{"id":1012,"date":"2019-01-30T11:45:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T11:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2019-01-30T20:42:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T20:42:30","slug":"air-war-germany-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2019\/01\/30\/air-war-germany-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Air War Germany 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our\u00a0new\u00a0Society campaign for 2019 kicked off with the first day of gaming yesterday.<\/p>\n

The campaign uses GMT Games “Bomber Command” board game (see https:\/\/www.gmtgames.com\/p-302-bomber-command.aspx<\/a>) to set up tactical actions, which are then played out using 1\/600 aircraft from the Tumbling Dice range (see http:\/\/www.tumblingdiceuk.com\/product-category\/1600<\/a>) and GMT Games “Nightfighter” rules (see https:\/\/www.gmtgames.com\/p-233-nightfighter.aspx<\/a>).\u00a0 The action is set in early 1944 and the Bomber Command Force is controlled by the Umpire.<\/p>\n

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The Bomber Command Force. Lancaster MkI\/IIIs of A and B Flights, 460 Squadron RAAF and 4 De Havilland Mosquito Mk IV bombers of 692 Squadron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In our first session the five German players each commanded their own JagdDivision of Night Fighters, aiming to intercept the incoming bomber Command raids that night.<\/p>\n

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The NachtJagd force. From left to right – Bottom: five Messerschmitt Bf-109 G6s of JagdGeschwader 300, 301 and 302 and one 262 B-1a\/U1 of NachtJagdGeschwader 11.\u00a0 Middle Messerschmitt Bf110s – four G4 and one F4.\u00a0 Top: five Junkers Ju88 C6s of NachtJagdGeschwader 1-5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Germans were lulled into a bit of a false sense of security\u00a0as they did not spot any incoming raids until turn 3.\u00a0 The air picture then clarified and the main force raid was identified using a northern route, with a mosquito raid to the south and two other diversionary raids emerging from the main force attack.<\/p>\n

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Junkers Ju88 C6 radar equipped night fighters of the NachtJagdGeschwader<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first unit to strike were the Ju-88 C-6 of\u00a0Mike’s II Gruppe,\u00a0NJG3, which had been placed on overwatch under control of the defensive radar chain in Northern Germany.\u00a0 They attacked as the Main Force Raid Lancasters passed over the radar line.\u00a0 However, this unit had been dispersed by the poor weather on take off, reducing its impact.<\/p>\n

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Lancaster MkI\/IIIs of A Flight, 460 Squadron RAAF. The Lancaster had become the main type of heavy bomber in Bomber Command by 1944. “D Dog” was crewed as a Mid-Upper Air Gunner by the Society Treasurer’s father, then RAF Sergeant Ray Harris in 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fighters were given only a very general indication of where the bombers were by their heavily jammed ground radar and mainly relied on their own airborne radar to find targets.\u00a0 However, only 2 of the players had the new sets that were free from British jamming.<\/p>\n

In the action that followed, it was Chris that got in the first attack, badly damaging\u00a0Lancaster C for Charlie in a hasty attack.\u00a0 However, he’d picked the wrong plane to mess with and his Ju88 was shot down by return fire from the defending gunners.<\/p>\n

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The first air to air attack. Lancaster ‘C for Charlie’ is winged, but shoots down the attacking Ju88 C6 of Chris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next up was Bob, who homed in on Lancaster E for Easy.\u00a0 However, this plane’s gunners were really on alert and they opened fire first and shot the Ju88 down before it had a chance to\u00a0land any hits.<\/p>\n

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The second air to air attack. Lancaster ‘E for Easy’ plays a blinder and shoots down the attacking Ju88 C6 of ‘Experten’ rated Bob<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, at last the NachtJagd managed to get off the scoreboard as John locked on to Lancaster H for How, damaging the target on his first pass.\u00a0 A second pass shot the Lancaster down.\u00a0 The gunners never saw what hit them.<\/p>\n

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The first score for the NachtJagd as ‘H for How’ is shot down by the attacking Ju88 C6 of John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the first attack completed the players returned to the raid map.\u00a0 Here diversionary Mosquito raids were beginning to hit their targets in Duisburg, Witten and Hamburg.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Duisburg raiders got clean away without being intercepted.\u00a0\u00a0However, the only unit equipped with high-speed specialised He-219 A-2 Night Fighters, Chairman John’s \u00a0I Gruppe NJG1, was now placed on overwatch in the radar line astride their return route and were vectored in to attack the Mosquitos that had raided Witten.\u00a0 The\u00a0Ju-88s and Me-110s in the air in the area were too slow to catch the Mosquitos.<\/p>\n

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De Havilland Mosquito Mk IV bombers of 692 Squadron, part of the Light Night Striking Force. These delivered small high level raids as diversions from Main Force raids. They were unarmed and relied on their speed to escape interception.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In this second action the unarmed Mosquito Mk IVs played a cat and mouse game as the Heinkels tried to home in on their targets, relying on their speed for protection.\u00a0 Mike managed to get into position\u00a0to make a power dive to pounce on one of the raiders, but his approach was spotted and the Mosquito attempted to shake him off with a corkscrew turn.\u00a0 Mike second guessed this and followed the Mosquito through the turn, then shot it down with a well-aimed burst, as it began a second corkscrew evasion.<\/p>\n

The raid will continue at the next session in April.<\/p>\n

At the end of\u00a0session 1 the league table points scored\u00a0are as follows (it is worth noting that the Germans were stupendously unlucky in their dice rolls to lose 2 Night Fighters in air to air combat):<\/p>\n

Mike\u00a0(2JD)\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +2 for Mosquito shot down, +1 for GCI attack<\/p>\n

Chairman John (3JD) \u00a02\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +1 for Lancaster shot down, +1 for GCI attack<\/p>\n

Dave (1JD)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 no gains, no losses<\/p>\n

Chris (7JD)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -1.5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +.5 for Lancaster damaged, -2 for Ju88 shot down<\/p>\n

Bob (4JD)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -2 for Ju88 shot down<\/p>\n

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Our\u00a0new\u00a0Society campaign for 2019 kicked off with the first day of gaming yesterday. The campaign uses GMT Games “Bomber Command” board game (see https:\/\/www.gmtgames.com\/p-302-bomber-command.aspx) to set up tactical actions, which are then played out using 1\/600 aircraft from the Tumbling Dice range (see http:\/\/www.tumblingdiceuk.com\/product-category\/1600) and GMT Games “Nightfighter” rules (see https:\/\/www.gmtgames.com\/p-233-nightfighter.aspx).\u00a0 The action is set … Continue reading “Air War Germany 1944”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Air War Germany 1944","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,36,37,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerial-wargaming","category-club-campaigns-air-war-germany-1944","category-gmt-games-nightfighter","category-ww2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3477-e1548844366279.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-gk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}