{"id":2222,"date":"2020-05-30T14:46:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T13:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2020-05-30T14:56:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T13:56:22","slug":"wargaming-in-the-pandemic-playing-nightfighter-over-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2020\/05\/30\/wargaming-in-the-pandemic-playing-nightfighter-over-zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Wargaming in the Pandemic – Playing Nightfighter over Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"As we currently have no meetings and gathering indoors is not possible, we have been starved of our wargames for 2 months!<\/p>\n

We tried a game of GMT’s Nightfighter over Zoom.\u00a0 The game uses some house scenarios that allow multiple players on the German side.\u00a0 The main game map is enlarged and uses miniatures to substitute for counters.<\/p>\n

There were four Ju88C-6 night fighters patrolling to intercept bombers over the targets.\u00a0 These could be coned by the searchlights on the ground, spotted by the onboard radar, or spotted visually.<\/p>\n

Here is the hidden umpire map showing the Lancaster position at close of play:<\/p>\n

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We played until a Lancaster was shot down.\u00a0 Mark shot down ‘E for East’ after a four move duel.\u00a0 The bomber spotted him before he attacked and got two rounds of fire, but failed to score a hit.<\/p>\n

The Ju88 missed on the first pass from a poor position, then scored heavy damage on the second pass.<\/p>\n

The Ju-88 mis-timed the third pass, but finished the target off on the final pass.<\/p>\n

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Sean had meanwhile homed in on a bomber with one of his Ju-88s, but ran out of time to shoot it down.<\/p>\n

This was the game board at close of play:<\/p>\n

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A scan of the battle map was shared on Zoom with the players and annotated with the fighter positions, radar sightings and searchlight spots.\"\"<\/p>\n

Game play is slowed, as moves have to be described sequentially, so the game would have worked faster with less planes controlled by one player with hindsight, but the board game hex playing surface does make a game over Zoom possible!\u00a0 We may give it another go having worked out the snags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we currently have no meetings and gathering indoors is not possible, we have been starved of our wargames for 2 months! We tried a game of GMT’s Nightfighter over Zoom.\u00a0 The game uses some house scenarios that allow multiple players on the German side.\u00a0 The main game map is enlarged and uses miniatures to … Continue reading “Wargaming in the Pandemic – Playing Nightfighter over Zoom”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2225,"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":"","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":[38,5,32,37,59,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerial-wargaming","category-club-game-reports","category-game-reports","category-gmt-games-nightfighter","category-online-wargaming","category-ww2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9254-e1590844977206.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-zQ","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\/2222","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=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}