New Toys Ordered Part II - Luft1946

A Focke-Wulf Projekt II shoots down a Yak-15

I have gone on a recent spate of ordering new planes. Some are to be used for future projects, others for expanding existing projects, while others will be to replace existing metal planes with higher quality 3D prints and more accurate paint schemes.

A strictly hypothetical project (see posts HERE for more information on this project), but one that should be fun to work on. The Yaks will be an easy paint (either silver overall as depicted above or the typical Soviet green over light blue scheme), and I might send the Germans off for commission work since painting camouflage scares me!

Table Top Yak-15, Flight Deck Yak-15, Flight Deck Focke-Wulf Projekt II

Flight Deck Decals

Focke-Wulf Projekt II - 2

Yakovlev Yak-15 "Feather" - 4 (adding to the two I have already from Table Top Flights, and THEN forgot I had already ordered four from Flight Deck!)

Table Top Flights

Focke-Wulf Project II - 2 (to compare to the Flight Deck version)

Focke-Wolf Ta-183 Huckebein - 2 (I have a pair of these already, but the tail is slightly askew so am checking to see if another pair will be a bit "better")

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.