Tuesday, August 25, 2020

RAF - Daily Log

I have been playing RAF by Decision Games of late and pretty much have the rules down now. I am using all the optional and advanced rules and have started to play the entire campaign as the British player (Lion). I thought I might log each raid day down with the number of raids and their effect. While I would have liked to have the squadron and gruppe names/number that is just too much detail for me to right down with my poor eyesight!

Below are the definitions of each of the abbreviations I use. I may take pics of the counters so you can see the stats as well. I might even add in a few pics of the game play, but honestly just a stack of cardboard does not make for very interesting pictures.

British Fighters

German Fighters

German Bombers

Sp = Spitfire
Hu = Hurricane
Bl = Blenheim

Me = ME-109
Bf = BF-110
CP = Coastal Patrol

He = He-111
Ju = Ju-88

Do = Do-17
St = Ju-87 ‘Stuka’

I have finished two raid days and below is the first raid day results. I think this is the outline I’ll use for each day but open to suggestions if you think more information would be useful. I may fudge the time of the raids by 15 minutes give or take just so it does seem like "perfect" hour timing each day.

 

Raid Day One (-3VP)

August 11th

Luftflotte 2 has Clear Skies

Luftflotte 3 has Clear Skies

 

0800hrs

Major raid on Biggins Hill Airfield

Interceptors

Fighters

Escorts

Bombers

3Sp/1Hu

4Me(CP)

1Bf

1Ju/2St

Interception
Dogfight sees German fighters driven off, with light losses to a gruppe of 109’s.

+1VP

Over Target
Several dozen Spitfires get through the fighters and escorts and inflict heavy losses on the German bombers.

+7VP

Raid Assessment
No bombing damage.

+0VP

 

1200hrs

Minor raid on the Radar Net at Worth

Interceptors

Fighters

Escorts

Bombers

1Sp/3Hu

1Me

1Bf

1Ju

Interception
Several Hurricane squadrons bypass the German fighter group to engage the bombers. The remaining fighters cause few losses to either side.

+0VP

Over Target
The British fighters easily slip past the escorts and inflict heavy damage on the JU-88’s before they can reach their target.

+2VP

Raid Assessment
No bombing.

+0VP

 

1400hrs

Fighter Sweep over Tangmere Airfield

Interceptors

Fighters

Escorts

Bombers

1Sp/1Bl

5Me

-

-

Interception
A couple of Squadrons engaged the small horde of ME-109’s suffering light losses.

-1VP

Over Target
With so many 109’s a couple dozen of them pressed onto the Airfield.

+0VP

Raid Assessment
A couple dozen ME-109’s strafed the airfield destroying a few planes on the Ground.

-1VP

 

1800hrs

Major raid over the Airfield at Hornchurch

Interceptors

Fighters

Escorts

Bombers

3Sp/5Hu/2Bl

4Me(CP)

1Bf

2Do/1Ju

Interception
While the bulk of the Spitfires and Hurricanes intercepted the ME-109’s, both Blenheim Squadrons and A hurricane Squadron broke off and headed directly to the bombers. The swirling dogfight saw several light losses on the spits and ME-109’s

-2VP/+1VP

Over Target
One of the Hurricane squadrons raced towards the bombers joining the other three as they engaged the bombers and close escorts over the airfield. The machine gun fire from the bombers and escorts was highly accurate, with all four British squadrons suffering losses! Though they were able to inflict losses on two of the bomber gruppen.

-4VP/+2VP

Raid Assessment
Several of the bombers were able to drop their bombs and inflicted some damage on the airfield, and destroying a few planes on the ground.

-1VP

 

1800hrs

Major raid over Biggin airfield

Interceptors

Fighters

Escorts

Bombers

1S/2H

4ME(CP)

4Bf

3He/2Do

Interception
The three squadrons fight through thru the German fighter cover losing several planes before they get to the large formation of bombers and escorts.

-1VP

Over Target
Flak from the Airfield scatters a couple of the gruppe, before a reduced squadron of Hurricane dives upon them. Both sides suffer light losses from air combat and flak, but many of the bombers are untouched as they release their load of bombs.

+1VP/-1VP

Raid Assessment
The German bombers were very accurate and caused extensive damage to the airfield, its facilities and planes on the ground. Light Damage to Airfield.

-3VP

 

1800hrs

Follow up raid on the Biggin airfield

Interceptors

Fighters

Escorts

Bombers

-

-

3Bf

2He

Interception
Air command had no squadrons to respond with.

-1VP

Over Target
Radio confusion amongst the German bombers saw one on the Heinkel Gruppe not form up and return to base.

-

Raid Assessment
Several of the bombers were able to drop their bombs and inflicted some damage on the airfield, as well as destroying a few planes on the ground.

-2VP

 

1800hrs

False raid on London

Interceptors

Fighters

Escorts

Bombers

-

-

-

-

Raid Assessment
Reports of German planes heading towards London turned out to be false.

-

 

2400hrs

Night Raids

Interceptors

LF2

LF3

2Bl

2He

1He

Interception
None

-

Raid Assessment
Bombing was ineffectual.

-0VP