How are campaign VP's chosen?

[Ludomeister]

I played a campaign game yesterday and had a couple of questions concerning allocation of VP's.

1. One game involved an Axis Patrol scenario worth two VP's to the victor; my opponent had an element of Claudes and an element of Oscars. I had one element of Hurricanes. We both managed to shoot down one plane; I got one of his Oscars and he got one of my Hurricanes. To our surprise (my opponent's as much as mine), I ended up with a victory! How is that calculated? I would have thought it was a draw, unless the game took into account that I was outnumbered 2-1 and gave me extra status for simply having survived.

2. In another match, an Allied air field worth 4 VP's if it is totally reduced, I managed to completely destroy all the Japanese planes - both the escorts and the bombers. Since this was a Singapore campaign, the system is supposed to give me double the VP's (and in fact in the above Patrol scenario it did double the 2 VP's into 4). But here I just got the 4 VP's!! Is this a snafu in the system?

Thanks,

Ludo

[bartbert]

1. In determining who won a Patrol mission, each destroyed aircraft is worth 2 points, and each damaged aircraft is worth 1 point. Whichever side has the higher point total wins the Patrol. If it is tied, neither side should get the points. It may be that you each shot down 1 aircraft, but maybe you also damaged one of his as well, and that's why you were awarded the VP's.

2. Every target has two values on it. The higher number is the number of bomb points required to destroy the target. It is also the number of VP's awarded to the ATTACKER if he succeeds in destroying the target. The lower number is number of bomb points required to damage the target. It is also the number of VP's awarded to the DEFENDER if the target is undamaged (ie, the number of bomb points is less than the damage level). If the number of bomb points is greater than or equal to the damage level, but less than the destroy level, then nobody gets any VP's.

In your case, the target was undamged, so you got the lower value of 2, which was then doubled to 4 because your were the British.

[Ludomeister]

Brian,

Thanks for your very clear and concise answers. I understand the mechanics much better now.

I honestly don't remember if I had damaged another of my opponent's planes or not ... our campaign was very tight at that point and the final two battles would determine victory or defeat. I was concentrating so much on the play of my cards that the scenario kind of went by in a blur ... kudos to Battlefront for producing such an "edge-of-the-seat" type of game. I shot down my opponent's *last* Betty bomber with my *last* In My Sights card of any kind on the *last* turn of the *last* battle of the game. If the bomber had been able to deflect that one shot my whole campaign would have gone (drum roll please) Down in Flames!

Ludo

[Adric]

Thanks for the clarification. And congrats to Ludo for beating me in the Singapore tournament, round 1. It was quite exciting.

Adric

[Ludomeister]

Adric,

Thanks for the kind compliment. Your play was excellent, a point that is underscored by fact that it went down to the very last card! I'm looking forward to playing you again sometime.

Ludomeister