Post by alex1 on Dec 23, 2014 16:53:34 GMT -6
Yeah! played this one for second time, and we have a blast, three weeks playing with me as referee for twelve turns.
The first time we played this one, it was a total failure to the soviets, they were wipe out of the skies with AS-5B in their bellies.
A long time ago we also Keflavik turkey shoot from GDW harpoon 3, with similar results, the soviet loose before firing their missiles (soviet bombers try to by-pass Iceland to attack a task force). We also knew about the replay of this one by Mr. Bond to play-test Convoy, and in their game the russian player also lost.
A few months ago we read a document that says that russian bombers that try to by-pass the GIUK were like japanese kamikazes, the ticket to come back home was neglected by NATO air assets.
So we tried this one, to see if it was impossible for russian bombers to pass Iceland, and the russian player come with a not very complicated plan to attack Iceland, but assuming that 50% of his forces would be destroyed as decoys.
We played it, and 50% of the forces were indeed destroyed, but not as expected.
So now we belive that russian bombers have a bad time if they need to go to the atlantic to attack NATO Task Forces,. and yes, Russian Generals knew that many of his men will die if they try.
As a referee I also think that a permanent staion of AEW aircraft will cover sufficient area to locate attacking Russian bombers and send enought fighters to intercept.
Tomorrow I will post the photos, as we played it, the text is espanglish, the rude notes taking during game play to renember what was done, and die rolls. As you see I wrote them without taking care of any gamatical nor spelling errors...(yes a 4 years old boy can write English better than me)
The first time we played this one, it was a total failure to the soviets, they were wipe out of the skies with AS-5B in their bellies.
A long time ago we also Keflavik turkey shoot from GDW harpoon 3, with similar results, the soviet loose before firing their missiles (soviet bombers try to by-pass Iceland to attack a task force). We also knew about the replay of this one by Mr. Bond to play-test Convoy, and in their game the russian player also lost.
A few months ago we read a document that says that russian bombers that try to by-pass the GIUK were like japanese kamikazes, the ticket to come back home was neglected by NATO air assets.
So we tried this one, to see if it was impossible for russian bombers to pass Iceland, and the russian player come with a not very complicated plan to attack Iceland, but assuming that 50% of his forces would be destroyed as decoys.
We played it, and 50% of the forces were indeed destroyed, but not as expected.
So now we belive that russian bombers have a bad time if they need to go to the atlantic to attack NATO Task Forces,. and yes, Russian Generals knew that many of his men will die if they try.
As a referee I also think that a permanent staion of AEW aircraft will cover sufficient area to locate attacking Russian bombers and send enought fighters to intercept.
Tomorrow I will post the photos, as we played it, the text is espanglish, the rude notes taking during game play to renember what was done, and die rolls. As you see I wrote them without taking care of any gamatical nor spelling errors...(yes a 4 years old boy can write English better than me)
