I've been reading Marked for Death in old fashioned, non-digital hardback this holiday, albeit in occasional free moments, and it's really very good. I particularly enjoyed chapter four, Combat and Other Missions, which explained in detail the different sorties flown by the RFC during the war. One thing which I didn't appreciate was the use of dummy observation balloons, packed with explosives and detonated when attacked in error by scout aircraft. All very dangerous but an interesting twist for balloon busting sorties?
This gave me some more ideas for a sortie generator for Algy, initially just for the RFC, which would include a balloon busting attack. The idea would be to have a randomly generated number of observation balloons, probably with a D4+1 roll, a proportion of which could be dummies. These would be randomly distributed around the table, allocated anti-aircraft and defending aircraft protection, before being targeted by the RFC scouts. I think this would work very well but needs some more thought and, of course, some playtesting!
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