Well two things; first we are getting way behind on posting our fortnightly gaming reports and secondly here is one!
On March 18 we unpacked an old friend the box of WW I Wings of Glory/War models! This session we thought we'd try our hands at a bit of balloon busting it turns out it is not as much fun as regular dogfighting but still well worth the time spent, we managed three games before sitting down to shoot the breeze!
Game 1; Al and I took on a Nieuport and a Spad XIII respectively and Dave and George both had Albatross Vs but with the task of guarding the balloon! I tried to flank the balloon and took a shot from Dave's Albatross at long range, I drew the explosion card! Al went straight at the balloon armed with rockets and with his first shot using both sets available blew the balloon to bits, he then turned and exited the play field being chased by Dave and Georges Albatrosses. George didn't even get a shot in!
Game 2; Again Al and I took on the Nieuport and a Spad XIII respectively, Dave had an Albatross V and George ran the Trench cards again they had the task of guarding the balloon! Again I went to flank the balloon and shot Dave in his Albatross down getting a Pilot kill, Al was shot down by ground fire then I made repeated sweeps and took Balloon out while everyone else sat around, a bit of a boring solitaire end to the game!
Game 3; We dumped the balloon and went for a dogfight 2 Fokker Triplanes vs two Sopwith Camels, it was fun with 'twisty turny' Dogfighting! Both the Fokkers were shot down in the end.
Some Pictures
Game 1 Lt Copley takes a deadly blast from Ritter Von Neudegg!
Game 1 Cpt Harrison's rocket blast the balloon from the sky...
...he survives to tell the tale!
Game 2 Lt Harrison is not so lucky and gets taken out by ground fire!
Game 2 and Lt Copley survives ground fire to take down the balloon...
Game 3 lots of dogfighting! Ritter Von Neudegg 'buys it!'...
Game 3 LT Copley is shot down by the Brit Fighters!
A good night as usual with these rules! More catchup AARs to come!
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