AAR Wright Flight September 18th, 2021

[camelbeagle]

Another great day of Wings of Glory in Dayton Ohio with the Wright Flights. In attendance was Bill (Old guy), Jim (rhodie80), Sean, Chris, Michael, Charles, and myself.

First, Chris brought his Staaken. We had the Staaken against the British Defense.

Release the STAAKEN!


For the British Defense. We have two American DH4, a DH5, and three SE5a.




The bullets where flying everywhere!


Between an Early BOOM! and Sean crashing with the Staaken three times! It went down quicker than we would have imagined. Sean's third crash is what took the Staaken out!



For the second mission of the day we had a dawn patrol dogfight. One side was made up of some 94th Squadron Nieuport 28s and a Breguet 14. On the other side some of Rudolf Berthold's JGII Fokker D.VII.




Lots of action! One of the Fokker D.VII was the first to fall. Americans 1, Germans 0




Another Fokker D.VII down. Americans 2, Germans 0



The action continues! Then the first American falls. Americans 2, Germans 1




Then, a change in the momentum. Two more of the Nieuports fall. Americans 2, Germans 3



The dance continues. Another of the Fokker is shot down. Americans 3, Germans 3



With this we wrapped up. The final tally is a tied game. 3 victories for both sides. A very wonderful day! Great games!

[Flying Helmut]

Very nice photos of some fast and furious action!

Thanks for posting.

[malachi]

Great action, Dan. Love that mat and those planes look great

[Baxter]

A good game and with that score honour was satisfied all round. I really like that mat too.

[Biggles downunder]

Great write up - fighters against bombers is one scenario that crops up in our little group at regular intervals and is always a lot of fun!

[camelbeagle]

Thanks! The cards were not too kind. We had the BOOM on five different occasions. I think that may be a club record!

[Teaticket]

Great looking battles Dan. Good to see you guys can get together for some ftf.

[Windy Jack]

Thanks! The cards were not too kind. We had the BOOM on five different occasions. I think that may be a club record!

I didn't think there were that many boom cards in one set of the damage decks!

[flash]

Good to see the Wright Flight up again Dan, spikey hedgehogs abound, a lot of wounds and engine damage too which would make things harder.

[camelbeagle]

I didn't think there were that many boom cards in one set of the damage decks!

With the amount of planes on the table we used four decks "shuffled?" together.

[Jager]

I didn't think there were that many boom cards in one set of the damage decks!

With the amount of planes on the table we used four decks "shuffled?" together.

Well, if they followed the rules, the deck gets reshuffled every time a boom is drawn, so.......
Karl

[Vagabond]

Good series of games, thanks for posing. The mat looks almost 3d

[milcoll73]

must have been a lend lease japanese pilot piloting the staaken lol