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    Fall of the Red Baron
    Prague, 12th October 2017
    8 players, 8 aircrafts

    Date of mission: 21st April 1918
    Location: frontline, Morlancourt Ridge, Picardy, France
    Story: Yesterday, the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen himself, scored victories #79 and #80. After a short celebration of this milestone there is another mission today morning. Manfred, Lothar and three of their colleagues from famous Flying Circus, Jagdstaffel 11, started for a common pursuit mission over the trenchline. Suddenly there are attacked by airplanes from 209 Squadron of newly named RAF. Fight for the life of legend just started...
    Central Powers Forces: 2× Albatros D.Va, 2× Fokker Dr.I
    Entente Forces: 2× RAF S.E.5a, 2× Sopwith Camel
    Axis victory conditions: score more victory/ace points (a point for every ace level of shot down pilot)
    Allied victory conditions: score more victory/ace points (a point for every ace level of shot down pilot)
    Special rules: Ace rules (roll D6, divide number by 2: ace level; Richthofen and Brown without dividing; just for testing, not applied during campaign); Trench fire (when a pilot is a ruler from the red dot, roll D6: 1-4 nothing, 5-6 pilot hit)
    Result: Entante won - they destroys more airplanes and the sum of their ace level numbers was higher.
    Balance: 80 %. Need to improve balance of the trench fire. Probably raising chance by thirds of playing time (1/61/31/2)

    Brothers are seeking the best direction for attack from the sun.
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    Red Baron in the very first serious problems - goes down, but he's just injured.
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    Lothar runs for joining his Brother with new airplane.
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    Coordinated attack on enemy squadron - For the Empire!
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    But Manfred has a bad luck today - gun jam and he started to burn...
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    Escaping with jammed machineguns.
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    Reunion for a while, but the battle is almost finished and Manfred goes down to pursuit alone fighter. And then...a bullet from Australian trenches. The only one...
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    Final results. Note especiall the Nürnberg Kompanie in the west trench - their soldiers shot down three enemy airplanes!
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    Super game Daniel.
    I love your Tally board as well.
    Rob.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Another nice game Dan, do like your MvR marker but I think you need more !

    "He is wise who watches"

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    These are from Pyrkol, Prague Con '16 supporter - they sent us a special edition of destroyed airplanes. They're awesome

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    Great AAR!

    The Bavarian Fusiliers prooved their deadlines.
    Voilà le soleil d'Austerlitz!

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