OTTED Mission 20 - Unexpected Returns - August 14th 1917
Well I nearly cocked that one up, didn't I ?
After playing for 45 minutes I could see nothing much was going to happen (and would not have time to start over) so I decided to play the Hand of Fate and let the RE.8 stall to slow it down. Luckily I was able to correct my original results when I saw the gaffe I had made missing all those +1 shots.
Two more to go ...
Another cracking AAR Pete.
Very nice touch in throwing in the Hand of Fate!
Main thing you got all your crews home safe even thought some of the wounded will be out of action for a while.
Alls well that ends well. Nice flying and well done getting your pilots, all of them, home if not all in one piece.
See you on the Dark Side......
Needed German reinforcements, if you can call them that? Good to see the boys get back home.
Well done Pete, a nice recovery in all senses ! You did the right thing to slow the Harry Tate down as they are, of course, both the same speed and you would never have got near him otherwise so well done on making a game of it.
The ways round that in setting up would be either to use a slower deck for it, or, claim it has a dodgy engine to begin with and play stalls from the off, or, start in range from behind, or, be in a position to cut him off. We had similar issues in the past trying to bounce Observation aircraft - nightmare ! I think you covered it nicely and you spotted the +1's which capped it off - so easily done and so annoying too.
REP gun is jammed so I will have to circle back on this one - Great game and a first kill for Mr Davies !
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
I need to get more familiar with the different decks and their strengths/weaknesses and relative speeds most of all.
The Excel you posted should help with that, as well as my converting all those D8 charts you sent me
I would definitely have started the RE.8 with a damaged engine if I had realized they were basically the same as the Pfalz.
Didn't help that we were to start in the corner of the map - in hindsight I guess I could have had the Pfalz coming from off the map from the right side.
At least I got one of my story line characters back - although I nearly lost him again!
Familiarity with the movement decks is essential. Each time I play with/against a plane I haven't used much I'll layout the deck for a look over. Sometimes you get surprised with what they have in their bag of tricks.
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