First Berlin game. (Wer hat Mitspieler in der Nähe gefunden?)

[Blauer Baron]

Thanks to Fabian for a very enjoyable first ever live WWII game! It was a first for us both, no solo rules in sight!
3 planes versus 3, with a prolonged ending of 3 against 1. Fabian played a Dewoitine and two Yaks, which are excellent and fine looking models, not done justice by any pictures I have seen. I took over his desert camouflage Regianne and the black Regianne, plus the lovely Belgian Hurricane. We had some excellent action, with lots and lots of zero hits.

My experience with solo playing WWI and all in all 6 WWII games (but a long time ago and with other planes), helped me get into some good positions and the pesky gun jamming from the WW1 game didn't get in the way like it usually does at critical moments! We both kept drawing relatively low damage . It was strange having a real opponent at first! The two card moves work really really well with another person taking on the role of the enemy. The Dewoitine was downed in the first third of the three hour game. The first two hours went very quickly, with us chatting and getting used to the rules. The flying was entertaining, with each of us frequently getting each other in our sights. I got my second kill, when Fabain's bag full of ones finally ran out.

Fabian pulled off some very good manoeuvres during the 3 on 1 and had me running all over the place. Keeping out of trouble he got me tailed, with a run of “0”'s like his plane had been taking, now dished out to me for three consecutive moves by his Yak on the tail of my black Regianne. That was close!

I was really pleased with how I had been playing and lining up shots. However twice towards the end, a long run of left turns bringing the desert Regianne back into the game after engine damage, was suddenly ruined by a stray right turn!! Where did that come from? Was the pilot's wife with him getting L & R muddled up again? She stuck again, after the correction of the mistake and a long row of right turns...Where did that left come from? Both times, Fabain's super Yak (light blue/dark blue) would have been caught by a burst, despite it just having outwitted its other two pursuers. I reckon it was its camouflage which works really well on the Ares countryside mat! I got it in the end though... ....and despite a last move collision betweeen my Hurricane and the Reggiane (with his wife in the back giving orders again ) I pulled two zeros and managed a clean sheet.

It was great to be able to talk shop with Fabian and I am very lucky to have found such a nice opponent!! Thanks for a great game. He even lives just under half an hour away on a main bus route. So that makes two of us in this very large city. Will we now have to wait another two and a half years to find the third man? Harry Lime where are you? (cue music).

[Jolly Roger]

Thanks for the nice afternoon.
It was an exciting event, but left me with only one question:
How many 0 are in the C deck?????
I think my pilots had to talk to their mechanics concering some aim-adjustments......next time I want to see some more real hits ;-)
So, great fun, great learning and no regret joining the WoG-Crew...what do I want more

[Flying Officer Kyte]

Great to hear you have found a soul mate to play against Kevin.
It is good to be able to chat and have a few drinks over a game.
I have missed not getting a game with Stormkahn this month but have not really felt well enough to set it up.
Hope your next game is as much fun, and try to get some pictures please. You know how we love them.
Rob.

[Jolly Roger]

ups, know I remember what we forgot...
We were talking about taking pictures, but because of some very exciting and bold manouvers we simply forget that....
Next time we will do better

[Nightbomber]

Please do. As Rob wrote, it's great to see action pics of other forumers The build the spirit of Kameraderie, so to say

Rob, I hope you are not feeling under the weather any more?

[gully_raker]

Thanks for the nice afternoon.
It was an exciting event, but left me with only one question:
How many 0 are in the C deck?????

An awful lot!
However that is to reflect the inaccuracy & low cyclical rate of early war Cannons against fighters.
They were much more effective against Bomber sized targets.

[Flying Officer Kyte]

Please do. As Rob wrote, it's great to see action pics of other forumers The build the spirit of Kameraderie, so to say

Rob, I hope you are not feeling under the weather any more?

Much better today thanks Andy, but still very tired.
Don't worry about the pictures Fabian, as it takes time to get into the swing of things.
Rob.

[Nightbomber]

How many 0 are in the C deck?????

Way too many if you fly a Bf 109 and far too less if you fly a Spitfire!
I remember one fight at Origins being under fire of C and B firing planes and the first four counters I draw were two B zeros and 2 C zeros Cappy Tom could not believe that when I showed him

[Marechallannes]

Sounds like you had a lot of fun, comrades.

Thanks for the nice afternoon.
It was an exciting event, but left me with only one question:
How many 0 are in the C deck?????

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Have a look here:

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sho...amage-Overview

[Jolly Roger]

Thanks for the link, thats very helpful.

[Lt. S.Kafloc]

I testify to that as my zero's pull too many zero's, no pun intended, in most of my PTO games.

Neil

An awful lot!
However that is to reflect the inaccuracy & low cyclical rate of early war Cannons against fighters.
They were much more effective against Bomber sized targets.

[flash]

You have a Kette now Kev - Two more & you will have enough for a Schwarm ! Glad to hear you have found someone in Berlin, there must be more there somewhere.