Finest Hour-Round 2

 

We played our second sortie from the Finest Hour over 2 nights, finishing up this past Tuesday. Pierre-Yves put together a great video  detailing the action.

 

I think it was a lot of work to do this as the game was over 3 hours but it really is well done. I also took some screen shots while we were playing so you get a closer look at some of the planes.

The pale green hex indicates that the Spitfire is on the tail of the BF110

Classic Vic formation for Spitfires (green), Classic Schwarm formation for the BF110's (blue) and the the other schwarm  is in a 2 Pair formation (red)

 

This ruleset is really lending itself to video wargaming and we are progressing through the campaign, we played the next sortie this past Tuesday and our next game is scheduled for Sunday night.

First Round of the Finest Hour: A Bag the Hun Campaign

 

We had our first round of play of the Finest Hour Bag the Hun campaign on Monday night. Still ironing out the kinks of our Tele-gaming setup but we got in 6 sorties (one was autoplayed)  and we had a lot of fun. Planning our next round this Friday. We both focused on maneuver in these sorties, so there was very little combat. I suspect this will be quite hard to read.

 

Pierre-Yves has really done quite a brilliant job with automating a lot of the book-keeping for the campaign. A blank campaign editor can be found here and a squadron editor here. As you can see these are very useful, and here you can find an auto-play version of the campaign where several week have gone by, it is very useful as you get a sense of what maybe coming up and of course what models you may need.

Of note is the fact that we are alternating sides for each sortie, this has worked well. I have ordered all the planes, mat and flight stands that I need for the Falcon and the Gladiator North African EW project, only Commonwealth and Regia Aeronautica planes as the Luftwaffe has yet to arrive, there will be lots of cool biplanes so I am pretty excited.

Finest Hour: A Bag the Hun Campaign

 

Myself and Pierre-Yves plan to start our Finest Hour campaign tomorrow night  at 8pm. I will try to post a link to the the live stream just before the game, but with long distance video wargaming this is a lot of moving pieces and I really have no idea what I am doing half the time. 

P-Y has done a lot of work on this and has written a campaign generator for this BtH campaign. We generated our first sortie on Friday as you can see on the following video, sorry for not combing my hair!

On a personal side, I have decided to do up some planes myself for a 1940 North African campaign, it will keep me busy and it will have some biplanes!