Day 1, "Hope Takes Flight"; Urza's Splendid Stint at Stanhope, Late Summer 1940
Welcome to this exquisitely named blog which will be the home of my RAF solo player RAF: Battle of Britain: 1940 after action reports (AAR). Feel free to post or send me any questions you may have about the game's rules and mechanics, my decisions, and the historical background that informs them. I will use a mixture of historical placement and game player perspective when writing these posts. Prologue: Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Bentley Prior and RAF Fighter Command! It is a hell of a time to be alive for sure. The miracle at Dunkirk, the reorganization of the government under The Right Honorable (TRH) Winston Churchill, and the declaration that Britain will fight on are less than two months behind us today. Some of you in this room may have lost friends and loved ones already in this bloody war, and yet more of you wait anxiously for news from individuals scattered across our beleaguered Empire, her Commonwealth, and the world. I invite you to a moment of silence in honor o...