I have practised a lot automatic movement for solo games since the pandemic situation and I have noticed that the automatic movement rules may contain an issue.
(it is the same rule in the WOG WW1*2012 Rules & Accessories and*WOW*Flight of the Giants rulebooks)
Multi-Engine Bombers :
"For each multi-engine bomber randomly flown remove the following cards: the climb, the dive, one stall, one turn to the left and one turn to the right. ../.. Only the eight maneuver cards are used : 3 straights, 1 stall and 2 turns to each side. ../.. Each time time the discard pile contains 1 turn to the right and 1 turn to the left, shuffle them back to the maneuver deck with any straights and stall …*".
The pictures below show Multiengines using different WW1 and WW2 maneuver decks :
XA (Zeppelin Staaken), XB (Handley-Page O/400), XC (Felixstowe F2A), XD (Gotha G.V / Caproni Ca.3)
XA (Heinkel 111), XB (B.25 Mitchell), XC (Boeing B.17), XD (Avro Lancaster), XE/XF (Junkers 88 A-1 / A-4), U/Y (Dornier 17 Z-2 / Z-10), I (Junkers 87 Stuka).
Pretending the cards are randomly chosen but choosing them in the case the order or the maneuver cards make the plane exit the game surface :
Even when starting in the middle of the length (49 cm from a side) of a playing mat (length 98 cm), each plane may leave the mat or be on the edge before shuffling back 1 turn to the right and 1 turn to the left.
And for the Zeppelin and the Handley-Page, a new turn to the left (after the shuffling back) makes them exit the mat.
Moreover, the game should be played in the length of the mat (enemy sides facing each other in the length of the mat). And the plane should start at the middle of the width of the mat (68/2 = 34 cm), so with more chances to leave the playing surface than on the pictures.
Suggestion : now, I personally use only*1 turn to the right and 1 turn to the left and keep all the other maneuver cards in automatic mode and remove all other turns card. But I keep every sideslips if playing with 2 seaters.
I shuffle all the cards when they are all played.
Actually, in automatic mode, the Multiengine / two seaters mission is to cross the length of 1 or 2 mats, making small evasive maneuvers (designated by the 1*turn to the right and 1 turn to the left).
https://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?35458-AUTOMATIC-MOVEMENT-RULE-ISSUE
https://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?35459-AUTOMATIC-MOVEMENT-RULE-ISSUE
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