Biggles Downunder and I did a balloon mission last night. I had a couple of Nieuports with rockets against one balloon with 2 AA machine guns and a couple of Halberstadt D.III's. I took some damage to each plane before lining up for my attack and could not fire my rockets on one plane. The other one though ...... Fired all rockets and the balloon took one D Damage card for each rocket fired. As there are only 8 cards in my D Damage deck and two of them are explosion cards it blew up in my face and killed my firing plane too (one C card as I just overlapped the target and it was the explosion card I drew). The other nieuport could not turn to the left or the right and soon felt the wrath of the defending planes. A pyrrhic victory with no medals
I wonder if this was a familiar story in WWI for real. I have ordered the balloon-busting Aces book and will find out!
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