A Nameless Battle with Nameless Foes

A few things have stimulated a desire to do a little aerial gaming:

• I watched a Crusty Colonel replay of an aerial game (Algernon Pulls it Off?)
• I pre-ordered Voidfighter. Although it is ostensibly a space combat game, I presume it will have many similarities to aerial combat.
• While de-consolidating, I had my aerial combat box out.

So now I take you over the fields of Flanders, as two nameless Allied pilots (green) run into a patrol of two equally nameless German pilots. All fly average planes.

The Allies spot the Germans first.

In game terms, the Allies had the advantage and got a bonus on their initial maneuver rolls.

But the Germans recover quickly and turn the tables on the allies. One plane is damaged.

A German gets on the tail of the second Allied plane, damaging it.

That plane decides to flee, and escapes into some clouds.

I initially placed the terrain down just for looks. But when the Allied pilot fled, I figured he'd head for the clouds.

The Germans gang up on the remaining Allied plane and shoot it down.

A decisive victory for the Germans!