First dogfight since Corona

[Biggles downunder]

Well, it has been a long time coming but finally here is South Australia a slight relaxing of the socializing rules - no more than 10 people but strict adherence to social distancing protocols.

Given this, our usual four intrepid airmen decided we could reconvene at my place for our first face-to-face get together since this whole thing started. Unfortunately Gary (aka Baxter) came down with a cold (some lame excuse about taking the dog for a walk on a rainy, windswept runway) and so we were down to three!

I had already set up a scenario based around 2 Bristol fighters swanning along on one side of the trenches after completing a mission who happen to come across 2 Hannovers doing exactly the same. Both pairs were to start on the opposite sides of the mat, flying toward each other and to assume that they both sighted each other simultaneously. We usually decide who will fly what by a dice roll - odds flying Central Powers and evens flying Entente and this resulted in Mark and myself flying the Hannovers and Doug (Windy Jack) taking on the task of piloting the 2 Bristol fighters.

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Darn it - caught out by the image gremlin again! I must remember to always take photos in landscape with my phone (I think that's the cause of sideways images)! Anyway back to the AAR...

It didn't take long for the unpleasantries to begin:



From here it was a lot of jockeying for position, clearing gun jams and being forced by rudder jams and engine damage to begin doing seemingly illogical things:











It was soon apparent that the Bristol had lost it's rear gunner and one of the Hannovers had taken engine damage but, the Central Powers eventually wore down the opposition and swept the skies (aka my dining room table) clear of the opposition:

[Baxter]

Wunderbar! Send those Englanders packing with our superior German planes.

[flash]

Nicely done chaps, it will be a while longer before we get together around a table.

[Flying Helmut]

Nicely done chaps, it will be a while longer before we get together around a table.

Good game, fellas!
Thanks for reminding the rest of us what a game looks like!

[zenlizard]

Oooooh, dogfighting with two-seaters! Great idea for a change of pace! And it must have been a change of pace to be able to do a ftf game.

[Biggles downunder]

Oooooh, dogfighting with two-seaters! Great idea for a change of pace! And it must have been a change of pace to be able to do a ftf game.

Yep, the things we had all missed were the between-moves banter, the gnashing of teeth when you realized you had made a left turn rather than a right and the maniacal cackle when a foe just happened to end up right in front of you at half a ruler length range!

[RJG173]

By the time we get to play again at Gritty Goblin Games, I'm not sure I'll still remember the rules of this game.

[gully_raker]

Great to see you South Oz boys back in action!
Hope Gary has not got any nasty symptoms.

[Baxter]

Great to see you South Oz boys back in action!
Hope Gary has not got any nasty symptoms.

Nah Gary is fine just had a slight sniffle all gone now. I did a replay using the AI app to control the Germans. Will post that later, opposite results?

[milcoll73]

looks like fun! 2seater v 2seater definitely adds some spice to the game! tends to speed things up as well.
my buddy tom (merlin 14) and i just played our 1st game since the dawning of the whole coronavirus commiepox. it was fun to get back into the sky, but we both were rather fatigued and didnt think to take any pics lol.

[Windy Jack]

it was fun to get back into the sky, but we both were rather fatigued and didn't think to take any pics lol.

Sometimes it's good just to enjoy the game without having to worry about photographs.
I noticed before the lock down that our little group was taking less photographs of games, and just focusing on playing.