I’m halfway through a short campaign in Hornet Leader, the solitaire game of Carrier Air Operations from Dan Verssen Games. Last I wrote, I had just made it to the dawn of Day 3. I was making steady progress with 3 of 4 successful missions flown. The stress of the …
Here’s a short rundown of my recent play of DVG’s Hornet Leader, a game I dearly love and don’t seem to get on the table often enough. One of the reasons I like this game so much is that the cover bears a slight resemblance to the logo for my …
Part 3Part 2Part 1 It’s the last day of a long campaign over Iraq in 1991 in my current game of Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations. So far, I’m at 24 VPs, which is enough to score a “good” rating. If I want to try for a “great” rating, I’m …
Part 1Part 2 We’re about halfway through the Iraq 1991 campaign for Hornet Leader and so far, the squadron is doing okay despite some setbacks. The first few days of the campaign featured some low-risk targets while day 3 was a scramble for a close air support mission that paid …
In the past few days, I’ve been playing through a long (9 days) campaign in Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations. In Part 1, the missions had been fairly successful, if low risk, in getting some victory points on the board and giving my pilots some experience. After day 2 ended …
Having some time off during the holidays has given me the chance to get out Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations to run through a nice long campaign. This time, the squadron is playing through 9 days of the 1991 Gulf War. The Squadron First off, choosing pilots wasn’t too hard. …
Coming back with some stressed pilots from the previous Close Air Support mission, I was hoping that the next day would feature a nice milk run, but it was not to be. I managed to pull three target cards that were all secondaries, so I was left with pulling one …
Let’s run through the first mission in the great game by DVG, Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations. For the first mission, we end up with “Close Air Support”. This is a tough mission because it’s so close to friendlies that ordnance misses place more stress on the pilots. It also looks …
