two attacking ground targets depicted by the cards that come with the damage decks, I thought I would have a go and paint up a few miniatures. 1:44 scale is close to N gauge, so I started to look at some railway buildings, but quickly came to the conclusion that while in scale on the ground next to a model aircraft, on the playing board they look too big. The are after all supposed to be ground targets some distance below.
The next obvious scale to try was 6mm and as luck would have it I had some unpainted resin models that I had been messing about with a while ago. After rummaging around I found a few likely candidates and mounted them on bases that are multiples of the standard size target card. I added some cast lead vehicles. A bit tongue in cheek, and only for a bit of fun:
1. The British Chip Shop. It's loss would be a great blow to the moral of the tommy and weaken his resolve to fight on.
Mounted on a single card size base worth 5 damage points
2. The Ambassador Sausage Factory. A large scale industrial plant churning out breakfast sausages by the ton every day. Mounted on a triple base and protected by anti-aircraft archie this represents a formidable target deep behind the front. Expect this to be heavily defended and hard to put out of action. Worth 15 damage points (plus 5 for the
AA unit):
3. The distribution depot. A vital cog in the Ambassador factory supply chain and found closer to the front line. Mounted on a double base for 10 damage points. Here the vital rations are split into smaller quantities and repacked ready for the troops in the front line trenches. Take this one out and moral in the trenches will plummet. It won't be a permanent solution but it could be enough for the big push to break through.
Coming next The Tonic Water bottling plant? Let us see how the british fliers cope without Tonic in their Gin!
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