This year Kevin and I are running two games together. The first is the Raid on San Carlos Falklands game using the Air War C21 rules. The Argentineans can pick from Daggers, Skyhawks, Canberras, and Pucaras while the Royal Navy Sea Harriers try to chase them off.
HMS Fearless and HMS Antelope ready for action |
HMS Illustrious dodging bombs and torpedoes |
There are a good number of naval and air games scattered throughout the rest of the Enfilade schedule. Some of the more interesting ones are:
- Battle of Mobile Bay using Steam and Sail Navies rules and 1/600 scale ships. This will be played over two game periods. I’m looking forward to seeing all the ships and how the forts are represented. But I’ll be running the Falklands game during the second part of this one, so I don’t think I’ll get to play in this.
- Escape from Mers el Kebir. There are two linked games covering this action. The first uses Check Your 6! to cover a Swordfish attack, escorted by Fulmars and intercepted by Hawk 75s. The second uses General Quarters 3 rules to cover the breakout of the French fleet. I’ll be running the Illustrious game when the naval game goes, so I’ll miss this one.
- Operation Rheinubung using General Quarters 3. This sounds like the standard Bismarck breakout scenario, but the description also seems to give it an operational feel. I’ll be interested to see how the game presenter handles this, but this game is going on during the Falklands game.
- India and China Go Toe to Toe using a development version of Harpoon Captain’s Edition 2.0. After I ran a game using the original (albeit slightly modified) version of Harpoon Captain's Edition last year, Andy Doty started working on a second edition of the rules. I'm looking forward to seeing what he has come up with.
The next couple of posts should be photos from Enfilade.
Marvelous. I wish that I could play, but once again I can not make it down there.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!