1948 Arab-Israeli Scenarios

The First (1948-49) Arab-Israeli War saw a fair amount of activity in the skies over the Middle East. Rob Wubbenhorst created a set of six scenarios for Check Your 6! that appeared in Wargames Illustrated (#310) and a pdf download on the WI website. In collecting books, reading same, and doing some research of my own, I have taken Rob's "original six" (hockey reference) and have expanded the number of scenarios to twenty-three, which does include one hypothetical scenario. The 1948-49 War is ideal for smaller games when one has a few players available, and features a wide range of aircraft types (American, British, Czech, and Italian) and nationalities - Israel, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Great Britain. I hope one day to work up a 1948-49 scenario book, but in the meantime I have re-purchased the planes necessary to game twenty-one of these scenarios, replacing the metal castings with the crisp 3D prints from Flight Deck Decals and Table Top Flights (see HERE). Like the metal planes, which are mostly Raiden, the 3D prints will be painted by Miscellaneous Miniatures.

On the chart that follows, Rob's scenarios are named in black, the ones I have added are titled in green. In the chart itself appears red numbers for Egyptian Spitfires which means I do not have the data to indicate if the Spitfires used for those particular scenarios were Mark LF.IXc or Mark Vc (most likely the latter). I hope with the future release of a series of books from Helion & Company more information will come to light. 

I look forward to getting these scenarios fleshed out and play tested.