A couple of weeks ago I posted an idea on the Algernon Pulls It Off Facebook group, to use the Bag the Hun Finest Hour campaign as a template for a 1917 Western Front campaign. This sounds a bit bonkers at first but, with some simple adaptation and use of imagination, I think it could work quite well.
The idea would be either to run a campaign over a single month of 'Bloody April' or to divide most of the year into four sections - March to April, May to June, July to August and September to October. There would be a mechanism to create a fictional scout squadron of the RFC / RNAS including pilots, aircraft and airfields, then track it over a series of missions, day by day.
It also got me thinking of the Battle of Britain solo campaign I did the spade work for a couple of years ago. I may have another crack at that this summer, if I can find the time, as it would be great fun and not too much trouble to set up, assuming I can speed paint the models to a decent standard. Tally Ho!
Thank you for your great ideas and inspiration. I played a Bloody April campaign to conclusion last month over 4 weekends (including 2 long weekends with ANZAC Day and Easter).
ReplyDeleteWe used the scenario info and squadron strengths from the GMT games of the same name as a starting point for our campaign. This is public info that may be of interest in your endeavours. You can find it here:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/gmtwebsiteassets/bloodyapril/BA_Living_Playbook.pdf
Great idea. Thanks for the link. :O)
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