Reposted form the Toofatlardies Yahoo group
First Algy Playtest
German Patrol 1 at altitude 6
Fokker Dr.1 - junior ace
Albatross D.V - veteran
German Patrol 2 at altitude 3
Cfag C.1 - regular pilot and gunner
Albatross D.III - sprog
British Patrol at altitude 5
Camel - top ace
Camel - veteran
Camel - regular
Coming off the blinds.
German blinds came up first and blissfully saw nothing. British blinds came up and the spotted the lower German patrol (rolled to spot before moving). Going for the bounce, the British dove to altitude 3 and opened fire at just over 2". With only 2 second bursts (head on) they managed to do nothing but break up the German formation.
Next turn, the German blind comes up first and Patrol 1 hard dives and opens up from less than 2" at a forward deflection. The Fokker ends the British ace's career in a flaming wreck. The Albatross tosses an impressive number of ones and starts hammering on his guns.
Next card up is the Albatross of Patrol 2. In an effort to impress his commander, he flies forward and tries a Chandelle, which would put him propeller to tail on one of the Camels. What actually happened was he flew forward and went into a tail spin (he didn't recover, and planted himself into the French countryside) .
Next card let the regular Camel move, and he managed to maneuver behind the Fokker, but failed his tailing test.
Next two cards allowed the Cfag to move and fire. After a leisurely turn, the gunner poured a 5 second burst into the veteran Camel, damaging a wing (the -1 maneuverability and climb rate on a Camel isn't a big deal, but hard maneuvers just became dangerous)
Next up, the veteran Camel maneuvers on to the rear of the Albatross D.V and fails the tailing test.
Now the regular Camel fires and manages to put a bullet into the German junior ace. The +1 luck of the German doesn't help on a roll of 1 and he slumps forward, dead.
The veteran Camel opens fire on the remaining German and tosses an impressive collection of 5s and 6s. The Albatross goes down in flames.
At this point, the German players' morale broke and we called it.
Everyone loved how fluid the movement seemed
Everyone thought piloting and shooting should be separate skills
Had one suggestion that luck should be called intuition. His point was luck can happen to anyone, but intuition comes from experience.
Everyone enjoyed it... even the German players, and all agreed that luck played heavily in this fight
this is coming to a shop near you soon
Ginger
