Target for Tonight

I've been reading Lancaster by Jon Nichol over the last few days and it has inspired me to have a go at Target for Tonight, the rules for which are available as a paperback book. It's a novel set of rules that uses beer mats or similar tiles to represent the inward and outbound stages of a raid over Germany in 1943-45. 

The game uses 1/1200th or 1/600th and 1/300th scale aircraft, with a role play style system for generating crews and missions. It is also ideal for solo play, as each stage of the mission is generated using a random series of  dice rolls from tables. It's another potential project for 2022 but something else will have to be shoved sideways to make it fit in.

The best bit is that it needs only a small number of models, some basic scratch building and a bit of photocopying to set up, so a quick and cheap project with no big cost or time involved. I'd be using 1/600th scale models and possibly more than just the Lancaster, for which the rules are designed, as I like the idea of deploying some Wellingtons instead. Not only that but Dan at Flight Deck Decals has some excellent RAF squadron code sets too!