Guadalcanal Campaign - Part III

We got together last night to do a couple of more games in the Guadalcanal campaign for Check Your Six!.

Historicon 2008

In addition to running my air and naval games at Historicon this year, I was able to get into a number of fun games, met up with some far-flung buddies, and of course made the pilgrimage to the dealer’s room.

Historicon 2008 - Rule Britannia!

I ran a Roman Naval game at Historicon this year using my collection of 1/300 paper ships from Hotz Artworks. The scenario was a clash between navies of the Roman Empire and those of the rebellious general Carausius and his Frankish allies.

Historicon 2008 - Eye for an Eye

I ran two sessions of my Eye for an Eye scenario for Check Your Six! at Historicon this year. Both games were full up and every one seemed to have a blast. I was worried a little about the scenario balance after the lopsided playtest game, but it seemed to be OK since there was one Japanese win and one American win.

MacArthur Escapes Ambush

We got together for to playtest my Check Your Six! scenario for Historicon. The scenario involves a Japaese attack against MacArthur while the General was observing a parachute drop on New Guinea. The general was in a flight of 3 B-17’s protected by P-38s. The Japanese attacked with Ki-61s (Allied code name Tony) and Ki-43 (Allied code name Oscar) fighters.

Romans Seas - Piracy Patrol

After a couple of months of cutting, folding, gluing, and painting 6mm marines, I had enough stuff together for a first game using my Roman Seas ships. The scenario was nothing fancy: A couple of Roman squadrons intercepting a couple of pirate squadrons and their Saxon allies. Since our main goal was to learn the rules I will use at Historicon, the two fleets pretty much went right after each other (which is the most likely situation in a con game, regardless of any other victory conditions the referee might set).

CY6! Guadalcanal Campaign, Part II

We recently ran another installment of the Guadalcanal campaign for Check Your Six! In the first series of games, the Americans came off rather badly and US air strength was low. For the next couple of games, the US commander decided to take a conservative approach in order to rebuild US air strength.

CY6! Featuring the Me-262

I have a few Me-262 models from 21st Century Toys that I had not been able to use in any games, so I wrote a scenario to use them. American pilots would sometimes swoop down on the Me-262 bases hoping to catch the jets when they were trying to take off. To counter this, the Luftwaffe began to use FW-190Ds as top cover over the jet bases while the Me-262s were taking off or landing. In this scenario six American P-51D’s jump a pair of Me-262s with a pair of FW-190’s as top cover. In addition to the usual VP for downing enemy planes, the Germans can get VP if they can successfully climb the jets out of the top of the CAB and set off to attack US bombers.

Thunderbolts!

A while ago the 1/144th scale P-47 models from 21st Century Toys hit the shelves of my friendly neighborhood Wal-Mart, so I immediately scooped up four each of the bubbletop and razorback variants for my 1/144th NW Europe CY6 games and put them to work immediately. The games were a while ago, so my memories of the details are a bit sketchy.

The scenario sheet for these two games is available here.

Historicon ‘08 PEL Available

The Preliminary Event List for Historicon ‘08 has been released and is available for download at the Historicon website. I’m running three games this year.

Eye for an Eye: Markham Valley (New Guinea), Sept. 1943

T-278 Thurs. 7 PM, 4 hrs, 8 players

F-279 Fri. 11 AM, 4 hrs, 8 players

WWII 1/285 micro, Rules: Check Your Six!
Gen. MacArthur, Gen. Kenney (commander of the Fifth Air Force in New Guinea), and Gen. Vassey (commander of the Australian 7th Inf Div) are on a brass hat flight to observe the parachute drop into the Markham Valley. Historically flight went off without a hitch, but what if Japanese had learned of the general’s flight? The Imperial Japanese Army Air Force sends out its best to take revenge on the Americans for the assassination of Admiral Yamamoto earlier that year.

Rule Britannia! - English Channel, 289 AD

S-277 Sat. 1 PM, 4 hrs, 8 players

Ancients 6mm, Rules: Salamis ad Actium
The rebel Carausius has seized the Roman fleet in Gaul and established an independent empire in Britain. The Roman emperor in the west, Maximian, has constructed a new fleet and sallied forth from the Rhine river to defeat the rebels and reconquer Britain. Can the experienced sailors of Carausius’ fleet defeat the Romans and maintain their sovereignty? Take command a squadron of liburnians and fight for control of the waters around Britain. Ramming Speed!