History will not bother to record the first Furious Fiasco, so I will. She took to the cold waves near Hunter's harbor in Arizona . . . all seemed fine and dandy at first,
Escorted by a Camel and an Fe8, she boldly cuts the waves, nearing the shore to intercept the Hun
A Short seaplane is launched to do some recon work over the coast
Good thing too! A pair of Gotha torpedo bombers were skimmimng the shore, heading to intercept the Furious!
Weak radio signals warn the Furious which launches intercept fighters
The Shorts stays on station tracking the Gotha approach
The lumbering Gothas do not even try to climb to intercept the Shorts, they are on a mission!
Fur begins to fly!
Gothas relentlessly close on the carrier
More Camels are launched
Note the ship advances one XD move per turn too!
The Gothas line up for the torpedo run - hey where's the AA? I got so caught up launching and positioning fighters I forgot to wake up the carrier! Tragic mistake!
Its about to get messy!
Two torps are in the water and on course, the first Gotha turns to make a strafing pass on the undefended ship!
A lucky draw flames the Camel and the crew runs for cover
Gotha one continues to fire on the loaded deck . . .
Meanwhile the second Gotha makes its turn and the torpedoes make their approach
And both hit!
Gotha two has success on its strafing run too, first smoking a Camel with the front gunner and then flaming it with the rear gunner!
Things get really ugly when Hunter convinces Clipper to roll a 10 sided dice to set a damage ratio and then draw that many damage cards, sounded good at the time, however two of them were the spiky "0" cards! DRAT x 2!!!!!!!!
By now its after 10:00 pm, Clipper's bed time well past, he surrenders to fatigue and self anguish over neglecting to wake up the gun crews on the ship. Since Hunter bought dinner and didn't gloat too much, the victory was given to the Huns.
Much to be rethought and revisited, but it was a fun night and it redeemed the idea of a full scale ship attack. Altitude needs to be addressed as well as reading up on AA use. Torpedoes need cards and markers . . . the list is long, but exciting!
Gotha view!
Next time Hunter will have a harder time!!!!! Clipper recuperating . . . sorry about the duplicate pics, problems with my photobucket connections
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