Battle Over Britain – Iraq 1941

Still playing Minden Games’ Battle Over Britain. After several solo plays, decided that a campaign is the best way to enjoy the game. Similar to B-17, where the “one-of” games are fun, but a couple in a row get boring.

Along those lines, I put together aircraft ratings for the 1941 air campaign over Habbinaya, Iraq for those aircraft not available in the Battle Over Britain series. I’ve always been fascinated by that campaign and the use of antiquated aircraft to defend the RAF base.

I don’t have access to a word processing program that constructs a grid, so the ratings will be linear in the following sequence. Speed, Agility, Fire/Fire Rear, Performance and Damage.

These ratings are based on aircraft data from various sources, and comparisons of ratings in both the Minden game and Perry Moore’s Sonderkommando, an interesting simulation of the campaign.

Northrup A-17 1,1,-1/-2,1,10
Hart/Audax 2,2,-2/-2,2,8
Oxford 2,1,-2/-2,2,11
Vincent 1,1,-2/-2,1,8
Breda 65 2,1,-1/-2,1,10
DH 84 2,1,-1/-2/2/10

The next step will be to come up with the campaign parameters.

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