Pickup Sorties at Games and Grounds (FLGS), Comox, BC
Shane [Skyguy001] and I got together today to play a bit of Wings of Glory, and did some head to head (two vs two planes) flying.
We were going to do some Balloon Busting, but dopey lizard forgot the balloons. So we did scouts.
First game, Siemens-Shuckarts D.IIIs vs a Snipe and SE 5a. Not too spectacular, but this kept happening...
Note the maneuvers. Almost identical cards, for nearly the same maneuvers...
Baker's Snipe vs Lange's D.III maneuvers.
However, with starting points being different, the end result wasn't nearly as spectacular...
It got to be a bit of a joke, as Shane and I would copy or mirror our card selection for turn after turn.
However, before all the booming and maneuvering off the mat, we managed to do this!
Yes, there are four planes in this pile! Using my house rule of "No collision unless the red dot is covered by the shadow of the overlapping plane", this was a miss by all of the planes involved! Note: I consider the ground scale of 1/900, and that the planes are "representative" at 1/144th scale. So, technically, if the dots or center post aren't overlapping, the planes are not in the same space, and therefore, no collision. I expand that to the shadow of the overlapping plane, which is a bit closer to the rules, but still, IMHO, way out of scale for actual collisions. Base over Base is just punishingly broad for the ground scale.
This game ended in a Win for Shane, as he Boom Carded my nearly undamaged plane, and nibbled my other plane to death. I was sort-of lucky as Shane flew his SE 5a off the edge of the mat shortly after taking out my first plane. That equaled out the odds, but the Itchy Trigger Finger skill on his remaining plane kept it a solid win for him, as the flame damage he would have drawn in our final short-ranged, head-on encounter prevented me from returning the damage he dealt out to me.
The second game, we managed to introduce a new player, Doug, a regular at G&Gs, to Wings of Glory. It took him about half way through the game to get the hang of flying the S-S D.III, as he did a tour of the outer fringe of the entire mat. However, during the second half of the game, he finally started doing some of the trickier maneuvers, like Immelmanns, and he managed to take out Shane! Nice shooting at the end.
More spreading Wings of Glory love to the locals! Thanks Shane!
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Originally Posted by Stumptonian
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