There are now a good-sized number of popular (and not-so-popular) aircraft available in 1/200 that are just too slow for the WGS rules system to cater for. Anything slower than 300 km/h.
That includes such must-have aircraft such as:
Ju52 - speed fast 270 kmh, slow 220 kmh.
PBY Catalina - fast 310 kmh, slow 200 kmh
LI2/DC3 - fast 300kmh, slow 245 kmh
Stringbag - fast 230 kmh, slow 155 kmh
As well as a few others
Vildebeest - fast 230 kmh, slow 160 kmh
Po2 -fast 152 kmh, slow 110 kmh
There have been a number of good proposals for dealing with one or another aircraft, but they all require special decks and exception to the normal rules.
This proposal still requires new game mechanics - there's no way around that since we don't have negative-length cards (!). But it does not require new maneuver decks. Existing decks are just used in a (slightly) different way. Moreover, the method caters for all aircraft, no matter how slow they are.
You place the card OVER the stand so the rear of the card abuts the peg, then with one finger on the card to steady it, move the stand so the peg (not the edge) of the card covers the arrow. No having to slide cards under stands, or at least, no worse than now. See below for a cutaway diagram illustrating the principle.
By using existing decks, just removing inappropriate cards (45 degree turns, reversals, sideslips) all the different aircraft, popular like the PBY or oddball like the Vickers Vildebeest can be catered for.
PBY - G deck
Li2/DC3 - M deck
Ju52 - N deck
Swordfish - C deck
Vildebeest - C deck
Po2 - J deck
B10 - G deck
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