Sorties in Greece
Hi folks,
Not sure if this is the right place to post this- it should be, but I'm a newbie, what do I know?
These are the photos from the first WoW game I played in, a couple of months ago. It was great fun, and got me hooked.
It was a simple scenario, basically a furball! Or to be precise, two furballs, separated by a break to the lavishly hospitable officer's club. There were three players per side, with a Camel and two Nieuports flying for the Entente and an Albatros III (me!) and two Fokker Dr.Is off ze Zentral Pohwers.
Game one was marked by a rather aggressive start, I went after the Nieuport opposite me while Dimitris and Marios teamed up their Belgian-badged Camel and Russian Nieuport against the Dr.I on the flank
and Miltiadis, our host, flew in circles admiring the cool sky-looking gaming cloth he'd put on.
Giorgos flying the Dr.I chased off the Russian and went after the Belgian:
Miltiadis eventually noticed that there was some fighting going on, and he charged in to help the other Dr.I,
however he was too late and found himself facing two opponents.
Vassilis had done some skillful sharp turns and threw a torrent of slugs at the D.III- thankfully she can take a heap of damage
while Miltiadis and Dimitris made good use of their fighters maneuverability to dance around each other menacingly, Dimitris eventually getting the better of this:
and Marios' Nieuport swooping in and helping finish the Dr.I.
Meanwhile I had managed to get some good firing angles on Vassilis' Nieuport, and eventually managed to shoot him down, only to be set upon by his enraged allies (actually, they were quite amicable, but that doesn't make for a very tense read). After doing a bit of a dance and being a fantastic talented superskilled pilot, I shook Dimitris off...only to run into Marios' guns, who did not fail in his duty.
For the second fight, Grigoris with a Fokker D.VII replaced Giorgos' Dr.I. We also adopted a "resurrection" whereby a plane shot down could return to the game after a turn's pause. It seemed fitting, since we were all quite keen to play.
This time, the Entente attempted to gang up on poor me
having to deal with Dimitris' highly maneuverable Camel was tough
But I was lucky to get a couple of good shots
since his attention was drawn elsewhere.
But not for long:
Grigoris used the D.VII's superiority to get some serious hurt on Marios' Nieuport
while Miltiadis and I wrestled with Dimitris
Eventually, Vassilis decided to join the fight
But Dimitris set Miltiadis' Dr.I on fire, so I had to hurry back while Grigoris shook off Marios and came charging in to help deal with the troublesome Belgian. Miltiadis succumbed to the fire, but the D.VII went in with guns blazing
and ended up all blazing and leaving me to high-tail it out of there (what else is a fellow to do with three planes chasing him?)
After a turn of very desperate and lucky maneuvering, some of the pressure was taken off me when Miltiadis rejoined the game
and we got a nice confused melee going
Dimitris and Miltiadis decided to solve things the old fashioned way, and both went down:
Soon it was just me and Marios' crippled Russian Nieuport
Marios flew skillfully despite his damaged control surfaces. We and threw at each other a hail of lead (and boots, bottles, and anything else that wasn't nailed down)
But but the D.III was just too tough, and capable of taking more damage than the flimsier Nieuport- Marios' plane went down, and Game two ended in a bloody (well, to be precise, crispy) draw.
Great fun was had by all. We're slowly expanding our games, and ran a bombing scenario the other day. Quite exciting, although we forgot the blind spot rule a few times. I've posted a few photos of this in the albums section -trying to figure out which format works better for battle reports. A couple of us are trying to convince the others to use the altitude rules- they should make for a richer game, but the added complexity seems to turn off a few of our group. We'll see
Aris K.
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