Conwy Wargames Club 1/72 WW1 Aerial Combat games

[Grigork]

For the monthly Conwy Wargames Club in May new member Chris volunteered to put on a WW1 air combat game using 1/72 planes. We were warned they were simple rules designed for kids, and in fact he'd played them with kids he taught. Sounds ideal for an afternoon gaming, easy to pick up rules with the focus on fun.

The rules Chris used can be found here: http://www.juniorgeneral.org/air/dogfight.html

We used these for the first 2 games then we moved to the advanced rules developed by Chris but not yet tested. We played the advanced rules in 2 scenario based games.

Game 1 - 2 players squared off in a dog fight. Since there were 6 of us this was actually 3 games on 3 tables.
Game 2 - The players from 2 tables joined each other for a mass dog fight, shortly joined by the final 2 players once their dogfight had concluded on table 3.
Game 3 - Hunt the Red Baron. A British squadron tries to intercept the Red Baron caught  on his own behind his lines.
Game 4 - A Russian  Alexander Kazakov must ram the German planes as his machine guns are jammed. A British squadron comes to his rescue


What great fun we had. The landlord of the The Anglers popped in because we were laughing so much at each others misfortune and the tall tales being told he thought he was missing out. The joy of simple rules is that they allow more chatter. We also met a prospective new member who popped in to say hello and who had timed it perfectly to join the start of Game 4.

So far I have written up the AAR's for the 1st games and I'll follow up with the others later:
Game1 Table 1 - more pictures and AAR here:http://conwaywargamesclub.wix.com/conwy-wargames-club#!WW1-Air-Combat-Game-1-Table-1/ccrb/55747b110cf219f1772c8816


Game 1 Table 2 - AAR and pictures http://conwaywargamesclub.wix.com/conwy-wargames-club#!WW1-Air-Combat-Game-1-Table-2/ccrb/55747d0c0cf2312d797346b4


Game 1 Table 3 - More pictures and AAR here:http://conwaywargamesclub.wix.com/conwy-wargames-club#!WW1-Air-Combat-Game-1-Table-3/ccrb/55747f7d0cf2df2eae390b3b

[The Dozing Dragon]

Looks good. Is that Chris Jowett by any chance? Good friend over many years whom I met at Partizan whilst perusing lead bins! My mother lives near Colwyn Bay so I get to see him occasionally!

[Cessna]

That looks like a lot of fun!

[Elbows]

Reminds me of a homebrew WW1 game I made up back in about 2000...based solely off pictures online of the Blue Max game at the time.  Lovely idea to use the Battlemasters mat!