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Sky Fighting (How I got here)

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  A few years ago a game company launched a flying battleship game.  The ships they produced were amazing and had real potential but the company stopped publishing the game.  As good as the ships were there were only three kinds of ships and only the British and French forces were produced.  I need to say I did not care for the rules but there were a fair amount of people that thought them interesting.  Things might have worked with what was out there but with only a Battleship, Light Cruiser and a Destroyer it lacked something.  Fleet boxes came with a battleship, a light cruiser and two destroyers which did give a considerable number of ships for the price.  Even the flight stand, though fiddly, did work but lacked the ability to change levels of altitude.  So when the company stopped publishing the game I sadly boxed up the figures and stored them for another time. French Battleship British Battleship            All those beautiful ships never left my mind and I would drag out the b
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 This battle is done for Joy of Wargaming Youtube channel It is part of a campaign https://www.youtube.com/c/TheJoyofWargaming Battle at Powell River Knoxville forces 3 units of foot 2 units consisted of 2 line and 1 light companies the third foot was part of the small force that arrived early and consisted of 1 line and 1 grenadier companies 2 units of horse each unit is comprised of 2 squadrons 1 unit of 2 light horse squadrons 1 unit of 2 heavy horse squadrons two units of guns Kingport forces 3 units of foot all units consisted of 2 line and 1 light companies 3 units of horse each unit is comprised of 2 squadrons 2 units of 2 light horse squadrons 1 unit of 2 heavy horse squadrons two units of guns Deployment Knoxville set up in a powerful blocking position with an unpassable ridge to its left and good hills in the center and on the right and forest covering the far right to prevent being flanked It also forced a large part of the Kingsport force to have their back to the Powell