table strategy
Now they were in the thick of it! The Allied planes surged forwards making a run past the German defending patrol. Luke’s hopes rose as he saw the DH.4 take first blood on the Fokker. Then the aircraft banked hard right, rolling over towards him and revealing its distinctive red colouring. “Oh, bugger! The Red Baron! I guess they forgot to mention this at the briefing.” Pulling his SPAD over into a right turn he moved to provide cover for the recon plane, passing dangerously close to the Albatross in the process. He
gave a quick glance over his right shoulder to check the path of the Albatros and offered a friendly ‘wave’ with his left middle index finger. Refocusing on the task at hand Luke could see the American rear gunner twisting around in his seat left and right as he looked for German aircraft, before actioning his weapon. Luke saw the rear gunner signal the pilot his readiness with a couple of hard slaps on the fuselage with his left hand and then swung his machine gun around to take a bead on the Fokker.
Adam stuck to his plan. The first pass was better than he expected, as the DH.4 escaped unharmed. He set out a course that would bring him within range to photograph the target location in the start of his next turn. With the SPAD he decided to make a right turn to cross paths with the German planes and hopefully get a few shots off before joining the
DH.4 on the last leg of escaping the playing area.
Adam revealed his first movement for the turn. Unsurprisingly the DH.4 continued straight on flying directly for the target location. With the SPAD Adam turned right in an attempt to get a shot off on the Albatross and position for a shot on the Fokker in the next movement. Unfortunately Adam misjudged the move and found that his SPAD and the Albatross ended the move with their bases overlapping. When this occurs neither plan can shoot at the each other.
second time. The Red Baron was not happy!
Micks Phase One move brought the Fokker around hoping for a shot on the recon plane, but he too found their bases overlapping and so was denied a shot for a
Mick’s plan hadn’t quick worked out. He was hoping to have had a shot with both his aircraft on the recon plane in the first turn but had misjudged the positioning. There wasn’t much to do at this point other than to swing around and attempt to chase the DH.4 down.
Meanwhile the Albatross turned left to line up a shot on the recon plane. Even though the Albatross’ base was overlapped by the SPAD Mick could still take the shot as overlapping planes do not prevent you from shooting other aircraft, or block line of sight. Measuring the distance with the range ruler Mick found that the shot was at short range. When this happens two damage cards are drawn instead of just one. Adam drew two Damage Deck A cards and got a 2 and a 0: A rather disappointing result for the German defenders.