Operation Battleaxe - Notes on Day 1, Game 2

I am getting ready for the second game. This will be the first game for the South Africans in their Hurricanes. I ended up with an intercept mission. I made a quick determination if they were intercepting over the target, on the way to the target or on the way home from the target. The result was on the way to the target. Next I needed to determine who they were intercepting and that is the Germans.

Next I looked at my miniature collection and realized I only had Ju-87s painted for German bombers. I wanted to keep the game small so the scenario will feature three Ju-87s escorted by four Bf-109s. This will be a tough battle for the South Africans.

The Germans will have the fighter escort divided into two Rotte of two aircraft each. The bombers are in a single Kette. Each grouping will have a character card associated with it. For the Germans, the fighters will have one vetteran, two regulars and one Sprog pilot. The bombers will have one veteran, one regular and one sprog. The SAAF will have two pairs of fighters, each with a character card. I will have a veteran and a Sprog in one and two regulars in the other. This should have more variety than the previous game with no sprog pilots present.

Since the Germans are on their way to the bombing site, there will be no flak or ground targets to worry about. This should be a straight forward game. The German goal is to get the Ju-87s across the table for their bombing run. The SAAF are trying to shoot down as many Ju-87s as possible and prevent them from achieving their objectives.

The pilots I picked for this flight are:

No.	Pilot	Status	Kills	Notes
2	Captain Rudi Pietersen	Veteran	1	Squadron XO Kill in East Africa
6	Lieutenant Bertie Morgan	Sprog	0
8	Lieutenant Jonah Parker	Regular	0
12	Lieutenant Dexter Hill	Sprog	0

These are the pilots that i created in the original post of the campaign.

All of this is with aircraft that are already painted. I think I am missing the national roundel on the side of each of the Hurricanes but it should be fine. I may fix that or I may leave them as they are as i remember painting those on the P-40s and it was painful. The Hurricane is a slightly smaller model.

I hope to get to a craft store today and buy some beads to mark the aircraft before playing. I will also pick up some white and black pipe cleaners to use for damage markers. Hopefully I will get to run this on Wednesday night.