PACIFICCON 2018 DIF Event Debriefing Report  

Here is the DIF recap and results:

With the release of the new Wild Blue Yonder game, we played using the new 110-card play deck cards, counters and aircraft.

A total of 14 participants (with 4 first time rookie players and 10 from previous events held at CSW Expo and GMT-West Weekends) at various times took part in the second PacificCon Down in Flames Aces’ campaigns.   For this event three campaigns from last year were used.  The Battle of Britain campaign (a continuation of last year's Dunkirk campaign), the Summer 1942 Eastern Front drive on Stalingrad and the May 1943 Mediterranean over Sicily campaigns.

19 aerial matches were held from Saturday-to-Sunday — 10 on Saturday and 9 on Sunday.

During the 2-days, the German Luftwaffe defeated the Allied Air Forces with each side winning 12 missions, losing 6 missions and 1 tie.  The Allies outscored the Germans, 529 points to the German’s 505.  The Allied Air Forces shot down 16 fighters, 7 light bombers and 6 medium bombers (29 aircraft).  The German Luftwaffe shot down 19 fighters, 2 light bombers and 5 heavy bombers (26 aircraft).  Total losses for all belligerents were 35 fighters, 9 light bombers, 6 medium bombers and 5 heavy bombers shot down, for a grand total of 59 aircraft lost. The lost rate per mission for fighters was 21% and the lost rate for bombers was 30%.

Missions by Campaigns Theaters:

• The Battle of Britain ’40 - 7 missions with the Luftwaffe defeating the RAF, 6 games to 1, with the Germans outscoring the British, 160-to-109
• Eastern Front Summer ’42 - 7 missions with the Luftwaffe defeating the Soviet VSS, 4 games to 2 with 1 tie, with the Germans outscoring the Soviets, 166-to-140
• Mediterranean, Sicily May ’43 - 5 missions with the US 12AF defeating the Luftwaffe , 3 games to 2, with the Americans outscoring the Germans, 280-to-179.

HIGHLIGHTS, LOW-LIGHTS & IN BETWEEN-LIGHTS:

• There was 3 new aces created this event: David Lanphear earned two Aces pilots, a Soviet LaGG-3 pilot and a Luftwaffe Bf-109G pilot on the 1943 Mediterranean.  Mike Lam earned a new RAF Hurricane pilot.  GM Mike Lam’s lost his only 1942 East Front Luftwaffe Bf-109F.
• Dave Lanphear set an event record with a 100% participation rate by playing in all of the 19 recorded games.  Dave had a good weekend shooting down 16 aircraft — four of them bombers — while losing 3 of his own fighters.
• There was no players shot down by bomber defensive fire this second weekend — Whew!  That would have been embarrassing.
• There were no Hat Tricks — 3 kills by one pilot personality — this event again.

NEXT PACIFICCON LABOR DAY WEEKEND 2019:
I don’t know at this time if I will another PacificCon DIF/WBY event in 2019. 

If the event returns, the campaigns are: The Battle of Britain, the 1942 Eastern Front, and the 1943 12th AF/Mediterranean campaigns.

I hope all who participated had fun and a good time and I plan to continue the aerial mayhem at next GMT-West Weekend, scheduled from 9-to-12 October 2018 in Hanford.

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