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 split the Japanese target drones, I mean, Nates. 

My three were closer to David, so he wisely sent all four of his MUCH better planes after me, leaving Ziggy a longer flight to just get into the fight. 

There was a lot of dodging, weaving and fist-shaking. Zig and I got got so many hits on the P-40s but it didn't matter. The weak guns on the Nates just couldn't make a dent. I lost a couple planes, I think Z lost one. Two of the Flying Tigers ran out of ammo which was really our saving grace! Overall it was a really enjoyable match, it was just a shame our guns weren't up to the task. A great kick off to the year and we're all looking forward to more.