Bag the Hun - a bit of inspiration

As I am intending to play a few Bag the Hun games soon I decided to do a bit of reading on WW2 air combat and borrowed a book from the library called "Whispering Death" by Mark Johnston.

 The book is about the RAAF airmen of WW2 in the Pacific, but also covers a bit of history leading up to start of the Pacific war too.

 I am still in the process of reading it, but what I have read so far is very interesting; I was amazed to learn that by the end of the war, Australia had the fourth largest air force in the world, only surpassed by the UK, the US and USSR.

 It is staggering to learn this fact, especially as almost every set of air combat wargame rules hardly even mentions the RAAF.  CY6! does have a scenario in the main rule book with RAAF vs Vichy French forces, but that is the only one I can think of.

If I had the time and ability, I would love to 'knock' together a scenario/source book covering the RAAF for WW2.  It would most likely be just for myself though as, judging by the lacklustre mention in rules, the RAAF might not be 'sexy' enough for most wargamers.

Bag the Hun - a campaign?

I still don't have an answer to my spotting question in regards to playing 'Bag the Hun' - players of BTH in forums and the BTH yahoo group must be on holidays, as no one has given me an answer.

 So I have decided to make an on the spot rule - both sides make a single spotting attempt at the start of the game, and if only one side passes the spotting roll then that player gets to 'come out of the sun' for the game.
 Any other result and the situation is even.


I splurged and purchased the "Finest Hour" supplement for BTH, and it was worth the $ I paid for it - it has a system for creating a squadron, battles and events, so is very useful for any WW2 BoB
setting, not just Bag the Hun.

I have a number of 1/600 scale Tumbling Dice planes already in my collection, and it will be enough to get some games going, but I will need to purchase extra planes to play the full campaign game.

I currently have (the majority still needing to be painted):

12 x RAF Hurricanes
12 x RAF Spitfires
12 x Luftwaffe Bf109s
4 x Luftwaffe Bf110s
4 x Luftwaffe Ju 87s
3 x Luftwaffe Do 17s

To complete minis needed for a full campaign potential I need to get extra Luftwaffe (Bf110s, Ju87s, Do17s, He111 and Ju88s), and I could even get some Italians to join the party if the game takes off (CR42s, G50s and BR20s).

 I don't really need them, but I could make an excuse to get some Defiants and Blenheims for the RAF.


I also created a spreadsheet for the daily squadron roster in excel: one sheet is an electronic sheet, and the other is a printable sheet.

I would offer to share it, but it seems I don't have any BTH players as followers. Still, if someone that plays BTH reads this I am happy to share it with them.