Luft1946

The Germans were an innovative bunch, creating all sorts of far-out designs, perhaps assisted by off-world beings (yes, I am saying ALIENS!). No, seriously, look at some of the stuff they were designing and tell me they didn't have some sort of ethereal help. Now had they only raised and organized that brigade of Sasquatch....

Okay, I partially jest, but the German designs do make for some interesting what-if the war had continued scenarios. I have already talked about the Ta 183 (in this post), and have purchased a pair of Table Top Flights Yak-15s as potential opponents for the Hucklebeins. I might throw in some Me.262s and Su-9s (the 1946 Me.262 copies made by MSD Games). And let's not forget the American and British jets being designed, with the P-80 Shooting Star having two samples in Italy by war's end and the Gloster Meteor also in production. This could make a interestingly different sort of CY6 game, part Second World War, part Korea (but with better aircrew ratings for the "bad guys."). One issue would be movement charts - the Me.262 has a special one in Check Your 6!, and I guess one could just use the Check Your 6! Jet Age charts for the other aircraft.

Ratings are from a post on the Check Your 6! group

By using some of these what-if aircraft, it would be a way to introduce players into using jet aircraft with good speed and a real punch when it comes to firepower, but avoiding missiles, afterburners, and other rules that bog the game down a bit. More on this once I have some planes painted and put a scenario together.

Air War Korea - Part VI: Off They Go!

Not too many moons ago I was able to snag some Raiden aircraft that were being sold on The Miniatures Page by Dom from Dom's Decals for a ridiculously low price (thanks, Dom!). In that mix was four Panthers, two MiGs, and six P-51s, along with several other aircraft for World War II (which I have sent to Kevin Hammond at Miscellaneous Miniatures to have painted). Today I put the Korean War planes into a box and mailed them off to Chris Geisert, who works at I-94 and painted a slew of other Korean War aircraft for me a few months ago. Chris does some excellent work as you can see on the pictures on that post, so I am eager to have him finish up my Korean War air project for me. Other than perhaps buying some Yak-9s and Meteors, I will have plenty of planes to cover most of the scenarios in the Check Your 6! Korean War scenario book. This will allow me to host a variety of events with a decent mix of prop and/or jet aircraft. I recently picked up a sky blue gaming mat with 1.5" hexes, so hosting Korean War air games for the upcoming 2015 convention schedule should be easy to do.