Having seen and taken part in Ian Drury’s Raven 2 game at COW in July I was keen to run it myself. It provided a ‘filler’ after the 18th Century game I ran a few weeks ago. The game concerns the rescue of a US pilot (the eponymous ‘Raven Two’) shot down over North Vietnam. A controller in a Skyraider (know at the time as a ‘Spad’) directs the search, strikes against enemy forces and the rescue helicopter.
We ran the game through twice. In game one it took an age to locate the pilot but then the recue was effected quickly and safely. In game two the pilot was located early on - but not only by the US players! The NVA were in the neighbouring square when the chopper crew plucked him to safety. Happily there was no repeat of the debacle which occurred in one of the COW games, where at one point there were ten(!) US aircraft in the area and rather more worryingly three downed pilots stumbling around the jungle. Anyway, enough of this, lets see the toys. The photos are in no particular order and show 1/72 scale aircraft and 1/32 scale figures.
6 comments:
It looks like it was a very exciting game Tim! The planes and figures are all excellent!
As Brad said, it looks exciting! And I love that F-4 especially!
That game was great fun- an ideal filler game for the afternoon.
Cheers,
Pete.
Brad DeSantis
It had its moments. Not least the ‘gunnery’ using nerf guns etc!
John Y
The Phantom and Intruder are from the notorious Partizan Plane Purchase, the others built primarily for this game.
Pete
Sounds like we’ll be revisiting it - not least as between us we have insane numbers of aircraft.
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