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I’ll be the first to admit there was some luck involved. First piece of luck was being on the advantaged side in a 4 vs 3 scenario. Al and I had SPAD XVIIs, along with Ken and Dan in Camel 140s (if memory serves me correctly). Rich was in a Pfalz DrI and Blake and Stephen were flying Fokker DVIIs. On turn 2, Blake dove out of the box trailing smoke, which left it as a 4 on 2, with two allied planes on each German. At this point, the Allied initiative dice were incredible (at least compared to Stephen, who also had Al on his tail). I can’t remember how many holes we put in Stephen’s plane in two turns, but I know that I was responsible for 13, and I believe it was a total of 17 into one of his wings, blowing it off. In all of this (5 turns total), neither of the SPADs took a single point of damage, but I took it on points for damage dealt. Our luck even extended to Dan taking a NE wound on turn 1.
Lt. Marc-Etienne Auclair won the cut for kill, advancing to a 5/3 record.
Congrats Kevan! You are correct on most of the details. My luck had run out by the end of the Con and I was out of it by turn two (3 engine hits, smoke, one gun jammed and moving before 3 Allies in a tournement box I could not hide anywhere). I figured my only chance of NOT lighting up like a cigarette was to dive out-it worked.
As for Stephen, his wing evaporated with 17hf in it the turn it went (4Allies shooting). Being tailed by two Allies with the other two nearby at a higher altitude, and Rich (remaining wingman) going first, Stephen should have dived in order to keep the top two Allies at bay and hope to shake one of both with an overdive if possible. At least that’s how I saw it.
It would’ve been nice if the # on sides were even. Even if the short side has superior planes (+10 Top/Turn, +50Climb) they ‘really’ don’t add up when you have a 4 turn box and nowhere to run. It comes down to your initiative rolls, and gunplay 8guns v.s. 6 guns, odds are, bet on more guns; 32vs24 in 4 turns. Our one chance to turn the tide was an early PH by Rich on Danoski, our luck it was a NE! The rest was history.
George did create a nice chart for a quick roll-up of late war fighters German/Allies. Kudos George.
Well, I know your long ride home was worth the trip. Nice flying with you.
See you in my gun sites!
Blake
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