Family Game Store Wings of War/Glory, 12 March '18

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03-13-2018, 08:43
RJG173

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Family Game Store Wings of War/Glory, 12 March '18

With five players turning out, scenarios were a bit odd. First up, our normal opening dogfight. I had received the Scaroni HD1 and wanted to fly that. We downgraded the plane to a single gun and had three Italians single-gun aircraft against two Austro-Hungarian two-gun airplanes; fewer planes, more guns. Hmm.

I am overlapping Will flying the Aviatik D.I, while Ben, in the Phonix D I is overlapping Todd. Will's airplane is sitting off to the side at the top of the photograph. Bill is flying a Nieuport 17 somewhere on the table.
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My Hanriot HD1 overlaps Todd's HD1 as we give chase to Ben in a Phonix D I.
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Bill and I have passed Ben and must turn around. Will is trying to converge on us.
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Mutually assured destruction! Ben and I take out each other. I succumb to accumulated damage.
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While Ben draws the Boom card. Those 4 and 3 damage cards at +1 certainly didn't help.
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Now with two Italian aircraft against one, the scenario was called. Are the Italians the victors?
03-13-2018, 08:59
RJG173

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Scenario #2. A Belgian RE8 is on a photo recon mission with a Belgian Sopwith Camel in support. Three German Albatros D Va oppose us.

I am seeing triple. Three very nice paint jobs by Todd.
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The gimbal mounts really make the scene, but Todd, flying one of Ernst Udet's D Va is really giving me the business.
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Still getting hammered by Todd while my protection is somewhere else.
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Kaboom!! The camera is broken so the mission is over.
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03-13-2018, 09:11
RJG173

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Scenario #3. Another photo recon mission from the other side. I am flying a Nexus Roland C II with a Bill flying a Halberstadt D II for protection. Opposed are three Nieuport N 11s. Rockets were not used in this battle.

I am swinging to the right to get around the slower moving Nieuports.
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Todd is closing with that non-rocket firing Nieuport.
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Bill manages to get a shot across the front of my airplane to get Will with the dreaded Boom.
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However I succumb to damage. Lots of zeroes in the +1 category, but there was enough other damage to take me out.
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03-13-2018, 12:12
mikeemagnus

Nice AARs Robert. Thanks for sharing :)
03-13-2018, 14:23
Baxter

Great variety of planes used there and a nice mat too. What is it?
03-13-2018, 14:35
RJG173

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Originally Posted by Baxter

Great variety of planes used there and a nice mat too. What is it?

The mat is from gameonterrainmats.com, their Aerial View terrain mat. I would like to get a water one for seaplane action.
03-13-2018, 16:14
Teaticket

Nice set of battles on a great mat.
03-13-2018, 17:41
Carl_Brisgamer

Great work on those missions, particularly the last one - I'm always a fan of early war action :sAprvd:
03-13-2018, 18:08
gully_raker

:thumbsup: Well done Robert & your fellow pilots.
Nice mix of scenarios & aircraft.:sAprvd:
03-14-2018, 22:54
Naharaht

Well done, Robert and your fellow pilots. :thumbsup: It is good to see some of the Nexus models in action.
03-15-2018, 07:51
zenlizard

Love the variety in fronts & aircraft.

But those boom cards...out in force, and extra-nasty.
03-15-2018, 10:25
RJG173

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Originally Posted by zenlizard

Love the variety in fronts & aircraft.

But those boom cards...out in force, and extra-nasty.

We were playing with a single A and B deck, so only one boom card per deck. Sometimes we play with multiple decks, and depending on how they are shuffled, the booms could be grouped.