Well here it is. my
AAR with pics as promised. We were a couple of guys short this evening which meant that we all had too many aircraft to look after so only managed to get two full moves in in just under 2 hours.
Anyway the JU88's rolled a D6 to find which direction they were coming from. This worked out very nicely as we were now coming up from the Thames Estuary and this was the quickest route into London.
In move 1 the JU flight was very quickly bounced by a Flight of 3 Spitfires from Tangmere who appeared out of the clouds and within close range. These were in turn backed up by a Flight of 3 Hurricanes from Croydon who appeared halfway between their Airfield and the 88's. Another Flight of 3 Spitfires also appeared from Kenly who had been vectored in to just outside long range.
It was looking very bad for the Germans. An exchange of fire took place between the Tangmere Spits and the 88's which resulted in 15 damage points on 1 JU and 4 points on a second. The Croydon and Kenley flights soon joined in resulting in 5 more damage points, from the Croydon Hurries, to the already savaged 88 including a wound to the Bomb aimer. It's OK though as the Pilot can also release the ordnance. Kenley then piled in putting 2 points of damage to each of the so far untouched 88's. The Germans were fighting back laying down an unknown amount of damage to all three British flights.
In move two both Kenley and Croydon flights threw doubles which triggered the arrival of "The Hun in the Sun" result with a Flight of 2 ME109's bouncing the Croydon Spits from the rear and at v.close range and 3 ME110's ganging up on a Kenley Spitfire that had managed to get isolated from his fellows.
This resulted in the loss of 1 Hurricane and 1 Spitfire. Meanwhile the 88's had started to cross the outskirts of London, 2 planes completely with the other 2 not far behind. This actually met the pre-arranged German Minor Victory conditions of at least 2 88's bombing London. All the 88's had taken damage with the worst having 21 points and a wounded Bomb-Aimer. Damage to the other 3 ranged from 2 to 9 points. The Messersmidts of the escort were only allowed to stay for three moves which indicated that they were at the limit of range and short on fuel. Given that I suspect that if the game had gone on it would have been much worse for the Bombers. I think we will have to refine the rule a bit and give it another try with more players or less aircraft.
It was now gone 20.00 hours and packing up time.
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