The Daemon's Claw

We played a second mission, this time the Tau attacking an Imperial installation. The Tau have some great looking planes and even look like a SciFi faction rather than WW1 or 2 planes with more skulls. This is the Tau Strike Force. I was the escort command of three fighters. Its hard to escort bombers that are faster than you. The Tau have giant railguns and ion cannons. The Tau models are Alans and they look very nice. These are the Imperials, they have loads of planes and ground defences. I was used to ground defences being a bit rubbish in first edition but these were quite dangerous. The Tau mission was to blow up two of the three buildings. Alan's attack wing splits out to the right and drops down to altitude 1. Zane's squad swings left and I stay high in the middle because the Thunderbolts look a bit more dangerous. We start mixing it up with the Thunderbolts and it looks like one has already gone down. Alan's group is engaging the Lightnings and a Thunderbolt Zane...

 They go upty up up and downty down down. (usually in flames or scattered over a wide area) Thomas, Alan, Richard and I played a coupe of games of Aeronautica. This isn't a game we have payed in a long time so it was a great chance to play a different game. Many of us have nostalgia or a large collection of models from the first edition. The first mission had some noble Imperial flyers ambushed by some vile Orks. Here are the Imperial pilots on patrol, this is a mixed formation of Lightnings and Thunderbolts. The Imperial pilots are preparing their break turns. Sneaking up behind the Imperial are a multi coloured horde of Orks. Beware of the Waargh in the sun. The Thunderbolts have cranked around into a hard turn. On reflection this was a rookie move, I should have broken long and used a half loop to turn about and have more distance between me and the Orks. I did manage to climb above the Orks, where they could not easily follow. This also saved me from a number of hits The lighti...