We had three tables a-rolling for the last Wright Flight gathering, with about four players per table. The other two featured balloon busting, while my table went for Albatros D.IIIs fighting Lafayette Escadrille N.17s during Bloody April.
Both N.17s had A guns, and with their superior maneuverability I thought they would have a hand up over the Germans, but the two Frommherz D.IIIs did some incredible damage. I was able, early in the game, to make a head on with camelbeagle, which resulted in four points of damage on my end. But I was able get a good reversement onto the tail of camelbeagle's Nieuport, and lit him up a bit. Then I was able to turn into the other N.17 and hit him with a +1 shot, and he drew the boom card (we play the boom card as half damage rounded down, so seven points on the N.17). While both American pilots were able to get off the board without being shot down, they both suffered 10 points of damage each.
Alas, I only snapped a couple of pictures.
We played a second game, swapping out an N.17 for a French Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter with a random recon mission and random board edge exit point. After successfully taking photos, camelbeagle was heading for home. I lined him up nicely, did some damage, but in return took a pilot wound, which kept me from following up on the Strutter. Dan was able to get off the board while I had taken enough damage to exit as well. The other two players danced around a bit, but results were fairly inconclusive.
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