Meet the Fokkers!

 Today was the last day of our club till late October, as the hall is getting redecorated!

We therefore as usual had a 'Beer and Pretzel' game day, Phil and I chose to do Wings of Glory WW1, one of the club's favourite games!

(As always, we use a house rule, measuring from plane stem to plane stem rather than from base to base, which makes it harder to 'get a bead')

The solo system would run our opponents, 2 SE5a's.

Phil wanted to do Germans, so chose a Fokker DVII...

...I got another!

Both are fast aircraft by the standards of the day...

...we were very quickly getting to gun range!

Phil didn't get a shot as he whizzed past one of the SE's.

I got a shot, but caused zero damage for my trouble!

Phil Immelmanned to get a long range shot.

He actually caused some damage!

I Immelmanned to join Phil.

Humph, must be mating season!

Phil eventually managed to extricate himself!

We headed for different SE's.

The other one had taken a lazy turn round to engage me.

Phil went to intercept the other SE which was gunning for me.

Phil 'distracted' the pilot - but caused no damage.

I felt I was getting sandwiched between the 2 SE5's, so raced off.

Phil was able to slip behind one.

The SE's easily evaded and moved off together.

I rejoined Phil.

The SE's were mirroring their manoeuvres...

I turned off to engage them again.

Unfortunately I overturned and got hit.

Phil followed me.

I turned, he Immelmanned as the SE's turned.

I continued my turn to get to the rear of our opponents.

Phil and the British passed through without getting a shot.

I was now in the best position to engage them.

Both SE's tried to turn on me.

I turned in and caught one of them!

Phil was covering my rear.

I managed to slot in behind the SE.

Phil joined in, but I was less effective...

We managed a magic attack sandwiching the trailing SE.

It went down in flames!

I began to engage the last SE.

The wonderful manoeuverability  of the DVII really showed here.

The SE managed to slip away though...

...and headed for home!

It was a fun game, though the SE's failure to roll high dice didn't help them use their best manoeuvers!.

We did a couple of other games, again playing the Central Powers.

The second game had us using Roland 2 seaters...

My rear gunner got the first 'Bang' of the day against the Camel.

My pilot bagged the Snipe, after Phil's had nibbled it to death first!

Our final game had 2 solo run Nieuport 28s

Phil had a DRI and I 'The Red Baron'

I got unlucky soon into the game when I got hit in the flank as I engaged a Nieuport, which caused a fire (This eventually meant I lost 10 points from this one hit!)

I went out in a blaze of glory though, taking Rickenbacker down with me!

Phil survived, taking the last Nieuport down after some fancy flying!

So, that's it till October 23rd!

I may get a solo game or two at home though like during lockdown!