We have heavy fighter minis about a year, but we had a significant problem with powerfull Beaufighter. From the Aerodrome I know that this problem have many more players so me and Kubajs tried invent a special mission for Beaufighters and Me.110s where these have a very special job - destroy AA guns as soon as possible.
Dieppe Raid
Prague, 1st July 2014
2 players, 4 planes
Date of mission: 19th August 1942
Location: beaches near Dieppe, France
Story: During Dieppe Raid, Allies need to destroy enemy's AA guns near the edge of the town. A Beaufighter (escorted by a Hurricane) attacks three main AA guns in the area to gain air superiority over battlefield. In the same moment, German Me.109 and Me.110 are attacking escort AA boats near landing beaches.
Axis Forces: 1x Messerschmitt Me.109 E-4, 1x Messerschmitt Me.110 C-4
Allied Forces: 1x Bristol Beaufighter Mk.VI F, 1x Hawker Hurricane Mk.I
Axis victory conditions: destroy three AA guns as first
Allied victory conditions: destroy three AA guns as first
Special rules: only C damage are counted to AA guns from attacking aircrafts; AA guns can shoot with two machine guns to level 1 (B/A), machinegun shooting to level 2 is not possible; ressurection
Result: Axis won - they destroys three AA guns in the moment when Allies destroys only one AA.
Balance: 80 %. The mission worked well, but we will try variant with more resistant AA guns (now 8 hitpoints). The other idea is double battlefield, + 4 AA guns to both sides and add more minis (at least 4 minis on both sides, better 6 [2 heavy and 4 escort fighters]).
Note: The map is wrong oriented - Allied AA guns should be on the sea and Axis AA guns on the coast.
Setup - three AA guns on both sides, the middle one in front of the others on a half ruler size; planes are a ruler size from the edge and a ruler from each other.
The first curtain-fires from AA guns. Note the height levels of shrapnels - an important detail for the game.
AA explosions - Beaufighter is on level 4, explosion missed. Hurricane is zigzagging, but one explosions hit to the tail. Me.110 is hit to the tail too. Me. 109 is coliding with Hurricane.
Result of microfight - Hurricane miss Me.109, but is directly hit for 18 => end of the game for it.
The second curtain-fire hit Beaufighter for the first time (15).
Tailing Me.110 with new Hurricane on the other side of the map.
The second curtain-fire hit Beaufighter for the second time (0) during descenting.
Me.109 is destroying the first Allied AA gun. Operators of AA guns are shooting with machineguns, but without hit.
Me.110 is destroying the second Allied AA gun. Hurricane right before Split-S turn.
Lone Beaufighter is destroying the first Axis AA gun.
Approaching to the last Allied AA gun - only seconds remaining to Axis victory.
The last Allied AA gun is deastroyed - Axis win, but the game continue.
The second Axis AA guns is destroeyed by a Beaufighter, Me.109 is approaching the its last target.
Hurricane is shooting down escaping Me.110.
The end of Beaufighter - after 15 damage from AA gun Me.109 is finishing the job. One last AA gun on German side is still active. Mission is over.
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