Blood Red Skies

 Today we had a few games, none of which were photogenic, so no photo report today! - and for the next two weeks unless I play a solo game at home as its the Edinburgh show next week and I have a Dental Hospital follow up appointment the week after!

Suffice to say today, we were trying Blood Red Skies today (Rhoderick has an old set of it) - the First game was a Spitfire reconnaissance trying to get off the table pursued by 3 Me 109e's, Lawrence ran the Spit round our flank, and although Aloysius, Phil and I got into shooting range, we failed to roll a '6' in over 50 D6 rolls! - so the plucky Brit got away!  

The second game had me running 4 ME 109g's with poor pilots escorting a Dornier 217 back from a bombing raid - in Switzerland!!!! - and we had to face 6 Swiss ME 109e's with better pilots. Historically German aircraft indeed entered Switzerland (repeatedly!) - and knocked down 11 German aircraft for 3 lost on the Swiss side.

Remembering Adolf Galland and Werner Molder's advice, I deployed in Schwarme formation, and didn't stick close to the Dornier, but went aggressively for the Swiss.

The Swiss deployed on 2 groups of 3, So I split my Scwarme into 2 pairs and headed for both groups. The Dornier (run by Rhoderick) seemed frightened of losing his fighter protection and headed after me.

I ended up racing past the Swiss and performing a Split-S to get on their tails as they headed for the Bomber.

This lead to the Swiss losing 2 of their number (One embarrassingly being finished off by the Dornier!) - after which the remainder headed home.

I thought BRS is a massively more fun game than the old Wings of Glory WW2, and we may play it again.

Finally we played a Card game called 'Forbidden Island' where a card map island is slowly submerged while we players struggled to find four rare objects before this happened, we won as a group! it was surprisingly nail biting and we only escaped by judicious use of a helicopter!

Fun day!