Grey Water recently sent a strong air contingent to support Ahmmesia in its ongoing conflict with Kalemnitka. The Kalemnitkan air force has been very active lately flying a Badger aircraft over Zeebia to join its armed forces. Now it has also sent Fiat G.91 reconnaissance planes, escorted by MiG-21s to photograph Ahmnesian positions near the border. Two F100s and two F5As from the Grey Water intercepted these planes and a dog fight ensued. During the action a Kalemnitkan MiG-21 was damaged as was a Fiat G.91. However in return a F-100 was crippled, forcing the pilot to eject. An F-5A was also damaged. Eight missiles were fired and none hit a target. Six failed to work properly and two missed completely. The F-100s seemed to have difficulty with their gun sights constantly missing well flown Fiats, even at close range. Grey Water pilots have complained about the change to the new machines, preferring their old Skyhawks, especially after the success of the Pihk...
We had our version of Little Wars yesterday.
ReplyDeleteMike Fly Gołdyn (and Cameron Dickson) created a game based on the movie "The Wild Geese". For this we used Wars of Insurgency rules with a few homegrown modifications - mostly to the Officer and NCO Wild Geese, to make them more 'survivable/invincible'.
We played 2 games, over the course of the day.
As it was a mostly public participation styled game, we needed members of the gaming public ..... to participate.
Due to a variety of time constraint factors, most beyond our control, the actual game had not been run since its conception.
Therefore, game 1 turned into the real, playtest game, with the 'public participants' being provided by the helpers.
Game 1 was short, sharp and bloody!
The Wild Geese were decimated, almost at every stage. The Simbas did most of the damage "down by the river".
Game 2 had some REAL public participants.
This time the Wild Geese made it past the river, through Kimbali, the abandoned village and onto the airstrip.
Along the way, Alan Faulkner (the Wild Geese leader) was killed.
It all came down to who could get on the Dakota and away.
As you would expect, the Simbas through everything they could at the Wild Geese and there were many casualties on both sides - much frantic dice rolling!!
At the end of the game A number of the Wild Geese, President Limbani (totally uninjured!) and a couple of village women (don't ask??) were on the plane as it flew out.
Game over, victory to the Wild Geese.