Goering Ace
07-13-2010, 17:21
OK, I thought it was bad when I got pasted yesterday playing a bombing mission against my son, but today's drubbing made yesterday look like a picnic. This time I was the bomber (a UFAG C.1) with two Fokker Dr.I escorts. My son piloted a Nieuport 17, a Sopwith Camel and a Sopwith Snipe in defense. The mission started out fine, until I actually encountered an enemy plane! A collision quickly cost my bomber 8 points and a few turns later another collision dropped him 6 more with engine damage, and I took another 1 point from fighter bullets in the same round! Now my bomber is at 2 with two fighters on his tail! Next maneuver round I was peppered for another 5 points and my UFAG dropped from the sky like a clumsy squirell on a highwire! My Dr.I's were doing better, but my sons planes seemed unscathed by my constant hits. To say he had the luck of the draw is an understatement of epic proportions!! His Snipe took NINE damage cards for a total of 4 points of damage (0,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1). Even when his Snipe and Camel collided he still managed to stay alive, despite taking a 10 point damage card to the Snipe. His Nieuport and Camel never went below 6 points and overall he was never in jeopardy of losing a plane. I, on the other hand, drew a total of THREE 0 damage cards for all three planes during the course of the fight (that's about 18 damage cards). My Kempf Dr.I took TWO 5 point damage cards (the only two in the deck!), along with a 3 point engine damage card and another 3 points of damage which sent him plummeting to the ground. Richthofen (my other Dr.I) made a valiant last stand against the final three planes but with my son drawing 0's and 1's with all my hits, I was eventually overwhelmed and went down in flames. I'm getting VERY frustrated with the bad luck I've had lately with the damage decks! Please tell me that I'm not the only one to go through this kind of string of bad luck!
Scott
Scott