AAR February 25th, 2024 The Wright Flight

[camelbeagle]

The Wright Flight took to the skies for another exciting mission.

This meeting we were at Capstone Games in Cincinnati, Ohio.

We did some Escadrille Lafayette Action this meeting. First mission was three Nieuport 11 versus a Fokker E.III and a Pfalz E.IV.

Here come the brave American Volunteers!


The determined and skilled Germans are on patrol!


The action started fiercely!


Our first collision of the day!


The fight continues!


The Pfalz E.IV goes down first!


The Fokker E.III is a bit outnumbered now. Does he stick around?


No, it chooses a hard landing!


Game one to the Escadrille Lafayette. 2 Kills to Zero.

Game two, we pretty much played the same mission. We adjusted the starting positions and went for a second time.


Again, a fierce battle erupts.




A Nieuport 11 goes down first!


Another Nieuport is eyeing that Fokker E.III. A bit of revenge on the mind.


The Nieuport 11 gets the advantage.


The Fokker E.III goes down!


The Pfalz E.IV goes down as well!


Another win to the Escadrille Lafayette. 2 Kills to 1 Kill.

We did one more mission. This time two Nieuport 16 and a Nieuport 11 versus an Albatros C.III and a Pfalz E.IV.





Lots of fire breaks out fast! Fire! Fire! Fire!


Some HOT action continues!




A Nieuport goes down!


A second Nieuport goes down from Fire!


A good example on how to crash!


Can the lone Nieuport 16 win the day!


The Pfalz E.IV leaves the battle!


Albatros versus Nieuport, who will win?


The Albatros goes down!


But wait, the Nieuport 16 is set on fire!


The board is cleared! The fire will take out he Nieuport! The bottom three are the fire results.


The Germans failed to get the recon, but took out three planes.

A good set of three fun games!

[CrashCraig]

Great action all around Dan.

[Paukenschlager]

That's some serious air dueling there! Your third picture is pretty much a handbook definition of "dogfight"!

[predhead]

We tried a bit of restricted altitudes which meant the fighters in this case could only have three pegs, and the Albatros C.III could only have two. We are working on a five peg altitude system and meshing the planes to their historical altitudes within just those five bands, well really four as we assume that all planes have at least two pegs. I also want to dispel with shooting from a higher peg...these altitude bands represent hundreds of meters/yards, so shooting from one peg height to another is not realistic. So, if two planes are at the same altitude peg, but one has climb counters and the other does not, maybe that is where the +1 height advantage comes into play.

Restricting the pegs also causes another issue, over dives to remove fires. Again, as each peg represents a massive amount of vertical distance, over dive could be as follows:

Dive card, drop one peg if no climb counters, then straight for the over dive, but no additional peg drop. If climb counters are present, remove all climb counters on dive (stay at same peg height), then for the over dive drop one peg. Conversely, could drop a peg but keep the same number of climb counters with one peg lower, then on the over dive remove the climb counters.

[Teaticket]

Nice set of games. Love your Lafayette Escadrille planes.

[flash]

Some good scraps from Dan & the gang, good to see

[predhead]

Nice set of games. Love your Lafayette Escadrille planes.

I FINALLY get to grab some credit here as Dan has the great LE planes you have seen before. The one with the white striping on the top wing and the linen colored are both ones I worked on. Not 100% complete with the former - needs to have RUM in white on both sides, but I do not have the patience to try freehand. Dan inspired me with his several LE planes in which he added the various letter designations. I am working on another linen colored plane, this time an N.16, which will also have the American style roundels on top. The two linen planes are historically accurate as there are photos of them in the Albatros Productions book on the Nieuports of the LE.

UPDATE - sorry, in re-reading this it sounds snarky and a bit high faluting...not my intent at all.

[CrashCraig]

Darryl - have you tried making a RUM decal? I couldn't free-hand those letters either.

[predhead]

Darryl - have you tried making a RUM decal? I couldn't free-hand those letters either.

I have not...do not have the ability myself. Might have another in our group do that for me. He has mad skillz

[monse]

The origin of dogfight.
Thanks for posting.
The Yanks did a good job. Johnny Rep !

[Flying Helmut]

Nice action!

Worryingly small damage totals on the shot-down Pfalzes, though - were a lot of the cards "+1"?

[Baxter]

I liked the last one. No one left flying.

[camelbeagle]

I liked the last one. No one left flying.

Brutal!

[camelbeagle]

Nice action!

Worryingly small damage totals on the shot-down Pfalzes, though - were a lot of the cards "+1"?

Yes! If the totals do not seem right, then some were +1. I did not make that very clear. Sorry about the confusion.