Neither side finds in the Italian Coast.
Since Germany has so many fighters available CW decide to begin bombing the German cities by night. Or at least one mission to try this new idea.
CW bomb Cologne by night. Germany has plenty of day fighters that can scramble even though it is night time but if they do they will suffer a penalty. CW can counter intercept with one night fighter (Defiant). Since this is the first night mission in our AAR games I cut in the rule below.
Picture from May/Jun 40 Impulse #5 (Allied) - Strategic Bombing
RAC: 14.2.3 Night missions (option 52)
When an aircraft or carrier plane flies a mission, you indicate that it is flying a night mission by right clicking
on the unit and selecting night mission from the popup unit menu. If you don’t, it is assumed to be a day mission. A
status indicator on the unit is shown when it is flying a night mission.
Different aircraft can fly a day mission and a night mission into the same hex in the same step. You always
fight naval air combats and port attacks during the day.
Air-to-air combat can only occur between opposing aircraft if they are both flying at night or both flying
during the day. There can be separate air-to-air combats in the same hex - one for the day mission and one for the
night.
Halve the tactical and strategic factors of aircraft flying night missions.
During air-to-air combat (see 14.3.2) at night, all aircraft except night fighters (those aircraft with a black
circle around its air-to-air rating) achieves one result less than normal. Thus an AX result becomes a DX, a DX
becomes an AA, an AA becomes a DA and so on. A DC result is unaffected.
FTRs other than the front fighter
contribute nothing to their side's air-to-air strength during night missions unless they are night fighters.
[Clarification. The pilot death result is unchanged - Jan. 18, 2008.]
Resolve the missions after both day and night air-to-air combats are concluded. If you have flown both day
and night ground support or strategic bombardment missions against the same hex, total their values. You don’t
resolve them as separate day and night missions.
After it lands, any land unit you air transported, or paradropped, at night becomes disorganized.
Paradropping units must still fight any required combat normally (see - 11.15).
