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Operation Night Crow 2: All or Nothing

Click thumbnail to enlarge All photos by Tony Francis & John Treadaway

MODELS & SCENERY The game used my (what I refer to as) ‘legacy’ Old Crow VTOLS for the Eaglewing, with a couple of ground vehicles from the same source. They also use jet bikes from 15mm.uk and figures from Rebel Minis.  Sadly, when I got them out for the game, I saw that the Black Crow APCs and Raven Assault ships had suffered somewhat when I recovered them from storage. I hadn’t used them in five years (since Salute 2013, in fact) and – even though they were stored carefully in customised (by me) KR foam/card cases – the wings had fallen off of 30% of the ships which then required some serious repair work before the game. Sadly the lovely looking Old Crow vehicles have awful wing/hull joint areas (as I have discovered) that really aren’t robust enough to survive play... Tony’s forces were his Blowers, M9A16 Calliope, Fauchard Mortar, Jeeps and Crew Cars for the (chronically) newer vehicles while his older ones (the latest he’d built) used the Fauchard APCs and Mortars, Falchion Light Tanks and Hurrikan Calliopes with the Kraus Heavy tanks as the armoured punch. Scenery for the game included, cloths, airfields, and roads by various sources including Deep- Cut; buildings from Brigade and scratched by me using mostly household items and GZG doors; Converted Britain’s Pig Pens; and fencing by the late Jim Clark. The spacecraft were some perfectly in scale 1/100th Trek Shuttles from Amazon.