Just some pics of OP Pedestal for real to compare against our portrayal at Doncaster 2015.
I think we got it nearly right.
OP Pedestal
Just some pics of OP Pedestal for real to compare against our portrayal at Doncaster 2015.
I think we got it nearly right.
See you on the Dark Side......
Indeed!
Great pictures, as a grand accompaniment to a good fun game.
My thanks on both counts!
Super pics & it looked like a super game.
Pretty much nailed it Neil - more smoke on the Italians and a bit more flak in the sky is all that's needed !
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
The game did look great (and lot's of fun). The only difference with reality (as was noted elsewhere) is that the carrier and BB would have been outside the convoy, so that they could maneuver.
I understand their placement for the game, though.
I don't know if the British used their BBs as AAA platforms to the extent that the USN did in the pacific.
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
If you look at all the ships, including the armed merchants, the merchants carried more AA individually than each individual RN ship. Only difference they didn't have fire control.
Tim gave me some excellent ideas for the AA fire and bombing/torpedo run ins. But I don't have much free time to give to it this month. It is my priority to get the new rules done before the new year though.
Neil
See you on the Dark Side......
Yeh, by '43, most USN BBs were a cauldron of AAA, and it only got heavierOriginally Posted by Skafloc
Interesting that the RN ships didn't pile on as much.
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
RN did pile on but late war, didn't learn their lessons early enough.
See you on the Dark Side......
Glad you liked 'em!
When I get time I'll have a trawl through the WW2 Pacific rules I wrote, and see whether there are any other ideas to wave in your general direction.
Good co-operation you chaps !
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
It was a great game to take part in, and one which I could never have managed in my Solo Malta campaign.
Together with Tarranto last year it fills in those gaps very nicely.
Next time Rommel's convoys get it.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Super game, well run as always, gutted to have missed it but alas it clashed with the game I was running
Never Knowingly Undergunned !!
Is that a definite Rob? Hope so.
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing
I hope so too, but it depends on what the Committee decide.
I am only there in an advisory capacity. Doncaster is the U.K. Wing members show, not the Wing Commanders.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Doncaster is administered by the committee, it is you the members who put on the games.
See you on the Dark Side......
Mmm Will get thinking then.
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing
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