This page will provide for both Downtown and Thud Ridge games.

Thud Ridge - Surfin' Bird (taken from the Downtown scenario of the same name)

My first battle report is for an introductory game to look at the game mechanics.  It pits 2 A-4 skyhawks on a "road recce" against a single MiG-17.  The skyhawks are both loaded with ordnance .  The DRV roll for strategic targets and roll a 2 and will place two targets on the playing surface.  The US player must attack one of these and then return to the carrier.  The two targets (rail bridge and troop barracks) are 20cm and 30cm from the DRV baseline

Thud Ridge - Fighter Town

A straight knife fight between missile armed USN F-4s with 4 Mig-17s in early 1965. (VP 4 vs 4). Can the USN get its first MiG kill ?  Pilot quality isn't a feature in the game so your USAF pilots have the same ability as their more tactically aware USN counterparts so you can play this out with either. 

The real engagement is based on:

"On 17 June 1965, Navy F-4Bs were flying "barrier combat air patrol (BARCAP)", protecting a strike package that was attacked by four North Vietnamese MiG-17s. Once the Phantom pilots visually identified the MiGs, they took them on, firing Sparrows at them. Two Phantoms, one piloted by Commander Louis Page and the other by Lieutenant Jack Batson, each scored a kill. These were the first "People's Army of Vietnam North Air Force (PAVNAF)" MiGs shot down in the war."

http://www.vectorsite.net/avf4_2.html accessed 14 April 2009.

I chose the VF-21 "Freelancers" as I liked the tail art so made up some decals for a pair which you can see here .  Not the best reason but a reason none the less.  The MiG-17 is the workhorse of the DRV until later on and I wanted to see how much mismatch there is. 

Downtown - D-8 All Tomorrow's Parties

I chose D-8 from the main scenario book as it is one of the progammed learning scenarios so not too heavy.  Set in October 1967 the raid targets are mostly in RP6B and the responsibility of the USN (which is lucky as this is where my main modelling has been of late).