I played a game of Target Locked On! with my daughter this morning, which for a change involved two pairs of A37 Dragonfly light strike aircraft, meeting on patrol over the jungles of the Cordillera del Cóndor range in January 1981. I decided to try a game without any missiles and at very low altitude, using aircraft with high manoeuvre ratings and with equal pilot skill sets. This turned out to be quite good fun but very difficult for both sides when it came to actually hitting, let alone damaging the enemy armed as they were with out a single GAU-2 minigun.
In the end, after quite a lot of twisting and turning, the Ecuadorian flight leader managed to get a couple of close range hits on his opposite number, the latter of which caused a critical hit resulting in a wounded pilot. This was too much for the Peruvians, who decided to bug out as they were flying on fumes anyway, bringing the game to a neat conclusion and an FAE victory. It's a good set of rules for this level of game and works very well but I think the addition of missiles makes it more decisive, with less chance of dogfighting but more of actually shooting things down.
Sounds like an interesting battle. Hoping to have some similar encounters soon.
ReplyDeleteI really like the rules, though suspect that they make missiles a little more lethal than they actually are.
That looks like it was great fun. Played the rules once and found them tyo be rather good.
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Pete.
Yes, they do work well but there's quite a bit of fiddly record keeping that can slow things down a bit. Good fun though and worth a try.
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