What's on your table right now?

[Bison]

I exploded my P500 orders the other night and I was totally sober.  I consoled myself with the thought that there is no way they all charge in the same week.  :)

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Got in a few one on one games of Wings of Glory WWI tonight.  My friend and I have both played a fair amount of WWII but I've only played WWI a few times and he'd never played it before tonight.  Took a few turns to get used to the slower pace but we both enjoyed it quite a bit.  The rules seem to fit the speed of WWI planes a bit better than it does for WWII. 

First matchup had me controlling a Handley Page O/400 bomber with a Sopwith Camel and a Nieuport 28 as escort vs a Fokker Dr I, a Fokker D VII, and an Albatross D.III with an ace pilot (sniper skill).  I needed to get my bomber across the trench line and try to bomb a German HQ.

My initial deployment.



Wide view of initial setup.



Germans had a little too much schnapps prior to take off (buddy had a few brain farts planning out his moves.)




My escorts pull out ahead of the bomber and manoeuvre to cut off the Jerries.




My escorts are able to tie up the Germans and the bomber slips past.  We set the Dr.I on fire and it goes down a few turns later.


The Albatros managed to break away from the furball and get on the tail of the O/400 but wasn't able to do much damage.  I had a great line on the target but muffed my timing and missed the drop by a few hundred feet.


We decided that fighting a large bomber would be better suited to a game with more players and planes so we reset and just had a straight up 3 vs 3 dogfight.  The Germans kept their same planes and I swapped out the bomber for a Sopwith Triplane (in hindsight, it was pretty outclassed.  Should have gone with a later war fighter).

Lots of fun with some really good manoeuvring on both sides as we got a feel for how the planes worked.  I had some really bad luck in the gunnery department and jammed the guns on the Camel and the Nieuport and ended up paying the price.  The Camel started burning and spun in.  The Nieuport suffered a damaged engine but was still in the fight and did a good amount of damage to both the DrI and the Albatros but after the Sopwith Triplane went down with a dead pilot, we decided to call it a night.

Burning Camel.  A Nieuport with a good shot at the DrI but with both guns jammed and a Tripe trying desperately to avoid a collision with the Jerry triplane.

[Barthheart]

Fun stuff. Were you using the altitude rules?

Man I love the look of the No Man's Land mat.... 

[Bison]

I'm going end up buying more fighter minis sooner rather than later.

[mirth]

I'm going end up buying more fighter minis sooner rather than later.

:bd:

[Bison]

I'm going end up buying more fighter minis sooner rather than later.

:bd:

I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad that you are encouraging me to acquire shiny new game things.

[mirth]

Hey, I'm picking up three more GMT games on Saturday :P

[Bison]

Oh shiny!  What you getting?

[mirth]

The FRG and BAOR expansions for MBT and At Any Cost: Metz 1870.

[BanzaiCat]

I've looked at At Any Cost a few times on Amazon. Also GMT's Triumph and Tragedy.

[mirth]

T&T doesn't do much for me.

[Bison]

Triumph and Tragedy is a very good game but it is a three player game.  It does have two player rules but I'm not sure it would have the same tension during the various phases that you get with three players. And it is definately not a game to be played solitaire.

[mirth]

I'm just not that interested in the subject matter or the card mechanic. I like the historical period from a reading/research standpoint, but it doesn't really grab me as a game.

That said, I'm one of the few gamers on the planet who doesn't love Twilight Struggle either.

[BanzaiCat]

Oops, I got that wrong. I meant Illusions of Glory, not Triumph & Tragedy. For some reason I thought the Eastern Front game had 'Triumph' in the title.  :-\

[mirth]

I've played Illusions of Glory. Good game and good system.