Check Your Six Sunday

Last Sunday I got a chance to play in a game of Check Your Six: Jet Age that Christian had set up. The scenario was Vietnam with 4 F-4B Phantoms vs. 4 MiG-19. I was playing one of the MiGs as was Christian. The other two MiGs were controlled by a kid called Carson. The F-4s were controlled by Chris, Mike, David, and one other. Here are the pictures I took of the game

The enemy pilots, Chris on the right and Mike on the left, prior to game start.

The two MiGs controlled by me and Christian starting side by side.

The F-4Bs flown by Mike and David, they're so close together that they look like one aircraft.

Christians MiG comes in close to the pair of Phantoms. 

Our four planes over shoot each other. Mike and David turn like a married couple holding hands. Me and Christian on the other hand turn into each other.

Meanwhile, the other two F-4s were firing missiles at Carson's MiGs. Several of the missiles and the one that did hit did no real damage.

The F-4s then fire on my MiG one missile misses while the other hits. But once again the MiG-19 proves too tough for the American missile.Note the planes were moving so fast it looks like the missile that hit was fired by another MiG.

Then David made a real error. Both him and Mike assumed that their F-4s were carrying cannons when in fact all they had was missiles. It was this assumption that put David in the very bad position; with my MiG-19 in front of him and Carson MiG-19 behind, both at point blank range.

David's plane explodes being hit by both our cannons.

In the end only Mikes plane is still on the board. The other two phantoms flee for the edge having shot all of their missiles. 

 Unfortunately I wasn't able to stay for the second game as I had to get sleep for work. As for my gaming news. I'm probably painting my first new modern unit this weekend. I've also received most of my new ships and aircraft for the next few Shipwreck games. My Last Square order came in only FOUR DAYS after I order it, unbelievable!. Now I'm just waiting for Shapeways to arrive.

2014 Year in Review

Happy New Years everyone. Its been a busy year for me unfortunately I spent most of it working and didn't get to play as many games as I wanted. I did manage to do a few games this year though.

In February me and Christian played our first game of Megablitz, with 2 German Panzer divisions taking on 2 French Mechanized divisions. The game went well and I hope to do my next game soon.

 

In March I finally got to do my Russian vs. Japan Shipwreck scenario. Unfortunately I've haven't gotten the photos to load but you can see them at:
http://118fistersgame.blogspot.com/2014/03/shipwreck.html

March was also St Patrick's Day, with our annual parade.

April was Gnome Con. I wasn't able to play Shipwreck like I wanted but I was able to take part in Mike's Strike Legion game.

In July I manage to do two games! Earlier I had tried ordering ships from Shapeways and was eager to use them. So I came up with a lateral warfare scenario using both my new LCSs as well as my new container ship and missile tokens.

The following week I tried Check Your Six at Christian's house. It was F-4s vs Vietnamese MiG-21s.

August was the 100 year anniversary of the start of World War I and Morning Star was doing all sorts of WWI games. However in my never ending work cycle I wasn't able to take part in many of them. I was however able to catch a game of Great War that Mike was doing on the last weekend of the month. I hope to play some more of it this year.

In September I got to do another game of Shipwreck. This game was different from the other Shipwreck games I had done as it was an actual Historical scenario, the battle of Dong Hoi.

Finally in October I got to play HOTT with Christian using my new Dinosaur army. We played two games in the afternoon with the first being Romans vs. Dinos (pictured below). My Dinosaurs lost that game. But they managed to get revenge, beating up Christians Halloween army in the next game.

Anyway that was what little gaming I got done last year. For this year, I almost got everything ready for my next game of Megablitz and I hope to do more than one game this year. I also got some ideas for Shipwreck that should be interesting. For HOTT I've got a new army of sea dogs on the way and should start painting them soon. Finally I just got Fist Full of TOWs for Christmas and want to do a game with either that or Cold War Commander. How ever I still have figured out which battle I should start with Europe or Angola.

I not sure if I'll be hosting any games during Gnomecon. I have to have a better idea of the gaming schedule as last year they had the Flea market at the same time as the Shipwreck game I was going to do. I do plan to go to one of the other cons this year, either Seige of Augusta or Rapier. If I do I'll be sure to post a report.

For once again Happy New Year, hope you guys do lots of gaming

Check Your Six: Jet Age

Last Sunday me, Christian, and Ziggy played a game of Check you're six. I've been curious about the rules so decided to try them out. The scenario was Vietnam with 4 F-4 Phantoms verses 3 MiG-21s. I ended up controlling two of the F-4s Basco 3 and 4. Here are the pictures of the game.

My planes the red based Basco 4 and the more experienced white based Basco 3.

The game table. The white felt pieces represented clouds. In the for ground you can see my planes. One the right side of the table you can see Christians planes Bosco 1 & 2. On the right side of the last cloud you can see two of the MiGs controlled by Ziggy. Unseen is another Veteran MiG that was hidden.

Ziggy's Pink Based MiG turns to Basco 1 & 2.

Suddenly the Veteran MiG-21 appears right behind me and takes a pot shot at Basco 4. Luckily I suffer little damage.

Basco 3 does a Split-S to engage the Veteran MiG.

One of Christian's F-4s was then hit with an AA-2 and destroyed.

Another missile was fired at Christians Green based plane, but it only damaged him. The Pink based MiG-21 then fled off board having shot all his missiles.

I fired a
I fired an AIM-7E at the Yellow based MiG-21 but I missed.

Basco 4 fires again this time at the Veteran MiG-21 but once again misses.

Basco 3 fires his last AIM-9 Sidewinder at the Veteran MiG only to miss once again. What really angered me was that every roll a missed, I missed by 1.

After we had used up most of our missiles, we decided to call it with Ziggy as the winner. I really enjoy the game and my try to some more later. On my end I've order some new ships for an up coming game of shipwreck. This time it will be an historical scenario. I'm also almost painting my next Megablitz unit. I should have pictures of it up next.