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Offline FierceKitty

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First dogfight
« on: September 08, 2017, 11:43:22 AM »
My boy has his first kill. Wife, who failed to take advantage of the climb rate of the Dr. I, was somewhat perforated and had to crash land, but survived the mission.

Rules pretty shamelessly plundered from dear old Dawn Patrol.
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Offline Traveler Man

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2017, 04:25:16 PM »
Good stuff! It mirrors my wife's first (and so far only) WW1 aerial game where she shot down von Richthofen.  :)
"It's amusing, it's amazing, and it's never twice the same: It's the salt of true adventure, and the glamour of the game."

Talbot Mundy, The Ivory Trail.

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Offline FierceKitty

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2017, 12:54:02 AM »
Good stuff! It mirrors my wife's first (and so far only) WW1 aerial game where she shot down von Richthofen.  :)

Bad start! Anything else after that could only be a letdown.

Offline FierceKitty

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2017, 01:29:11 PM »
Finished a few more; DV, this weekend should see some livelier action.

Offline FierceKitty

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2017, 10:14:38 AM »
Well, I didn't survive this weekend.

Offline jambo1

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2017, 11:15:12 AM »
Well, I didn't survive this weekend.

Oh dear  lol

Offline FierceKitty

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2017, 11:44:12 AM »
The wife survived, with a kill and a promotion for her character.

Dr I can seriously outclimb a Camel. If a German player is patient, this adds up to a heck of an advantage.

Offline jambo1

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2017, 11:45:06 AM »
Good for her! :)

Offline FierceKitty

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2017, 06:42:01 AM »
Not shot down this time; just wounded, two guns jammed, and then crash-landed at own airfield and broke my neck, having done almost no damage to the Germans.

Offline von Lucky

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2017, 11:19:08 AM »
But you can still fly to fight another day (not being dead and all.)
- Karsten

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- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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Offline FierceKitty

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2017, 03:39:11 PM »
I think I'll take a spitfire next time.

Offline Heisler

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2017, 04:08:09 PM »
Dawn Patrol is not old, Fight in the Skies now that's old! Dawn Patrol is FiTS with cool color counters and a campaign system worked into it.
It's NOT denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept. -- Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)

Offline Baron von Wreckedoften

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2017, 08:25:00 AM »
Good stuff! It mirrors my wife's first (and so far only) WW1 aerial game where she shot down von Richthofen.  :)

To be fair to her, how could she possibly improve on that kind of performance?
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Offline sukhe_bator

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Re: First dogfight
« Reply #13 on: October 23, 2017, 08:41:18 AM »
I agree - you can't really ace downing an ace. On one of my first dogfights I put my Albatros D.V into a power dive and the guns jammed on my attack run and on the second attempt my wings fell off!
Warriors dreams, summer grasses, all that remains

 

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