The annual PT&S was great success. The only down side was the three days of rain on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thanksgiving day. This waterlogged the grass runway and grounded any flights till late Saturday afternoon. Santa`s Sterman was grounded and he flew in by chopper instead. The Kids still loved it!
I ran a WW2 WOW/WOG game Friday. A friend Rich Crouch WW1 game Saturday.
Now the meat of the AAR.
I set up an attack on Midway Island. Two Wildcats and two Buffalo's were assigned to the defense. Four Vals and four Zeros composed the attack force. The game was designed to be a simple introduction game for new and non players.
The actual game was interesting a family composed of brothers , sisters, a brother in laws and one nephew played it. I was the outsider and flew a Val. We pruned the forces down to a Wildcat and a Buffalo, verses two Vals and two Zeros. They had all played Warhammer before so gaming was not new to them. You have never played a game until you have played with adult siblings!
The game was great. The green defenders had one pass on the attackers and then could not recover for a second pass. We were over the airfield and bombing while the defenders finally came back at us. The comment by one of the defenders was " Why are the Japanese over our airfield and we are over the ocean!" My bomb attack did 70% damage to the airfield and the second Val came up double 00 on it`s attack. Since the defenders were lost the Zeros strafed the target and disabled it. The final turn saw a very sad event. A Zero pilot asked to see the last maneuver card of a Wildcat pilot. He caught his own wife making an left turn using a right turn card. Her only defense was she was tired of always turning the wrong direction!
It was a fun game.
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