The Duellist.
In the first few turns of the game, Capt. Bishops-Tipple inflicted some telling damage on Oblt.Hofmeister's Eindecker, with two Minor and one Critical hits, despite jamming his Lewis gun at one point and using up half his ammunition.
The critical hit caused some elevator and wing structural damage but an over confident Hofmeister then fluffed a hard manoeuvre and lost control, going straight in from ALT 2.
After this, in the second half of the game, Lt Lowenbrau managed to skilfully evade the fire of the RFC Junior Ace, who only managed a single minor damage hit in a twisting, turning dogfight.
However, in an attempt to get on the RFC pilot's tail, by trying to pull a low level Immelman, Lowenbrau also lost control, spinning in again from ALT2 with no chance to recover.
RFC 17 points / Luftstreitkrafte 0
It was a fun game but the Germans were unlucky to roll high on the pilot ability table and ended up as regulars, which made hard manoeuvring very risky. The RFC in contrast rolled low and gained a Junior Ace, so had a definite advantage.
Definitely worth a re-play to see who comes out on top next time, as the Eindeckers did put up a good fight and, with a bit more luck, would have given the RFC a run for it's money.
(I've removed the -1 modifier for the RFC ability roll and reduced the bonus VP's for shooting down a plane, but otherwise the scenario is good to go.)
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