Last Tuesday night (January 5) we were down to three pilots (Baxter, Windy Jack and myself) and so I proposed a Gotha hunt by three Hanriots with the Gotha using the 'automatic pilot' rules and flying on 3 mats:
All three Hanriots were to fly as 'B' guns with one flying a standing patrol and the other two becoming airborne as soon as the patrolling Hanriot made contact with the Gotha that was returning from a raid over England.
We had also agreed to use the 3-stage altitude rules that we had previously designed to use in our aircraft vs Zeppelin games - see this thread. This rules set essentially has the aircraft that is the subject of repeated attacks maintaining a constant altitude and the attacking aircraft being at one of 3 altitude bands - below (green marker), at the same level (red marker) or higher (blue marker) with the altitude being indicated by markers placed on the base of the aircraft:
The patrolling Hanriot quickly climbed to the same altitude of the Gotha which, even this early and under automatic pilot, was proving a slippery customer to intercept:
But Baxter soon closed the range and a mutual exchange of unpleasantries occurred:
Which resulted in gun jams all round and so Baxter pulled clear to clear the jam:
Meanwhile the other two Hanriots (Windy Jack and myself) joined the fray and got in some telling shots:
But first blood went to the Gotha:
More to follow...
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