New: Yankee Station (free, open-ended, email, human, historical, wargame)

From: donotreply@pbm.com (PBM List Autoposter)

Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:13:03 +0000

Name:		Yankee Station
Costs:		none
Frequency:		1-2 per week
Email:		flheckman zat yahoo.com
Type:		Vietnam Air War Game
Last-Update:		2007Oct17
Keywords: free, open-ended, email, human, historical, wargame

Description:

A tactical air war game using the Fox Two Reheat miniatures game with some
flight mechanic modifications to add aircraft acceleration rates.

Players will control 1-3 US Navy or DRV aircraft each.	Game Scale is 12
second Game Turns, 1,000 ft hexes, 1,000 ft Height Bands and 50 knots per
unit of Air Speed.

An Adobe Acrobat pdf file showing the game board / table top is
distributed along with a text file tracking aircraft speeds, altitudes and
movements.  Players are required to submit orders for their aircraft
roughly 1-2x per week.	A 48 hour turn around time is requested.

As a DRV player you will also control SAM and AAA placement and tactics.
As a Navy player you will participate in selecting targets and choosing
aircraft to make up the strike packages.

There are generally 2-4 players participating on each side.

Ownership of Fox Two Reheat not required.

Email for more info if interested.

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