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This is a Forward Airstrip Prototype that I built this weekend, rather simple.  I put WAS Sea Hurricanes and HBG’s P-51’s for scale.  I want to add anti-aircraft guns too.  I also plan on building island airbases and atolls.  Let me know what you think.

Too cool man, the atoll is something else,  we’ll done.

If guadalcanal played this way without the dice battle box, I think it would be a lot more popular. Battle of midway is everything you would want out of Guad. Simple movements and combat resolves quite simply, roll a 1 and attacker chooses casualty, roll a 2 and defender picks.  Great game.

My friend, hkytown1, and I attended a symposium put on by the Oakland Aviation Museum in Alameda, Ca last night.  It was a panel of 4 WWII Aces, Alex Vraciu 19 kills F6F Hellcat, Ted Crosby 5.25 kills F6F Hellcat, Archie Maltbie 2 kills P-47 Thunderbolt (7 others not credited because film canister was damaged and they would not accept testimony from wingmen), and Dean Caswell 7 kills F4U Corsair.  It was a truly amazing experience to hear these guys and their stories.  Each day another WWII member dies and with him so does history.  If you can make it to one of these try to do so.  It is an experience I will never forget.

The 379th Bomber group is having its reunion in San Diego from August 22-26 2012 and I am going to try to attend since I am writing a book about a B-17 crew during WWII.

Nice

Anyone playing any games this weekend?  My son and I are going to try to get a game in.

Keeping them might be cool. That, AFAIK, would add squadron-based op’s to the game and THAT might be very awesome.

sounds fun enjoy yourself, WAS is a great game we have a group league/campaign in my area that we play every week 10 players 10 nations (some are shared like the USA, Japan etc)