Tonight we tried a new placement idea I had for starting a game.
One aircraft was placed in the middle of the table. (in this case an allied plane) We then used the random placement chart
http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/dow...do=file&id=197 to place all of the enemy aircraft in one flight. The balance of the friendly aircraft were held in reserve, to enter the combat area on a secretly deturmined game turn. (roll 1 six sided die for game turns 1 to 6) from a random table edge. The single pilot and the enemy aircraft did not know when or where the others would come on the table.
What we ended up with was a single French Neuport jumped by 5 German planes. After 3 game turns of fighting, 4 other allied planes joined the fight. The first Neuport did quite well by himself by staying inside the pack of enemies causing them to have blocked shots. He finally took 9 points of damage in one lucky shot by a DIII just before his comrades could reach him. OUCH!! He eneded up going down from damage 2 turns later, and survived the crash. The Germans managed to drive the allies from the table with smoke and fire damage for an overall win. Exciting stuff!
Give it a try, we liked the change of pace so much we did it again reversing the roles and having a two seater and escort start in the middle.
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