The Wright Flight June 10, 2023 in Dayton Ohio

[camelbeagle]

Another outing for the Wright Flight in Dayton Ohio. With vacations and Origins coming up, attendance was lower than normal. We had 6 pilots take to the air. We did some Lafayette Escadrille versus German. Early war Nieuport 11 and Nieuport 16 versus an Albatros C.III two seater, and a plethora of German Mono planes. One Halberstadt D.III made an appearance as well.

Rules: We played half damage you have to flee the battle and return to base. Random plane placement to start the game.

Mission: German Observation Mission.

Here are the brave Lafayette flyers returning from a patrol.


The Germans have appeared. Looking to do some observations!


An aerial battle has began.


The observation plane has slipped through.


First plane to leave the board from damage.


The Lafayette Escadrille has realized the two-seater is approaching its objective!


Trying to chase down the two-seater!


The objective complete, the German is heading home!


Can the Lafayette boys catch up to the German!


No! The German observation plane makes it home. With no damage as well!


Everyone else is just flying around and fighting!




One of the mono planes gets shot down!


The battle continues!






An unexpected fly off.


At this point we just continue to fight with scouts.




Our first fire!


And some smoke!


Pilot wounds took this German down!


Looking through my notes, looks like I did not take a picture of one of the N11 retreating from damage.

Germans: Accomplished Mission
Two planes retreat/fly off board
Two planes shot down

Lafayette Escadrille: Did not stop observation plane
One plane retreat off board


I think I would call this a tie game. The Germans obtained their objective, but they had much higher losses.

[Flying Officer Kyte]

What looks like another very enjoyable sortie for the Wright Flight.
Thanks for the coverage Dan.
Rob.

[flash]

Another splendid day at the front, thanks for the show and tell, Dan.

[predhead]

That Deep Cut Studio mat does make the planes stand out a bit more with its muted color! Great time playing with a smaller group, and having flown the Alb C.III to a successful mission, then flying the Halberstadt later and only taking two damage points, I would say I had a good day. But redcoon stole the show with the Chapman N.11!

Players were camelbeagle, old guy, redcoon, jaycrf450, pfalz und roland, and Mike, who is not a 'Drome member.

[Baron Rolf]

Thank you Dan for sharing another fantastic AAR

[CrashCraig]

Enjoyed the action!

[camelbeagle]

Thanks everyone! It was a fun game!

[Stumptonian]

Those planes really 'pop' on that mat.
Great pics, Dan

[malachi]

Fun shoot-out, Dan Thanks for posting!

[Flying Helmut]

Great stuff, as usual!

Thanks for posting.

[ReducedAirFact]

I had to laugh when the two-seater flew right through the formation and the Escadrille had to turn and chase.

[camelbeagle]

LOL! Yeah! The rabbit was hard to chase!

[predhead]

I had to laugh when the two-seater flew right through the formation and the Escadrille had to turn and chase.

Some skillful flying by the Albatros player.

[Old guy]

Nice AAR Dan. Just my luck to be the Eindecker pilot to draw two pilot wounds in the same draw

[predhead]

Hey there! Bill is posting once again! And I have never seen that happen on the same draw before.

[camelbeagle]

Hi Bill! Glad to see you online! I have seen the double pilot hit a couple of times. Not a common occurrence!

[flash]

Nice AAR Dan. Just my luck to be the Eindecker pilot to draw two pilot wounds in the same draw

You're not alone, Bill, its cropped up in our group a couple of times recently, even from two different decks !

[Old guy]

You're not alone, Bill, its cropped up in our group a couple of times recently, even from two different decks !

Well Flash it was my fault, I should have know better then to take up a brand new plane on it's first mission. I should have asked Daryl or Dan to use it first

[predhead]

Hate to burst that balloon, but the Albatros and both of my Nieuport 11s were first time flyers and seemed to do well.

[redcoon2]

Yes,Daryl...you flew very well...(with both planes) it was a fine scenario...made more interesting by the home-rule of exiting with half damage coupled with the random starting locations...some discussion also regarding future scenarios laying out multiple potential targets for recon to increase the mystery and provide more realistic responses from all combatants. I especially enjoyed the pace of the game using the early war planes...the zoom and boom of later war planes is vastly different. One aspect that doesn't show in the photos is the use of altitude...it played critical roles throughout the day...both in escaping and in getting hunted down...very fun day, indeed!