With my once weekly merry band of wargamers we started VG 3rd Fleet's World War III in the North Pacific...or something like that.

 

Day 1 (three distinct turns), weather rolled as heavy storms right through, horizontally, the center of the map. Worse yet, that encompassed 95% of our collective surface and air assets. Surface ships limited to one hex movement in the wx zone, no planes can launch from airbases or carrier in wx zone, subs uneffected (planes launched elsewehre could fly over wx effected zones.

 

Turn 2, weather clears but random event rolled caused a soviet (us) command failure. Zones randlomly effected encompass all of our coastal areas, thus again our airfields. CAP was permitted although restricted from reating to anything other than to attacks on the base they were launched from.

 

In the meantime American B-52 and F-15E's destroyed on Soviet airbase way up north, and a carrier alpha strike damaged one of our island (can't remember the spelling although I could not even pronounce it last night) airbases after forcing our CAP down in exchange for three separate unsuccessful soviet sub launched SSM attacks on the american carrier, USS America IIRC.

 

Uggh!

I almost remember that game and Fifth Fleet, in some wardrobe at my parents house, I hope ...

And Gulf Strike, I think the first game in the series, but more ground combat centred.

hehe, yeah, its hard to believe that 3rd Fleet, being the last in the series was published in 1990! Almost twenty years ago. Gulf Strike (first ed 1983) is set up in my cellar right now, stuck at turn 2 as I have not been able to get downstairs for any length of time in over a week now.

 

As for Fleet, I have 6th, 2nd, and 5th. One of the guys at the club has 3rd and we have left it set up for some more Fleet-goodness two weeks from last night...wedding anniversary next Wednesday so I ought not (I am not) going to Game Night. The guys were gracious enough to not play until I get back there.