Richthofen Sees The Elephant - Solo Game

[CrashCraig]

When I was looking over the Red Baron’s list of dogfights looking to use one for my first solo game, I saw that his second victory on 23 September 1916 was over a Martinsyde G.100, aka Elephant, piloted by Sgt. Herbert Bellerby. Having played with the Martinsyde previously in my Sinai games, I was curious about how an engagement with MVR might turn out. I also wanted to use MVR’s red Fokker DR.I Triplane instead of the historical Albatros D.II. It just looks so good.

Both planes start 24 inches apart facing each other. I’m piloting the Elephant (B-firing) and the Baron (A-firing) is soloing.


The Martinsyde takes the first shot & misses.


The Baron is having trouble eluding the Elephant and takes more a few more hits. It ignores special damage.


Things get even more serious for the Triplane.


As the planes separate, the Martinsyde’s port-side mounted Lewis gun gets off a shot but misses, getting a gun jam for its efforts.


Finally both planes square off face-to-face. The Triplane gets the worst of it.


And the Baron “sees the Elephant” as he goes down with a total of 14 points to the Martinsyde’s 2 points.


I wasn’t sure what to expect using the solo rules but it seems the Baron never was able to get into the fight as much as I had hoped. Maybe next time I’ll try it with the Albatros D.II.