August 11, 1700 hours:
"Sound
the alarm! All hands on deck! Axis planes spotted!" - Aboard HMS Wescott,
part of Royal Navy's Force Z.
Axis air forces spotted at the horizon and
its making their way towards Force Z's formation.
The Axis air assets consist of Kreigsmarine's
9 level bombers and 5 dive bombers. While on the Italian side, consist of 4
level bombers and 2 torpedo bombers. Both air forces were escorted with only 1
flight of CAP.
"You
heard the man, all AA guns starboard" - HMS Rodney upon receiving orders
to provide anti air support to its aircraft carriers.
Superior Axis CAP managed to disperse the
Royal Navy air patrol above Force Z's formation.
Note house rules: Attributing to difference
in Axis air strike type and grouping, total Force Z's AA value was divided, as
per player choice.
"Well
done lads!!" - On-board HMS Tartar on successfully destroying one
Kreigsmarine's dive bombers and dispersing another.
4 separate waves of Axis air groups met Force
Z head on. Thanks to the superior AA, the Royal Navy managed to deal a major
noteworthy blow to the Axis air forces; attributing to the delay in the next
Axis air attack.
"That was
close" - much to the crew's relieve on-board HMS Victorious as an Italian
torpedo bomb miss.
The Axis air strikes proved to be a failure,
as none of their planes managed to hit their mark, while sustaining losses of
varying degrees of damages to their air assets.
Royal Navy's Force Z managed to escape unhurt
along with a good morale boost to soldier on.
No axis surface fleet spotted.
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| Scharnhorst and escorts |
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August 11, 2000 hours:
"People
sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do
violence on their behalf." - George Orwell
No activities recorded for the period.
La Gazza's reporter Puccini approached Comandante David Khoo as he was
seen stepping out from Rotiserrie, the latest fine dining restaurant in town,
with 2 beauties on both of his arms.
"Comandate! A word please.
I heard that the Luftwaffe had absolute control over the Regia Aeronautica and
a lot of our brave pilots were shot down. How can you relinquish your control
over such an important operation?"
Guastafesta! Can
you not see that I have two very important operations hanging on either arm?
The mission of the Regia Aeronautica is to fight the enemy and as always, they
have done an exemplary job sinking and crippling many, many Inglese ships. There is absolutely no
truth to the rumor that the Luftwaffe had control and in fact, the truth is
that our brave Regia pilots were teaching the Luftwaffe pilots in the proper
techniques to sink Inglese ships.
Now, if you will excuse me, I need to get back to these other important
operations. (In his own words)
And finally, David
was not available that afternoon.
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