Some New Year's Check Your 6
David, Ziggy and I got together for some CY6 for a first game of the year on Saturday afternoon. We played up at Roll the Bones game store in Savannah. This was to be the first real test of my new flight stands that I put together a few months back. The first scenario we played was "French Surprise" out of the CY6 MRB. The setup is that the USN is attacking a Vichy French airstrip in Morocco as part of the Torch landings. Ziggy commanded the four F4 Wildcats while David and I split the French D.520s 2 and 2. David's two were just taking off from the airstrip so had to start at altitude 1, speed 1. My two, flapping their wings as hard as they can! I'm happy with how the flight stands worked. David and Zig also approved. I think the game ended with one French plane downed and two (?) USN planes taken out? Might have just been 1 to 1. We played a second game, this time in the far east with four Flying Tiger P-40s versus six Ki-27s. David flew the P-40s while Z and I...
