To start the second mission of this campaign, you’ll probably want to reshuffle the action decks before going back to 24.3.C.1 to generate a new mission. I’ll go through this part quickly, since we already covered mission selection in the first article. The Axis player draws an IN MY SIGHTS (1B) card and cross references it to the Mission table under Stage I to get the number 1. Looking this up on the Mission Target Matrix, we see that the target will be Ground Forces on the 3A Target Card. The strike aircraft will be German JU87B light bombers (the “GE” is telling you to use the German ones, not the Italian planes).

In our last article, we set up the first mission. In this article, we will look at some examples of play. The first two turns of the first mission and most of the third will play out like a regular dogfight, and have been skipped over in this play-through. Let’s say that the turn order is one element of Hurricanes, then the German planes, then the other Hurricane element. You will be using the campaign sequence of play shown on the back of the campaign book, but you’ll notice that most of the steps that have been added to the basic dogfight sequence can be skipped in this mission. The only other thing to note is that the Allied player needs to have his planes at Low or Very Low altitude by the start of the Over Target turn in order to strafe [21.7].

Introduction and Overview

If you are new to Wild Blue Yonder, it might be hard for you to break past the wall of rules to get into the campaigns. This short series of articles will help you dive straight into the easiest campaign (Rommel Attacks), and you can read the pertinent rules as you go. You will need at least a basic familiarity with the dogfighting rules, as I won’t cover those. At some point you will still want to read the campaign rules, as I won’t be able to cover every nuance, but by the end of this article series you should have a solid start on the important parts.