Just played in a very cool "beer and pretzels" table top wargame recreating the RAF raid on the German ship Tirpitz in Norway WW2.<br />This was done buy the sister squadron that did the bouncing bomb blowing up the dam that got more publicity.<br />The bombs for the tirpitz raid were smaller versions.<br /><br />the game ran with 12 players trying to navigate the Norwegian Fijord suppressing the flak lighters and setting up for the run on the Tirpitz. which had 12in of metal and tons of flak producers. the guy running it at the club had worked up this game for a convention.<br /><br />End result was a TPK (total party kill) on us but 2 pilots manage to drop their bombs with one being a near perfect drop and for the first time for the guy running the game the Tirpitz was sunk. out of 25 planes in 3 runnings of this game only 3 planes have ever survived.<br /><br />He had written us off as we had not really tried to communicate with each other much and instead we played billard balls with each other. It was a lot of fun but we really needed to work together.<br /><br />I was struck by the similarity to the Death Star trench battle from Star Wars.<br />Totally inspired me but I dont really need another project building a Death Star trench for an 8' table.<br /><br />
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