Monday 26 August 2024

Bag the Hun Scenario - Sissu Swansong


The long list of potential scenarios now stands at thirteen, which I'll have to whittle down by half a dozen or so for the Lard Mag article. The last two are set in May 1944 and feature the final weeks in which the Hawk 75 flew in action, despite being virtually obsolete.

The first scenario is a simple dogfight between a schwarm of four Finnish fighters and a pair of La-5's on the 8th May, in which one of the Soviet aircraft was shot down, despite being far more powerful and well armed. This is a simple scenario and duplicates others in the long list, so I may go for a more expansive action from later in the month.

On the 28th May 1944, six Hawk 75's of 1/HLeLv 32 and a pair of Bf-109G fighters from 1/HLeLv 24, were on a bomber escort mission to Mergino when they were 'bounced' by twenty La-5 fighters of 415 IAP. The Finnish pilots managed to shoot down six of the Soviets for the loss of one Hawk 75. 

I think this would be a cracking game, but I'd need to paint up the Hawks and Bf-109's in a later war camouflage scheme, as well as some Blenheim MkIV's or Ju-88"s, not to mention the twenty La-5's!

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