Despite being really tied up with work this week and having no time for painting, I have managed to sketch out three more scenarios for the Khalkhin Gol project, bringing the events forward to late June 1939. The three I've worked out include a mass dogfight with twenty or so aircraft on each side, a bridge busting ground attack sortie by cannon armed I-16's and the first test of the I-153 under battle conditions by an elite unit of Soviet aces. It's looking pretty good so far but I have to finalise a few things before I'm ready to word process them up into a finalised format for play testing.
One of the references that I've found to be really useful, apart from the books and websites that I've already utilised, is this book on the development of air warfare tactics and technology between the wars. It has an entire chapter on the Nonomhan incident and also one on the Chinese Civil War, so it's been really useful to pin down some of the thinking behind the Soviet and Japanese approach to the air campaign over Khalkhin Gol. The technological aspect of aircraft and armament development is also explained, with some fascinating insights into the relative capabilities of the Japanese and Soviet fighters, which heavily influenced the way they were deployed.
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