{"id":342,"date":"2018-04-30T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2018-04-30T19:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T18:06:12","slug":"vapour-trails-over-linton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/30\/vapour-trails-over-linton\/","title":{"rendered":"Vapour Trails Over Linton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A WW2 battle report from Andy King<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

This game was staged a short notice to fill in for another game that had been postponed.<\/p>\n

The scenario was a raid by two squadrons of German bombers with fighter escort, with two squadrons of British fighters opposing them.<\/p>\n

We used Majestic 12 Games’ Spitting Fire<\/a> rules with some additional home-grown rules for bombers and flak. Although, typically, I forgot to bring the scenario rules and the flak and target record sheets with me, so these had to be improvised.<\/p>\n

Forces<\/strong>
\nLuftwaffe<\/em><\/strong>
\nBob commanded two squadrons:
\n\u2022 5.KG76 (F1+XN) consisting of 9 x JU88A-1s
\n\u2022 7.JG51 (# + I) consisting of 8 x Bf109Es.
\nKim commanded two squadrons:
\n\u2022 9.KG76 (F1+XT) consisting of Do17Z-2s
\n\u2022 8.JG51 (# + I) consisting of 8 x Bf109Es.<\/p>\n

RAF<\/em><\/strong>
\nPaul commanded 602 squadron (Code LO) with 12 Spitfire Mk 1s.
\nAndy commanded 213 squadron (Code AK) with 12 Hurricane Mk 1s.<\/p>\n

One of the house rules concerning bombers was to require them to stay at a set altitude until they had released their bombs; another was to require that some of the fighters remained as close escort to the bombers, rather than having all of them performing fighter sweeps ahead of the bomber force.<\/p>\n

With the terrain laid out (a mixture of Irregular Miniatures<\/a>, Navwar<\/a> and Brigade Models<\/a>) five potential targets were defined: an airfield (RAF Linton), a power station, a fuel tank farm, a railway marshalling yard and some railway sidings. Each of the German players were asked to make a note of their allocated target(s), but not to let the British side know which had been selected.<\/p>\n

Victory points would be awarded as follows:
\nFighter shot down: 2 VP
\nBomber shot down: 4 VP
\nEach damage point inflicted on ground target: 1 VP<\/p>\n

The players deployments left Paul (602 Sqn) facing Kim (9.KG76 and 8.JG51) and Andy (213 Sqn) facing Bob (5.KG76 and 7.JG51).<\/p>\n

Individual reports from the players will follow, but in the end the game was a German Victory, 48 VP to 32 VP. All aircraft are from Tumbling Dice<\/a> with decals from Dom\u2019s Decals<\/a>.<\/p>\n